Try it on my own…

The holidays have started and my tuition classes for the year have resumed. That means that I would be out of the house around 3 something till past 6, Monday to Thursday, and my missus would leave for work at 7 something in the morning and would not be home till almost 6.00 p.m., so the coast is clear…

With the grumpy father and the doting mother out of the way, Melissa got down to some serious cooking. On Monday, she cooked this dish of fish head curry…

I guess it was not that difficult as she was using the A1 Mountain Globe curry paste. You can’t possibly go wrong with that. Nowadays, EVERYONE CAN COOK…curry! Personally, I felt it was a bit diluted, not lemak (rich) enough but it was nice. A jolly good first attempt, I must say.

The next day, she came up with these oven-baked chicken wings…

…following the same recipe that the mother used for that particular dish for our Christmas dinner. Now, these were absolutely delicious!!! Very fragrant with whatever that she used to marinate the wings, and very nicely done!

And yesterday, she grilled these brinjal with sambal…

…and they were a success too. It certainly looks like she should be able to manage pretty well on her own when she goes to New Zealand. Thumbs up, girl! Pat on the back!

Incidentally, she only had to prepare a vegetable dish yesterday as when I stopped by Chopsticks in the morning, I saw this beautiful slab of roast meat…

…and the best part was that I could hardly see any layers of fat and of course, the skin was crispy, unlike my failed attempts during those times when I tried to roast something similar!

At RM4.00 per 100 gm., that came up to RM14.00 – and it worked out to less than RM5.00 per person. If we were to tapao that with rice, at best they would only give a few bits of the meat with a lot of rice and some slices of cucumber…for some RM3.00 or 4.00. I reckoned it was worth it and we certainly had a sumptuous dinner – the roast meat and the sambal brinjal and home cooked rice. Yum! Yum!