potluck, as you all know, means we each had to bring something from home. i was out of ideas of what to make, but i didn't know what to buy either. i thought of trying to bake a casserole, since Munira wrote on her blog that it was quite simple to make. Significant Other suggested me to make macaroni pasta, i haven't made that in a while. i said i'd do a little bit of both. so, okay. at least if my first attempt at baking a casserole fails, at least there's the macaroni. lol.
so i dashed off to Tesco to get the ingredients, the bill rang a bit high because i had to get meself a casserole dish (there wasn't anything smaller than the one i bought, i was hoping to get a tiny one, oh well). i really didn't know how to budget whipping up a dish for roughly 15 people, so i just hentam beli the amount of ingredients, and tried not to go wayy over budget. the main ingredients i had to get were:
- cheddar cheese (just nice)
- macaroni (wayy too much)
- spaghetti sauce (overshot by 1 bottle)
- casserole dish (rm20+)
- brocolli (one stalk (stalk?) too many)
- minced beef (just nice)
so i'm not gonna tell you about my cooking experience, because i sucked too much at it anyway.
so it was already time to break fast by the time we reached Irina's place. luckily we've been there before, else we would've spent an extra 15 minutes getting lost just searching for her place. some of the peeps were already there, some unfamiliar faces because they were VTs at the company so i've never met them before. the food was already laid out on the table. i was from worrying that the amount of food i brought wasn't enough, to worrying that the amount of food was a little too much, hahah (i blame it on the huge casserole dish).
the hostess
the first phase of food
the second phase of food
i'll let the photos do the talking of exactly how much food there was that night (photos taken from Fahmi and Significant Other). i wish i had enough room to fit practically everything into my tummy. lately ever since puasa started i'm eating less and less. people's starting to notice my thinning figure (oh please don't let me phase off into walking skeleton mode. haha). anyway, i especially liked the sandwiches, Dayana had a bit of those as well. the roti jala was superb (ahem ahem)! but there were alot of dishes that i didn't manage to sample =(. i wasn't sure if it was because of my poor appetite or because i had a little toddler to look after. she was a bit bolder in exploring the floor herself that night. hehe.
the PwCers
Dayana exploring all by herself
time for a break
Dayana =)
i even sampled my own casserole for the first time. hahah. ok la, it didn't really suck, just so-so. i think it needs more stew, or something. it's quite hard to cook when you're fasting, especially if you're a novice like me. i think Dayana would be able to eat the casserole, i didn't add in too much extra flavoring or anything. just realized that she eats pasta now, earlier at home i fed her bits of macaroni while waiting for the macaroni sauce to cook. i love my mil's casserole dish though. it has always been my favorite. i just don't know how to replicate it.
Irina ended up with more food than she could bargain for. i think the amount of food left over could last her for a week, hahahahahah. apparently i should've guessed that people don't really eat that much during berbuka, settling on sampling a bit of every dish before they declare their tanks are full (for buffets, however, people pile up tons of food on their plates merely because they think they're famished and greed got the better of them just by looking at the wide selection of food choices). so i brought a huge doggy bag home =P. just wished i had tapaued the sandwiches though. i keep thinking about those sandwiches. who the heck brought them? i think they've been hoodwinked or something =P.
as Fahmi puts it, the Guardian of the Sandwiches, haha
so we had to rush off early to catch the Final Destination at Pyramid, and that bugger decided to pull a disappearing act on me and reappear at the last minute (grrr) so i had to leave my casserole dish behind. luckily mil at Subang was available to look after Dayana while we went for the movies. i can't imagine bringing Dayana along for a movie, i'm afraid she might scream or babble away or something. i'm impressed at how some mamas manage to do it. i do remember watching Dennis the Menace at the cinema with my family when i was wayyy young and my youngest sister, being quite young then, so my mom held her facing away from the screen throughout the whole of the movie. hahahahha.
the movie was OK. after 3 installments and this being the 4th one, there isn't much to be said. haha. the one thing i absolutely hate about TGV Sunway is the ticketing lanes. even though you've already purchased tickets online, you still have to queue up along with the rest of the idiots at the reservation counter. i say idiots because even though the tickets are reserved, these people end up coming in late to collect them so they have to re choose their tickets and everything. some of them even take more than 5 minutes just to collect their tickets. and sometimes only one counter is open for reservation. he-llo! what's the point of me buying the tickets in advance if i still need to queue up like no tomorrow?
TGV should get smarter and create a separate lane for ticket collection for those who've already paid for their tickets. seriously. Significant Other blew up once at the indian lady behind the counter because she didn't seem to care that people were taking up too much time at the counter (we ended up missing our movie, but after Significant Other's outburst we were given complimentary tickets for the next session). if like that i can just cut the whole winding queue and head straight for the reservation counter and pretend i lost my booking number, just to save time queuing up. the TGV people should be firm and only attend those with valid reservations and online purchases. geram ok. i don't encounter this problem whenever i'm buying tickets at GSC though. i wonder why?
ok enough with the outburst. hahaha. we got back to find Dayana happily asleep at my mil's.
which reminds me, one time, my sister in law 'expertly' left her car at the Carrefour parking lot because she wanted to take the ktm, and then she arrived quite late to collect the car and got stranded there because the security guards didn't allow her to remove the car tengah-tengah malam buta. hahahahah. sungguh pandai ok.
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