Review of My Cooking Style Stir Fried Beef with Pasta

Serves 6

Ingredients used:

1 packet of spaghetti,

1 cup julienned carrot

¼ cup Eggplant

2 Green Capsicums

2 cloves garlic, chopped

2 tbs vegetable oil

1 kg of stir fry beef

¼ cup of tomato paste

Cook the spaghetti just drown them in water, till tender

Stir fry the meat:

• Slice meat diagonally with grain into thin strips. Place oil in pan, stir fry beef until tender, Pour tomato paste

In a hot frying pan, stir fry garlic in oil until fragrant. Add carrot, capsicum and egg plant. Cook until vegetables are just soft.

Add Spaghetti, and the previously stir fried meat. Toss well. Taste for seasoning,

Garnish with cooked pepper, (the red stuff on the side of the Plate)

Review of My Cooking Style Fried Bee Hoon

Serves 1

¼ standard packet of dried rice vermicelli - Tried the Wheat Vermicelli (What a disaster)
¼ cup julienned carrot - Done
¼ cup beansprouts - Substituted with an Eggplant
2 shiitake mushrooms, sliced - Could not find Mushrooms in Mombasa
2 cloves garlic, chopped - Done
2 tbs vegetable oil (preferable peanut) - Done
Dash of thin soy sauce - Forgot
Dash of dark soy sauce - Forgot
White pepper powder - Forgot
Fried shallots, for garnish - Forgot
Cilantro, for garnish - Forgot
Sambal belacan, to serve (optional) – what the hell.

Soak vermicelli in cold water until slightly softened (about half an hour). major backfiring resulted to substituting with spagetti

In a hot frying pan, stir fry garlic in oil until fragrant. Add carrot, mushrooms and beansprouts. Cook until vegetables are just soft.

Add noodles, dash of thin and dark soy, and pepper. Toss well. Taste for seasoning, adding more thin soy as needed. Don’t overcook noodles.

Serve immediately with fried shallots, cilantro and sambal belacan

Today's Culinary Experiment Fried Bee Hoon

I was born with a healthy appetite for food, there is a kikuyu saying "mwana mwega no daa" meaning a good child is one who eats. Having been brought up with that saying eating was a big deal to my mother. So I came to love good food.


Today I will b experimenting using a recipe from http://www.limecake.net/ , I will post my results on Monday lets see how good I am at this



Pic from limecake.net, lets see if mine will look this way

 Fried Bee Hoon
 serves 1

• ¼ standard packet of dried rice vermicelli
• ¼ cup julienned carrot
• ¼ cup beansprouts
• 2 shiitake mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 tbs vegetable oil (preferable peanut)
• Dash of thin soy sauce
• Dash of dark soy sauce
• White pepper powder
• Fried shallots, for garnish
• Cilantro, for garnish
• Sambal belacan, to serve (optional)

 Soak vermicelli in cold water until slightly softened (about half an hour).

In a hot frying pan, stir fry garlic in oil until fragrant. Add carrot, mushrooms and beansprouts. Cook until vegetables are just soft.

Add noodles, dash of thin and dark soy, and pepper. Toss well. Taste for seasoning, adding more thin soy as needed. Don’t overcook noodles.

Serve immediately with fried shallots, cilantro and sambal belacan

Bloger Choices

Ok, I am not a fan of long and boring blogs so I always try to ensure that mine is sweet and straight to the point.

Well Last weekend was Driftwoods (a Kenyan 7’s rugby series held in Mombasa) and all of Nairobi was in Mombasa.

This year the turn over was quite few, or it’s because most of my gals never made it……

Follow the below links for the one on one breakdown of the eventful weekend.

•  Saturday
• Saturday Night
• Sunday Rugby
• Sunday Night

mind block

- shawarma
- driftwoods
- weekend outfit
- weekend nights

pick one n i write about it

You Scream,I scream,We Scream Yuls Icecream...

This weekend was a slow weekend for me.

Went to Yuls for Dinner.

the icecream there is to die for,

i had:

Tiramisu icecream
 



Then we had dinner and i had chips and a buger, they have the best beef burgers i have had so far in mombasa.

What is dinner without dessert, so i had Lemon icecream and Chocolate and Cookies Icecream. now this is heaven.

