There comes a time in everyone's life where you celebrate your birthday once a year. Well, today's was my dear mother's. She knew something was being planned for her, but she had no idea what was coming. Every attempt at trying to pry out information from me just resulted in a universal reply: "I don't know.*smile*"
My cousin, his mother(my aunt) and myself planned on cooking my mum a meal about 2 weeks ago, and we had to keep it a secret from her as much as possible. Calvin and I had to come up with dishes to cook, and I found it considerably harder to do it because I don't really have prior experience in cooking except for the occasional pasta or cup noodles. The first thing which popped into my head were the dishes which my mum used to cook quite often as well, so at least I had an example to work from.
So after a shopping spree for groceries with Calvin and his mum, we headed on back to start whipping up the dishes. Then Fredrick dropped by after school to help us out with the cooking as well, and it's been such a long time since the three of us cousins spent time together.
And when the birthday girl appeared, we started to plate up the dishes for the starving adults waiting at the dinner table.
Tomato-based salad - Ritz-Carlton recipe, a new and tasty dish, only a tad sour.
Lemon-grass chicken - Really good! Shouldn't have micro-waved though.
Chicken omelette wrap - Another of Ritz-Carlton's. Ingeniously delicious!
Ngoh Hiang(minced meat and water chestnut wrapped in dried flour skin) - Met Pam's high standard, only a pinch too much salt.
Curry-puff shape wantons - A lot of filling, skin too thick though.
Blueberry Cheesecake - Pam's creation. Delicious! Nothing else to comment.
So other than the cheesecake, all the other dishes were done by Calvin, Fred and myself, with the supervision of my aunt. Without her, we would have crashed and burned (the house) literally.
More cooking to come during the festive periods. =/
~moey out~