There are some things I make only during special occasions. Some I make only when there is a special request by someone, especially when you only get to see that certain someone once in a while,say every six months or so.
A few weekends ago I was literally left alone to my own resources at home. My missus had gone to Tanjung Malim with her sisters, nieces and nephews to attend her brother's wedding reception. And on the day that she was supposed to come home, I got a call from her asking me to cook something.
As I have mentioned in my earlier entries, I have been inundated with courses for the past eight weeks or so, so much so that the food I ate at all the venues have caught up with me in more ways than one. Firstly, there is my increase waistline and secondly, there is that slight distaste for any dish that resembles hotel food. In short, I miss simple, home prepared food.
My wife had made a batch of currypuffs the other day and she purposely made the filling more than the pastry because one of our family members really love to snack on the curry filling. However, she made the filling a little bit too much because that family member of ours decided she had had too much of the filling to snack on.
It has always been a bad habit of mine to buy things that I don't want to use immediately. I always buy things, foodstuffs especially, at the spur of a moment, thinking that I may not be able to buy the things especially when the things I buy I not readily available.
During the second half of this year I was fortunate enough to have been asked to attend three phases of courses which enabled me to get to know a couple of interesting people from the different states in Malaysia, including some very interesting individuals from Sarawak.
I always find excuses to try out new recipes, and the arrival of a guest to our home is one of those excuses. Actually I had been helping my wife prepare all the dishes for lunch and the only thing left was dessert, so I guess it was my duty to prepare it.