Cooking with Love

My mother cooked spaghetti today for her grandchildren. She cooked the sauce from scratch, using fresh tomatoes as she feels that it is healthier for the girls. That is cooking with love. :)

Marieann's Spaghetti

Marieann's class visited Health Promotion Board's Health Zone last week and their teacher gave them an assignment to complete this weekend. The students had to prepare a healthy lunch with their parent(s).

Marieann decided that she wanted to cook spaghetti for lunch today. We bought the ingredients last night - fresh mushroom, corn, minced pork, tomato sauce and spaghetti. We started preparing lunch at 12pm. Under my strict supervision, Marieann sliced the mushrooms, put the spaghetti into boiling water, stirred fried the minced pork together with the sliced mushroom and corn before simmering the mixture in tomato sauce. The cooking process was captured through photos which Marieann had to submit as part of her assignment, together with her reflection of her lunch preparation experience.





Marieann totally enjoyed cooking her own spaghetti lunch. I kept my involvement to a minimal so to let Marieann experience the cooking. Juliane was pretty vexed that she wasn't involved in the cooking. I told her she could cook when she is older lol. :P Marieann totally enjoyed eating her spaghetti too. She had a 2nd helping! Haha.

Rainy Day

When I woke up this morning, it was a gloomy day. If I laze at home, I would surely sleep and then tonight I won't be able to sleep again. Lol.

When I took Juliane out in the late morning, the sky was overcast but the sun sometimes peeked out from behind the clouds. We went to Centrepoint for a walk-walk. I was really good, didn't shop at all. We were there more to see what to have for lunch. Hahaha. Juliane decided for the both of us when she wanted spaghetti. Too lazy to walk far, we went to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on the ground floor of Centrepoint. Lol. As I had a late breakfast, I ordered a Tomato & Herb Linguine for Juliane and a Tropical Passion Tea for myself.

Juliane went first for the cheesy bread that came with the linguine. I stole a bite of her linguine and found it a little spicy. Maybe I happened to take that bite with a lot of pepper in it. But we realised the linguine was too spicy for Juliane. Juliane couldn't take it so no choice, I had to finish it. I was so full. :P



We took a taxi home as it was raining. When we got home, I continued with my reading of The Relic. So far, the book is a little different from the movie but better than the movie. SA was right, the movie didn't do the book justice.

PS. By the way, I did fall asleep in the afternoon. The weather was just too nice, wasted if not slept in. Hahaha. Yar, excuses, excuses. :P