乐乐的家家酒。。。

 I am a self confessed noob when it comes to housework, cooking or any womanly household duties as far as I am concern. Even with these in mind, Mr Love made a bold decision to marry me haha. Wonder where his courage comes from and there, we started our stay in couple life 5yrs + ago.

Fast forward to today, our house has been renovated and we took back our kitchen(whole unit was rented out previously except for 1 room).

DOM stew chicken

By this time, SG had become too crowded for our liking to go out to eat or do anything for that matter. A dinner at 7pm can make you queue an hr for a seat, another 30mins for the food to arrive. C.R.A.Z.Y. Not to mentioned the costs of eating out and of cuz the nurtrition value.

Fried Udon

 So, we decided to self cook during wkends as there is more time on hand. For a starters, Mr Love is the 1 who does all the cooking and washing. Hehe partly due to fact that I was pregnant and during my post mis-carriage period where he need to nurse me back to health.

My fav veggie-豆苗

 Then 1 fine day, he decided that he is too lazy to cook and clean up and we revert back to eating out even during wkend. Further more, he always need to attend his IPPT/IPT/RT during sat evening and makes him even more tired to cook anyting after that.

Steam cod fish with dark soy sauce & sesame oil

 So, I decided that I should take over the cooking duties though not the washing part. Hehe.. And from there, I tired my hands at cooking for the very 1st time in my life. It was no easy feat given that I dun even now how much oil, seasoning to add. It was a nightmare.

On top of it, I was worried that Mr Love would not like my liking or my love for chinese food.

Fish maw soup

 Luckily for me, though the presentation of food looks awful, the taste is still acceptable at  least to him. Everytime that I cooked, he would polish off every thing. Even it is to make me happie, I felt appreciated.

God noes how much time I spent in the kitchen making the preparations. An typical day would requires me start preparing at 3pm when I served the dinner onli at 6pm.

麻油鸡

 Usually I would prefer to come up with at least a soup and 2 dishes and most of the time, it would be 3dishes and 1 soup. Its actually too much for 2 pax and thus, I would asked mummy to come join us for dinner. She, on the other hand would always pin point my mistake and criticise my cooking. But when I invite her the next wk, she would happily come again. Haha

苋菜

 Anyways, we are now pretty fixed to a routine. Sat would be a western cuisine nite where preparation time is usually shorter and cooking is relatively easier cuz I need wait for Mr Love to finish his running at 7pm. By the time he takes a shower and settle in, it would be 8 b4 we can start our dinner.

Five spices prawns

Steam chicken with black fungus

 On Sun, we would do some shopping after brunch and I would head hm to prepare for dinner. Usually, I would prepare the side ingredients like like ginger, garlic, cutting them to the desirable sizes. And to clean up the chicken/fish or devein the prawns. This will take up quite alot of my time.

Not to mention, sometimes you need to marinate for a few hrs before cooking so as to allow the meat to absorb the taste.

Steam herbal chicken

Chicken wrap

 I have also tried to wash up watever utensils I used during the preparation, leaving Mr Love to wash up the plates onli after dinner. This is also not to turn him off eating home cook food as no 1 likes washing up after dinner rite?

Pepper salted prawns

Steam promfet

 With the purchase of air fryer, cooking became more easy too. Hehe For pan fried stuff, I would usually throw into the air fryer and thus will not make a mess out of my kitchen so as to avoid major wipping/cleaning after cooking. Most of the time, I would also prefer steaming to frying.

Korean fried rice cake

Home made 五香

Homemade 腐皮卷 & cheesy mushrooms

Grilled salmon

Chicken chop with pasta & fries

Granted that my standard is not up to standard, haha but it does feel good to be able to cook for your love ones. It is now then I really start to enjoy cooking for them (hubs & mummy) as versus earlier years of my marriage where I find cooking a chore and hates it very much.

I guess as we aged, thinkings do realli change :)