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Beef stew recipe

We made beef stew for lunch today.

Hand in hand with chef abah.

We made it with Philips all-in-one pressure cooker.

Total cooking time: 27 minutes

sear/saute low temp (2mins) + meat/paultry pressure cook (25mins)

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 kg beef trimmed and cubed
  • 2 tablespoon flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • teaspoon black pepper
  • 4 onion chopped cubed
  • 1 cube of chicken stock
  • 5 tablespoons tomato paste/tomato sauce
  • 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
  • 1 teaspoon of fannel seed
  • 2 potatoes peeled and cubed
  • 3 carrots cut into 1 inch pieces
  • 2 celery stalks cut into 1 inch pieces
  • 2 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 2 cups of water
  • 2 pieces of bay leaves
  1. Combine flour, salt and pepper. Toss beef in flour mixture.
  2. Fry the beef until browned. (Set: sear/sauté low temperature).
  3. Combine all the ingredients including except cornstarch and water. (Set: meat/paultry pressure cook).
  4. Mix equal parts cornstarch and water until you reach a desired consistency.
  5. Serve fresh and hot 😋

 

 

 

Welcome, 2019

Assalamualaikum wmt wbt 💕

Dear fellow readers, colleagues and students👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

Alhamdulillah, Allah has granted us health and strength to cherish 2018 peacefully and granted us to embark on insyaAllah, a beautiful journey for 2019.

My hope for this year, is to be a good servant to Allah as He allows me to live a good life, to have a caring husband and family, to be able to serve the nation, and to be able to continue my duty as His servant.

InsyaAllah for this year, I will write often. I will polish my writing skill. I have set the target to publish at least 10 scopus paper this year. InsyaAllah.

Academically, I want to improve my teaching skill, as well as to read and publish more.

I believe, when you do something, you must start with a good intention. Then, the rest is history. Continue to stay positive no matter what , even sometimes there are hurdles in life. You just need to face it.

This year, I have 2 amanah in my tiny shoulders. I was appointed as RG leader for CITE research group and another one is as functionary coordinator (pemangku). I temporarily carry on work as research and publication coodinator for my school ( School of Education, UTM) for 6 months.

Hope that everything went smoothly.

With Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, I welcome you 2019 🧕

Regards,
Farhana

A New Malaysia

As one of the government servants who serves the government of the day, I would like to congratulate our newly appointed Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who is now 7th PM of Malaysia. Dr Mahathir proves to us that age is just a number. With his wisdom and his vast experience, I believe that Malaysian is in good hands now. So lets move forward and show our support to Tun M and his brilliant team! ☺

Regards,

Farhana

Guests from the island of Lombok

Have you guys been to Lombok? Well allow me to introduce this place (though I’ve never been there before 😆) .Popular for its gili (small islands), spicy foods and cultural stuffs, Lombok remains one of reserved islands in Indonesia. Still clean, untouchable by modern architecture and of course, serene.Well, I guess the rest you need to google by yourself 🤣.I’m here to share my valuable session with my guests from Lombok. They are from Universitas of Hamzanwadi. The sharing session is hands on activities of using games applications for teaching and learning. It turns out they enjoy and like it. Alhamdulillah.As I write this, I’m now at a place where you’d never found me. Where else? In Lombok.Well, it’s a joke. Well, I know it’s not funny. Lame 😏Okay, time to snap snap and selfies.Regards,Farhana

KARNIVAL PENGAJIAN TINGGI SHOWCASE 24 & 25 MAC 2018 @ UMT

Assalamualaikum dear readers,Alhamdulillah last weekend, Dr Hasnah, Dr Zakiah and I were in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu(UMT) for Karnival Pengajian Tinggi showcase. We are thrilled to promote UTM and of course to promote our beloved faculty 😊. Together with other lecturers from FGHT, FS and MJIIT, we hope we do get potential students’ interest to further their study at UTM.Till then, Wasalam,Farhana

UTM Open Day