Raising Sand is better than 100 Nigga CDs Combined

In my iPod: Stick with Me Baby - R.Plant & A.Krauss
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State of mind: Polluted
Location: Star Bucks, East Coast Mall

To me there isn't anything lame about country music, however I wouldn't wanna be could dead listening to Carrie Underwood or Garth Brooks. Alright the fact is that I have nothing against nice ol' cowfolks or their queer habit of wearing checkered shirt, jeans and boots with their ten gallon hat going all “BooYa” and “YeeHaa”. I don't question their sexuality when it comes to driving 4 x 4 pickup trucks and making out with their own sister at the back of it, or even having homosexual sex-cape in camp fires with other cowboys; it's alright with me as long as I don't get to see them in action. It is their prerogative and I am totally cool with it. There is nothing they can do that would make me lose respect for them except maybe for the stench of manure that is emanating from their body courtesy of shoveling crap in the ranch all day.

So you see I am totally cool with the country shit but I am just so not digging into the country music vibe. It is just so not me, cause I am a fucking hard rocking metal grinding rocker that fucking rocks hard and that is how I fucking roll.

*Sigh…

But something has change and I fucking hate to admit this. Every damn time I listen to a really good country song, I get all John Denver about it and it gets stuck in my head. I just couldn't stop listening to it all day long. And it will stay playing on my iTunes, iPod, in my car, in my head… until another good song comes along and save me from it. It all started with Trace Adkins' “You gonna Miss This”. I was so hooked to that song that I think I must have spread the disease to Jakarta because Cenni was plagued with that song too. And now I am stuck with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' “Stick with You Baby”. (Their CD Raising Sand is da bomb, if you like rap, this CD is like a hundred times better than all the Nigga crap put together, even though it is in the folk rock and country genre but I think you get what I mean when I say it's 100 times better than rap music.)

You know what, I think I might be of cowboy ancestry or I might have lived my previous life as a gun slinger in the Wild Wild West because there is definitely some redneck hillbilly cow-blood in me that just can't resist fucking country music.

Anyhow, it was "Make Tzyy Ling Her Tom Yum" day and after a day of scouting and hunting for all the ingredients with the song “stick with you baby” playing in my iPod; it was time to hit the kitchen. So I place the track “stick with you baby” on repeat and started working on that Tom Yum. It was my first time doing Tom Yum and I never really thought that it would be that easy. It was basically just dumping all the ingredients into a pot accordingly and wait for a certain amount of time before you dish out and served. Tzyy Ling's Tom Yum turned out pretty alright and I hope she'll likes it and would be able to follow the recipe that I posted in the xniquet-wiki.

I don't know if any of you have this peculiar way of enjoying your Tom Yum; well you see my family takes Tom Yum with Yau Char Kwai (Chinese cruller). We simply dip it into the Tom Yum soup to let it soak up and then eats it. It is simply awesome when you take a bite at the soaked up Yau Char Kwai, the soup absorbed just explodes into your mouth. It is just lovely to enjoy it on a cold night listening to “stick with you baby”. (See I just can't seem to stop getting that song outta my head).

Anyways, gotta go before some nigga pops out of a trash can and caps me in the ass for insulting their rap music.

The xniquet-wiki articles:

• tZyy Kosong's Tom Yum
• Yao Char Kwai (Chinese Cruller)
• Review: Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Getting High has Never Been So Cheap

And you think you need loads of cash to snort on coke which only mega bucks earners are able to afford? So what about us the middle class average Joe gotta do to get high? In these times of global economic meltdown, when even rock stars would even think twice before calling their drug suppliers, people are switching from powder to something readily available, less expensive and gets the job done . Well almost, you can’t complain because it is cheap. The Southern Rappers call it Sippin’ Syrup, Britney Spears call it Purple Drank but we the people in Cherating call it “KOKTAIL UBAT BATUK”.

So here is the Recipe of making this delicious drink:

Ingredients:

• 1 can of Soda [anything you like but I will still to Sprite or Pepsi]

• 1 bottle Cough Syrup with codeine [You will need a prescription for this so this is when being buddies with doctors comes in handy. But then again if you are living in Malaysia, just head to your neighborhood’s pharmacy, slip RM10.00 over the counter and then fake a few coughs and you will be getting your very own bottle of cough syrup in no time.]

