Pursuit 2

Tahu Sambal

4 cloves of garlic
1 medium onion
1 tomato
1 tea spoon salt
1 tea spoon of tamarind, mixed with 1 cup of water
2 table spoons of tomato paste
1 tea spoon of sugar
1/4 cup of oil
2 tea spoons of sambal balachan
3 tahus, cut into 8 pieces, fried
3 pieces of spanish mackrel, fried

Fry the garlic, onion and tomato
Add all the spices
Add tahu first
Cook for 5 minutes or so, add fish
Let it cook for another 5 minutes, done.

Pursuit 2

Vegetarian Pizza

Ingredients:
1 red capsicum
1 can of button mushrooms
1 tomato
1 onion
15 olives
pre-made pizza base
1/2 cup tomato paste
oregano sprinkled ontop
1 block of motzeralla cheese (200g)

Pre-set oven to 230 degrees. Add tomato paste to base, add ingredients and add cheese ontop. Cook for around 15-20min.

Pursuit 2

Yellow Dhal (Lentils)

1 cup of yellow lentils
1 table spoon of tumeric powder
1 tea spoon of salt
1 tea spoon of oil

Boil the above for 15 minutes

1 medium onion
1 medium tomato
2 tea spoons of fennel seeds
1 tea spoon of chili powder
1 tea spoon of oil

Fry the above (called turka) and add it to the boiled dhal. Add fresh coriender ontop.

Pursuit 2

Pasta Carbonara

Ingredients:
250g of pasta
1 capsicum
15 olives
1 carrot, cut straight
200g of button mushrooms
3 tomatoes
5 garlic cloves
2 eggs
salt
basil
oregano
1 coriander
1/4 cup of pine nuts

Cook pasta seperately.
Fry garlic. Add tomatoes, cook well. Add salt and pepper. Add remainding vegetables. Add pasta. Add basil and oregano. Cook for a while. Off the fire. Add 2 Eggs and coriander and pine nuts.

*Taste was quite mild, should have added tomoato paste for stronger taste.

NLP Course 19 and 20 Jan

Over Sat and Sun, I attended a Neuro-Linguistic Program(NLP). It was quite a long course for both days, spanning over 2 full days(14 hours or so per day).
The course was to raise self-awareness of the way you and everyone else thinks so that your thinking can improve the way you live your life.
I guess due to the short nature of the course, the contents we learnt were abit scattered.
What I did learn was:

The Law of Attraction - The concept that you will get what you think about most, which at the very minimum would mean that you should think positively to get positive results

Anagram - Which fits what kind of characteristics a person has and the way that influences a persons way of thinking and the way to deal with people of different anagram types. I guess the difference with MBTI is that MBTI has 4 seperate planes which this is a single plane in which you could be closer to one point but still have characteristics of others.

Reframing - Which is to think positively of what would normally be thought of as negative thought. Eg. I am poor could be changed to I have nothing to lose, so I can do anything that I want to.

Writing a Eulogy - This was quite emotional for some of the girls, who cried, but as I have thought of such a thing before, I was not too bothered with it. I guess it is maybe cos I wont have any regrets of my life should I die today, so based on that, I was not bothered with those thoughts. *I would rather not die today. ;)

Meta-Mirror - Which is a process to think from another person's point of view instead of just your own. Eg. Shamir is unhappy with his best friend. So he will 1st adopt his own point of view, then move over to his best friends position and think what his best friend is thinking, and finally move to a 3rd persons point of view which is to think in an unbiased and objective manner about the issue at hand. After doing so, shamir will return to his friend's point of view before returning to his own feet. Once he reaches back to himself, he should reflect on the new info and hopefully resolve whatever the contention may have been

Self-Anchoring - The process to help some to be motivated by looking back at his own past when he was motivated and form an anchor, or a sub-consious 'switch' to switch on the motivation

Overall I think it was time well-spent and of course I must thank Alex Choo for organising such an course. I guess in terms of the objective to gel the crew together, it was not really met, but it could well be a foundation for the crew team dynamics to build on

Pursuit 2

Green Pepper and Potato

Ingredients:
2 potatoes and 2 green peppers
1 tea spoon of salt
1 tea spoon of tumeric
1 tea spoon of meat powder
1 tea spoon of chili powder
1 medium onion
1 tea spoon of fennel seeds
3 table spoons of oil

Fry the onions and fennel seeds. Add all the powders once onions browned. Add potatoes first. Around 5 minutes later, add green pepper.

Pursuit 2

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms

Chop 2 cloves of garlic finely.
Add to oil, 1/4 tea spoon of salt and 1/2 tea spoon of crushed chili powder
Add 6 mushrooms and mix well.
Scew mushrooms with satay sticks and grill for around 15 min(till garlic is darkened).

*Could be improved by grating garlic instead of chopping it

Pursuit 2

Lemon Chicken

10 cloves of garlic, finely grated
2 lemons, zested and squeezed
2 sage shoots, leaves only
1/4 cup of olive oil
1/2 table spoon of salt
1/2 table spoon of pepper
300 grams of boneless chicken

cut chicken into small pieces. cut lemon zests and sage leaves finely and add lemon juice, garlic and oil to marinate the chicken. Add salt and pepper. Leave for 2 hours.Cook mixture till most of the moisture evaporates.
Grill remaining chicken.

The dish was rather sour, most likely caused by the lemon zest and cooking of chicken , which lead to the chicken being saturated with the sour taste. Might be better next time to let it marinate and not cook the mixture.