101. Our Food Diary - & Missing Mummy

Saturday, November 13, 2021

101. Our Food Diary - & Missing Mummy - Sep to Dec 2021

13 Nov 2021

this is difficult.

we just lost mummy to cancer.

thought i'd just show how random and neglected our meals seem to be during the time mummy is in hospital, after she passed on and the rest of the year trying to adjust to changes.

one of the other change is that we have no more live-in domestic helper. tini went home 30 sep 2021, 2 days after mummy was warded in hospital.

another change is that i'm so exhausted that i had a gum infection that lasted for weeks. also had swollen and painful fingers - couldn't even hold my cup or plate or shower or do anything "simple".

most of all, it's adjusting to jamie's diet plan - no carb, no sugar, bitter papaya leaf drink, blah blah blah

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11 Nov 2021

below: Jamie's salad - think he said he spent 3 hours cutting and preparing this lunch

avocado, pounded garlic, celery, onions, fried egg, ham, tomatoes, coriander, lime juice

this is like a guacamole.

it's the filling for his low carb, low GI wrap with extra romaine lettuce, sliced cucumbers and fresh coriander leaves.

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19 Nov 2021

Lamb Ribs - given by lim tzur ko ko

LAMB RIBS

Seasoned just before cooking

(meat shouldn't be cold before cooking,

take out from fridge to rest in room temp about 1hr before)

1 - 1st - rub mustard over lamb.

didn't have dijon mustard so i used wholegrain mustard.

2 - then sprinkle salt & black pepper, chopped rosemary and thyme

3 - add whole garlic cloves and roast with some water

4 - when lamb is almost cooked, rub a mix over the lamb

then roast/grill for another 5-10min to let the butter melt

5 - SPICE MIX

- fresh rosemary & thyme leaves

- salt & black pepper

- chopped or minced garlic

- olive oil or butter or both

20 Nov 2021

From Roast Lamb to Roast Chicken!

i kept the gravy from the roast lamb,

left it in the fridge overnight,

then threw away the hardened oil layer the next day.

roasted a small half chicken with the gravy.

wow. sooooo good!!

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23 dec 2021 thu

24 dec 2021 fri

25 dec 2021 sat

26 dec 2021 sun

23/12

Eve of Christmas Eve lunch

(after going to ntuc finest, thomson)

- roast pork ribs and chicken form ntuc finest thomson

- smoked duck & sausages

- boiled cauliflower, broccoli, carrots

- tomato salsa

24/12

Christmas Eve dinner

at home with the kids, daddy, jamie, koko and dio dio

- ham & sausages

- smoked duck

- fried button, shimeji & king oyster mushrooms w garlic

- green salad and tomato salsa

- glutinous rice with chinese mushrooms & fried onions

25/12

Chritmas lunch

- tom yum soup with chicken wings and leftover iceberg lettuce/carrots from salad

- roast chicken griller with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, whole garlic

- leftover salad and tomato salsa

25/12

Christmas breakfast

- french toast with strawberry jam

25/12

Christmas dinner

at holland road (kids went to clive's)

- parma ham + honeydew

- roast tomahawk with roasted garlic & red wine sauce

- assam prawns

- pork with lettuce, green & red chilli sauces

- gammon ham with cloves (boneless)

- herbal chicken

- roast potatoes

- mushrooms

- boiled cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts

26/12

breakfast/brunch - tom yum soup and rice

lunch - laksa

dinner - zhichar (geylang beef kuay teow shop)

- ee fu mee, mee goreng

- spinach with 3 eggs

- har cheong gai & chicken skin

- salt & pepper pork

25/12

25/12 dinner

26/12

27/12 lunch

31/12 dinner

fish head curry

pan fried red snapper & batang fish with tumeric and salt

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21 Dec 2021 Tues

worked all day - classes 9-12pm & 1-4pm

dinner at casuarina zhi char (ban leong)

birthday noodles (mee suah) $10

hor fun at dan $5.50

salt & pepper pork $10

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20 Dec 2021 Mon

Dinner at bishan street 22 kuay chap -

so yummy there's no pics!! LOL

ordered

- large intestines, pork belly,

- tau kuah, tau pok,

- fish cake, 2 eggs

- kiam chye

- 3 bowls kuey (noodles)

total $28

Lunch at Springleaf zhi char

(geylang lor9 beef kuay teow ppl)

beef hor fun $6.50

con siew ee mee $6

salt and pepper pork $10

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19 Dec 2021 Sun

Lunch - cooked at home!

chicken wings with whole garlic and oyster sauce

photo below is what's left after lunch Lol

there was a huge pot for lunch - abt 1.5 chicken thighs & 2kg chicken mid joint wings

Dinner - cooked at home!

