Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

Cooking together in the kitchen with a grandparent is a gift that we should treasure while we can. Today Eve's grandmother (Ah-Ma) came and stayed over with us for a few days. And at the age of 89, she is still active and is a good helping pair of hands. For example, she will help us to prepare the food, as well as demonstrate her good culinary skills. I was amazed by how she carefully washes the vegetables and then arranges them neatly on the plate. She really takes pride in her task no matter how small it is! Doesn't she poses like a fantastic cook? I got to learn some ways of how she effectively wash the greens and mushrooms! A good chef learns from a greater chef! She really knows how to pose! And most people can't tell that she is 89! Amazing!  The first dish she cooked: stir-fry asparagus with shiitake mushroom, fresh brown mushroom and canned button mushroom.  Second dish: Stir-fry Chinese spinach  Even the chilli padi prepar...

Last night, we made our very first gingerbread man! It's all because we read about the Gingerbread Man story and Josh wanted to have a taste of it. Eve decided to make for them and she bought the ingredients from Phoon Huat. Both Josh and Kate were so excited to make it when we told them that we are going to bake gingerbread man!  The details of the cooking will be in my food blog mervyncancook.blogspot.com . Here are some behind-the-scenes pictures... Josh attempting to flatten the dough using the roller! It's certainly require effort to flatten it! Eve attempting to flatten the dough. Luckily the table top that we bought from Muji is preparation ready for baking! So amazed by this great wooden table! No need flour to coat on table. It's my time to flatten and it really trains the arm muscle! We took about 7 minutes to flatten to 3-4mm thick! And luckily my children are patient to look and wait! Next Josh used the cutter...