Cooking up a storm

I made another new friend recently and he's a Singaporean. He's none other than Gary's colleague, William who will be here for a 3 months training. He's my age and we attended the same JC (St. Andrews). It was such a coincidence. Anyway we hit it off quite well, maybe bcoz of our age or the fact that we attended the same JC.

Gary and I thought it will be nice to have him over for dinner, so we invited him over for dinner last night. 

I had to do some planning on what to cook, considering that I have to feed 2 men, one growing and one not so growing... Lol.. Vegetarian was out of the question. 

The menu for the night was:

1. Chicken curry with potatoes (Tean's Gourmet Curry Chicken paste)

2. Stir-fry vegetables with garlic

3. Braised eggs (my family's special recipe)

4. Tomato and Egg soup (a classic soup here)

It was a challenge that I accepted with much anticipation. I've never cooked curry chicken before,  but having the curry paste made things easier. 

So I did my marketing in the morning and prepared the chicken curry and braised eggs before my class at 2.30pm. 

Class ended at 5pm but I left early to pick Gary and William up from their office. I heated up the chicken curry and simmered the braised eggs, as well as cook the remaining dishes when we arrived home. 

It was a really good experience for me:

1. to cook curry chicken for the first time

2. to learn the different kinds of vegetables here (I confused spinach with sweet potato leaves coz they looked the same, silly me).

And they finished most of the food!

You can tell how filling and satisfying the food was, by their expressions!