In My Kitchen

MIL went for an operation for her trigger finger on Monday. From that day on, she will be out of action for at least 2 weeks ... so what happen from that day??? I am QUEEN in the kitchen wahahahahaha. A task that I am not so willing to pick up but got no choice because got to feed the household. Cooking was left to my MIL because of me having to shutter the kids around and got to put Odin to bed, makes me difficult to spend time in the kitchen to do food preperation. But since MIL is out of action, I just got to make it happen.

Meal planning was left totally to me and a week had past. I am pretty amazed that I had actully survived this week with a combination of cooking meals at home and buying back.

22 Jul 2013

Much effort was put in to prepare today's meal. We had bought a very nice piece of beef shank yesterday and do not want to mess up the dish. Beef stew is what we are having tonight and along with it is Fried Cabbage.

Beef stew is from a recipe I've gotten online. Can't remember exactly where I copied it from but it is really very nice. It is unlike those 'ang mo' stew where lots of herbs are used. This is a more asian style of stew. MIL say very similar to the way Hainanese prepare their beef stew. Even my boys, especially Oswald, are able to accept the taste of it. YUMZ.

As for the Cabbage dish, it is a combination of using dried shrimps, cabbage and 冬粉. Give everything a quick stir, seasoning and VIOLA~~~


24 Jul 2013

It is 1 DISH MEAL today. 1 dish meal is the best when you got not much time on hand but yet would prefer homecooked food instead of buying from outside.

Everything was kept plain and simple with:

Lunch (left) - Fried Bee Hoon with Stewed Pork.
Dinner (right) - Stir Fried Pumpkin with Roast Pork.


TGIF!!! Can take 2 days break before getting back to serious business of cooking. Frankly I prefer to bake than cook hahahaha :p

Bento #28 - Carrot

I am back after 2 weeks!!! Gosh ... where had my mojo gone to??? This is really really bad :[

And after 2 weeks break, I only managed to get this done ...

Yet again, is another copy from someone's idea. Yes ... no doubt there are lots of ideas available but these days I am really simply just looking and then copying. Such a disappointment :{

Bento #27 - Puppy Dogs

A week had past since my last bento and yet mojo not back. Skipped out usual bento Wednesday and of course I had found excuse for myself once again (bad bad mummy) but no more excuse on Fridays as it is Fruity Fridays for Oswald at school. Since he got to bring along a serve of fruits to school, mummy had no choice but to do it properly.

Today's bento is a pair of puppy dogs.

Milk Bread puppy (left) for Owein and Super Soft n Fine puppy (right) for Oswald. Of course, this idea is also another copied idea with modifications of ingredient used. Hope these little pups will brighten the boys' day at school.

Bento #26 - Milk Sippy

Had been getting these Milk Sippy for my boys for awhile but it never come across to me that I can use it when packing my boy's bentos. Someone in the bento group on FB had given all of us new ideas when she used this to decorate her kid's food. Copying this idea, made my preparations easier when I ran out of Rainbow Sprinkles.

These milk sippy really do come in handy on lazy bento days. Of late, totally had no bento mojo. The whole time I am trying to avoid making bento ... sad case for mummy because I simply don't understand why the sudden lost of mood but good news for the boys especially for Oswald. It is time I do something and try to get those mojo back hence decided to pack this last minute bento on this morning. It is Fruity Friday anyway so might as well take that as an excuse to myself to get serious in packing food once again. Kekeke