We wanted to try Uncle Tetsu's cheesecake. I even queued up at the counter thinking the line was short so I should be blessed until the lady who just paid at the counter told me that I only needed to pay up and pick up the cake roughly four hours later. I stepped out of the queue as fast as I stepped into the queue. Smart eh, to create such need in people. When you need to queue up then everybody thinks that it's so good that it's a MUST BUY.
Why not just wait for the hype to blow over? I will not queue and wait for a small and expensive cake for four hours or be told that it's finish. I'm not a desperate buyer. So, mi mama ended up making this cotton cheesecake. It's the best ever... it's so soft and you feel like floating in the air after having it. My piranhas swallowed the cake whole and we wouldn't mind having this everyday.
Two Sundays ago, hubby woke up early to make mui choy fried rice but he used too much dried prawns and it became a tad too salty. The leftover was still in the fridge. We will only throw it away once some microorganisms started to grow then at least we have a good reason to throw it away.
I asked my precious to make me banana ice-cream. I have an odd relationship with bananas. I don't really like bananas eaten just like that but I like them especially when they were deep fried or wrapped around with bacon or cooked with anything. The ice-cream was as smooth and creamy as the rocky road but many do not know how to enjoy this. No wonder Haagen dare not sell this flavor or else the tub would be full throughout the year.
*This blog is halfway dead. The blogger tried to dig out as much free time as possible but found none in hand*
The best dish but after looking at so much meat in one pot, it's sort of a turn-off. I have the whole pork knuckles, two strips of pork belly and a whole lot of bacon with some Brazilian black nuts simmering in the pot. We had this for two days in a row, that's my purpose of cooking a big pot of it.
Mama made this odd looking yellow loaf with turmeric powder. The crust was good and overall it's good.
There's a hole in the middle. Looks like someone has dug a hole out of it.
It's not cooked with coconut milk like nasi lemak. The rice was cooked with coconut water. Just add some bacon into it before you press the 'cook' button on the rice cooker. I did add a lot more stuff to enhance the flavour. The best style of rice-cooking I've ever tasted.
I braised the chicken instead of sending them into the fryer. Just too lazy to deep fry at times.Deep frying is hubby's all time favourite~!
This steam fish was better but I dumped in all the celery before they rot and ended up in the rubbish dump.
That's the fish with salted vegetables. I do not like the taste likewise, I think the hubby dislike it, too. But he didn't say much. When he says it's okay, it tastes okay means it's not as good compared to previous day.
The vegetable dish was horrible. I really have no skills in preparing vegetables.
Mi mama's loaf came to the rescue. We were saved by the loaf. Had those with Nutella. Anything with Nutella is perfectly good.
Today I do not have to cook. Hubby took back home a lot of food because they're celebrating Teachers' Day in school. So, I eat photos from last week's meals. Last Monday, everything was done in a simple manner. It's just udon in miso soup with meatballs. On Sunday, I cooked too much and was really tired from standing in the kitchen, so on Monday I have no more energy left.
And we had a scoop of rocky road ice-cream each. It's the leftovers from Sunday with only 3 scoops to be exact. This was done by my precious. Thank you, love~!
For the first time in my life, I de-boned the whole leg on my own. Last time, hubby did it. We learned it from the market. You want to learn anything about cleaning up the fish, removing the gills and scaling, just go to the wet market and stand there. Observe. After the neighbour made us the chicken chop, I decided to make a different one. I deep-fried my chicken chop because the hubby and the precious love deep-fried food.
After observing hubby deep frying for many years, I've finally mastered my deep frying skill with no accidents like splashing oil or setting the whole house on fire.
I did not cook rice but I stirred fry a wok of udon noodles with some prawns found nestled in a corner of the freezer.
I made hubby's favourite bitter gourd dish in a soupy style with Chinese cabbage and fish paste. Next time I will have to remind myself to make myself a small pot of soup before sliding in those bitter gourds.
Then mi mama made these awesome braided raisin buns. It's so soft I can sleep with it. *nom nom nom*
