wassup over the weekend

Last weekend... nothing much happening but bz.

Sat. Went to market in the morning to get all necessary ingredients. Mum cooked dumpling soup with noodle for lunch. Yum yum...
Then preparing for the next day's popiah session. Began with peeling & cutting of the turnips. It sounded as ez as that but not so when you've 4 of them which weighed 3.5kg & gotta cut into strips, smaller than french fries. At the end of it, I got some blisters on my right hand. But the worse thing was, auntie bluffed me! We actually didn't need 4... maybe just 2! My mum was already laughing when she saw us carrying so many turnips back. You know what? I had to go 2 rounds to stir fry the cut turnips together with the dried shrimps & carrots before transferring them to the slow cooker to simmer over night. After the 2nd round, only half of the quantity was used up! Both hubby & me are rather convinced to get a bigger wok now.

In the late afternoon, went to visit hubby's newborn cousin (my FIL's younger brother's). Then we had simple dinner @ Bishan before catching a 7.10pm movie @ J8 - Failure To Launch. We enjoyed it... very entertaining! Can't remember when was the last time we watched a movie in a cinema... hmmm...

Sun. The usual sending mum to her church before attending ours & fetched her. Also had lunch with her at my honey's fav place - My Mum's Place & then visited daddy.

Went home to settle the rest of the stuff... so much to prepare for making popiahs! Boiling, peeling & slicing the eggs & prawns, stir frying the tau guas, washing the cabbages etc... Good thing mum helped out a lil in making the dessert (don't know how to say in Eng.. direct translation from Chinese - Big Oats, you know.. usually taken with coconut milk) & hubby baked the nuggets.

Had fun in wrapping our own popiahs & from the result of our making you'd know who're the really greedy ones! After stuffing several popiahs into our stomach, we're so bloated & yet we still had slightly more than ¼ of the turnip fillings as leftovers! So that's why I said just now we only needed 2 turnips... including the ¼ leftovers + the 50% uncooked ones which turned black (I didn't put in the fridge) & gotta be thrown away. Auntie bluffed me!! But received compliments from every1 which served as a consolation. Hee!

Then after doing a swift clean-up, we moved down to have our 3-hour ktv session till 10pm.

So basically, it's a cooking weekend... I don't prefer it to be my weekly activity though, at least not making popiah... It does sound simple but lotsa prepping works!