Method:

Add equal amount of cough syrup and soda. For better effect add some crushed painkillers or a couple of doses of Jim Beam into your drink. With the cocktail in your hands, find the best seat in the house, switch on some music [Recommended: Kid Rock's Someone Gotta Feel this] and start sipping your way into narcotic nirvana. You will know that you are high when you startz to speakz like tiz…

Getting high has never been so easy, no needles, no powder, no big money being but

all the harm of drug abuse...

cook meals under 30 minutes

If you are in a rush and wants to cook up a meal that is fast and filling, here is something you can make just under 30 minutes. After days of having Lisa's kick ass waffles, i guess it was my turn to give her a version of my waffles. So i turned the normal waffles from a dessert dish to a main dish instead. I tweak the normal waffle mixture to make it a more salty based and more fiber based to make it more filling than the usual waffles.

what's inside the waffle mixture:

-1/3 portion flour
-1/3 portion of wholemeal flour
-1/3 portion atta flour (not sure what is atta flour called)
-non fat milk
-brown sugar
-low sodium salt
-eggs
-olive oil


what is inside the mushroom gravy

-Campbell mushroom soup
-button mushroom
-green pea
-celery
-chicken chucks
-potatoes

Lisa was loco about the waffles i made for her and gave some to her aunty the owner of the cafeteria which Lisa is working in and her aunty wanted to put that dish in her shop's menu if it is okay with me. Well, i am more than happy and to be honest i am pretty happy about it cause finally i have one of my creation on sale now, even though it is not for my own future restaurant but it was a step to see if my creation is acceptable to the general public. it will be introduced to the menu next month and hopefully it would be a hit. Guys if you are trying to impress a girl, remember cooking dinner for her is one of them. The trick is to make a meal that looks difficult but leaves room for errors. Like this one here, especially the mushroom gravy. Here's a little something for all yous guys who wants to cook to impress, i have listed a few things that keeps me organized when i am cooking in the kitchen.




xniquet's cooking organize list



- prioritize the cooking
make cooking your focal point and tackle it as you would a hostile takeover. Have rags ready for wiping spills, sharpen knifes and have all your serving dishes rinse, dried and ready. figure out what sort of ingredient should remain in the fridge until last minute. (yogurt, cream, veggies and meat) and those can be lain out early and within easy reach. (potatoes and garlics)



-read through recipe throughly
this will ensure you get all the ingredient you need are ready. No more delay searching for the missing ingredient or running out to the store.



-do more than one thing at a time
don't be idle, and watching a pot will never make it boil faster. Instead chopped vegetable or measure ingredient or set the table while waiting for the water to boil, the meat to brown or the oven to pre-heat.



-gradual cleaning
wash dishes, clear the table of scraps and soak the pans as you go along or your sink will overflow. To prevent stinky spills, line your garbage bin with newspaper to absorb pesky drippings before inserting the garbage bag.



-use time saving methods
food processor effectively slice and chop or grate vegetables. Microwave also cuts down preparation time and no mess method for melting margarine or toasting nuts. Use kitchen kitchen scissors to snip fresh herbs or dried fruit.




So these are a few things that i always work with when i am preparing a meal and i fucking hope that you are able to get something out of it when you prepare your meal. But it will be a while for before i hit the kitchen again. Tomorrow is Qing Bing for my family and we are going to travel about 45km outta town to visit our deceased family members (my grand dad and great grand mother). Well, till then, i hope i don't get anymore high fever because i wouldn't wanna miss tomorrow's outing. To those who are driving outstation to pay their respect to tomorrow , drive safe.

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Macho Stewart Living & Podcast

Just the other day, Macho Man received a picture by one of his fan, showing Macho Man the kitchen French Fries’ horrid tragedy that befell the poor potato she was cooking. The image of the mutilated potato shall now forever haunt Macho Man’s dream. Macho Man shall not post the picture here for the sake of everyone who reads this. So today, Macho Man shall teach you how to make the perfect shoe lace fries, chips, wedges, crinkle cut or anything you call it. It is basically the same, being the shoe lace fries the easiest to make because it is thin and faster to cook. Anyway, Macho Man is not only going to show you how to make the perfect fries but also flavored fries.

