WHEN ANA CAME A VISITING

Some sweet memories here....

Till we meet again

Hope you have enjoyed the simple spread, Ana

Hubby with Mama Karim

Deco items I used for the table setting. Ice-yogo in the background.

Mum, the matriach in my home

The way to a man's heart is thru his gullet

My late father looks like Mama Karim

Ana forgot all aboout her calories intake and klj that night

The dishes to salivate and make you drool Haslina and Nina

The Tomato Rice in the right foreground

One keepsake for the album

All waiting for dinner to be served

The setting before the dishes was brought out - black for elegance

DINE WITH ANA

When Cousin Ana who has been residing in the States for the past 18 years dropped by with my Uncle Mama Karim, I thought I would serve them a meal they would never forget for a long, long time.

I had fixed a dinner appointment with Ana earlier on after having failed to meet her up downtown due to her tied engagements with lots of friends and relatives like Alban and Kumar. Since it was dinner which I had invited them over, I planned to serve my guests tomato rice with ayam masak merah, my special fried prawn with chilly padi recipe, acar timun, nenas pachri and salad with sambal kacang.

Hot boiled home made lemon tea was served to my guests. Concoted my own dessert of ice-yogo to end the meal! It was basically ice-cream with yoghurt and sliced banana sprinkled with milo powder and crushed Oreo biscuits. You gotta try this.....out of this world experience when you need the sugar fix into your system for that quick adrenaline rush.

Ana and her dad gave the meal a thumbs up and the Yishun ambience a 5-star rating. Everything on the tbale was polished clean it was so good to see Ana and Mama Karim relishing every mouthful of their Basmathi Tomato Rice with the condiments and side dishes which accompanied the main meal. The ayam masak merah had been cooked with fresh tomatoes, chilly and lots of onions - some sauteed while some fried golden brown and mixed with the gravy.

I set the table with some stuff I bought from my recent trip to Shanghai. You can laugh your head off when I tell you that I had used hair clips and bangles for my table setting. Of course I have not used them before on my head nor on other parts of my anatomy. Ana can swear that there was not a strand of hair on the clip which I used on the table.

Cousin Ana got to bring home one of those hair clips which I bought from Shanghai too! Are you wearing it my dear?