This is my life…

My missus has retired and that means I can retire fully now…from the kitchen, that is! LOL!!!

When she was working, she might whip up some fast-to-cook dishes in the morning before she left for work like this steamed minced pork…

…or this ang chao chicken…

For the uninitiated, ang chao is the residue that one gets after making the traditional Foochow red wine.

Sometimes, she would fry meat – chicken or pork, in soy sauce with ginger, Bombay onions and potatoes…or on my way home from my parents’ place, I would buy some things from the shops or the stalls for the two of us for dinner. On Fridays, as I did not have any tuition lessons on for the day, I would cook dinner before she came home from work.

Now that she is no longer working, she is free to do the cooking in the morning while I go over to babysit my bedridden mum and I would come home for lunch…and now that she has a lot more time on her hands, she would be able to cook something more painstaking and elaborate like this baked chicken in banana leaf…

…that she had seen somebody cooking on television and decided to give it a try.

It was quite nice and so was her stuffed fried tau kwa (firm bean curd_ soup…

As you can see, she was extra generous with the meat unlike what we usually can get in the shops. Hehehehehe!!!

Wait a minute! Normally, when she was not home, I would have something very light and simple for lunch and enjoy a nice, good dinner with her in the evenings but now, I would be having three substantial meals in a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oh me oh my! It certainly looks like I will have to loosen my belt again pretty soon. LOL!!!