A hen-pecked husband or a liberated wife?
Once every three weeks or so, Mrs Bengbeng would look at the refrigerator and exclaim how dirty a refrigerator can be. Then she will defrost it and we will have to cook what’s left over or throw it away.
I knew my three day holiday was too good to be true. She woke up, mopped the floor and went off to visit some friends. ” Some project thingy,” and she disappeared. “Throw away whatever is left over in the fridge or cook it.” Of course she knew I wouldn’t throw anything away.
Tomorrow is marketing day.
This is what we had in the fridge. 5 chicken sausages, 1/3 white carrot, 3 eggs, two spoonfuls of mushrooms, left over seaweed.
2 stalks vegetables, 7 fish-balls, quarter onion, 3 slices of fish
I cooked scrambled eggs. Mrs Bengbeng is not too happy about this. She says too much eggs is too much cholesterol and is not good for a kid. Anyway, I didn’t mention a thing when I saw Benghui taking almost half of it on the plate. Best not to get involved. Closed an eye.
Seaweed soup to get rid of the fish-balls, left-over dried seaweed, sausage slices. This is not the ordinary rice. It does not keep. Meaning you must finish it soon. It does not contain preservatives or anything. It is also high fibre. Benghui was at first resistant to this rice as it is not like Jasmine rice which has a nice smell, is smooth in taste as all polished rice are.
With three pieces of fish, I couldn’t do much. To feed Benghui’s stomach, I fried the fish and then soaked it in a concoction of white carrot, mushroom, oyster sauce and tomato sauce.
The vegetable dish is not here. Mrs Bengbeng had it before before I took the pic. She didn’t know I was doing a cooking post.
Boiled sweet pototos for when Benghui is hungry. He will come and get it himself. We don’t insist he throw away the skin so he eats it just like that.
Just as a matter of curiosity, how often do you clean your refrigerator?
Benghui was a great help today with washing the vegetables, mushrooms, cooking the rice, cutting the sausages, breaking the eggs and beating them. Thank god for little boy helpers 
Please keep this a secret or some NGO will accuse me of practicing slave labor. He even prepared a cup of tea for me.
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How often i clean my fridge. PRN basis, when necessary
in that case, u do it daily
My favourite is sweet potato..
we dont do any cooking. jus boil it
That’s child labour, my friend. Heheheh!!! What a good boy he is. But two eggs won’t do much damage to a kid lah, he’s still young, he needs the cholesterol.
Kids needs those nutritions in eggs lor, should let benghui take more =P
my sister who lives in sydney and visiting me in london was frying some eggs, and the smell of it was just so wonderful. it reminds me of my mother and my childhood. i am sure benghui will have memories like this coming to him at unexpected moments to remember u by.
Better than me la.. hardly anything in the fridge. Hehe.
Benghui is definitely a good boy. Puts my kids to shame! I spoil my kids too much lah….**slap my own cheeks, left, right, left, right**
Look like Beng Beng is a nice cook. Ever consider inviting us over next time?
better do it while Clare is around…but let us do it outside…