Yuls is a very tourist oriented joint but excellent food and its by the beach so the sea water and air feels good especially at night, and the view is breath taking definately worth another visit.

Last Saturday's Adventure

So Saturday night I was in mtwapa, Mombasa, the sin city of Mombasa. At a house party, the house is beautiful with a view of the mtwapa creek total heaven.

me holding my choice of poison

Next we went to full moon, now this is what I call a club. The music is hot, the guys are equally hot and the ladies are dressed to kill....... I just loved the place.

Why full moon is my new friday joint

Then we hit the famous ilcovo, total madness, I have never danced like I did there.

ilcovo pic from http://www.ilcovo.net/lounge.html

Then like the bums we are we eneded up at Bobs..................

Bobs, pic from http://bobs.bcckenya.com/

Today is Friday, i wonder what saturday holds for me...........

My Aunty's Wedding

My aunty is getting married soon in Malindi, a beach weeding, so we are looking for suggestions on what to wear.

Ps am the maid of honour.

Help me with ideas

My Love of Shawarma

Online pic of a guy making Shawarma

Now lets talk about food, lol.

Shawarma is a little piece of heaven, right here on Earth.

There is this Lebanese guy down the road from where I work, he opened from 3pm to when his stock lasts.

Now chicken Shawarma is this Lebanese specialty, people will pass tarbush to the guy in the yellow converted pickup with a Shawarma machine selling hot shawarma’s with the best pita bread.

Shawarma in Pita Bread ; Google images

Now i love my Shawarma with no garnishes, just the flavoured chicken and the pita bread with ketchup. wow thats heaven. he charges like 200kshs - approx 2.50$

. Tarbush..........

What is Shawarma?

Shawarma is thinly sliced cuts of meat, like chicken, beef, goat, lamb, and sometimes turkey, rolled into a large piece of pita bread that has been steamed or heated. Inside the pita, foods like pickles, vegetables, and even french fries are added.

Think of Shawarma as a taco or burrito Middle Eastern style.

Look me up in when you come to my neck of the woods and i will treay you to this delicacy........... i promise.

Birthday Wish list

Today i realease my Birthday wish list.

Birthday Wish list by wairimu254 featuring Christian Louboutin shoes

Feel free to gift me any of the above pairs

Beach Wear..........

So last weekend was like my busiest weekend of all......, i was able to gor for a cocktail party on friday at Whitesands for Athi River Mining ,

this is what i wore:

Welcome to Polyvore! by wairimu254 featuring Miu Miu bags

then on Saturday i was at a team building event at mombasa continental. their beach is to die for.

this is what i wore to the evening party

Welcome to Polyvore! by wairimu254 featuring Tapeet by Vicini sandals

THE JUMBA RUINS
Sunday we went to jumba ruins, a swahili settlment for the 13th Century cool, it now run by The National Museam. Its by the beach n the tide was up. We were a party of 13 people and anyone who hit the beach came back with sand in all their unmentionables lol so to say i sat by the beach in my shorts seeping on some cocktail enjoying life.

this is what i wore.

beach by wairimu254 featuring J Brand shorts

Red Velvet Cake

So This Weekend I Was Home Alone ....... Arealy bored and longing for a task to do.

So i decide how about a Red Velvet Cake, so i decided to bake a cake, yeah i have skills

Sou Yummy, finger licking good..........

its not that sweet, the sugar content is just right.............

More photos to follow

I Love the RED n WHITE COMBO

Jelly Shoes Fad in Mombasa, Mji Wa Raha

www.shoebuy.com, Jelly Shoes, or also known as Jellies, are footwear that is made of a rubber material referred to as jelly rubber. Jelly Shoes may come in a variety of colors and styles.



www.shop.akirachicago.com Mombasa being the full party mode place, one needs clothes that have easy access for lack of a beter word.


http://www.plastic-machine.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/melissa-jelly-shoes-1.jpg One needs shoes that can hit the beach, exposed to salty water without shrinking or being spoilt by the salt in the ocean,

For months now i have refused to be pulled into wearing them but now i see they are a nessesity.

i will be posting my shoe choice soon..... whats your choice

Lovely shoes, so yummy

http://shop.akirachicago.com/page.php?id=bydesigner&dept=WOMEN&iddesigner=227