Boycott calls and dinner

My mother's birthday was on Monday, so I decided to surprise her by cooking dinner for the day. I'm not much of a cook really..and I've never been able to identify if a dish had enough salt...so really, placing me in the kitchen is disastrous at best...but hey, I like the idea of people eating the things I've cooked, so I looked up a few recipes and decided on almond fish fillets, pasta and a salad, with wine to set it off nicely. I would say it went pretty well and I am already considering doing a whole dinner menu again. The only sad thing is that I dont have a food warmer..so what has been cooked earlier goes cold.


This is what the lemon/egg/pepper/garlic mixture looks like. It smells zesty but its not very nice to eat in this state.


My fish fillets!


This is what the fillets look like once you've dipped it in flour, then dipped it into the lemon/egg/pepper mixture, finally rolling it ground almonds. There's also a good grating of mozzarella cheese on this. =) Butter fried fillets. Butter burns quickly though.


My meatball mix. This one is my mother's recipe...One of the first things she taught me how to cook when I first moved to Singapore.


Meatballs frying in the oil...


Corned beef pasta with beef meatballs and almond fish fillets. YUM.


Salad. This one, my dad made. I'm no good at tossing and saucing the damn thing. Dont really care much for it either!


The birthday girl sipping on her wine. It was a good bottle. I dont like wine but this one tasted alright.


Setting the table for dinner.

Dinner went really well! The next time I attempt to dominate the kitchen, I'm making Shirley Temples and a proper dessert. This was fun! Other than forgetting to put some salt in the meatballs (which the pasta sauce took care of), everything else was peachy.

Dinner for five. Check!

Now to look for more recipes to cook. One more thing to put on my list of New Year's resolutions. LEARN HOW TO COOK PROPER MEALS!



This picture cracks me up. On the bus to JB town from home, I saw this poster stuck on the glass piece behind the bus driver's seat. If you cant see the words, it says BERHENTI MENYOKONG PEMBUNUH KANAK KANAK. BOIKOT BARANGAN ISRAEL DAN SEKUTUNYA.

On the list are brands that people use on a daily basis or that people actually love. Guess, CK, Kit Kat, Nestle, Ambi Pur etc etc.. You get the drift.

It made me laugh. I had to struggle to keep from laughing out loud. So I focused on taking blurry pictures of the moving scenery. I realise death and violence is nothing to laugh at...but the very thought of the Malaysian public boycotting things like Nestle and the Gap and brands like that makes me want to laugh my pants off.

A materialistic, money-minded, consumerism-driven society boycotting brands that have become synonymous with daily living?

What a farcical thought.