Mandy Rice

The rice


The chicken


A couple of weeks ago I made this Chicken Mandy Rice ...I must tell ya, it is the most sought after food in the house. Everyone loves it especially the kids. Adib can have 3 serving sometimes. The recipe was from a blog ..forgot the name, this Malaysian lady was based in Jordan or Egypt, don't know whether she still is. Anyway, u have to blend all the ingredients in making the spices beforehand which is then used to marinate the chicken, It is called Kabsa Spice...then u just marinate the chicken for 1/2 hr before roasting in oven for 1 hr fully wrapped in aluminum foil with slices of lemon n onion rings. After an hr or so uncover the chicken n roast for another 15mins so the skin become dark n charred...walla.....U will get just like the picture above....ops, don't forget to sprinkle salt all over chicken before roasting.


As for the rice ..well its the easiest of all...unlike Briyani...I just used Ghee, onion, ginger n garlic which were sliced thinly n long..fry with star anise, cardamon, cinnamon...as usual, in making Arab rice, we only use Basmathi rice ok....
so easy....for me Mandy Rice is way easier than Chicken Rice...

Driving with almost no-fuel

Last Friday, when I started my car to fetch my daily maid around 1pm , I realized that the screen info about my car fuel showed 50++ KM only....means, I can only drive up to 50km`s far the most ..so, I said to myself, ok, that should be enough for a day or so....so I drove as usual, 1st to fetch the maid, then sent my kids to school, one near my house n another in SJ...suddenly the km reduced down to 30km or something...damn!!! have I drove 20km already? ...from my house to SJ is about 15mins drive...ok....so I drove to the nearest shopping complex, Empire to kill time as my Ustazah was to come around 3.30pm n I still have 1hr n 30 mins or so...

After my shopping is done I drove back home in heavy downpour...driving slowly in the rain and so as to save fuel to last me for the day till I get my hubby`s Shell card..(hehe..kes tumpang sekaki) ..the thing about this car I`m driving, the km will reduce tremendously if I drove really fast...hehe..since I`m a fast driver kan...paham2 jer la..so to cut story short, after ngaji, I went to fetch Izzat from his Toastmasters thingy at school in SJ then went to pick Adib and sent both of them home. Then I waited in the car for Izzat to get ready for his tuition n send my the maid home at one go..after sending both ..around this time my km already showed 8km only. Still ok coz I don`t have any trip to do till my hubby arrived home...sempat la ...

Btw, masa ni dah penat sangat coz satu hari keluar masuk je...then when hubby arrived, told him to fill the tank..alamak his car also tarak fuel la pulak...so he went to fill his coz today he volunteered to send our kids for ice hockey class in SunwayP..yeay!! leh relax sikit...thanks Abah..

So after he left with the kids, I went to fill mine...the moment I started the engine, the km suddenly become 6km, then 4km, 3km...what?? I was still in front of the gate...the it showed ----km.. I kept driving n hoping that I could still reach the station..dah lah jalan tu kena lalu kubur n hari pun sudah malam dan saya ni pulak jenis penakut..hehe..but somehow, I managed to get to the station located about 2km away...phewwww!!! berpeloh sekejap...

So the moral of the story, U can still drive a few km away even if yr screen showed no-fuel ...or other words..tangki sudah kering... ni citer pasal kesibukkan her pasal tangki kosong..wakaka..