The House of Gs finally held its inaugural event today-Relatives Night @ Margate! (Daddy G's relatives, your Grandma, Grandpa, Gu-Gu, Gu Zhang, Cousins David & Jonathon and a whole host of Grand aunties and uncles, with their family!)
Its been almost a month since Daddy and Mummy G shifted to our wonderful haven @ Margate (your future home!;D) and Daddy G decided it was time to invite the relations over. So tonight was THE night to host them. Mummy G was looking forward to the event as it also signified the "grand opening" of her new, swanky, "Fire-engine" red kitchen!;)
When Mummy G gets passionate about something, she usually gets VERY passionate. Cooking, incidently, is Mummy G's next most passionate thing after Exercising.
(Okay okay, Daddy G and you, lil' Tyann come before the exercising! haha!) Cooking, to Mummy G, is pure therapy, It does wonders to the mind and soul. It stimulates creativity, yet nutures patience as each dish gets created from scratch.
Mummy G loses herself momentarily while immersed in this wonderful world of sights, smells and flavours. I get an almost insane satisfaction from experimenting, going wild and putting all sorts of ingredients together to transform into that marvellous masterpiece.
I am already imagining my plans to introduce you to this world too! Scenes when you are old enough to create little simple dishes, helping Mummy G out in our red kitchen, both of us having so much fun making little brownies and cookies. I imagine you running excitedly to Daddy G when he comes home from work to let him try your new creations, and imagine the exuberant look on your delighted faces.;)
Back to Relatives Night.. Daddy G always complains I cook too much food. ("Too much, too much cannot finish. So wasteful!" He always nags...Sigh) This time, he insisted that I, the Chief Cook/Chef of the House of Gs, send him the menu for approval! Fine, so be it! (That's what happens when you are not the Finance Minister..) So I went about planning the menu, organizing the shopping list and planning my cooking schedule.
With the approved menu and shopping list (hmph!!), Daddy G and Mummy G went shopping and Daddy G nagged again that Mummy G overspent on his budget.. (sigh what a naggy Daddy...can't wait for you to be out so you can share the nags with Mummy G...hahaha=p)
And the preparations began.
On Thursday night, Mummy G baked the Peanut Butter Brownies.
But on Friday Night (night before the event), this was what happened..:
Mummy G wanted to prepare and marinate the Roast Chickens and Roasted Herbed Vegetables the night before. So Mummy G excitedly appointed an apprentice to help me with the preparations-a very reluctant Daddy G. Look what Mummy G found him doing when he was supposed to be cutting the pumpkins...
Skiving comfortably in front of the TV...
FINALLY, the time has come for my turn to NAG!! Because all apprentices have to listen to their chef, isn't it? +D. And so my reluctant apprentice came back to the kitchen...
To work on the pumpkins and wreck his brains over the sweet potatoes...
Just as Mummy G's back was turned working on these excellent roasted garlics....
Daddy G let out a yelp. Startled I turned around to find him holding on to a bloody index finger! Daddy G had cut his index finger when I instructed him to cut the sweet potatoes!! Mummy G gave Daddy G some ice to stop the bleeding which was by now flowing like river and Daddy G sauntered off pale and disoriented to his little corner....in front of the TV...this time swaddled in blankets...Awwww.....
Daddy G suddenly felt faint from losing too much blood from his index finger and decided to take MC for the night.....So Mummy G was left without her apprentice and had to finish off the rest of the work (chopping, marinating, cleaning, wiping, clearing up...) all by her lonely self..
But it was all worth the effort as Relatives Night was a successful one. Here's a look at some of Mummy G's creations just now...
(Top) Cheesy Baby Potatoes baked with Bacon & Chives
(Bottom) Roasted Vegatables with Baby Spinach & Feta Cheese (roasted veggies all covered by the baby spinach in this angle!)
(Top) Swedish Meatballs
(Bottom) Roasted Garlic Chicken
Prawn & Avocado Salad with Mango on Arugula
How it looked like on the dining table...
It was a night of great food and get-together. Lil' Tyann's relations commented they enjoyed the food. Nothing can please a cook/chef more than seeing how her creations have been enjoyed by her guests!=))
Daddy G's nagging sore throat and cough seemed to have gotten worse after he got his finger cut on Friday night. He lost his voice after Relative's night. Mummy G made him a Lemon & Manuka Honey drink and he promptly went to bed after the drink.
Its now 3.26am in the morning. Mummy G is sitting in the Dining Room @ Margate talking to you while Daddy G is already in bed. I can hear Daddy G wheezing and coughing away every few minutes.
Out of nowhere, a weird sense of responsibility washes over me. It is probably the realisation that I will soon have two of you to care for.
A strange and foreign feeling...
Yet it seems to bubble with some sort of excitement that I can't quite make out of.
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