for lunch she'd cook a simple yet delicious gulai udang with buncis. however, there'd be no prawns in the dish, just the buncis. eaten with hot brown rice and fried ikan kembung with a dash of the cooked sambal belacan.
and perhaps some crepes for tea.
kiko and koko had kangkung and sengkuang for brunch. and sunflower seeds for tea perhaps.
she reminisced years ago at rose avenue when the kids were small and ever hungry. she came home from the office and started making roti jala. the 5 kids would eat the piping hot yellow roti jala as soon as they were heaped on the plate from the stove.
by the time she finished cooking the plate was empty!
cooking roti jala on weekday evenings home from work was no big deal for her. tomato rice and ayam masak merah on thursdays was a norm. special dishes were not only for weekends.
and the girls lovingly 'blamed' her cooking when they don't look like anorexic supermodels....
cooking is actually not far from designing...... and her kids remember the carrot flowers in their soup, the lavishly decorated fish or chicken dishes on the dining table everyday, the huge chilly 'blossoms' turned into yummy sambal belacan the next day, the red cabbage in the mixed veggy, the little cucumber guppies, the spring onion luxuriant grass, the animal lookalike prawn fritters....
lots and lots of carrots, cabbage and other veggies hidden in the chicken or tuna loaves...
it takes just a little imagination to make meals beautiful for children....
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