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Plan my meal: week 2

Last week, the plan that I’ve made was a success despite last minute sudden change from daging kicap to sup tulang. That change was not difficult considering all the needed ingredients were there, and no machinery, grinding etc was needed to do it. But change did delay my cooking time.

However, other menus are easy peasy to do and I did not have to think hard on the weekdays about it, which made my life simpler and better in terms of time management and quality of food we eat.

This week, I made another list of menus and I gave a long thought about mixing and matching it. Also I’ve upgraded to include western menu like spaghetti bolognese and I told myself why not put a treat for us on weekdays with biryani kambing.

Yesterday, we went to the market and found beautiful, cheap mackerel and also seabass. This week, My husband would like to have fried fish, so there goes a simple dish worth for few days. We got home and I cleaned the fishes, marinated with my homemade garam kunyit and off it went in the freezer. I left out 3 fishes because the smell was so tempting.

Today, I grind some meat for bolognese, cut some meat for tomorrow daging kicap, and marinated some chicken with garam kunyit. The latter went into freezer.

How does this work?

Tonight, the fish in the freezer will be on top shelves in the fridge to defrost. Tomorrow, before I go to work, I will cook daging kicap. Estimated time to cook is 25 minutes.

Minor revision tips and tricks

Minor revision can be changing some words, grammatical error etc which may have nothing to do with the research. What happened was, I had a long list of things to change, I’ve revised the paper but turns out the line number is not the same anymore. So I struggle to know which were the things the editor wanted me to change!!

Because of that I will let you know the best way to work on it.

When you have to change the words, the line number will CHANGE!! So be prepared with this tedious work by;

1. Having both not edited and edited paper opened at the same time during editing. Or better, print the non edited first then highlighted the ones that you need to edit.

2. As you are editing, please remember to use track changes or better, just use new comment tab and write the instructions in the comment as you move along the paper. Delete the comment as you confirmed that changes has been made when rechecking

3. If you want to be precise where the changes were made, make sure you have either highlighted it, or better you write down the new line number at the revision note. That way you will documented or track the exact changes easily when you are checking it.

4. This may not take time if you do it systematically!.

p/s; To remind me, next time not to spend so much time doing same thing!