A tribute to a FTWM's cooks...

As the little girl goes to a school nearer our place, hubby and I would need to settle her dinner. Eating out is not exactly a healthy option. I'm also feeling bad because when I was her age, I only ate home cooked food everyday except weekends. It was also during these days, I remember standing on a stool, peering over my aunt's shoulders to see her cook. And of course, disturb her with never-ending questions...

These observations served me well as I picked up some cooking basics from here. Having cooked regularly now, I regret not perfecting my cooking skills during the years where I was just married... As I struggled to find dishes to avoid repeats in the month (fail, because you will spot onion eggs on many days - hubby's favourite dish), I began to hunt for Asian dish recipes online (totally not easy). Thankfully, I have a colleague Mr Han who feeds me with "western" recipes and one-dish ideas (risotto and pasta).

The cooking journey has been tough since I did not cook that often and I did not have a stash of family recipes to rely on. It was also difficult to spur myself on other than through the little gal's enthusiasm for some dishes that I made. :)

This post would serve as a tribute to sweating it out in the kitchen over the last 10 weeks...

Week 1 - (Steamed grouper, onion egg, old cucumber pork rib soup), (Yong Tau Foo Soy Noodles, fried veg, fried anchovies), (Fried fish, stir fry brocoli, fried egg soup with carrots and fishball)

Week 3 (reduced to 2 day cooking): (Cod fish HK style, stir fry nai bai, lotus root pork rib soup), (fried rice, stir fry chicken with potato)

Week 4: (stir fry veg with Lo Han Chai, steamed egg with minced meat), (old cucumber pork rib soup, fried salmon & stir fry veg with mushrooms)

Also Week 4: What I always love to have (and will never be sick of)... In the end we added tom yam paste into the soup. *Yumzzzzz*

Week 6: (Chinese yam & carrot chicken soup, sardines with onions, stir fried kai lan), (threadfin porridge with wolfberries & boiled spinach)

Week 7: (Onion egg, stir fry veg, steamed promfet with tomato, burdock carrots pork rib soup), (chicken mushroom risotto)

Week 8: (only  cooked once this week) (ba kut teh soup with button mushrooms, stir fry vegetable with shitake mushroom, fried egg with tomatoes)

 Week 9: (Omelette, steamed fish with soya sauce, radish carrot pork rib soup), (steamed minced meat with salted egg, fried long beans with carrots, fried egg soup)

Week 10: ( Canfood day! baked beans with sausages, egg soup with tomatoes & tofu, stir fry vegetable, sardines with onions), (pasta with cooked from scratch sauce with Danish meatballs)

Week 11: (steamed egg with minced meat, stir fried sweet peas), (claypot chicken mushroom rice with lup cheong and cabbage)