Velle Cooks \\ Last day of Jan 2021

 

Dinner starts early

1. ABC soup with corn
2. steam mince pork
3. Egg tofu
4. Siew Bak Choy
   

Lunch Today

1. ABC soup
2. Mei Cai Kou Rou (salted vegetables with pork belly)
3. Long beans omelette
4. Leftover luncheon meat
   

Jade \\ Afternoon Nap

 

a rare sight. Jade seldom takes afternoon naps. 

She must be really tired or really bored.

Velle Cooks \\ Teochew Mui

 

Saturday Lunch

 

Teochew Mui with luncheon meat, 

lup cheong omelette, 

fishball spinach soup, 

braised peanuts and sambal kang kong.

Jay Cooks \\ Tomato Soup Noodles

 

Jay Cooks \\ Mee Sua

 

James \\ Lost his front tooth!

 

Velle Cooks \\ Chicken Herbal Soup

 

Dinner Tonight

1. Spinach
2. Big Fish Cake
3. Herbal chicken soup (using already packed herbs from Pasar)
   

above: all the herbs are packed nicely, so it's really effortless. 

Little Jade helps me to take the herbs out from their individual packets.

Breakfast \\ Avocado Toast

 

I saw online versions of avocado toast with scramble eggs and decided to give it a try. But hubs say it is a weird combination. hmm...

Velle Cooks \\ Lunch and Dinner

 

Saturday at Home. 

For dinner, hubs helped to make Korean Fried Chicken. Hubs is really good at making this soy garlic sweet sauce to drizzle over the fried chicken. The kids love it so much!

Dinner today

1. Plain Fried Egg Omelette
2. Stir fry broccoli with sliced chinese mushrooms and carrots
3. Korean fried chicken sprinkled with sesame seeds on top
   

Lunch today, feeling kinda lazy after baking CNY cookies. So I air fry some fish tofu and otah as sides.

1. Bah Kut Teh with button mushrooms
2. Stir fry xiao bai cai with crab mushrooms
3. Fish tofu
4. Otah
   

Home Made New Year Cookies

 

It is our 2nd year making Chinese New Year goodies. This time round, the kids did much better than the year before. These are normal sugar cookies. And after baking the first batch, I realised they look much prettier if they are not too brown. So do keep a lookout during your baking and when you see the edges turning brown, it's time to take them out from the oven.

Today looks quite gloomy for a bake, but it didn't dampen the kids' mood. Anytime, any day is always a good time for them! The kids are always ready for baking, but not so much for me. haha, it's always alot of work and cleaning up on my part. 

But, I'm always happy to see them enjoying themselves, though Jade and James had little patience and went somewhere else to play after cutting some cookie dough out. Jules being the eldest, did all the rolling and cookie cutting. He really did a good job and I could see his patience and determination in this exercise.

Click here to see last year CNY Cookies.

above: Jules did all the cookie cutting and a job well done is getting the molds out so clean and clear.

Velle Cooks \\ Dinner

 

Sunday Dinner

1. stir fry broccoli with crab mushrooms
2. chives omelette
3. ABC soup
4. Sardines with tomatoes
   

Velle Cooks \\ Braised Tofu

 

Saturday Lunch

1. Braised tofu, korean style
2. stir fry vegetables