Even before the CMCO was announced on Monday afternoon, I had already kept Sherilyn at home for a week as she was feeling a tad under the weather. She had been having very late nights lately to complete projects and her health has taken a hit from the lack of sleep. Over the past few weeks, there were a few Covid positive cases in three condos in our residential area. One of Sherilyn's teachers and classmates stay in one of the condos, though not from the same block as the Case. A couple of days before the CMCO was announced, almost everyone from her class skipped school. I also didn't allow Cass to go to school a few days before the CMCO was announced. She wasn't very happy as she doesn't like to stay home all day without having anything to do.
Since she's got so much free time at home, Sherilyn made Tempura prawns, pumpkin, mushrooms and lady's fingers. Tempura is something that she's always wanted to try making and what better time than now? Home quarantine is the best time to try out new recipes!
Mixed Tempura of prawns, pumpkin, mushrooms and lady's fingers, using a packet of sample Thai Tempura flour she found in the kitchen cabinet. Hubs got the sample Tempura flour from a supplier and the flour has been sitting inside the cabinet for a long time already.
On Monday, Sherilyn's second tooth was extracted for braces. A few days before the scheduled tooth extraction, she had already planned what to cook for her post-extraction meals. She prepped Dashi and some other stock for her Soba, Japanese simmered pumpkin and savory oats.
A day after the tooth extraction, Sherilyn ran a temperature. But she was still well enough to whip up a very yummy buttery and garlicky oats porridge. Thank God the temp subsided after just a day.
The savory oats porridge was so good that I preferred her oats more than the Dah Makan food delivered to us 😆
Ingredients:
Instant organic steel-cut oat groats (pre-steamed, thus the oats soften easily)
Butter
Milk
Dashi stock
Minced garlic
Toppings:
Poached egg
Avocado
Simmered pumpkin (Kabocha No Nimono)
Scallions from our garden
Before her dental appointment, she quickly prepped a batch of chewy pumpkin cubes for future use in her dessert bowls. When she came back from the dental clinic, she continued rolling the cubes until almost midnight while watching a movie from her phone 😐
Such is the life of a middle high school student during lockdown!
Our 15-year old sure has a lot of potential and caliber in the culinary and creativity department but ironically, cooking and baking are only her hobby (as she's a foodie like her dad!) and she has told me many times that she will never pursue a course in F&B in future. Her dream is to get a scholarship and study in her dream university in Canada! And my reply to her is "chase your dream and make it come true" 🙏
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