Simple Christmas lunch

Simple lunch for staying in, this dizzly Christmas day.

With seafood tofu and fish ngoh hiang

Christmas pressies!

Oh, and a Christmas cracker as well which I opened in the office. I got a corkscrew wine bottle opener.

Chocolate crinkle from MK. And a you-dunno-what's-in-the-bag Lego figurine which turned out to be an outlaw. A pair of panda and monkey cuteseys and handcream from Crabtree and Evelyn.

Happy Christmas!

Our year-end gathering with WY's family. Each year the kids maul the logcake with plenty of Christmas decorations.

The cake this year is from Polar - blackforest.

The bread's yummy and is from Bread Talk.

Making sambal

Blend onion/garlic and chili, in separate batches. Use some chili padi for heat.

Stir fry onion/garlic in oil
Add in belachan
Then chili
Lastly tomato
Sugar to taste
(salt not needed since the belachan is salty)

The sambal can be used as a condiment to meals. Or for sambal kangkong, fry the veg till soft then add sambal to the wok to stir through.

Winter solstice

This is the first year the kids get to roll little balls out of the white and pink dough. Usually we would just cook those straight out of packs. The plain ones we rolled were a nice touch to the instant ones. The kids never did want to eat tang yuan but this year they did.

Cold drizzly Christmas season and cold ice cream cake

Breakfast Nasi goreng

Improvised, as we ran out of bread.

Nasi goreng, Indonesian style. Rice from the night before, fried in a paste of hot oil, chili padi and garlic. Seasoned with light soya sauce and dark sweet soya sauce.