#Bee-Eater Eats Raw ...Of Course..

Hello everyone

For this entry I would add images of the beautiful bee-eater. Birds with turquoise plumage.

I notice that they are very quick in catching the flying insects and gobble it down fast. How very easy for them to have a meal. They seem to enjoy it very much as can be seen by their chattering non stop.

While the bee-eater eats raw we the humans choose to cook. We usually take so much time to prepare our meals....see making curry alone you have so many steps.....

Sometimes we need to short cut the way we cook so that we have more time to pursue other interests ...like watching the bee-eater catching flying insects ...ha ha..

Let me share with you my shortcut prawn curry....

You need two woks one big one small..

The ingredients

By the way to be fast cut the french beans this way

Put in the big wok

Coconut milk + curry paste + french beans + ginger + salt

bring to boil

After boiling for about 6 minutes

add prawns

Boil 4 more minutes

Add cut tomato and boil a wee bit more and let simmer

Taste

Meanwhile fry curry leaves, onion, garlic in the small wok until the aroma fill the whole house

And pour the whole thing oil included into the simmering curry

( be careful)

Cover the wok to trap the aroma.

Serve...

That was fast...

After having an appetizing meal lets watch the bee eaters

Waiting ....

patiently

eyes watching

and fly to catch..

got it

mmm nice

good to be with friends now...

to fall in line.....

Yeah....All for one and one for all..,.

Happy cooking watching and reading.....

Bye....

#Oriole the Yellow Bird Came Knocking

Hello

Cooking curry is my forte. I was born into a family where curry makes almost the everyday main dish. but lately I myself think the taste is not par excellence. Why was that.

Perhaps its the curry powder. May be not. Or may be my method because lately I try to do a shortcut. You know something like dumping and mixing everything inside the pot and cook without controlling the flame properly.

So do it the proper way

1. Heat the pot.
2. Put oil
3. heat oil (must)
4. Add in onions shallots garlic curry leaves halba campur and cumin fry to bring out the aroma.
5. Put in curry paste -- LOWER the flame. Cook until the oil comes out. This takes time. be patient, This is the step I think that can make or break the curry taste.(By this time the whole house should be smelling of curry)
6. Put in the tamarind juice-coconut milk mixture making sure ratio of tamarind juice is higher.
7. Put salt
8. Put fish lady fingers tomatoes and green chilies. Boil on moderate flame until just cook.
9. Sprinkle a little sugar..yes yes ..

Walla...

One day while I was cooking can't really remember whether it was curry or some other dish I noticed this outside my window



Usually I can hear its call but difficult to see because its hiding among the thick foliage of the gigantic rambutan tree on my neighbour's land.

It came onto a dukong branch just outside

Don't tell me it was the curry smell....

This is at the back window

hO  hOO

These photos were taken earlier on....                                                                     

                                                         

Such a beauty with pink lips beak black brow yellow plumage almost glowing

But always on the lookout ready to take a flight

Now gone so far away

That's all for now.


Bye..