Overnight French Toast II

i found this recipe online and i totally loved it. I did not know that u can make french toast in the oven, let alone put it in the fridge over night to soak up all the yumminess in the ingredients.

My little niece is sleeping over and she helped me with this dish.

The recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Overnight-French-Toast-II/Detail.aspx

I used K.D.D skimmed milk, Nature Land organic honey instead of corn syrup and whole wheat bread from Bread Talk instead of french bread.

I was supposed to make enough for the whole family, but there was not enough brown sugar. I will be ready next week insahlah :)

Shepherd's pie, first try

I've always wanted to make Shepherd's pie since I’ve seen F.R.I.E.N.D.S, the episode where Rachel tried making an English trifle and ended up mixing the recipe with a shepherd's pie recipe. For some reason I thought it looked yummy :) and as Joey puts it "what's not to like?!"



The good news, the pie turned out great, al7amd lellah, next step is the English Trifle inshalah.
The recipe for the Shepherd’s pie: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/shepherds-pie


The Mashed Potato: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/everyday-mashed-potatoes
I hope you enjoy the pictures, I enjoyed the dish :)

Inspired by "Julie & Julia"

Am 30 years old and I have no skill or hobby at all, at least till last month. Now I got my new place, with a “Kitchen” and I started cooking my meals myself. Am just having a great time cooking, ruining meals and perfecting some of them :)

Is cooking a skill? Talent? Or a hobby? Am not sure, all I know is that I enjoy it and look forward to cook my next meal. I search online for recipes and sometimes I add my own modification to suit my taste.

I discovered that I have a taste for food and what should be added. For some reason, sometimes I look at a recipe and think “Naah, that’s too much of X, there is not enough Y, I don’t have A and will replace it with B”

My inspiration to blog came from one of my favorite movies "Julie & Julia", even thought that I won’t be doing hard dishes like the ones in the movie, at least not yet. AJ, my friend, encouraged me to start the blog since I do take pictures for every step, that’s after criticizing the quality and lighting of the pictures that I took with my Onyx cell phone. Chill AJ, next time I will use my 10.1 megapixel Sony camera I have laying around somewhere, if I find it LOL.

What is really great about cooking my own meals, is that I am trying to follow this book by Bethenny Frankel, titled “Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting”. It basically tells you to eat healthy food, not processed food or diet crabby food and to eat in moderation. My favorite rule from the book “ you can have it all, but not all at once”. And yeah, am actually listening to the audio book not reading it :) it is very interesting to hear the book read to you by the author, more convincing.