A Touch of Reminiscence

Since I had some free time on hands these few days, I wanted to prepare some home-cooked meals for my hubby. I was thinking of what I could cook and suddenly something came to my mind. 'Ngor Hiang', or meat rolls, is something that my late mum used to make whenever chinese festivals such as Chinese New Year is around the corner. Normally she would prepare the filling, and then leave me and my sister to do the wrapping while she continued to busy herself with the preparation of other dishes. As I sat down to wrap the rolls, it occured to me that so much has changed since and it has been such a long time I last made these. As for the taste, although I could not replicate exactly what my mum used to get, I am still quite pleased as I feel it's getting pretty close to that.

This herbal chicken is really easy to prepare, as I bought a packet of pre-mixed herbs. I just had to get a chicken and then steam it. Fuss free and sufficient for two meals.

Last but not least, I baked this pumpkin bread as well. Using the recipe for Sesame Sweet Bun Ring, I added in some mashed pumpkin. Although I adjusted the water and flour ratio accordingly, the pumpkin made the dough extremely soft and difficult to shape. In the end I could only use the tube pan to give it the flower shape, again. Really like this recipe dough, the bread comes out nice and soft, even after three days.