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Yesterday was the Labour Day. Papa-M went out early in the morning for his golf. I slept till 9am and when I opened my eyes, I saw Bb-G came into my room and she said she wanted to lepak with me. Both of us enjoyed the comfort of the soft blanket and the nice cooling aircon. We lazed on the bed for another hour and eventually we woke up by 10am. (sudah hungry)
Bb-G requested scramble egg, strawberry millk and steam mantou for her breakfast. (usually she drinks her own milk). When I was making her breakfast, she was in her room. I didnt know what she did while I was in the kitchen, until we finished our breakfast and when I went to her room, I saw this
I told her she should make her dad fatter, this daddy in the picture is too thin...heheheheeh
And she told me this pulak, " One dad, one mom, one sister, and where is the brother???"
Alamak!
Anyway, what a nice present , yah....May/June, the month to celebrate parents' day
Bb-G, now age @ 4years-7months-2days old
A casual dinner we had outside from home.
Papa-M ate this - bitter gourd rice, tambah telur mata
Bb-G ate this - her all time favourite, Hokkien Mee
And how about me????
2 crabs , butter cream recipe, I wallop all by myself ^_*
Both of them finished their food much much faster than me, and patiently waited for me.
Seriously, after finished eating the crabs, my fingers cramped because I constantly held the crab with my fingers for 2 hours!
And thank you very much to Papa-M for "belanja-ing" me the nice crabs (sempena Labour Day rewards huh)
I know I know, Frozen is very popular now, my daughter EVERYDAY also want to watch Frozen, either from the DVD her dad bought, or via youtube. EVERYDAY she pretends she is the Queen Elsa, and EVERYDAY she sings the songs from the Frozen.
Anyway, I am not writing about the Frozen movie today...
Eversince I start the practice of preparing dinner every weekday, I feel very happy. Reasons?
One, I do not need to think what to ta pao everynight
Two, I reach home from work with dinner done
Three, We can eat dinner together everyday as a family . "We" means Papa-M, Bb-G & me. Imagine last time husband and me settled our dinner separately almost everyday
AND....I love the fourth reason the most.
Bb-G will tell me this everyday " mummy's food is very nice, thank you mummy for cooking for me"
One weekday when I was on leave, Papa-M told me not to cook and suggested to bring us out for dinner. We had a long time persuading Bb-G to eat at the restaurant because she insisted to eat my homecook food at home! Hahaha..
Usually I will buy the food ingredients (vegs, meat, fish, etc) for a week use. I dare not buy too much to keep because I have lack of place in the freezer. Well, many people told me I have a big fridge with 3 doors, and yet I am still complaining I do not have enough place to keep my stuffs???
Well, the "first door" is the normal compartment. It is large enough for my usage. "Second door" is another sufficient compartment for me to keep vegs and fruit. "3rd door" is actually the freezer. Well, the freezer is divided into 2 compartments. The upper deck is divided into 2 parts too, one part is to keep the ice cubes (automatically made after we pour water into a box stored at the 1st door) And this ice cube storage place is so huge that can store hundreds of cubes. So, the rest of the space was quite tight and narrow. I always find it very hard to squeeze in my stuffs. Most of the time when Papa-M said he wanted to buy ice-cream and keep at home, I REJECTED his request, simply because there is not more space for his ice-cream. Kesian right....
So, last week, when I was in the office working in front of my computer, and suddenly I thought about my fridge again. (yah, I have been thinking about the space issue in my fridge since many many weeks ago). And with a very determined heart, I intercom one of my colgs in another department.
Me: Eh, I want to go out now, your boss there ar? Want to follow me? My boss today on leave.
Colg : Go where?
Me: Accompany me to buy a freezer, want ar?
Colg: Huh?? Now? How long?
Me: Very fast wan, go to any electrical shop and pick one. then settle, we come back. I think 1 hour like that can gao tim.... I drive , very fast wan
Colg : OKOK... let's go
And that was about 11am.
So, I drove my colg to Onking, told the person-in-charge to show me the freezers they have. He introduced me Faber chest freezer and an upright freezer. I chose the former, simply because it is cheaper and then the size is not too bulky and just right for a space in my kitchen. And without much delay, I quickly "ON" the deal. I passed him my credit card and settled the payment. I even told him to send to my house ASAP, if possible on that day itself too. But it was impossible to arrange, therefore, it was arranged to the next day for delivery.
On the next day, the freezer was sent to my house. Actually Papa-M was outstation when I made the purchase and when the freezer was delivered. When he came back home, he saw the freezer and started to nag nag nag....He complained why I bought the freezer without consulting or dicussed with him....etc...etc....Well, it was too late, goods purchased cannot be returned. Nyek Nyek Nyek
Hummpph...guess what, after so much nagging and complain from Papa-M, he went to buy ice cream and put in MY FREEZER. And he bought SIX TUBS !! Oh Well well well, I am always a good and benevolent person, I always share MY FREEZER with all the family members... Hahahaahahahah
Faber Chest Freezer, think it is 100liter??? Can't rememebr actually. Size is just nice to fit in, next to my laundry machine.
It has a mini basket too.
This is my way of keeping frozen meat. I marinated the meat and keep in individual container. Each container is a portion for a meal. So far, I have minced meat, roast pork, spare ribs, prawns, fish, sausages, and other food stuffs enough for many many weeks.
Somebody kepoh when I was snapping the photo, saw the fingers?