Salmon - i wonder why i didn't take a photo of the salmon with gravy Lol

Smoked duck 2 types

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17 & 18 Dec 2021

boiled pork belly 500g - i forgot to take pics again!!! 😩 😩

chicken thigh with fresh button mushrooms

french beans with eggs

bittergourd with eggs - no pics :(

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16 Dec 2021

lunch - went kovan to eat - bought curry chicken chai peng

dinner - jamie cooked chicken thigh seasoned with garlic, baked potatoes with butter and bacon, grilled portabella mushrooms, grilled tomatoes

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15 Dec 2021 Wed

lunch with Christen and Jannah - Thai Food!

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14 Dec 2021

lunch at hans, sembawang/upper thomson road

we walked by a small garden with lady's fingers and brinjals. so cute!

han's hainanese pork chop - this is nice!

i guess i didn't enjoy the curry because i prefer my own cooked curry Lol

left - curry at hans sembawang

right pic - curry cooked sep 2021

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13 Dec 2021 Mon dinner

fried minced chicken with garlic, onion and carrots

jamie ate it like san choy pow

he also ate the leftover minced chicken cutlet (had 3 pieces leftover) - pic was blurred

ko ko brought buah keluak - was nice! a bit too sweet for me tho.

steamed cod hk style (2nd piece)

ko ko made buah keluak

heated up the leftover tomato egg Lol

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12 Dec 2021 Sunday dinner

bought some frozen cod fish from ntuc

cod costs $36 (france, processed in china)

found a good time to steam one piece...

but since our lunch as late, none of us were that hungry to eat it ugggh

the cod was... soooo good anyways!

i'm pissed to find out that they dropped the prices today... 19dec2021 - BUT it's also out of stock!

cod fish steamed hk style (below)

didn't dare use red chillipadi - too bad i didn't have any big red chillis

also cooked minced chicken cutlet with 2 eggs (good thing i only made 1/2 a packet...) and made some tomato eggs with 4 eggs and 4 tomatoes (and tomato egg photo came out blur arrgh!!)...

all of these dishes could have been tastier...

- if everyone was hungry

- if i were not exhausted

- if i didn't struggle with the pots/pans/cooking utensils/prep

- if i was in the mood to enjoy cooking :/

for late lunch we had zhi char from chang kee at home at about 2-3pm...

- sweet and sour pork

- pork ribs (pai guat wong)

- sliced fish with ginger and spring onions

- har cheong gai

- sambal kang kong

- sambal fried rice

- dry beef kuay teow

oh. that's why we were too full for dinner & for the cod fish Lol

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10 Dec 2021

taught jannah to make mac and cheese - now she can cook it herself :)

er... might need more practice LOL

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1 Dec 2021

scrambled eggs with french beans, carrots, sliced red chilli

with sesame oil - so yum!

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5 Dec 2021

Sunday Lunch - anyhow cook

felt exhausted and no mood to cook... so the food is so so only lah

other days are better but no food pics LOL

saba fish

fried rice with bacon, eggs and leftover minced pork

fail!!

cabbage pancake - used 2 eggs, flour and corn flour. not crispy at all. quite doughy

flavour is not too bad though

when i heated it up in the turbo the next day (overdone at 120 degree celsius), it got really crispy, like a biscuit!! so yeah... i think it needed a bit of heat Lol

fried back bacon, 2 packets from ntuc

earlier, cooked macaroni and cheese with 2 slices of bacon (not on this plate!). also used about 4 pcs of bacon for the fried rice. (also not on this plate!)

6 Dec 2021

cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, coriander -

garlic, sesame oil, oyster sauce, white pepper

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28 Nov 2021

NO FOOD PICS LATELY - too busy cooking and cleaning LOL

what i've cooked so far (sadly no food pics)

- pan fried chicken thighs - seasoned with salt and white pepper

- chicken wings with whole garlic, black sauce and chinese wine

- sukiyaki pork

- minced pork

- belly pork

- brinjal with minced pork

- alaskan wild cod fish with lemon mustard gravy

fish gravy - butter, whole grain mustard, lemon juice, capers, parsley

- roast chicken/chicken wings with garlic, rosemary, thyme and butter

- knuckle beef with red/green capsicums, tomatoes, celery and onions

- cabbage soap with fish maw

early to mid nov

been cooking and have no photos of the yummy food Lol but, now, i have a non stick frying pan (tefal 25cm frying pan for any cooker bought at half price, $25). the non stick pan makes cooking so much more convenient! too bad the pan is too shallow and i'm hoping to get a wok pan soon!

5 Nov 2021

also bought a tiny 20cm frying pan, $5.80

so small and cute, looks like a toy!

