16 May the man's birthday

Happy Birthday to the man of the house with a simple homemade cake.
Need improvement on the frosting but everything was last minute work bake from 3pm today :)

Dishes and meals prepared in 1st half month of May 2015

Even since I stop working, I start to prepare and cook at home. From simple dishes to complicated one. Even though I don't prepare complicated dishes, I would sometime love to try. 

I am worry about wasting ingredients and money since I am not working anymore, so I will only cook dishes when I have the confident to, for example, after seeing someone prepared.

Fried potato slices is the dish I prepared most of the time. It's very easy 1 pot dish. You can prepare it as "stir-fried" or prepare it with more soup (more gravy) to drizzle onto your bowl of warm rice. 

As for the teacake, my favourite bake is 100g flour teacake, any flavour. The mass of flour would always be constant (100g). For butter, I always use 50g and 1 whole egg. I will adjust the mass of sugar and wet ingredients such as milk, coconut cream or water.

Stir fried sambal eggplant

Stir fried potato slices

Fishball seaweed soup

Chicken Cordyceps militaris Soup

Salmon skin porridge (Air fried with teriyaki sauce)

Salmon skin porridge

Eight treasures bean soup

Sichuan preserved veg soup

Durian flavour teacake

Baked mushroom cream macoroni cheese

Sardine in tomato sauce

Sambal ladyfingers

Fried eggs with ladyfingers

Fish ball - mushroom soup

Luohan-guo Longan Chrysanthemum Tea

Steam egg with Japanese fishcake

Steam Japanese sweet potatoes

Steam both together

Steam minced pork (beggar's bowl)

Steam together with rice

Children's lunch

Air fried frozen curry puff

Lotus root pork ribs soup

Nature in May 2015

Lion cub in the sky

Warm sometimes, rain sometimes and cold sometimes.

It was always in the morning that the weather was very warm and humid. When noon came, the clouds no longer able to hold the heavy water droplets that it would begin to rain. 

Clouds formation are sometime interesting. Today I saw a "lion cub".

Lucerene moon at 4.05am on 14 May 2015

Dark clouds over Bt PJ estate

Rain flow down the window of the bus I rode on