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Was browsing through my My Attempts in Making Yummylicious Food! album on my FB page and I saw this dish I made in December 2014.

That time, I still have a small packet of minced pork in my fridge and I bought a big pack of potatoes yesterday (reduced to clear bargain must grab LOL!). So I googled around looking for recipes that uses minced pork and potatoes.

Ta-daaaaa.... and I got Macanese Minchi!

Apparently, this dish is a traditional dish in Macau which is made with minced beef and/or minced pork, potatoes and onions.

Cool, learned something new! I get to merge our kiddos' favorite dish (minced pork in sweet soy sauce and garlic) with MY favorite dish (braised potatoes in sweet soy sauce)

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I like to bring our kiddos to the playground whenever situations and weather permits. One morning after dropping off our oldest kiddo at kindy, I brought our girls to the playground. Our girls left me and happily moved onto the slides so I sat in one of the swings when I noticed something on the floor. A white flower! Ahhh... thank you God for this learning opportunity!

I immediately called our girls over and gently pointed to them the flower, telling them to be careful as they looks very fragile. It's not easy picking these flowers up as well. Now, I thought what can we learn from this lovely thing?

#1 - I taught our girls to pronounce the word 'flower' properly. Fuh-lao-were. Flower.

#2 - I taught our girls to identify the petals and to pronounce the word 'petal' properly. Peh-turl. Petal.

I looked around the playground and noticed quite a lot of these flowers on the ground. Possibly fell after the earlier rain in the morning. So I told our girls to gently pick up the flowers and bring them to me. As they picked up the flowers, they get to practise their finger motor skills and learning to be gentle and careful at the same time so as not to destroy the flowers.

Our older girl has started to arrange the flower and counting it as she aligned them properly, possibly remembering one of our previous teaching & learning moment where we learn to count with flowers. This time, I told our older girl to arrange into a shape. I asked 'How about circle shape?' and so she started adjusting and realigning the flowers to make a circle shape. Awesome!

Win-win!

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Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Left part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on 17th  April 2015. Ingredients on left (top to bottom): Pork sliced thinly marinated with sweet soy sauce and sugar, a slice of stingray marinated with turmeric and chilli powder, a bowl of cauliflower (chopped thinly), 4 cloves of garlic sliced thinly, a bowl of dark soy sauce + water + sweet soy sauce, a bowl of red onion chopped thinly, a bowl of chilli powder + water + salt + sugar + lemon zest.

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

• Stir-fry cauliflower with eggs
  

• Stir-fry pork slices with garlic
  

• Sweet Sour Stingray
  

In case you are interested to view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

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