Thoughts: Adoration

Every parent out there adores their kid irregardless of how they look or how they are. Every imperfections of a baby or a kid that's visible to another parent or human being is every perfection to the parent of the baby or kid simply because we're overwhelmed by love, thus those imperfections are blinded by the love we feel. They become simply perfect in our eyes. This love can only be understood when you are right there at the spot, when one has stepped into parenthood. It's an amazing feeling. So speaking of adoring your own kids, I'm no different than others. I am one of those mom who adores the hell out of my kids. I know they're not the worlds cutest baby but they're adorable as hell in their very own way in my world and I love waking up to see these innocent smiling faces. 

Baby Cadence in blue ensemble

Spiky hair like her dad

One early morning

The kid eating his dinner like a boss. There's something about fries that kids love. He finished his fries but NONE of his fish. Cadence sucked on the broccoli and loves it. You can see how she's trying to reach for her brother's fries.

Recipes: Dry Loh Shee Fun

OD-ed on outside food that I decided I had to cook lunch last weekend. Couldn't bear to go through another 'What to eat?' weekend so I figured I'll make something simple and since my hubs isn't a big fan of yellow egg noodle, I had to forgo making fried noodle and opt for loh shee fun or otherwise known as rat tail's noodle. Sounds disgusting I know and no, it's not made from rat's tail. It's just the look of this noodle kinda resemble rat's tail thus the name. Loh Shee means rat in cantonese while fun means starch? Well wiki has a better explanation, so here's the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_needle_noodles. Recipes are all based on estimation, as usual.

Kon Lou Loh Shee Fun

Ingredients:

• 1 packet of loh shee fun or rat tail's noodle
• 200 - 300 grams of minced pork
• A packet of porkball 
• 10-15 small shallots (sliced thinly)
• 6 pips of garlic (minced)
• 1 bundle of baby Kai Lan (optional)
• 1 packet of Kuey Tiau (Flat Rice Noodles)
• 1-2 stalk Spring Onion
• Chillies
• Oyster sauce
• Light soy sauce
• Dark soy sauce
• Pepper
• Sugar
• Water

Method:
1. Boil water and add in the pork balls to cook it. Or if you have clear chicken broth or is making soup, you can cook the pork balls in the soup. Once cooked, remove the pork balls. 

2. Marinade the minced pork with oyster sauce, light soy sauce, pepper and sugar. In a pan, heat oil, stir fry a generous amount of sliced shallots and minced garlic. Before it starts to brown, put in the minced pork and stir fry till cooked. Taste along, add oyster sauce, light soy sauce and sugar if more is needed. Put in the pork balls for a quick cook, so to coat the pork balls with flavors. 

2. Fry the shallots till golden brown. Remove and put in aside. 

3. Boil water to cook the noodle for 5 mins long. Drain once cooked and set aside. 

4. If you are opting for some vegetables like I did for a balance diet, boil the vegetables of your choice. To make the sauce, in a pan, heat some oil, stir fry minced garlic and sliced shallots till before brown, add in oyster sauce and light soy sauce and mixed immediately and turn off fire. Pour over vegetables. 

5. To make the sauce, dark soy sauce, water, sugar and light soy sauce mix and heat for few mins in a pan or pot just to thoroughly mix it. 

6. Sliced spring onions and cut chillies. Serve.

7. Assemble. First take noodle. Add a bit of black sauce, put the minced pork on top followed a generous amount of fried shallots (thats the secret ingredient!), spring onions followed by pork balls.