A S.t.a.r. girls

Both of us had delicious BBQ ribs, this comparing to Tony Roma's- that we just had last Sunday. Ordered spaghetti carbonara for the preschooler. It was priced at RM39, obviously the portion was huge. It is one of the better carbonara for sure. They don't have kid's meal unfortunately.

They have 2 outlets. The pictures on their FB and most reviews are on Chulan Square outlet. The Crown Regency outlet wasn't very helpful/ friendly when I called- thus Chulan Square it is.

Which means packed snacks and lunches. Snacks so far are cereal, biscuit/cookie or pastries. Lunch if she finishes late.

Thanks to Groupon, we discovered a nice eating place. The coupon was RM39 for RM69 worth of western combo. It's for 3 adults, but 2 adults and a toddler could also finish it.

The foot long sausage was interesting for toddler. There were beef, lamb chop, chicken chop and grilled chicken. Oh they served soup and salad prior to that.

I guess if you get tired from shopping at Empire or Emperor (across the road), you can always pop by. There is also a Mexican restaurant- looks interesting.

There was a time when toddler was still a fussy (-ier) eater, the pasta dishes would have satisfied her. They were out of mille crepe that day *sob sob*. Lunch was a good 1.5 hours- not bad when dining out with a toddler and a baby! First dining out with baby!! A milestone achieved!!!

Apart from the confinement dishes that I managed to prepare, I am slowly starting to cook. Cooking pajeri in first trimester totally put me off cooking ever since.

Cooked pasta bolognese (for toddler and I) and importantly the pungent, spicy sambal tumis. 5 months time- I'd be weaning Sarah to solid *gasp*. That was the origin of this blog- cooking for the baby, back in 2008.

Went for my 2 weekly check up, and we had lunch at Wendy's. A decent fast food joint- but it is cooked to order. There are new chippers in Wendy's...tastes so much better than the fake McD fries.

She loves the cheesy mushroom sauce- however the mushroom phase is over. As usual her burger would have extra cheese, extra mushroom sauce (that's RM2 extra). The fun bit was eating the cheesy bits- leaving the patties behind LOL.

And I had the fish (cod) burger with baked potato. Tried the new fries with chives/sour cream. I was happy with my carbs today.

Rashes disappeared in just 4 days/ day 7 illness. So how did we know?
We shared flaming seafood platter at Manhattan Fish Market, IPC on Malaysia Day September 16th.

I guess she wasn't fully healed, but she ate the salty (to my taste) seafood. Not the charred prawns- those were mine. Never mind the fact she downs it down with gulps of icy cold water.

Our love affair with cuppies started/ rekindled this year. Beginning of the year, I won a box of cuppies from Oven Gigs. Then I got to know Nadhirah (1 Teaspoon of Love/ Baby Cakes on FB). The icing doesn't stain your hands- so it is not overly-artificially-colored. Sofea fell in love with the delicately, beautifully done toppers ie the figurines on top of the cuppies.

So far this is among the cooking style she likes. Garlic, sesame oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce. No need for extra salt.

 In the spirit of Raya, let's talk about cookies. That's daddy's girl who just learned baking last month. At first we used Betty Crocker premix. A tad too sweet.

 The tweetmoms talked about butter cookies that's as good as Kjeldsen, so we gave it a try. Well, I can tell you that it doesn't turn out as shaped cookies. Will have to ask my mom for the tried and tested recipes. I baked when I was younger, cannot recall if it was more of a chore rather than fun LOL.

This is in PJ. Been going there past few years. Imagine to our horror when we couldn't find him in Restoran Jaya. We almost went home, but circled the area again in SS5. I then spotted the stall's sign, in this new restaurant... it used to be a mamak joint.

This was the second / third time DD ate a stall-like place. They had chicken porridge, she ate that yay! We of course had the char kuey teow, sotong kangkung, kerang rebus. His CKT triumphs over Doli's. But I'm talking about Doli branch in Taman Tun. I haven't been to the original place in Taiping.

This used to be Taman Tun Dr Ismail, but they moved to Laman @Penchala earlier this year. This was the second time we brought DD here. A success! Guess what she liked? Lala. We order S/M, and she can finish it. Unfortunately the vegetables dishes aren't to her liking.

We (read: I) always order: lala, a veggie dish, beef/ chicken dish, sotong/ beancurd dish. 4 dishes with 3 rice and 3 drinks would set us back RM50-70. Okay la. Which reminds me, to introduce her to prawn and fish dishes.

 This is still our fave place, Sakae Sushi. I don't get a heart attack when DD takes plates after plates from the conveyor belt. Edamame is still a hit. Mochi, well now she learns to share it with the parents, honestly... I can only take one of it.

 She took my pink plate, that inari has soft shell crab. I don't think she fancies crabs, but it was tempura- she'd probably thought it was like pisang goreng or something. Oh well, good try my girl.

We had one of those homey weekend... went to Fella warehouse sale in Bukit Subang to buy curtain fabrics. It's easier to reach there via GCE, rather than through Subang (DH's idea). But of course being the navigator, I'd go through Kota Damansara/ Jln Sg Buloh Way.

And as memory served me right, the Big Plate restaurant was just around the corner. It has lost its former glory, but it's clean. Food wise, not too bad. They still serve the soup in the bun. I know now everywhere is doing that, but I'd have to give credit to Big Plate for introducing it >10 years ago (I seriously can't remember when we first went there). We had 2 meals, which came with the main platter (DH had combo lamb-chicken-sausage, while I had the steak) and soup. DD was concentrating on orange and watermelon juice, it was just too hot and humid that afternoon. Still a puteri lilin.

Had lunch at Homst, TTDI on Saturday. Then we walked over to Munawwarah. Bought 2 cakes at Cake Sense. Toddler is happy with big makan. Lala wasn't fresh- disappointing her, sadly. I still think Muhibbah is better ;p

 My first attempt after getting tips from @ikirana on Twitter.

• shallots
• garlic
• ginger
• white pepper
• black pepper
• (omitted jintans)

Second attempt:
I used minced chicken instead because it is easier to hide the protein.