AAA Pickled Mustard

 

Photograph of AAA pickled mustard with chilli

This is AAA pickled mustard with chilli.  It cost $1.80 last time, but now it costs $2.00.  Sometimes it is so hard to buy them.  So whenever I see that it is available I would buy a few to put at home.  It is very appetizing and it goes very well with porridge.  My children do not like it, only I like it.  

Photograph of porridge cooked to perfect consistency

Porridge with AAA pickled mustard cut into small pieces

A simple meal like this can be my lunch or dinner.  However I need to think of my children.  So mostly I still cook some other dishes and seldom eat like this.  For example, for today's lunch, the children ate chicken floss, fish floss, century egg and sardines.  I cooked the sardines with onions and it smelled so nice.  

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Bean Sprouts

 

Photograph showing market bean sprouts that was bought

Yesterday went to my mum house.  When I was going home, she walked with me to the shops to buy food for me and I saw bean sprouts at the shop -- Blk 413 Malay shop selling vegetables.  The shop had her bean sprouts displayed outside the shop.  It was rather nice.  So I decided to buy the bean sprouts for cooking Fried Kway Teow Mee for dinner later.  My mother helped me to choose the bean sprouts then she paid for me.  A lot of bean sprouts just for 40cents only. 

Photograph showing some plucked bean sprouts on my palm 

Photograph showing the finished plucked bean sprouts

Back home, I began plucking the bean sprouts.  You can compare the bean sprouts with the soybean sprouts that I had purchased from Redmart.  The soybean sprouts cost $1.53, and the seed leaves or cotyledons were very big and 'crunchy'.  As I was plucking the bean sprouts, I could smell the 'normal beansprouts smell'.  But when I was plucking the soybean sprouts, I did not smell anything.  

Photograph showing the bean sprouts cooked with scallops

Photograph showing my finished product, Fried Kway Teow Mee

I defrost some boiled scallops, and when it was dinner time, I cooked them with bean sprouts.  Next, I fried garlic and add the noodles into it.  Added light soy sauce and sweet sauce to it and then crack some eggs into it.  Lastly add the scallops and bean sprouts to it, optional chilli, and that's it.  I fried some hash browns to go along with it.  

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Roti Prata

 

Photograph showing Roti Prata cut into pieces with raw sugar aside

The above showed what I just ate for lunch.  It was done in less than 15 minutes.  I just took out a packet of Spring Home Paratha and I can cook it instantly.  Don't need to defrost, don't need to add oil.  Just take a pan and on low heat.  Place the prata onto the pan and heat it until golden brown.  

Photograph showing Parantha from Spring Home

Photograph showing the cooking pan with prata on it.

There are altogether 5 pieces of prata inside the Spring Home Parantha.  In the photograph above you can see the opened Parantha on the left of the packaging.  Each piece of Parantha is sandwiched with 2 plastic sheets.  You just have to remove the plastic sheets and place the prata onto the cooking pan (flat based), and wait for it to turn golden brown on one side and then flip over to the other side and wait for it to turn golden brown again.  

Photograph of cooked Roti Prata from Spring Home Parantha

Last month I discovered that the Indian stall at Woodlands North Plaza had closed down.  It was the only Indian stall that sold Roti Prata there.  Whenever we felt like eating Roti Prata, we would visit the stall to takeaway Roti Prata or Putu Mayam also.  Many people said that their Roti Prata was nice.  On Sundays, there would be long queue.  Surprisingly, it closed down now.  So now we have no Roti Prata at Woodlands North Plaza.  Having Spring Home Parantha is not bad, just that there is no curry.  I wonder if they can sell in package of six instead of 5, and probably it would be better if there is a packet of curry gravy inside for us to warm up to eat.  Otherwise I have to eat with sugar.  But not everybody likes to eat with sugar.  

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Sleeping Box

Photograph taken at Bukit Batok void deck opposite the bridal shop

 Walked past these cardboxes and it reminded me of Dora.  These were taken at one of the block of  Bukit Batok flat, the void deck that is opposite of a bridal shop.  The cat was not there.  After I walked out of the void deck, I saw the cat as shown below.  

Photograph of the stray cat

Dora loves to sleep in boxes too.  Unlike dogs, cats do not like to sleep with people.  I am not sure about other cats, but that applies to Dora.  Dogs can sleep with you on your bed for long hours, whereas cats will not even stay long on your bed.  

Photograph of Dora sleeping soundly in the Redmart Box

Close up photograph of Dora sleeping soundly in the Redmart Box

Dora just like to sleep in boxes so much.  Whenever there are any box lying around, she would go in to sleep.  If the boxes were put at a place long enough, she will chew and tear the boxes too.  

Photograph of Cat Castle with Dora lying inside

There is no need to buy expensive cat house for the cat.  I bought the cat castle when Dora was one year old.  She hardly sleep in it.  She would choose to sleep in boxes instead.  

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