Western food served in Chinese style

When I have bits and pieces of vegetables left in the fridge, I would serve my meal this way.  The kids are happy to have occasional change.

1. Buy a good piece of 3 layer pork 三层肉. Meaning to say the fat and the meat are intact.
2. Rub salt and pepper on the pork.  Leave to marinate for a few hours.
3. Roast pork in the oven.  Slice when cook.
3. Boil carrots.
4. Fried capsicum, onion and tomato.
5. Serve.

Fried Chinese Sausage

My mother gave me some Chinese Sausage during Chinese New Year.  I only cook Chinese Sausage when younger son is not home for meal as he doesn't like it.

Instead of just steaming the Chinese Sausage, I take a little bit trouble to cook it this way.

1. Slice the sausage
2. Chop some garlic

3. Heat a little oil in the wok.
4. Add in sausage and garlic together.
5. Stir fry really quick as the sausage and garlic get burn easily.
6. Turn off fire and stir some sugar on the sausage.

7. Serve.

Taste good, but quite salty.

Sweet Potato

Dropped by wholesale market along Jalan Lintas near Beverly after collecting a cheque from my client.  I bought 1/4 water melon, a bunch of banana, a cempedak, 20 limau kasturi, ginger and 4 sweet potatoes.  Costs me RM12. Cheap as compared if I were to buy from Foh Sang, Borneon or Lido.

I boiled the sweet potatoes this morning.  After a while, I found out that the water turned green.  This is a strange colour as the sweet potatoes are purple in colour.  I even cut off the tip to confirm the colour as I have never seen green sweet potatoes.  Could it be the fertilizer colour or insecticides that the farmer used?  Out of curiosity, I changed into clean water and continue boiling.  Again, the water turned green, but after a while, the water turned into purple similar to the colour of the sweet potatoes.

In water colouring, purple is mixed by red and blue. I suppose the green colour must have come from the colour pigments of the sweet potatoes.

Strange.  But I still ate them.

Ayam Brand Sardine

I only buy Ayam Brand Sardine.  Ayam Brand Sardine is quality guaranteed.  One of my relative cum church friend was a Ayam Brand salesman for donkey years.  After high school, he started working as a salesman selling Ayam Brand until he retired 2 years ago.  He told me how the Ayam Brand fishes were caught at deep sea and bla bla bla..... He was so sincere when he told me how good Ayam Brand was, and I felt so touch of him being a faithful and believer in Ayam Brand.  Ha2.

Stella shared with me how to improve the flavour of Sardine.

1.  Fried shredded ginger till brown.  Push to the side of wok.
2.  Slightly fried sardine on both sides.
3.  Stir in sliced bombay onion.
4.  Add in gravy.
5.  Serve.

My son loves sardine prepared this way.  I don't eat much as canned food is high in sodium which is not so healthy for a person having hypertension like me.

If you only heat up sardine, why not do a little bit extra to flavour up your sardine?

Fried Chicken Wing

Stella gave me a simple recipe for fried chicken wing.  Her uncle was a chef with one of the restaurant in Kota Kinabalu.  He fried the chicken wing this way when they had a Chinese New Year celebration in Tenom.

Salt
Pepper
Chicken wings
Limau Kasturi (or lemon and lime)

Marinate chicken wings with salt, pepper and limau kasturi's juice.
Deep fried till cook.

I did it in the morning and deep fried the chicken wings for dinner.  My son said tasted like restaurant food.  I agreed.  Yummy.  I had 2 chicken wings and he had 3.  Very simple recipe.  Hubby is outstation in Pantai Remis, Perak. He always miss my special dish when he is away.

Live within your means

Robert and Sally are sending off their children to Singapore for high school education.  They just finished their primary schools last year.

The combined income of both Robert and Sally are around RM4,500.  The company gives them an apartment to stay.  Their commitments are a new piano and Myvi, around RM1,000.  As long as they maintain simple lifestyle, their household income should be sufficient for the family.

However Sally seems to give a lot of priorities to their children by minimizing their own spending.  She sends them for piano and dancing sessions, she wants them to get the best eduction she knows off.  By sending the children away, Sally does not think of their higher eduction as she has no plan to save for them.  Sally is spending almost every dollar on their high school education.

What if either Robert and Sally cannot work as they are now, the whole family will be in financial difficulty.  Their children need to come back.

Like many others, Robert and Sally do not plan ahead.  When you are not planning ahead, you are indeed planting a time bomb.  It seems as though they are planning the best for your children, they are in fact ignorant financial planning.

Lazy

Menopause?  Nap very frequently these two years.  After sending off children to school, I normally make sure all the clothes are done  before breakfast, then follow by a shower.  The shower always make me feel so drain out that I quickly jump to my bed for half an hour nap.  Lunch also make me doze off.  A quick nap will allow me to work through the afternoon.  In the evening before 11pm, my eyes are so tired that I fall asleep very fast.

I don't know why I need so much sleep now.  People used to say that you can't sleep much as you grow older.  But I seem to be just the opposite.  My friend said I may be going through menopause but checking the websites tell me that you can't sleep well during menopause.

Never mind, this is my physical changes in my body.  Just tune to my psychology clock.