Hide and Seek with the multi-coloured strip

The bane of my gynae visits:

I'm due for my gynae checkup this evening at 7.10pm. On my check up days, I remind myself not to eat at least 3 to 4 hours before the dreaded routine urine test. In my first trimester, I couldn't allow myself to go hungry, so there was always sugar present when I did the test. On seeing this, my gynae wanted me to go for the glucose test on my 20th week, but by then, I had learnt to avoid eating before the test. I would arrive early to register, rush to get the routine test done, then ta bao sandwiches or a burger to wolf down while waiting for my name to be called. My tests have been clear of any sugar traces so far, so that's a good sign, at least I think it is.

I've always believed the tests to be inaccurate because apart from eating prior to the test, my regular diet does not include sweet drinks or sweets or desserts on a daily or sometimes even weekly basis. I could have had fruit or a few biscuits before the test (because I was that hungry!) and sure enough, sugar would show up on the multi-coloured strip. Or I could be self-deluded and not want to face the possibility that I could develop gestational diabetes, whether or not my diet encourages it.

For now at least, I'll still be playing hide and seek with the multi-coloured strip!

I cooked. Again!

Fishball kwayteow soup this time.

I have no idea how much time I took to cook this, only that it took less than an hour. It involved chopping, frying, defrosting stock and then combining the fried ingredients with the non-fried ones. So while it looks ok, and tastes quite good, I'm still no where near ready to cook this for the family (thankfully the children aren't eating table food yet, that gives me some time to practice still). But it sure was fun!

Clearing out the fridge

Today I made Latkes for lunch. Reason being I had potatoes and eggs in the house that needed to be consumed. I forgot to take a picture of mine, because by the time I was done with the cooking, I was famished. They weren't too bad, and by this I mean that they weren't burnt or undercooked. They looked something like this:

The thing is, I never knew what Latkes were until today - Potato cakes of Jewish origin. I initially wanted to make Rosti, but after I had shredded the potatoes, I realised (from Google) that I should have boiled the potatoes before shredding them. So I searched Youtube and stumbled upon this dish, which suited my still very wet, shredded potatoes. I was initially going to dump the wet potatoes into the pan to fry, but something warned me against it. It was then that I started googling for a recipe for Rosti.

You know, I've never revealed the extent of my lousy cooking to anyone until now. I suspect Vader doesn't even know I could never even fry an egg properly until a few weeks ago, much less cook anything else edible for the family. I've always stayed away from anything that had to do with frying because I've always always failed. The food would either be too oily or burnt, because I could never tell when to put in the ingredients to be fried. Only very recently, I've ventured into fried food, because if the food is inedible, I could just toss it. No one is relying on my cooking at the moment to survive. Vader makes baby Vader's food, thankfully.

So, still baby steps for me. Hopefully one of these days, I can cook something which Vader and the children will truly enjoy!

Thai Express

Here's us at Thai Express, Christine was back in SG for the CNY break. Mandy is also expecting, just a week ahead of me :) what excellent timing!