W.O.A

Another Weekends Of Abundance. (Food and Family time)

Saturday, 22 Sep
The menu for lunch was spaghetti and dessert was barley with ginko nut soup. In the morning after a nice breakfast of muffins and cheese tarts, i started preparing lunch.

I enjoyed cooking spaghetti because it is easy. I bought a small packet of fresh button mushroom from a mushroom sale in the company last thursday, so i used them. Ingredients are simple - minced beef, button mushroom, big onions, Prego's traditional spaghetti sauce - makes a simple and nice meal of spaghetti for the family. Of course, there was a side dish of cheese sausages.



Both Anthea and Anders enjoyed it and Anthea even had a 2nd helping.

My mom helped me to prepared the ginko nuts, so it was a step easier for me.The dessert that i prepared was ginko nut with barley (白果腐竹), it was supposed to be good for the lungs and clear heatiness. The weather on Saturday was really hot and the soup came in handy, especially after refrigerated.



Anders enjoyed the soup and had few servings.. : )

In the evening, we went to Costa Sands Pasir Ris for Daddy's company BBQ session. This is the 1st time that Anthea and Anders been to this chalet. They had a whole lot of fun - swimming, BBQ, eating the food, playing around with other children. We left the chalet around 10pm and Anthea was still asking us "why are we going back so early?" She said next time we must organised BBQ, she enjoyed it.



We slept almost near to midnight. An enjoyable family day.

Sunday, 23 Sep
After my routine housework, i told Adrian that i needed to go Harvey Norman to redeem my Lucky Draw vouchers. So we made our way to Millenia Tower for the redemption and also lunch.

We had a simple lunch at the Millenium Food court, the place was quite empty for a Sunday afternoon. Afte that we shopped around in Carrefour and bought some groceries. As usual, Anders had a great time at the Toys section.

We went home for his power nap before meeting the family for dinner. Dinner was at Asia Grand Restaurant at Odeon Towers. Menu were sumptous - Peking Duck (promotion price of $28) , Drunked Prawns, Sweet & sour garoupa, Green vegetable, seafood with melon soup. The food was tasty and both the children enjoyed the "koro-pok" most from the peking duck..hehe.

After dinner, we adjourned to Raffles City for a walk and dessert at Gloria Jean cafe. Just a few shop away is the ever famous Donut Factory, so i took a walk there to take a look at the Q.

I think Lady Luck is on my side, there was NO SNAKE Q...just a handful of people buying. So how can i miss this golden opportunity of 10 minutes Q-ing compared to the norm of 1 - 2 hours.


So needless to say, i bought a box of 12, a good mixtures of different flavors. We ate 2 at the cafe - apple crumbles and double chocolate. Hmm...i must admit - they are delicious. No wonder people Q for them... : P

Shared some with the extended families.

Now i have 6 donuts in the fridge, waiting for us to sample them..yummy!!

Sweet, sweet Sunday.