Then pineapple tarts, a month late. haha. I wanted to make them during CNY, so I asked my sister in law (Seach Hwee) for the recipe. She makes them every yr and they are very yummy. Then we went shopping for pineapples and they were simply too ex (cos it was still winter then). Now they are much cheaper although still cost US$3+. Those of you in the know will baulk cos Singapore pineapples can be bought at less than S$1.
I have a heart shaped cookie cutter so made them all as hearts. Somehow the kids like them better that way. :-)
My pastry looks pale, cos I didn't glaze them.. Next time must do so to make it look better and taste smoother.
There's a reason for the plate of tarts looking so different from each other. Initially I put the filling on as a circular blob, just like the round tarts we know. Then dh said we should just spread and cover the whole pastry with the filling. So i did. When he walked by a moment later, he commented that there was too little filling. He said since we were making our own, just pile it on man! :-) So you see some just smothered with pineapple that you can't even see the pastry.
I made some small hearts for ds2 who was just different from dh and ds1 who liked the filling. ds2 preferred the pastry.
I still had some pineapple left, and a church friend gave us some oranges. Then I had silken tofu in the fridge and thought, why not? Don't waste the leftover pineapple, and made a shake... It's a tofu milkshake with pineapple and orange and banana. The pineapple was just a small portion and it was very ripe, so it didn't taste sour at all but was actually very sweet! Thus the tofu was completely masked and I managed to get both kids to consume tofu by larger amounts than they would if they had eaten it solid. yay... :-)
ds2 drank 3 sips only and I finished the rest, but ds1 loved it so much he downed his with a slurrrp.
It was a large packet of silken tofu I bought from the Asian mart and so I made Tom Yam soup with the rest of it. This time it was Tom Yam fish soup.
Fish? Yes! Recall I was just complaining it was expensive? Somehow, prices are seasonal, it seems. Now that it is spring, the prices are dropping. I dunno why, can only postulate that since weather is better, more fish is easily transported from the coast into the mountains? :-) The cheapest we see now are tilapia and whiting... BUT we learnt a lesson.
We bought whiting fish fillet (they don't sell whole fish here, mainly fillet), and no matter what method I cooked it - stir fry, deep fry, soup, sweet and sour (pics above)... It doesn't taste good. The flesh is not firm. Yucks. Since it already is smelly and not firm, def cannot steam, it'd be worse. We'll just wait for the salmon and cod prices to go down further... Then we'll buy those. Dh says tilapia would be worse than whiting. He says it is the smelliest dirtiest fish around. haha. so we didn't even try buying it.
