Festive Saturday

After a spell of warm weather, Friday weather took a dive. It was very cold. It brought shower on Saturday.

Since the weather was cold and wet to do any work out in the garden, it was time to catch up some work indoor. After checking the “to do list” and find that I can procrastinate on some of the chore, I decided to do the next best thing. I want to bake muffins for desert after tonight’s dinner.

It has been on my agenda for some time but never got around to it. Bananas are still too expensive and that’s what putting me off. So the next best thing is to work on is what you have in hand. At the back of the garden, there is a Mulberry Tree. It has full of fruits, the birds loved them. I lve them and normally eat it with my ice cream. This is a good opportunity to make Mulberry Muffins. I will post more of it in the next post.

Almost everyday weekend, Maureen prepares the dinner for our regular guests and families. But this Saturday, I volunteered to cook the dinner. It will nice for a change to let Maureen take a break, not because I "Fatt How". OK!

So what is on the menu?

I love duck and I decided to do a Stew Duck. No, it is not Teow Chew Duck. Again, I will post this up in another post with the recipe. I forgot to take picture of the Stew Duck because I was multitasking between the Muffins and the duck. The next dish was a fish fillets stirred fried with onions, curry leaves, limau perut, lemon grass, chillies and garlic. It is a simple dish and if you want the recipe, let me know otherwise it will not be posted. Like any good dinner, there must be greens. Two vegetables were serve; Stirred Fried Kai Lan with ginger and rice wine, fresh mushroom with brinjal and garlic.

My fellow diners came with goodies. They were in the holiday mood like our friends in Malaysia. They wanted to celebrate Hari Raya and Deepavali. They came with chocolates from Hong Kong’s Inter Continental Hotel, Sweet wine from Vancouver, Red wine from New South Wales; home baked almond cake and Mango Yogurt Ice Cream. There was so much food for 10 of us. All the vino and rice wine in the duck and Kai Lan kept us warm. We have so much fun talking of the good old days in Malaysia, the racial harmony, the many cultures and the food, oh, yeah the food. We were laughing our head off with some good Malaysian jokes and intermingle with some concerns on how and where the country future is heading towards.

It was a fantastic night.

A Happy Hari Raya and Deepavali to all my Malaysian’s friends. Blurp!