Cooked dinner

It’s been a long long time since I cooked. Been too tired; too lazy; want to give up on my life; feeling shitty; feeling moody. 

22nd Apr (Tue) 

Hubby offered to pick lil’ one from school as he needs to go somewhere first. I love this kind of splitting jobs between two of us. 99% I have to be the one picking her up from school, so I gotta rush my cooking by cooking way way in advance that I only need to re-heat or maybe no need to re-heat. If my Grab duties is not needed, I can always cook and have the food ready on the table the moment any of the girls steps home. 

Still, today’s dishes are not the restaurant elaborate kind. I was trying to clear stuffs in the freezer and fridge. Mom gave us so many pomfrets, which is lil’ one’s favourite but been trying my best to clear our 5-6 pomfrets. So it seems the last few times I cooked pomfret as well 🤣. 

I’m getting a hang of this steam 2 dishes together with rice. Then I heat up the sauce over the stove and pour into the broccoli and fish once it’s done. Less messy. Maybe … but coz I had to deep fry the chicken so my kitchen was greasy and all. 

I hate it when blood oozes out from the chicken joint wings. Yucks! Bought another chicken seasoning. Feedback : prefer the one we bought in last holiday but still both cannot compare to what we ate there. I air fried some nuggets for che-che coz she has one less dish to eat. 

Solo days are coming up soon. I’m so tired just thinking about me doing everything all by myself. 😭 

Sometime in early May - before the next dated entry

So I haven’t been able to blog about the food I cooked. I haven’t cooked much (maybe only 4-5x) since hubby left for his holiday. I chose to pack, Grab most times. Sometime too I thought I did the smart thing to cook more rice but it turns out that the next 2 days after that day (4th May), I didn't get to use much of the rice. I junked them away. Wasted but no choice, coz last minute one of them not eating then dunno what..end up I didn't cook as much as I thought I would. Since I can't predict the future the next time I will just cook extra rice if I'm 100% sure I'm using it by mid day the next day.

20th May (Mon) 

When I didn’t leave the house the whole day coz everyone’s at home. 

Steamed everything all at one go while cooking rice. Meal prep took me less than 10mins from washing rice to putting everything in varoma. Dinner was ready in 18mins with no greasy mess. I bought these separator containers quite some time back and they were finally put to good use. Bought 6, I can put 3 in each tier.

Before

After

My broccoli with oyster and garlic chilli 

Pre-marinated pork (on 8/5) with oyster sauce, soy sauce, black soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar. 

Lil’ one likes this 👍, says it’s the best she’s tasted of all my cooking. Yah you tell me why? SUGAR!!!

Can never go wrong with chawanmushi, the girls favourite. This container is small, can only fit one portion.  Next time will have to make 2 containers so they don’t fight. 

I really like the idea of steaming food. I even feel like mixing the sauces into one bottle and then pour out from the bottle to marinade the meat or prior to steaming. Sounds like a good idea? That’s how lazy I feel now. No wonder I like watching those single japanese ladies vlogs, it's different when I have a family and it's even more 'headache' when I have fussy people.  

28th May (Wed)

Ok… so in between my last post 8 days ago I cooked twice but just didn’t blog it down. It’s another easy steamed-dishes dinner. 

I prepared all the dishes and rice in Ms Thermie at around 2pm, will cook when lil' one is in the shower. The baby seal always take a long time in the bathroom. But then things always take an unexpected turn, lil' one messaged to me just after I put down the phone with mom not long after that she's already dismissed from school. What?! More cham than being activated from SB.  

Initially only prepared 3 dishes (minus the egg tofu). chawanmushi, cod in oyster + sesame and mince chicken in Japanese seasoning style. But last minute had mom to come over to stay over so just steamed the egg tofu without mince pork as I ran out of it. 

Had to cook che-che's dinner separately - mee-hoon kueh with collagen soup.   

29th May (Thu)

Not a cooking post, but since I bought mince pork I marinated