Strawberry Chili Custard Fries

Wash and peel some potatoes, cut it in to whatever size you desire, but bear in mind, the bigger the size the harder to cook. Today, Macho Man feels like making it in the size of wedges. Boiled the cut potatoes in a pot of water until partially cooked; remember to add some salt in the water, because water boils at 100’C and with some salt in it, it will increase the temperature of the water. Next, you need to prepare the coating of the fries, which serve as the flavor giver. The coating is: one part of flour, two part of custard powder, a little chili/curry/tom yum powder and add strawberry milk to mix the entire ingredient together. Don’t add to much strawberry milk until the mixture becomes too watery. A thick and sticky mixture is the best.

Drained the potatoes and dump it into the mixture for a little while. Make sure that the potato wedges are nicely coated before deep frying them in vegetable oil. Fry the wedges until crisp and golden brown.

This is how the wedges look like when they are perfectly cooked. You can eat it right away with ketchup or vinegar and salt.

But I like to add mozzarella cheese and bake it. Just sprinkle a little mozzarella cheese on top of the wedges and bake it until all the cheese melts. Yeah it looks like KFC’s Cheesey wedges, pssst….Macho Man has been eating this wedges even before Cheesey wedges was introduced.

Listen to MACHO MAN Cooking Podcast

Okie, Evie took the “x’s What is your Dish Challenge” and it took me a while to figure out what sort of dish she is. After asking her a series of question, the only think that was in my macho head was “Steam” and “Eggs”, so this is what I come up with:

Evie’s Steamy Eggs

First you have to beat 2 eggs and divide them into three parts. Add a little water to the first part of the egg and steam it. Add a tom yum stock into the second part of the egg and mixed it well. When the first part of the egg is done add bean curd cubes on top and pour the second part of the egg into it and steam. Add curry powder into the third part of the egg and mixed well, when the second part of the egg is done, add the third part of the egg and steam. When it is all done, pour thick curry chicken on top of the steam eggs, garnish and serve.

Adding in the bean curd into the first part of the egg.

This dish has three layers: bottom is just plain steam eggs, middle tom yum flavor and top curry flavor.

Garnish the dish with fresh curry leaves to give it a strong curry smell. It can be served as an appetizer.

Decipher: Actually, I asked Evie a lot of questions for the purpose of creating this dish, but the Egg thing just keeps popping up in my mind. Maybe it is a sign, not to me but to her hubby that she is ready and she is full of eggs, if you know what I mean :P Anyway, that is what I think, if you have a better explanation, do share.

xniquet's cooking playlist: chef from hell not hell's kitchen

I had my iPod run on music from the 80’s today….

Blondie/The Tide is High 1980
A very Reggae like song, I just love the horn section. A cult favorite.

ABBA/One of Us 1981
I practically grew up listening to ABBA because my mum and my aunt just adore them. This is one of my favorite songs from their album “The Visitors”. In those days, they weren’t any CDs, just cassettes and don’t we all know that cassettes have a darn short life span. I am just happy that I got hold of a MP3 CD with almost every ABBA song.

Michael Jackson/ Beat It 1982
During that time, everyone just goes “Beat it” and I was like going “Beat it” too and not knowing what it means. I sang “Beat it” to all my parents’ friends and relative, to the nice people in church and to my kindergarten teachers. My favorite part of this song is the guitar solo by one of earth’s best guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

David Bowie/Let’s Dance 1983
I am in love with this song but not much of my friends like this one. Now they are slowly getting the hold of it ever since we started singing aloud at Hard Rock Café every time they play this song. “And if you say run, I’ll run with you, if you say hide, we’ll hide…hide…hide ….Because my love for you ……”

Madonna/ Like a Virgin 1984
Somehow this is a song that is hard to avoid if you live thru the 1980s. Every time I listen to this song , I will get “horny”…NO, I will be reminded of the diner’s conversation scene in “Reservoirs Dogs”..hahaha, if you have never seen that movie, go watch it. Something you must do before you die.

Phil Collins/One More Night 1985
This song brings back memories while I was studying for my SPM. It’s our theme song. “Please give me, One More Night, and I will start studying tomorrow ;p”
Depeche Mode/ Stripped 1986
The 80’s will never be the same is there isn’t any Depeche Mode.

U2/With or Without You 1987
No doubt about it, this is my all time favorite song. The fact that it is written, recorded and produced in the 80’s but it is one of the songs that is somewhat out of its time. If you never heard this song before, you would never have thought that it came out of the 80’s.

Johnny Hates Jazz/ Shattered Dreams 1988
One of a great song that came out towards the end of the 80’s era. “I thought that it was you that would do me no wrong….I feel like run away, run away from this empty heart….”

