Meme - 10 Things I Miss Of Mom's Cooking

I got tagged by Ka..t on food meme. So here goes nothing...

♥ Meme - 10 Things I Miss Of Mom's Cooking ♥

1. Steam Fish - sounds like a simple dish but with all the extra toppings and stuffing like dried chinese mushrooms, shallots, ginger, onions, dried prawn, kiamchai (salted vege) and diced chillies all smothered with assam jawa sauce. Errr... what's assam jawa in English?

2. Pansoh Manok - simply translated as chicken cooked in bamboo. My mom's signature dish which happens to be part of the Iban's traditional menu. She sells them every year during St. Thomas' Annual Parish Sale event and it is always a huge sellout! Usually sold out within hours! Chicken smothered with ginger, shallot, onion, lemon grass cooked inside a bamboo over fire (just like as you would cook a lemang)

3. Pork BBQ - the secret is in her marinate.

4. Curry chicken - the secret is using fresh spices only bought from an Indian lady at the wet market.

5. Fried Beehoon - as simple as it sounds, mom always seem to have some extra secret as to how to make the beehoon taste and smells delicious. Hou hiong ah...

6. Steam Fruit Cake - the secret is in the recipe. Steamed for approximately 4 hours and include a dash of Martell to keep the cake longer in the fridge. Not forgetting a teaspoon of nutmeg that emits this aromatic heavenly smell. The moist fruit cake is just heavenly...

7. Steam Nut and Horlicks Cake - cooked using similar methods as the steam fruit cake, this recipe includes chopped walnuts, cashew nuts, condensed milk, horlicks and apong sugar (a local thick sugar made from the apong tree)

8. Tempoyak goreng - this recipe calls for tempoyak (durian paste) fried in oil with chili and anchovies. Awfully good with nothing else but hot steaming rice

9. Tomato Prawn Mee - this requires the use of yee mee but not those big brown ones you find in KL. In Kuching the yee mee tastes so much better. Sometimes Mejaaku at Maju Junction will have this yee mee available. Specially flown in from Kuching

10. Five Spices Duck - I don't know how to describe this but this one is yet another one of her signature dish. Every Christmas, this dish is a must and never missed as relatives of my dad would never fail to ask for it. It's sometimes known as the black sweet and sour duck. That's coz the dish is dark brown in colour with spicy taste of spices, lemon grass, ginger, etc... My favourite of them all though I'm not such a huge fan of the duck.

There you go. The 10 things I miss about my mom's cooking. But frankly, any mom could always make a simple dish taste so wickedly delicious for her biggest secret weapon is none other than cooking with L.O.V.E. Don't you agree? *wink*