CHRISTMAS COOKIES Had a buzzing evening! Jackie was whipping up Yong Tau Fu for her brother. Cathy was busy with kaya, and I went festive - made 2 types of Christmas cookies for gifting. They were Rock Cakes & Red and Green Shortbread. As it’s Christmas I added small pieces of red & green cherries to the Rock Cakes to make them look festive. The festive Red & Green Shortbreads….Cranberry & Pitaschio, dipped in white chocolate, perfect for Christmas gifts.🍪🌲

CAULIFLOWER RICE Had a crackling morning with Jackie, she was testing out some Dace fish she bought from the Chinese Supermarket for her fish paste, got us all chatting! Cathy was having a breather from cooking, but kept us entertained with her stories. Meanwhile I was chopping up cauliflower to make Cauliflower Rice using Jackie’s recipe from one of her MOMC shows - only thing is, Jackie couldn’t remember the recipe or doing the show 😂. Had the Cauliflower Rice for our lunch and it was lush! The Vietnamese mints at the end gave it a nice zing! Will definitely make it again, reckon it will be spot on with an extra tablespoon of tuna flakes next time. Hey @Cathy Raff….here’s the Cauliflower Rice recipe. Hope you will love it as much as I did.

I bought this in the freezer section of my local Chinese grocery store - in tonight (my time)'s upcoming Zoom session I'm going to test it out for fish paste. It will require scraping the flesh etc. See you then - bit.ly/malaysianhawkerpro

Meat Pies We had a blast cooking with Jackie. She whipped up some crispy fried onions & finished off the Gai See Hor Fun she had started prepping for her brother the night before. Meanwhile, Cathy & I were getting creative with non-Malaysian dishes - Cathy was making Meatballs for her mum & I was tackling a Meat Pie for our lunch next day. I started with the pie filling, browning beef mince with diced onions, carrots, swede & celery - loads of flavour especially with Jackie challenging me again with adding chicken powder! Then I used thermomix to whip up a shortcrust pastry to enclose the filling, couldn’t be easier! I lined the pie tin with shortcrust pastry, filled it up with the beef mix, and topped it off with another pastry lid. I had some filling left over, so I whipped up a mini pie for our widower neighbour - thought he will appreciate it. Both pies came out of the oven looking fab. We had the big one for lunch the next day, served with boiled spuds, tri-colour carrots and steamed greens on the side - hit the spot!