Happy Father's Day!

A short and quick post to dedicate my love to my best dad ever on earth! He's my all time superhero who teaches me all sort of thing from studies to life lessons. Papa never gets angry when I decided to tease him, play a fool with him or even text him randomly. He always bears with my swinging mood and constantly cheers me up with his lame jokes. Growing up from a little girl to a teen now, I'm the the petite adorbs to him as I'm still very attached to him like always. I love you forever Papa. If there's any Best Dad Award, you deserve it much. --- With much love, from Mish.

This is the cutest photo that I can find. Papa loves food a lot and all of us have inherited the same gene :p

Father's Day Dinner at Betty Midwest Kitchen, Aman Suria
Days before Father's Day, I was scrolling through Openrice (check it out for lots and lots of good reccommendation for eat-outs) and this particular restaurant immediately drew my attention. It was also one of the Featured Restaurant at Openrice and also coincidentally it was the restaurant that my mum was talking about all these time (but she didn't know the exact name of the restaurant). Hence, Betty's Midwest Kitchen it is for Father's Day! I was prettyy excited for it :p

As we are quite familiar with the place, it didn't take us much time to search for the restaurant. For any first-timer there, you can head up from LDP, turn into Kampung Cempaka and take the shortcut to Aman Suria! The restaurant is easily visible from the main road.

Lovin' all these adorable piggies

The restaurant is really a hit now so if you want to avoid the queue, come as early as possible. As we reach around 5.45pm, we do not have to wait for a table but the restaurant was actually quite full already. Stepping into the restaurant, I fancy the cosy interior with many pictures of the pigs adorning the wall.

Significantly ran by a restaurant owner who hailed from America

Father's Day Special: Hogwild

Side Orders: Pig in a blanket (RM 14.50)

Pork cocktail sausages wrapped with bacon, deep fried and glazed with honey. I find that it tastes not too bad but doesn't really worth the money. (probably because I don't fancy sausages much)

Hogwild

As shown by the chalkboard, Hogwild is basically a combination of bacon ham steak, a streak of bacon and pork sausage served with mash potato and coleslaw. The sauce served here is just so mouth-watering and pretty simliar to the mash potato gravy but with a stronger hint of mushroom in it. I personally love the mash potato which is so mushy and silky! And the gravy is just absolutely my favourite. However, I do not like their coleslaw as it is basically shredded cabbage and carrots which are mixed with mayo, nothing tangy on the tastebuds. Overall, the combination is fairly okay to me.

Baby back ribs (about 350g) RM37.90

I'm not so much of a meat-lover nowadays as I refrain from eating too much meat especially pork for health purposes. So, I did not give this a try but I can say that the sauce served deserves a thumbs-up. My brother loves it so much that he himself ate three-quarter of the ribs.

Classic Meatloaf  (RM 20 )

I have seen numerous recommendation of it on both the BMK website as well as on Openrice and what not? It was a must try to me. And indeed this dish did not let me down at all as it turned out to be my favourite dish of all! "A classical Midwest-style pork meatloaf. This hearty, wholesome and tasty dish is served with our house mash potato, peas, onion relish and our very own beer-based dip." --- from BMK website
I love every single bits of this dish, from the relish, the dip, the mash potato, the peas and the meatloaf. Yums!

Not to forget, ice water is complimentary here and for refill, it's simply RM0.30. Our bill ends up to be slightly over RM100.

Interior: 4 out of 5
Taste: 4 out of 5
Price: 4 out of 5

Worth trying? Definitely!
Betty's Midwest Kitchen
Address: A-G-40, PJU 1/43, Aman Suria Damansara, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Contact number: 603-78800196

Homepage:  http://midwestkitchen.com.my/web/contact.php

Openrice: http://my.openrice.com/klangvalley/restaurant/bettys-midwest-kitchen/56554/

unconditional love; Belgium Waffles

topped with honey, toasted almond and dries cranberries.

perfectly done with a crispy shell and soft and chewy inside!

the mouth-watering decadent belgium waffles!

topped with honey, dried cranberries and fresh blueberries. a perfect yet healthy combination for myself :)

look at the drizzle of honey (they are finger-licking good)

topped hot chocolate sauce, chocolate chips, toasted almond and dried cranberries (for all chocolate lovers!)

This recipe is definitely a keeper for me! I have tried making once using a recipe from Allrecipe but it doesn't have the texture I wanted. This Belgium Waffle is just perfect, absolutely perfect for waffles fan like me! And.. I forgot to mention that right here in Malaysia, I have only seen one household brand of waffle machine which is Trio. Do look out for it if you adore waffles a lottt (the price is less than 100 ringgit)

Easy Belgium Waffles (from makingitblisful )

1 3/4 cup plain flour  (1 1/2 cup)
1/4 cup corn starch
2 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup milk (1 1/4 cup)
1/2 cup cooking oil (I used sunflower oil)
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla a pinch of nutmeg (optional) (1 tsp of vanilla extract, I omitted ground nutmeg)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional) butter , for greasing waffle iron before making each waffle (I omitted cinnamon powder)

1. Preheat waffle iron.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk all the ingredients together until smooth.
3. Grease waffle iron generously with butter.
4. Pour batter onto the hot waffle iron and cook according to equipment instructions. 
5.  Serve immediately with favorite ice cream flavor. (serve with any toppings of your choice!)

 *words in red are my own adaptation to the recipe

This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (June 2014 Event: Butter) organised by Zoe (Bake for Happy Kids) and Mui Mui (My Little Favourite DIY) and hosted by Jozelyn Ng (Spice Up My Kitchen)

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I'm messy; adapted version of Roti John

Roti John! Yep, my all time favourite! I have been craving for it as I can only manage to get the best Roti John from bazaar during the fasting period. So, here's my adapted version of Roti John. Basically, Roti John is an omlette sandwich using a baguette-type loaf and usually minced meat is used as filling but here I have made my very own adapted version of Roti John which is easy, healthier and scrumptiously-good!

Adapted Version of Roti John
(served 4 )

• 4 baguette-type loaf/ hotdog buns
• 4  eggs
• one can of tuna
• 2 medium-sized shallots
• lettuce
• tomato
• Kewpie chessy mayo
• butter
• salt
• black pepper
• teriyaki sauce (optional)
• dried basil

1.  Cut the loaves horizontally and spread some butter. Set aside.
2. Slice the shallots and saute them till aromatic and slightly browned.
3. Pour the olive oil/water in the tuna can away. (you may keep the olive oil) Cook the tuna with the onion for around 3-5 minutes to dry some of the water content.
4. Add a pinch of salt, black pepper, dried basil and one teaspoon of teriyaki sauce.
5. Beat the eggs well.with the onion and tun.
6. Heat a non-stick pan with some olive oil over low fire. 
7. Pour the egg mixture into the pan, preferably 1/2 cm thick.
8. Open up the loaves horizontally and face the side spread with butter downwards so that it immerse in the egg mixture. Put as many loaves as you can, depending on the size of your pan.
9. When the bottom of the egg has turned golden-brown and the egg mixture has set onto the loaves, flip the loaves over. Grill the loaves on every side, you may heat longer with more butter for some crisp on the bread. (I have omitted this)
10. Remove the loaves from the pan and served with a generous amount of lettuce and sliced tomato
11. Drizzle desired amount of the cheesy mayo or even tomato sauce. (create your very Roti John with any toppings you like!)

This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (June 2014 Event: Butter) organised by Zoe (Bake for Happy Kids) and Mui Mui (My Little Favourite DIY) and hosted by Jozelyn Ng (Spice Up My Kitchen)