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It’s Christmas eve, the weather: clear blue sky, little wind but it can be deceiving; it’s actually 5F degrees out and the windchill is -10F degrees.  No more snow.  The snow storm we had yesterday has nove moved to Michigan, they can have it, too, so they could enjoy a white Christmas.

I wanted to go window shopping yesterday but didn’t since the road were so bad plus the snow were blowing all over the place making it hard to see ahead.  I was at home just putzing, watching movies, made banana breads, yeah, not one, but two, and had curry for dinner.

This time around the two banana bread turned out much better.  Got some tips from Simmie where she told me to add a little sugar into the mashed bananas and some extra milk to the mixture.  I thought she would be coming over to our place last night coz I had a few pieces cut up for her to take along for her trip to Nashville.  Oh well, sweetie, next time.  The roads and the visibility were so bad, Forrest’s sister told her not to drive to my house to drop off the vacumm cleaner and shampoer.  Her flight was delayed to 11 p.m., hope she made it out to Nashville.

OK, back to my baking/cooking.  I got bored playing computer games and sitting, that’s why I brought the bananas out and decided I should bake them all.  The bigger loaf has all the right ingredients – followed the recipe to the T; however, the smaller of loaf, hah, I ran short of flour and bananas.  It turned out ok, according to the tester (DB), it is not as bananany as the first one, and it tasted more like a cake.

Since I was in the mood to cook, I asked DB what he wants for dinner.  It was either rice or noodles.  I don’t fancy any grilled/baked chicken, and all the blah food.  He said he was not up to all those blah food either escpecially since the return from our vacation.  His taste buds have opened up a million times to a variety of taste.

I cooked this curry mixed from Hup Loong.  I don’t have anymore beehoon, and plus he prefers rice, so I boiled rice, cut up some chicken, added schrimp and tofu pok for this dish.

The end result:

DB said it was very good.  I told him to thank Hup Loong and, of course, my sister, for mailing these packages of mixed for me lazy bones.  You know, the funny thing was, the last I cooked this that was before we went for our vacation, he detested the smell of this mix especially when I was frying it with the onions.  He said it stunk to high heaven.  It stinks because the mix has belachan (shrimp paste) in it.  Last night, he said it smells so good.  He must have gotten used to the smell of cooked belachan at my mom’s house.

Today, I will be going out window shopping.  Just to get out of the house.  Db will be shoveling the driveway and the patio.  I’m getting antsy of being at home for too long.