Gammon Ham

"Ni, aku udah meli gammon ham ba kedai Kim Joo. Agi bisi 1/2 tinggal..1/2 nya dibeli Ta & Rosalind,"ko Endu. "Pia Endu..berapa rega ham nuan?,ko aku. "Around RM200+ siti pah" ko iya. Aiyoo.aiyoo..Makai tunu jani tiga layer ajalah.

Roast Leg of lamb

Again, this is another favourite dish that often crops up when Xmas is around the corner. D & I do not fancy lamb/mutton dishes but the children adore it. For those of you who are staying in Miri, the place where one can get reasonably priced leg of lamb would be at CCK Cold Storage at Krokop.Any other place would be expensive. Now, CCK also sells lamb shanks.

Turkeys out of stock in Miri

Ho..ho..ho.. I met Endu this afternoon and the first thing she said to me just now was that she went to a few places in town looking for turkeys to roast come Xmas...& found none. Apparently whatever available turkeys there were in town last week were 'snapped' up by some early birds( of the human kind). Wonder if Cecilia got hers already because she wanted to get one and a leg of lamb before the prices for these luxuries go up. As for me, I am not that into turkey & neither are the rest of my family. Maybe we ate too many 'kulok' in our younger days when my maternal grandfather reared 'kulok'. Of course,during those days,we never heard anything about 'roast turkey' until some mat salleh men doing the seismic jobs (kerja jerman,as the Ibans called) with my dad, asked him whether he knew anybody could roast the turkeys that they bought from my grandfather. My mum immediately thought of Atak's parents because they were very good with the char siew. So, Atak's father roasted the turkeys in the big tong drum and when the turkeys came out,they turned up brownish red/reddish brown (whichever) because I think now, he rubbed the red food colouring onto the skin of the turkeys like what was done to the char siew/pork. They must had tasted delicious because Atak's father was given the task again to roast the turkeys the following Xmas. I thought that was quite funny because the only popular way of cooking kulok/turkey we knew then was to cook like we normally cook the chicken..goreng with kicap/soya sauce. Ha..ha.. only when I spent my first Xmas in a boarding school in England,then I knew there's such a dish. Ha..ha..kasih..kasih. So I suggested to Endu, get a big chicken & pretend it's a turkey & Janet said," Gigo manok sabung..iya ke besai,baka gamal turkey." Amat nuan,Net? Enda liat isi manok sabong..Ha..ha.. (Janet suggested 'a fighting cock, the big one,looks like a turkey.'...Serious,Net? Wouldn't the meat be tough? Ha..ha..)