My own pressure cooker

Yay. I got a new gadget to play with. So men can have their plasma TVs, their sports cars and other wat nots.... I got this!

heehheheee.. Ok so it may not be that high tech. But I can say for sure that it will last a long, long time. It's a pressure cooker! Hehehe.. hubby loves ox-tail soups and this is the only gadget I know that will tenderize meat in less than an hour as opposed to 5 hours on the stove. Anyway, I tried my new gadget today and it tenderized hubby's favourite meal - the ox-tail soup in 30 minutes! As in, the meat was falling off the bone! But, now I'm so freaked out coz there's so much oil in the soup. I cut off the fatty parts of the ox-tail pieces but the soup was still so very oily. I'm cooling it down in the fridge right now and hoping that the oily parts will solidfy so I can scrape it off. If not, its going to be oily soup for the break of fast tonight!

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List of new dishes I've learned to make for the ramadan:

1. Ox-tail soup
2. Fried Chicken Rice (instead of roasted chicken rice)
3. Caramel pudding
4. Pengat Pisang
5. Jemput-jemput pisang
6. Kuih Ketayap (or some ppl call it kuih dadar)

I have a recipe for currypuff and sweet sour egg which I have yet to try. I'm quite happy with the new dishes I've learned. This is a huge feat for someone who never had to cook her whole life, ok! Even when I was living alone in the UK I brought boxes of thos brahim's instant paste that all I had to do was just add the meat and I'd get a decent tasting malay dish to eat with hot rice. I think my parents would be extremely pleased to know that their spoilt daughter can now cook some malay dishes from scratch. :)