Privileged to eat

You’re not going to believe how lucky I am to have Taiwanese grandparents staying at my house and a mum who’s on holiday (at home)!

I get home and nearly get bowls of food slingshot at me from a distance as soon as I open the door. Braised pork, home-salted vegies, fresh yellow nectarines, bananas that are just unripe (the way I like it!), stirfry greens, tofu, fried rice combinatins of all sorts, basil and egg…. Can you imagine the aromas and colors I see every time I open the front door? Sheer delight!

Even as I am walking back from the bus stop at 7.30pm, I am reminded of dinner as the smell of food is thick in the neighbourhood–the best part is knowing that I’m going home to a good, hearty meal.

These meals below have been prepared by my loving mother/grandma who are both fantastic chefs.

Baby bamboo shoots, pickled vegies w. pork

Fried egg w. spring onion and basil & steamed garlic silverbeet on rice

Fried rice w. garden basil and egg & home-salted vegetables w. pork stirfry

Fresh corriander & spring onion, home grown, perfect garnishing for delicious Asian dinners

 

Wholegrain fried rice w. chicken, peas, corriander, spring onion, ham, egg and soyabeans

Mien pien (literally “noodle pieces”) w. mince pork, mushroom, carrot, celery and lettuce

Spicy-pepper sugar pork & tofu w. corriander and spring onion

Indian potato chips w. curry leaf, black mustard seed & onion

Thumbnail 1: how it starts
Thubmail 2: how it’s not supposed to end!

Braised pork w. tofu, chinese white radish & bean sprouts and chinese chives on rice

Stirfry garlic chilli prawns w. cucumber, spring onion & stirfry beef w. corriander on rice