Eating Kerabu While Being Spooked

Are you on holiday today? Thursday was Merdeka Day dan Friday was Hari Raya Haji. And the evening before Merdeka Day, our Prime Minister declared Monday (today) a public holiday due to Malaysia's exceptional achievement at the SEA Games. Sweet, eh? 

Imagine that, a long weekend, 5 whole days of yippee!! Well, I am actually at work today. Why?! Because if there is anything worse than Monday blues, it's Tuesday blues.

Since everyone in Malaysia is on holiday today (hopefully), there will be no whiny phone calls (hopefully) from clients wanting this and that. And for once, Monday is not depressing. In fact I feel happy today.

So what did you do over the long weekend? Me? I cleaned my kitchen on Thursday and the rest of the house on Friday (including laundry, cooking etc).

On Saturday, I had a horror movie binge. I parked my ass on the sofa and watched two Ouija movies - Ouija (2014) and Ouija : Origin of Evil (2016). And yesterday, I watched The Conjuring 2. 

OK, that's enough horror movies to keep me happy. Like I said before, I'm low maintenance. I hope my partner realizes how lucky he is hah...hah...

As for food, well, I had simple stuff not worthy of a blog post except for this awesome Chicken Kerabu. It's nothing new, I used my usual family recipe and since I haven't had kerabu for a while, this tasted so good.

I was blessed with some bunga kantan from my garden as well as a whole bunch of herbs. So this kerabu was an explosion of flavors which gave me so much pleasure! 

So you can imagine how it was eating a big serving of kerabu while watching The Conjuring 2 (instead of popcorn and those crunchy stuff). I was going from yum!! to whoa!! to yeeeearrr!! to crap!! to don't go there!! all in one afternoon. 

Yes, that movie spooked the hell out of me. I couldn't get that ugly nun out of my head. Crap.

Chicken Kerabu

Recipe source : Phong Hong

Ingredients :

For the salad ingredients :

- cucumbers, sliced

- carrots, grated

- onions, thinly sliced

- mint

- daun kesum, thinly sliced

- selasih, thinly sliced

- steamed chicken

For the dressing (this makes enough for 2 or 3 servings) :

- 1 tbsp dried prawns, soaked to soften

- 5 red chillies

- 3 cili padi

- 3 shallots

- 1 tbsp belacan (toasted)

- 1 tbsp plum sauce or sugar to taste

- juice from 2 to 3 limes (I used limau nipis) or to taste

Method :

1. To make the dressing, pound or blended dried prawns, chillies, shallots and belacan until fine.

2. Add lime juice and plum sauce (or sugar) and mix. Taste and adjust accordingly. It has to be sweet, sour and salty.

3. Put salad ingredients in a bowl and add some dressing and toss.