.. the invasion of Mama Panda :)

Nothing beats home cooked food, your Mum's cooking that is ...

This morning I saw my childhood flash right before my eyes. Not that I was halusinating or in a life-threatening situation (like those in Hollywood flicks) but I just spent my entire morning looking at all my childhood favorite dishes, Gule, Rendang, Garang Asem Ayam, Garang Asem Iga, Gudeg (complete with chicken, koyor and krecek), Rendang, Tempe Bacem, Martabak Manis Jagalan and the list goes on and on and on ...

My Mum is in town. Despite numorous attempts by her daughter in-law to "tone-down" her enthusiasm to cook for her starving and underfeed boy, she still managed to prepare tons of home cooked (enough to feed small army), and packed it along with her to Singapore :). And so, with the "if-looks-could-kills" eyes of Princess Panda behind my back, I spent the whole morning unpacking, reheating and repacking all the dishes (two big boxes of them). To make things a little bit more complicated, we found out that we don't have enough pan and bowl to store/reheat all the food at one go :)!

My Mum loves to cook, which can be easily seen in how healthy my brother and I are :). Unfortunately, or actually fortunately for me, most of her dishes involve meat! Raise from not-so-meaty family, Princess Panda really struggle to eat meat and meat and more of them :)!

My Mum also have a very short term memory problem, especially related to my diet. In between her constant nagging of me to slim down and Princess Panda to watch over my diet, she continuously ask us to eat more of her food, which cannot really catagorized as healthy food :)! Luckily for us we have our tetangga and this poor buruh kantor that drop by yesterday to help us savour portion of the Gule, Rendang and Martabak Manis :). So watch out guys, in desperate measure I may call out to you again!

Oh well, at least we don't have to think of what to cook for the next 3-4 months!