stir-fried pork loin, spinach with bacon

has become a practice to sleep in during the weekends. however, it got out of hand today, woke up only at 3.30pm.

she prepared very late brunch, boiled some water, threw in the vermicelli, some soup base, some meatballs and a few stalks of spinach.

meatball vermicelli soup - bland start to the day, but grateful that it feels healthy.


and just a few hours later, it was time to prepare dinner. chopped up garlic, spinach and sliced the bacon. heated garlic in a few drops of oil before adding the bacon. once cooked, the spinach and 1/4 cup of water were added. threw in a pinch of salt and some seasoning, upped to medium heat, and stirred vigourously before serving.

spinach with bacon - spinach still crunchy and the bacon added extra oomph.


chopped some ginger, yellow onion, and sliced 3 pork loins. she then proceeded to mix one of her self-created marinades. this day, she removed the top of the shell and extracted the egg white only. the other ingredients were oyster sauce, flour, salt, sugar, pepper, he cannot remember what else. cooked the pork loin before adding the sauce she created.

stir fried pork loin - savoury, but a bit too salty to eat without staple. otherwise, very yummy.

lime chicken, mushroom soup, meatball vermicelli

she woke up slightly earlier than him to prepare breakfast of vermicelli soup with "flowered" meat balls and vegetable (not too sure of the name). he had a hasty breakfast before going to work.


next up, dinner. he bought full cream milk, bacon, chicken breast, etc, as requested by her.

the first thing she made was mushroom soup with bacon bits. sounds yummy, doesn't it?
thinly sliced the bacon and fried them till brown. mashed up a steamed potato, diced some mushrooms and onions. heated onions in some butter until fragrant before putting in the mashed potato and mushrooms. next, milk was poured until it just covered the ingredients. bacon bits were added as preferred.


stir-fried beans with dried shrimp. you've seen this before, heat garlic and dried shrimps in oil until fragrant before adding the vegetable into the fray.


sesame lime chicken. this was a very troublesome dish. had to fry the batter-coated chicken a few at a time, after which the wok had to be washed and cook the lime mixture with the chicken until it was gluey enough. the extent of work made him feel quite tired, the wife however remained energetic. haha..

diced chicken, gizzards, pork bone soup

came home from work 30 minutes before midnight and she already had dinner waiting for him. check out the spread.

diced chicken with cashew nuts, carrots and green bell pepper. good variety of color, and tasted fine as well. maybe a little too much cashew nuts though.


"flowered" chicken gizzard with beans and red bell pepper - she seemed to be aware of color and presentation in recent, making good progress. this was nice to eat too.


last but not least, pork bone soup with potatoes and carrots. a sumptuous meal with a doting wife, a very comforting way to end a long and arduous day.

curry dinner

came home to see that wife had already cooked the rice and was starting on the curry.

she enthusiastically showed him his special plate of rice, molded in a heart shape.


the rice topped with curry - had potatoes, carry, milk, coconut milk, broccoli, diced chicken, mushroom, definitely not the usual curry, but still enjoyable. great effort.


finally, they sat down to make dessert, "xue mei niang" again. the same processes, with slightly different fillings of kiwi fruit and mango. took them quite a bit of time, but it was quality time spent together.

multi-course dinner

yet another day of sleeping in. got up late noon to start preparing for dinner.

brought out the stuff from carrefour the day before, and realised that he had mistaken kangkong for spinach. how embarrassing.

had the wife's special fried rice again, this time with some "flowered" curry flavour chinese sausages.


two "flowers" - on her request


the kangkong that she made


radish soup with pork ribs (maybe a little too much green onions)


xue mei niang - anyone knows the english name for this? used cornstarch, glutinous rice flour, wheat flour, sugar, milk, whipping cream and cherries for this.


there's another dessert in the fridge, sweet potato mash cake, but let's not disturb it now.

[UPDATE]
here's the picture of the sweet potato mash cake

say cheeze @ 313 somerset

slept in again, so they had to settle for late lunch. headed to cuppage plaza for the 1st level japanese restaurant, but turned out they closed at 2.30pm, and only re-opened at 6pm. too bad, they had to settle for the new malls on the opposite, orchard central and 313.

while in 313, they walked past "say cheeze" and the black angus sirloin looked tempting. got a table for 2, ordered the black angus sirloin (medium well) and a tokyo pizza. she further requested for a doubly sinful milkshake, very very thick and at a cost of $7.90++...


the black angus sirloin steak $18.90++ - insides still looked tender red, but not bloody. this sirloin's a thick chunk, unlike most other sirloins that they've had before. both of them thought that it was good. she commented that the whipped potato tasted different but she liked it anyway. color's a little on the brighter side too.


the tokyo pizza that she wanted ($13.90++). crispy crust, almost like a biscuit. came with teriyaki chicken and those usual flakes of he-forgot-what-you-call-them, very enjoyable.


close up of the tokyo pizza...


service was prompt and friendly, attentively topped up water and cleared the table. would go back again for the steak, and perhaps pizza.

last dinner of 2009

he took a shower and slept after reaching home from the office. suddenly, he was rudely awoken by a frantic sounding wife. got up and went with her to see what happened. turned out to be dinner time, and some of it were ready to eat. happiness.

egg wrap (omelette) rice - wife special fried rice with curry-flavor chinese-style sausage. she refused to disclose the recipe, but it contained some dried shrimps. very fragrantly done. the egg wrap? she made him help her with frying some egg, and he just went ahead with frying his regular eggs, that's why you see it's not really that wrapped. maybe it should be called "egg covered rice" instead.


close up of the content


"hi tiger bye ox soup" - 100 grams of beef brisket, chicken essence cube, some star anise, ginger chunks, rice vermicelli. not too bad, but maybe the star anise made it a little weird. name of the soup is such to welcome the year of the tiger while the ox takes its break. sounds a little malicious though, when there's beef in the soup and she and he are born in the years of tiger and ox respectively.