My dad makes a good mean chilli oil from scratch. It's one of his many cooking talets. However, I'm not keen on the taste of chilli oil and the last time I brought a jar back, I gave it to a friend who loved it and wanted to know how to make it.
List of ingredients include:
Dried scallops
Dried shrimps
Dried chillis
Shallots
Garlic
Shrimp paste (optional)
Fresh red chillis
Fresh large red pepper
Oil - lot of it!
Instructions
Finely chop everything and stir fry in hot oil. Once they look cooked, transfer them into a deep frying oil and cook like a casserole till the colour of the whole pan turns bright red and to own preferred taste of chilliness. Let the whole pan cool down before dishing them into jars. Seal jars and put in fridge. It can be used as dipping sauce as well as in cooking.
My dad also commented that if the whole kitchen / house does not smell of hot cooking chillis, then it hasn't been cooked enough!
Friday 26 March 2010
Saturday 20 March 2010
My 5km challenge!
I have signed up for Race for Life 2010 and going to be doing the 5km race for Cancer Research UK. The day of the event is 26th June held in Old Deer Park, Richmond, London.
I started training for this event over 2 months ago. Having never done any running/sports events before, this event is going to test my fitness and determination. I did do some research on training for running events and how to train for them and I must admit, I didn't know there was so much to learn about running. Anyway I am doing between 2-3 training sessions per week which is not bad for my lack of fitness and my physique.
There is a list of things one need to look into when training for such an event from trainers, running position, diet, stamina, fitness to clothes to wear. Eventually, I came across a training plan on the Internet, called Couch 2 5K. This plan is 9 week plan and for each week, there are 3 training sessions. For each session, you follow the regime, for example week 1, brisk walk for 5 mins, then 1 min jog and 1 min walk until you reach 20 mins. By week 6-8, the plan says you should be able to jog at least 1.5 miles.
Here is the link to that training plan.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
At the moment, I'm on week 7. I managed to comfortably skipped a few weeks and still hold on to my training. Getting comfortable with the jogging but I think I need a new pair of trainers! :P
By the way, I managed to jog 5km today, in 40 minutes though which is not great, but at least I know for sure I can do 5km!
I started training for this event over 2 months ago. Having never done any running/sports events before, this event is going to test my fitness and determination. I did do some research on training for running events and how to train for them and I must admit, I didn't know there was so much to learn about running. Anyway I am doing between 2-3 training sessions per week which is not bad for my lack of fitness and my physique.
There is a list of things one need to look into when training for such an event from trainers, running position, diet, stamina, fitness to clothes to wear. Eventually, I came across a training plan on the Internet, called Couch 2 5K. This plan is 9 week plan and for each week, there are 3 training sessions. For each session, you follow the regime, for example week 1, brisk walk for 5 mins, then 1 min jog and 1 min walk until you reach 20 mins. By week 6-8, the plan says you should be able to jog at least 1.5 miles.
Here is the link to that training plan.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
At the moment, I'm on week 7. I managed to comfortably skipped a few weeks and still hold on to my training. Getting comfortable with the jogging but I think I need a new pair of trainers! :P
By the way, I managed to jog 5km today, in 40 minutes though which is not great, but at least I know for sure I can do 5km!
Free money and new pastures!
I haven't blogged in a long time so it is time I caught up and get back into blogging!
The past 3 weeks have been a mere for me! 3 weeks ago when everything was calm and I was pondering on where to go on holiday, next min, the project which the team I am in was under the threat of closure. In the space of a week, I had almost lost my job, however, the good thing is...I didn't because I chose to take voluntary redundancy!
The VR package was not fantastic but its much more than if I was made redundancy. In total, I managed to gain quite a few thousand quids from the company. At the end of the day, it was free money!
So what next?! The usual thing happen which is to find another job. The IT job market was really busier than I thought, however so was the IT candidate market! I didn't have any difficulty with getting interviews, some companies were weirder than others and I won't mention any names here!
After over a week of interviews and chatting with job agents, I landed myself with a 'safe' job. I will start this position in over one weeks time. I say 'safe' because its as safe as a job can get I guess. I am now relaxing for another week and catching up with being a better housewife till I go back to a job sitting in front of computers! :)
The past 3 weeks have been a mere for me! 3 weeks ago when everything was calm and I was pondering on where to go on holiday, next min, the project which the team I am in was under the threat of closure. In the space of a week, I had almost lost my job, however, the good thing is...I didn't because I chose to take voluntary redundancy!
The VR package was not fantastic but its much more than if I was made redundancy. In total, I managed to gain quite a few thousand quids from the company. At the end of the day, it was free money!
So what next?! The usual thing happen which is to find another job. The IT job market was really busier than I thought, however so was the IT candidate market! I didn't have any difficulty with getting interviews, some companies were weirder than others and I won't mention any names here!
After over a week of interviews and chatting with job agents, I landed myself with a 'safe' job. I will start this position in over one weeks time. I say 'safe' because its as safe as a job can get I guess. I am now relaxing for another week and catching up with being a better housewife till I go back to a job sitting in front of computers! :)
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