Janet Jackson/Black Cat
This is one of the hardest rocking songs from Janet taken from her Rhythm Nation 1814 which was voted by Rolling Stones to be one of the greatest 500 albums of that Era. There is something really similar with this song and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”. NO it is not that the fact that both of them are sang by members of the Jackson family, but both songs features great guest guitarist. This song featured Nuno Bettencourt who I simply worship. Read this. The riff in this song is simply orgasmic.

There are so many great songs from the 80’s but these songs ended up playing because I shuffled my 80’s playlist. If you are going through your music library now, look into the 80’s, you might find something that you like there.


The Chef

It’s been awhile since I cooked for my parents, so I happily told them a famous chef is in town and is going to make them dinner tonight. So I happily went to the nearby supermarket to get all the stuff needed for dinner. I was planning of making a Meatloaf for them. Dinner is usually at around 7pm, so I started at 5pm and that would give me sufficient time to cook up a masterpiece. I got this recipe while watching Martha Stewart, I didn’t write it down but it was simple and I think I have a good memory.

Meatloaf…

What you need:
boiled potatoes

mashed up

onion and some garlic

peeled tomato

chili

bread crumbs

parsley

minced meat

one egg beaten

How you do it:
Mixed the bread crumbs and mesh potatoes with some flavoring. Add a table spoon of butter, some salt and pepper for taste. Add in the chili, parsley, peeled tomato, onion and garlic and meat. For taste add tomato sauce and sugar. Add in the beaten egg into the mixture but leave a little to spread it on top of the meatloaf. Grease the container and compact the mixture into the container. I couldn’t locate where my mum kept her bread loaf container so I used a pie container instead. Add some tomato sauce in the left over egg and evenly spread it on top of the meatloaf; baked it in the oven at 230 degrees for an hour.

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And dinner is NOT serve :(

Fuck me!!
Fuck me sideways!!

I guess my memory wasn’t that good after, all instead of half an hour in the oven; I left it for an hour…. I guess Pizza is on tonight’s menu.

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xniquet's kick start playlist: coffee royale

I was slapped with this question by someone today? What do you usually have for breakfast? Bread? Cereal? Roti Canai? Nasi Lemak? Chee Cheing Fun? I just can’t eat in the morning, completely no appetite no matter how hungry I was before I go to bed, when morning comes, the hunger just disappear. But my nutritionist still thinks that I should have something in the morning. So, would caffeine and a list of song do?Breakfast is the single most important meal of the day and everybody knows that shit, but do you know that a good list of songs with the right choice of song in the morning will definitely make your day a more pleasant one. It increases efficiency, morale and other shits like that. So the first thing that I do when I wake up is turn on my iTunes and start playing my morning list of songs…

Good Charlotte Feat. Avenged Sevenfold/The River
Red Hot Chili Peppers/Hump De Bump
Matchbox Twenty/Disease
Sugar Ray Feat.Super Cat/Fly
Audioslave/Until We Fall
Oasis/Go Let It Out
The Jimi Hendrix Experience/All Along The Watch Tower
Steel Dragon/We All Die Young

Straight up rock music and no mushy-mushy, lovey-dovey love songs here. Besides songs, something with strong caffeine in it is really good for you in the morning. Especially those who workout, caffeine helps. My breakfast cum kick starter cum caffeine provider in the morning is a good cup of Coffee Royal. It’s my way of getting in the zone and here’s how you make it:

Coffee Royal aka Café Royale

What You Need:
1 Cup Demitasse strong coffee (Strong Black Coffee)
1 Lump Sugar (Sugar Cube)
1 ½ Ounces Cognac/Brandy

Preparation:

Hold a spoon over the cup of coffee, place sugar on the spoon and pour the Cognac over the sugar. Light the Cognac, when the flame begins to die down, pour into Coffee.

It’s so simple right? I like fixing this drink in the morning because I like watching the blue flame eats up the sugar. Some of you might have the “No Alcohol before noon or night falls” rule. But it’s just half an ounce, it won’t hurt right? Using good coffee and good cognac really does a difference. But to those who can’t hold his/her alcohol, I suggest you forget about drinking this before you got to work, you don’t want to be caught drunk driving or drunk at work. And also to those who have migraine, I suggest you stay off the caffeine and alcohol too. Other than that, it’s all smooth sailing …

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xniquet's vlog four: making coffee royale

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