8 Jan 2022 Sat

my new wok pan (tefal)

tefal wok pan for all hobs incl induction

28cm diameter

$41.90 (UP $59.90)

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22 Nov 2021

jannah's picnic grilled chicken wings

with rosemary, thyme, black sauce and honey

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28 Nov 2021

pan fried chicken thighs

seasoned with salt and white pepper

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30 Nov 2021

takes me a while to defrost, unwrap, clean (with plenty of salt & water) and season/marinate raw meats and seafood.

fresh whole chicken, frozen chicken parts like chicken thigh (bone in or boneless), drumsticks, wings, minced pork, pork ribs, pork bones, twee bak and belly pork!

fresh seafood can be messy as well - sotong, prawns, fish, shellfish, crabs, crayfish...

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3 Dec 2021

finally got the method right for boiling belly pork!!

but NO PICS!! i forgot ugggh 😩 😩

Recipe - Boiled Belly Pork

high heat boil - 10min

low heat simmer - 40min

set aside, cover & rest 30-60min

after resting, cut to portions (i like my portions thick!)

eat immediately (very yummy if it was cleaned/seasoned with loads of salt)

or season with chopped garlic, chilli, rice vinegar, fresh coriander

or fry with sauce or heat up in gravy (i use my chicken wing gravy!)

in boiling water, add...

- salt, white peppercorn/pepper, onions,

- light soya sauce,

- medium onions x1-2 or red shallots x3-4

- garlic x1-2,

- shaoxing chinese wine

old pics of boiled pork belly below: (7 Nov 2021)

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17 Nov 2021

soya sauce chicken

from telok blangah crescent market

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Toman or Snakehead Fish from NTUC

dipped in salt water to make the meat smooth,

then seasoned with crushed ginger, garlic and onion,

salt, white pepper, light soya sauce, chinese shaoxing wine, sesame oil

pan fried in my new tefal non stick frying pan

12 Nov 2021

6 Nov 2021

7 Nov 2021

boiled pork belly

Season:

i just dumped 1kg frozen pork belly

into a pot of water seasoned with

salt, light soya sauce

white/black peppercorns,

shaoxing wine

How to Cook:

boil - high fire 10 min

simmer - 30-40 min

remove meat & rest - 1hour

12 Nov 2021

Christen's apple and pear soup on the cruise ship

22 Oct 2021

christen's friend's mum made these pork & chive dumplings

23 Oct 2021

salmon fish head given by aidan's friend

cooked in tau cheo, garlic, chilli and sng buei sauce

25 Oct 2021

albert street wholesale market

to buy nuts and dried scallops

10 Nov 2021

bad gum infection. can only eat soft food, like this carrot cake...

chai dao kueh at telok blangah cres market for breakfast

5 Nov 2021

daiso to buy garlic chopper and a tiny 20cm frying pan

each cost about $5.80

also bought some zhi char from people's park -

our fav tomato egg and brinjal, bittergourd with pork

long queue at our fav zhi char stall

20+ Oct 2021

KEBABS at fortune centre

29 Oct 2021

Turkish bread with kebab

kebab salad

kebab with butter rice (i love this!)

29 Oct 2021

Christen's birthday cheese cake

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sat 16 Oct 2021 8.29am

sun 17, mon 18, tues 19 Oct 2021 - WAKE

tues 19 Oct 2021 - FUNERAL

during the wake,

opposite St Stephen's Catholic Church is circuit road hawker centre

we like the roast meats.

packet below is char siew, sio bak combo with rice, $3.50

uncle and aunty run the stall and cook everything from scratch, all by themselves.

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24 Sep 2021

mummy went for CT Scan

liver doctor noticed she had jaundice.

28 Sep 2021 Wed - 16 Oct 2021 Sat

(abt 2 weeks)

when mummy was at hospital,

this is how we ate...

a lot of tabao and random meals...

see below:

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7 Oct 2021

lunch

brinjal with jannah at People's Park, Chinatown

7 Oct 2021

Breakfast

dumplings heated up in tom yum soup

9 Oct 2021

dinner

tiong bahru - buying satay for jamie in quarantine

11 Oct 2021

dinner

Aidan cooked tom yum fettuccini

12 Oct 2021

bought & steamed prawns for mummy - but then, we were afraid it might cause an allergic reaction. so i didn't bring it for her to eat. she didn't want it anyway. she only wants fruits.

13 Oct 2021

kueh chap at almost midnight

at bishan

fruit stall at fortune centre

mummy only wanted fruits and juice.

she liked the pomegranate, apple, orange mix and the mixed berry juice

she also liked the avocado and honey dew mix

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24 Sep 2021

mummy went for a CT Scan

and i waited at ABC Brickworks

doc mentioned jaundice.

we had no idea what would come next...

if only we knew :(

for our lunch & dinner that day, bought yong tau foo for mummy but the food isn't nice and she didn't want to eat it. i ate it all up and didn't like it at all.