Lunch: Dumpling soup (self-wrapped dumplings) with cabbage and bit of pasta. Yum.

Dinner: Salmon steamed, tofu stir-fried with assorted veggies and scallops, egg omelette and spinach egg soup
 

1) Marinate scallops with oyster (?) sauce, salt to taste, pepper and bit of water and flour.
2) Fry with a bit of oil in pot till half-cooked.
3) Toss vegetables in and fry, then put in tofu. Add scallops and a bit of sweetened vinegar.
4) Add salt to taste, and done :D

Preparation is an important business for us. It's almost ritualistic.
The house philosophy:
Always make things beautiful before eating. Eat only till you're 70% full. Eat slowly.
(So you can savour each mouthful. Why make yourself suffer by eating too much/putting dirt inside yourself? What goes into you should nourish you.)
Oh, and most importantly, *always* leave space for dessert! (and other yummy things)

Oui.

Laoshi is off to elaborate dinner today! They went late, because wedding dinners are lengthy and dull.


And pretty lace thing:


<3

Other day's dinner: Oxtail leftovers with steamed fillet, Broccoli and handmade meatballs and that Winter melon soup from other day's epic dinner.
Right is Patrick and Laoshi's dinner: Pasta done in soup. Yummy stuff.

It's amazing what a bit of planning can do in making cooking easier!

(Wonton soup for lunch today. Of which I helped made. We like to wrap wontons on some Saturdays and freeze them so we have a constant variety of things to eat. Leftover meat can be used to make meatballs + other things.
I think Salmon fillet is for dinner. Wedding dinner for them, so solitary dinner again. These holidays have been so very busy, in a good way)

<3
 

Today's breakfast: Birthday buns stolen from dinner tables by Laoshi. Hee.
On left are Laoshi's favourite orchids. Patrick got them for her as a Christmas present (hence, gleeful squees and lots of jumping). I got her a mini-baby orchid. I'm excited about what flowers will bloom, too :3


Dinner from yesterday. Tres simple. Leftover crab omelette from New Year's dinner at Patrick's parent's house. Fishcake restaurant leftovers, braised (?) Broccoli in chicken soup, and winter melon soup with bits of scallop, prawn, chicken/pork, and mushrooms. Yumm.


Handmade carrot cake! From another day's breakfast.

<3



 

27/8
Walked down galleries of curiosities, magical toyshops and exquisite art.
Ate a Legume and provolone cheese sandwich.

Life is delightful.

Pictures here.

29/8
Viola!
Simple lunch, a preface to an elaborate dinner <3

I'm enjoying this new life as an aesthete. Oui, oui.