I wasn’t an easy teenager to bring up in the past. I used to really dislike it when my parents cook certain dishes at home for us to eat. Teochew fish porridge was one of those dishes in the list. I have always thought it boring and tasteless. But of course, I didn’t tell my father that.
The amazing thing about baby food is that adults can eat them too. In fact, they can actually taste really nice and interesting, not to mention they are usually very healthy too.
It was December last year that I first visited the ‘Andong Jjimdak’ restaurant at the Raffles City place to eat this supposedly famous dish from Korea. My first thought when I saw the dish approaching was that the serving looked huge. It immediately reminded me of the Korean drama ‘Let’s Eat!‘ which featured the characters gobbling up similar such dishes (first episode). Apparently, the Koreans love eating from huge plates of meat and vegetable dishes as well as large bowls of soup and the like. Such communal practices are not dissimilar to our Chinese culture (think steamboat and yusheng).
I am getting head over heels with avocado. The craze of buying avocados started at the beginning of this year and it has not stopped since then. All these recipes using avocados have been populating my blog – ‘Four-Ingredients Avocado Popsicles‘ and ‘Rich & Creamy Avocado Smoothie‘. And now, an avocado sauce for my spaghetti.
Seeing canned pork legs never fails to remind me of the day when I got married. My parents received many cans of Narcissus brand pork leg as betrothal gifts from my in-laws, together with gifts of money and such. At that time, I remember thinking to myself that I’ve never seen more cans of pork leg in my life, except perhaps at the local supermarkets. What a way to valuate their daughter – using cans of pork leg!
