If you’re familiar with one of Disney’s earlier animated movies, “The Jungle Book”, when Baloo the bear sang, “Look for the bare necessities…,” he was actually talking about food, and this post is going to be about just that!
Ever since I was a little boy, I have loved luncheon meat. My mother would open a can and cut it into slices, and fry with Bombay onions and egg. It was supposed to be for lunch as well as dinner…but in the course of the afternoon, the pieces would gradually disappear and my mother would be furious to discover that there wasn’t enough left for dinner! LOL!!! I wonder who had been pinching the meat…
Now that the quality of the Ma Ling brand has deteriorated, I will usually go for the Gu Long brand which may not be as fragrant but for one thing, it is less salty.
Other than that, all my life, we would have Bovril (or Marmite) with porridge, or sometimes we would make soup with it. It was only after I got married that my missus used it to prepare noodles…and from then on, even at around RM25 a bottle these days, I will usually have my mee kua (mee sanggul/dried noodles) or even mee sua with Bovril for breakfast…
Well, it’s Friday today and being the season of Lent, I am abstaining from meat and will be having fish instead. These days, at the Chinese restaurants, they serve all kinds of imported fish – snow fish or what they call Alaskan fish, cod, halibut and so on. Being imported, they can be quite expensive but the other day, I had this slice of Taiwan snow fish…
…which my missus bought for around RM10.00. I had it deep-fried but perhaps, it would taste better steamed. Personally, I would much rather go for the cheaper ones or the local varieties of fish – kembong or those similar ones, tilapia from Batang Ai, tenggiri (mackerel), terubok (Ooo…I haven’t had that for quite sometime now!), ikan buris and so on. Sigh! I wonder what fish I’ll be cooking today… Decisions! Decisons! LOL!!!
Maybe I’ll just have my usual kampung-style sayur rebus (boiled vegetables) instead – an all-in-one soup with prawns, baby corn, pumpkin and cangkuk manis boiled with a bit of belacan (dried prawn paste) and chilli…
A little bit of salt and msg may be added according to taste.
Well, I bet everybody’s ready for the long weekend. What are your plans? It’s my blog’s 1st anniversary tomorrow, so I will have a special post for that. Do make sure that you’ll come back and post a comment or more (…if you know what’s good for you!!! LOL!!!), won’t you?
Enjoy your weekend…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 