From us to you.

May the Dragon year bring you all that your heart desires.  ROAR!

With love from miss ene, the boy and Moon.

Making pineapple tarts. Kind of.

My FIL makes pineapple tarts every Chinese New Year and he does it all using a tiny oven, baking one small tray at a time. Talk about patience! The boy and I were over at his parents’ the other night and he was single-handedly making the tarts so I decided to be a dutiful DIL and help out with cutting of the pastry. It looks seemingly easy but it took me a while to get the hang of it.

Do pardon my less-than-stellar mop of hair. I was really proud of myself having filled up the entire tray with pineapple tart pastry. And as you can see from the picture on the bottom left, Miss Moon was more than eager to help eat up any bits of uncooked pastry that fell to the ground. Pfffft.

Before the Dragon year arrived…

…we did our fair share of spring cleaning and then headed to the beach for a bit of sun.

Unfortunately, the thunder clouds soon rolled in and thankfully, we left the beach before the rain came down in sheets. We were also glad that we didn’t bother washing the car because all the effort would have been wasted. Tee hee hee.

Bak kwa temptation

No, she did not get any bak kwa.

The answer is still no.

 

miss ene makes fried bee hoon

I finally attempted to make fried bee hoon for lunch on Saturday afternoon. I did not follow a recipe (so brave, yo!) but followed the verbal instructions of a colleague who shared with me how she makes it. I dumped the entire packet of bee hoon into the the frying pan which was a mistake because it was really tiring on the arms trying to toss the noodles. Phew.

The verdict? It was edible and didn’t taste too bad. Yeay! I definitely have new found respect in making this seemingly simple dish.