Confinement food - 补身

Every night before I sleep, auntie will make a tonic soup for me to drink. Sometimes it's those wine tonic soup with chicken, other nights can be dang gui with chicken, or ever fish maw dried scallop with chicken.

My mother being a cantonese has taught me how to love my soup and I simply love drinking all the different soups that auntie is whipping up these days! Some days, my dang gui chicken tastes so good that I wished i had some more!! It tastes like those herbal chicken which we can order at soup stalls but auntie's broth is crystal clear and not "milky" like the outside ones.

sigh.
soups like these makes me wish that confinement days to be longer.

Confinement food - When will it end you say?

let the picture do the talking!

i think today's lunch looks super sumptous.

burp.

Jules & James - He ain't heavy.... He's my brother.

Nowadays when Jules request to carry his little brother, we will always try to accommodate to his request because we feel that it will foster stronger ties between them. Also we want Jules to feel that he is part of the family and to welcome the little one.

As long as there's supervision, the elder sibling should have a chance at playing the older role of looking after the younger one. That way he has a sense of responsibility and feels that he is helping out in the family chores too. Rather than to shun him away from his little brother because of being afraid that the baby is too fragile for him to handle, I believe this is the better alternative.

Don't you think so too?

Home Made Lemon Rinds Snack

My confinement nanny is so clever! She has made some lemon rinds for us to snack on during the long hot hours. The lemons were used to make lemon water while the skin was scrubbed clean, and the white inner portions were all scrapped away with a knife. Next she sliced them thinly, added coarse sugar and let it out to dry for the past few days because the sun was so scorching hot. (singapore is currently experiencing a really dry weather spell)

in no time (or rather days) we have lemon rinds to eat!

Confinement Food Journey - 三菜一汤

• Permanent Resident - Steam fish
• Vinegar Pork Trotter - one of my favourite confinement food because it's so savoury!!!
• Tomato stir fried omelette
• Soup - Snow fungus with pork ribs, wolfberries, scallops and red dates.

Confinement Food Journey - Pumpkin rice

Lunch!

James - 14 days old (badly bitten by insects)

 hubs trying to burp James here.