: : Family Dinner : :
This was the pictures taking during the Saturday family dinner. Was so sweet of Sina’ and Dad to arranged a get-together for my homecoming. 🙂 Everyone pitched in a dish, including 2 desserts! Yum!
According to Dad, it was a toss-up between a barbeque-cum-pot-luck or laksa nite. Easier to clean up after a barbeque compared to a laksa nite and less preparation as well.
Look through the pictures and realised I did not take a picture of Dad’s awesome chicken wings! Oh well. He made it using a marinade made from a barbeque sauce which he got from the supermarket. Can’t remember the name but it was definitely very nice. Still, I do miss his homemade marinade made from light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar and chopped garlic.
Dad barbequed a pomfret and belly pork. The belly pork was marinated the same way as the chicken wings. As for the fish, he just rubbed some salt and pepper on fish.
Sina’ stir fried some spinach and baby corn just to little Tidan. That little boy really loves green vegetables and he’s only 3 years old! His guy cousins thinks ‘He’s weird’.
Auntie Maria made this dish called kacang ma. It’s made from grounded kacangma herbs with pounded ginger and the FooChow red wine. A common dish that is eaten by women after giving birth. They eat it by the gallons. Alcohol does help to ease the aftermath of labour.
Sina’ also roasted some pumpkin strips in the oven on a slow fire. Unfortunately, I distracted her so much with my chatter that we forgot to check on the pumpkin!! Oh oh! Well, luckily only one side was burnt. The pumpkin was roasted on aluminium foil in the oven. The bottom half of the dish shows the cut bellypork.
Gwen, Tidan’s Mum, made brownies with a cheese layer on top. Got it from a recipe in Women’s Weekly. It was simply delicious and the cheese layer wasn’t too strong a flavour. The brownies weren’t too sweet either.
This is a very easy cheesecake to do without having to bake it. The cheese layer is made from low-fat cream cheese from Nestle, Philadephia cheese and unsalted butter. After each layer, Auntie Maria added Marie and digestive biscuits. Then she chilled it in the fridge until it hardens. Very easy to do, that’s for sure. She told me the recipe but I can’t quite remember how it goes. Must remember to write it down the next time.
Sina’ and Dad also made some punch for everyone. It’s just Sunquick’s orange cordial with Ice-Cream flavoured soda and Sprite with slices of lemon. Tidan likes this a lot but he was so excited that he threw up his dinner. Poor thing.
A picture of Tidan playing with the slinky that I got for him. Not the original Slinky but a plastic cheapo one from the toy store. Couldn’t stop playing with it. Hopefully it’ll last for a few more years after this.
Tomorrow : Dimsum (again!) at Grand Palace Hotel! Although, not so many pictures this time. Felt a bit too self-conscious taking pictures while eating with Auntie Mimi. Hmm…