Marsha Maung: Write. Cook. Read. Watch. Try. Innovate.

Trying to do some easy prep food and the last few times, I tried to pickle vegetables and reserve tofu and eggs. Success rate is so far around 70% but HOW did we live and survive without the Internet? LOL 1. Leftover rice I don't know about other households but in this one, we try really hard not to waste food and we feel really good when we clean as many things up. These few months, I've got my MoJo back a little and not only are not wasting food (rice, especially) but also simple stuff like marinades and sauces. 👍 2. Microwaved chic breasts - Soy, Honey, Sriracha sauce The chicken breasts were cooked in the oven beforehand and these are leftovers too but they were still good. All we needed was a bit of a re-cook and good sauce. Removed the chicken breasts and cut them into bite-sizes and placed aside. In the pan, remade the sauces with light soy sauce, sriracha and honey. Goddamn delicious.  3. Steamed eggplants with chili and onions I finally learned how to cut the eggplant...

I've been cooking tons these days, trying to make the most of our budget and time, but other days, maybe just.... CAVE IN just once? This has always been one of our favorites, outside of all our Kopitiam favorites, and it's just sad that I did not get the whole promo set thinghy. THIS  is NOT  a Paid Ad. We just liked it.  Some days, we resign ourselves to just instant cup noodles because time is scarce and we have to make do. However, the above was actually a mid-tier cost-inefficient choice. I know. But it's delicious and we like it.  SOMETIMES, you know.  I made some stews, some soups, and today some egg plants together with air-fried chicken chops (that I have no picture of) along the way and I think we're eating good. =)

The streaky yolk is what we live for in this house. I made fried rice and all we needed were these little babies.  All they need? Soy sauce, some fragrant oil, aromatics, and maybe some simple sauce mix of your choice. Burnt and cooked on the bottom yet streaky on the top.  The best, no? 

Been cooking a lot these past months but these delivery apps are completely disappointing sometimes. I am sure I am not the only one. I made braised nuts from the really cheap kind of peanuts we can find in Malaysia, not the soft Japanese variety. Where do we find those, anyway? Are they so much more expensive? I was surprised, however, with the number of unique ingredients needed in the braising sauce. Thankfully, I have some  of those so it was all good.  I am inserting some random pictures I've taken into this post because I am kinda fighting A.I. LOL. I don't think they can read my post and fit it into their algorithm to rank me and this post. The plan is to be an outlier.  Based on what I have written, combined with the OG photos I've posted, I wonder what AI thinks I am all about. Is it food? Travel? Cooking? Kids? Movies? Writing? SEO? I Started blogging since forever so I am curious about the accumulation of info they have about someone as insignifican...

As a mom, it's natural for me to worry. About what, you say? Erm....everything my creative imagination can think off of on off day where I want feel like there's an angle to kill our CEO and taking over his Dynasty? Then I kinda wake up and suck again. These past few months, we've been through some major developments and changes. They're looking and found work these past few months but mobility has always been a problem. We have 1 car and no driving licence. So, we're kinda trapped a 'lil but who cares, right? We do.  I am gonna outline our journey so it can help others.  College and University in Malaysia Most of the normal universities and colleges  are located within the outskirts of Petaling Jaya, Selangor. The more Premier ones are around either KL outskirts and really slung-away at Nilai or Seremban because these places are not even close.  There are 2 types of systems : One if you're new and adapting; Two if you're still here and please make a d...

Always did the normal stewed chicken because it is easier but today I reserved all the chicken drumsticks for this day. This is a collection of drumsticks from a few whole chicken... They're cheaper that way!  Ingredients 1. Blanced and Scored chic marinaded with onion powder, garlic powder, curry powder, paprika, chilli, fennel, turmeric, oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, pepper 2. Refrigerate for 20 mins + to overnight 3. Line up the air-fryer, oil up, air fry for 20 mins, turn over, another 15 mins.  Should be done. If you want crispy skin, add some corn or rice starch after marinading the chic.  TONS OF RANDOM HERBS Also organized all the herbs into Asian, Western, and Fancy. Lol. If you cook a lot you know.  I enjoy the diversity and creativity of mixing my own herbs and I knew nothing about these herbs. I encourage allowing yourself some level of failure and adjustments when you're in the kitchen. To bad I don't have a picture of the final ...

Latch key kid . Parents have no time and kids are focused on finding things out for ourselves. It's a generation thing, everyone did it because we had to survive. Boys born into the Internet age, early ones, that is. A little diff from the kids of today today.  When mom cooked, we eat good ! Like with all kids, mom is the best chef . Like my childhood, whenever I make the effort to cook, the boys are happy to be home, chilling and relaxing. To this day, my mom is still the BEST COOK EVER for the rest of my life. For real. Never learned to cook because my mom, not her fault as with everyone who grew up in that era, did not have the time nor patience to patiently teach me. I paid no attention either, honestly. Most of the time, latchkey kids were never home, anyway. The most exciting thing I did after school was peeling off the last page the book I last read and dove in. Dad worked. Mom cooked. We eat and indulge and we repeat that the next day, next week, next month. That was it ba...

Steamed Eggs, Never Fails.  I've been a fan of Chawanmushi (a name I cannot remember, always) since forever but because I did not always cook, I had no idea about simple techniques I often skip over because home-cooks will be like 'probably won't make a difference' Nah, some of those steps were crucial. Like reducing cooking time, you know. The difference is between putting together a half-cooked chicken and a blackened one. Something like that. We No Training.  When I don't skip over steps, I can come pretty close to reaching the desired results. The above is one of the most satisfactory steamed eggs I've had in years. At least of my own making.  Silky but not as silky as I wanted it to be...but yeah...good and delicious. We demolished it . We will repeat this. Just need to get the ratio right.  Much Cooking.  You get passive injuries from doing repetitive stuff and that includes cooking and handling cookware, washing, cutting, and manag...

Munching on some healthy veg, including braised and pickled ones, has become not just my favorite thing to do, but it's also a part of my survival. Above, that's me munching on crunchy leftover lotus root .  I tried out the pickling thing because I needed to learn ways to make use of leftover stuff, be it onions or cabbage, Sometimes, I don't need to use the whole thing. The endeavors are not yet success stories, so I will share when I can boast with a tiny, little, smidgen of pride.  That was a horrible picture  of the Bak Kut Teh I made the day before... BUT ...it was yummy. 😁😁😁 I mean, it's hard to go wrong with a clean-pop-cook recipe. Made a trip to our local butcher and got ourselves about 800g of pork ribs and couldn't resist. Have been making Western stuff like Cream of Mushroom Soup , Air-Fried Chicken , Carrot and Pumpkin Soup etc, hence the understandable yearn for a Chinese Classic dish. PLUS it is simple and not time-consuming. Yeah, th...

I am putting this here because it's a very, VERY delicious recipe that deserves to be shared. I made this a ton of years ago and, thankfully shared it online. Cookpad was good while it lasted. But I have since lost control of that account and don't remember the account I used to log in.  The platform used to be good as a social media sharing medium for people who cook and want to share their recipes with others who are clamoring for ideas at home.  But now, it's just a commercial app. Ah well... https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/4597214-spice-ly-sweet-slow-cooker-pork-ribs?via=profile