Calling For IKEA Swedish Meatball Lovers!
I wonder how many of you guys out there are IKEA Swedish meatball lovers. I personally love IKEA Swedis meatballs a lot. They are delicious. We can eat the meatballs alone, or we can have them together with other main dishes. They tastes especially great together with the the gravy and lingonberry preserves.
I have a question here. I know that IKEA do not provide take-away service. However, anyone try buying the meatballs from counter then keeping them in your own container or tupperware and bringing home before? Or bringing container straight to the counter, requesting the food to be served inside it? Sometimes, I may want to bring the meatballs home for family members, or even myself.
I found the recipe of IKEA Swedish meatballs from this website:
Ingredients
* 1 small onion, finely chopped
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
* 2/3 lb lean ground beef
* 1/3 lb ground lean pork
* 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
* 1 cup milk
* 1 egg, lightly beaten
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon black pepper
* 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil (for frying)
* 1 (10 ounce) can beef gravy
* 1/2 cup 10% cream1. Saute onions in first tablespoon of oil until translucent. Set aside and let cool.
2. Combine breadcrumbs and milk, let soak for 10 minutes.
3. In a large bowl, combine onions, breadcrumbs, milk egg, meat and seasonings. Mix thoroughly. Form tablespoon of the meat mixture into balls.
4. Over medium heat, fry meatballs in second tablespoon of oil until brown on all sides.
5. In a small saucepan, combine gravy and cream; heat through but do not boil.
6. Serve meatballs with gravy, boiled potatoes and lingonberry preserves.
Enjoy!
Tags: food, IKEA, IKEA Swedish meatballs, meatballs, Sweden, Swedish meatballs
PAS Encik Helped My Colleague Settled His Traffic Summon in JB
May 30, 2008 Around the Word, Fun
I was surprised to hear from my colleague that an Encik from PAS actually helped him to settled his RM300 traffic summon gotten in JB. This is how the story goes…
How he gotten the summon?
On 19th May, Vesak Day in Singapore, 4 of us, including my this colleague, K, and me, went to Malacca for a 1 day trip. K was the driver, driving his Singapore-registered car. K is a SPR from Malaysia.
We enjoyed our trip in Malacca very much. The food, the people were just great. It was about 9pm when we exited from North South Highway, arriving at Johor Bahru. We were expecting that it would be traffic jam but did not realize that it was so jialat. The traffic was very very slow after we just past Tampoi Giant. It was basically crawling at the Econ Shopping Mall building. When we reached the current Danga City Mall (last time deserted one), K received an SMS from his friend who just drove past Singapore custom. The friend said he had been stuck in the jam for 4 hours! We were stunt upon hearing that. So, we decided not to waste our time in the jam, but find our way out of it 1st.
We made an illegal U-turn at point A. Then we towards point B direction, only to find that it was a dead end. Basically we were trapped between the Jalan Tun Abdul Razak and railway. Many vehicles were in the same situation like us also. K decided to try his luck and drove in reversed direction towards Danga City Mall. In the dark, from somewhere under the shade, 2 traffic policemen suddenly came out and stopped us, together with a few other vehicles. We fell into the trap set-up… The TP did not ask for money but just K’s license, and issued a summon straightaway. RM300! Upon asked by K, the TP said that the jam already started at 3pm in the afternoon. I wonder how many summons they had issued since afternoon.
We were at fault. That’s for sure. But we were really unhappy with the way being set up.
How K get contacted by PAS encik
K was very unhappy. After we were back in Singapore, K sent out a few emails to Malaysia local newspapers and opposition parties to complaint about this incident. Of cause the letter wasn’t published on newspapers. However, he gotten an email from a gmail account. The person was saying that he could help K, and left K a handphone number. K called, and a meet-up was arranged during the past weekend.
Whom K saw was a very friendly and kind looking Malay elder encik with a songkok. The encik told K that he could help K to talk to the TP officer, but K must keep quiet all the time. So they went to the TP office together. The encik at first talked to the young lady on duty for about 45 minutes, and he basically talked about everything. Then the lady let them go in to talk to another officer. The officer seemed a high rank one. Then encik talked to him with another 30 minutes. Finally, the officer told encik that he would settle the summon.
When they came out from the room, the lady went in. Then came out again and said the summon had been discounted to RM100! Not a bad deal huh?
K paid up, and gotten his receipt. The encik later told him that he must keep the receipt. If in the future same thing happens again, then he can use the receipt to appeal.
All the while, the encik only told K that he is from PAS. He never mentioned his name, nor he mentioned his rank or anything. He just ask K to spread the words, if K’s friends experience anything in JB and need help, let him know. Maybe he, or PAS can help.
Wow, learnt something this time……
Tags: food, JB, Johor Bahru, Malacca, Malaysia, PAS, shopping, traffic police
$2 food in Singapore
I normally do not appreciate what the world 155th (is it 155? can’t remember but not far from it) ranked press reported. However, I must complement this 2 reporters, Samantha Eng and Aw Cheng Wei, for the efforts. By the way, I never know that there are actually quite a lot of affordable hawker food in east side, like Bedok and Tampines. Good for me, hehe.
Taken from Straits Times:
How to know if you are a freaking popular celebrity?
Apr 7, 2008 Around the Word, Gossips
How to? When the 23 sesames you left over in a fastfood restaurant were auctioned for 40 thousands NT, Taiwan dollars, which is roughly 2000 SGD.
Recently, a Yahoo Taiwan user posted an auction in Yahoo Auction Taiwan, claiming that he/she saw Jolin Tsai eating in a particular fastfood chain, in Taiwan. After she finished and left, he/she went over to the seat and collected the sesames left over.
Description (I am not going to translate here, let me know if you need translation):
3月14日看到當紅的Jolin在肯德基吃早餐，
居然只有她一個…..
我剛好坐在她斜後方，本人蠻美的 沒打扮還算有型~
手中的燻雞燒餅看起來也很好吃，
害我也想點來吃吃看…
但是她吃相不是很優雅，邊吃邊掉，豪邁了些
不過哪個人吃燒餅不掉芝麻呢？
Jolin殘留的白芝麻，全數販售
一元起標，任何問題歡迎發問………….
The URL for the auction is http://0rz.tw/ba3SW. However, you will need a Yahoo account to log in.
Jolin’s agency has rejected the statement, claiming that she is the spokeperson for the other fastfood chain, so it is impossible for her to walk into the one that was in the description (rival).
So, how? Is Jolin Tsai freaking popular and famous now?
Tags: fastfood, food, Jolin Tsai, Makan, Taiwan, Yahoo, Yahoo Auction, Yahoo Taiwan
How can we save? Join OGGI.sg!
Apr 5, 2008 Singapore
Life is getting tougher and tougher here in Singapore. Life is getting jialat. We see price increase everywhere and yet we can’t do much to stop it. At the same time, it is almost impossible for people to keep their salary increment rate up on par with inflation. Then how? I will say, do more homework before we spend. One of the way is through OGGI.sg.
Tags: Advertlets, food, OGGI.sg, shopping, Singapore
Whatever price also increases, really sibeh Jialat
Apr 4, 2008 Gossips, Life, Makan, Singapore
Recently, I really feel the heat of rice increased, seriously.
Public transport fees are raised almost every year, but bit by it. So I can still tahan. But for the past 2, 3 months, I feel like, the fire is burning in front of my face.
Tags: Beautex, bread, electricity, ERP, food, increase, McDelivery, McDonald, price, rice, Singapore, sushi, taxi, yong tauhu