This little girl is happy with the freezer too, because she can eat iceeeee crreeeeeammmm ^_*
My mom is well-known of making jelly at home in my hometown. Whenever there is any occasion, be it family gathering, party, or Hainan huiguan functions, she will definitely make her signature jelly.
Lately I bought her some cute jelly moulds from my previous visit to Perth. Since then, she keeps asking my mother-inlaw to help her get more moulds whenever my inlaws went to that country.
Till to day, my mom has a total of 10 new moulds in her collection....
1) A big castle mould
2) A set of 6 insects mould (butterfly, ladybird, dragonfly)
3) A set of 6 presents box mould
4) A set of gingerbread man mould
5) A set of dinosaur mould
6) A set of duckling mould
7) A set of love shape mould
8) A set of fish mould
9) A set of Santa Claus head mould
10) A set of star shape mould
And recently, mom had been making a lot of castle jelly as birthday present for my aunt, cousins and sister. Everyone who received her jelly castle would be very happy...
I really salute my mom for her patience, because her jelly is usually very colourful and she do it layer by layer. It requires time and determination to finish a piece of jelly.
I begin to realise Bb-G can really "talk" now, and sometimes could be real "sharp"
Story 1 :
Eversince we always eat dinner at home, during dinner, or after dinner she will say this to me,
"Thank you mummy for cooking food for me"
Awwww....so sweet huh....
Story 2 :
Few days ago she forgot to bring back her water bottle from the school. So I reminded her to bring back home the next day, but still. she forgot. Then, another day she forgot to bring back her rubber band (to tie hair), so again I reminded her to bring it back home too.
So one day on the way to school
Me: Eh you remember to bring back your water bottle, I told you so many times already, you still never bring back, and also remember your colourful rubber band, I also told you many times, must remember to bring back your stuffs from the school, but everytime you promise and then you forget about it ...(i was still talking)....
Bb-G: Arrrrrrrggggghhhh.....noisy ar....! (she covered her ears with hands)
Wah! cannot imagine. I mean sometimes I do think my mom could be a little naggy, but I do not cover my ears when she is talking to me , and I never say she is noisy!!!!!
Story 3:
Papa-M went to China for business purpose. So she told me this
Bb-G: Mummy I told teacher Pricilla daddy went to China.
Me: Ooo...why you tell her? she ask you?
Bb-G: No la, she never ask me. I just tell her la, later she didn't see daddy...
Me: Ooo
Bb-G: Daddy go China for wat?
Me: For meeting
Bb-G : for meeting ar? I think he go there to SLEEP la...
Ha ha ha....Papa-M, you went there to sleep ka????
Story 4:
This happened yesterday. I was tired last night after work. So I slept and lepak on the bed. She came towards me and asked me to tie plait for her.
Me: Don wan la, I am dizzy....
Bb-G: What dizzy?
Me: My head pain la..
Bb-G: Your head pain? huh ? you say your head pain is it?
Me: yes la....you tie your own hair, i need to rest
Bb-G: you tel me again, your head pain is it? Huh? You head pain or your hand pain? You use head to tie my hair ar?? Huh? or you use your hand to tie my hair? heiyer....
Kanasai! Tak boleh tahan her !!!!!
Bb-G, age @ 4years-6months-28days
The other day when SP asked me how was the taste of the food which was freezed, well the taste was still ok. Just that after the food was steamed, some of the "wap air" went into the dishes and hence the gravy would be slightly diluted.
Anyway, last week I was quite lazy and hence I did not prepare the dinner in advance to be kept in the freezer. So I went to buy a small size thermal magic pot. Currently I have one, but the pot is too big. What I need is a small pot so that the soup that I make is enough for a meal and just nice for three of us.
I found Endo. It is a small pot , I purposely put my camera bag to show the size
I am very happy with the pot and for the past few days in this week, I had already made lotus root soup with spare ribs and turnip soup with roast pork. All I need to do is to prepare the ingredients in advance and keep in the fridge. So when I wake up in the morning, I just need to throw all ingredients and water into the inner pot and then let it boil (roughly 10mins). Next transfer it into the outer thermal cast. Let it continue to cook several hours by itself and off to work. Once we come back home from work, the soup is done! Easy huh...
Dinner would be as easy as a bowl of soup , and a quick-to-make steam vegs.
I am busy this week actually, preparing and compiling information of some beauty brands in the market. Since Monday till yesterday, I dilligently work as early as 9am non stop till 6.30pm.
On each product, I have to search for its photo, the packing size, the price, and the product information. I didn't count how many products had I compiled, but I know I had done 92 presentation slides.
Anyway, today I want to curi lepak for a while to update my blog. Last weekend I prepare the below food for this week dinner.
1) Braised pork with mushroom and ear fungus. The portion was a liitle bit too much, hence we can eat for 2 days.
2) Chicken with bittergourd and fu-chuk. Recently we have trained Bb-G to eat bittergourd, and she is very well acceptance to this "bitter veg"
3) Another chicken dish, cook with eggplant and dried shrimp.
What Papa-M needs to do is to cook rice like usual, and the warm up the food.
To add fibre to our meal, I also prepared some green vegs in the fridge and he just need to cook it in the steamer.
Ok, back to work now...bye bye..happy weekend to myself !!
Oh ya, I enjoy Saturday morning very much. While Bb-G is in her arimethic class, Papa-M and me have 90mins of "our" time, scouting nice good breakfast and do some shopping together...
