Cabbage, shrimp & tau kwa stir-fry on ROM anniversary

ROM anniversary.

Four years ago, I was donning an emerald green flowy tube dress, saying the marriage vow and exchanging wedding bands with Kirin, at a small ballroom on the 70th floor.

小雨 wept miserably when we parted in the morning. This week, she seemed more emo in the mornings, as compared to the past week. Into her 4th week in preschool, when will she finally bid me goodbye with a smile?

Velveted shrimps and tau kwa for stir-fry with beijing cabbage tonight. Blur Yang added a teaspoon of black vinegar instead of shaoxing rice wine, and wondered why it looked darker today. Made a quick rinse and popped a tau kwa cube into my mouth. Just a mild vinegar taste.. phew! Had a lunch date with Kirin in town and wasn't in time to prepare the xiao long bao filling. Simply too ambitious.

Velveting shrimps and tau kwa

Lunch was fillet-o-fish for me, McWings for him. A McDonald's meal is like comfort food to Kirin. We had afternoon tea at Canele before I met Dr Chia for a pap smear and ultrasound scan, just to make sure things are fine, despite carrying 小雨 much for the past months. And yep, another relief after the appointment.

Matcha tiramisu for teatime, Canele

Got a pinkie 3" cookie cutter. ^~^

Stir-fried cabbage was a little bitter. Read that when cut, enzymes in the cabbage will react to produce bitter tastes and unpleasant aromas. Well I sliced the cabbage yesterday before I decided to cook tonight instead. I have always known cabbage as "包菜". I don't even know if it's this "包", that's just how my mom name this vegetable. Today, I learnt it's commonly known as "高丽菜".

Cabbage, shrimp & tau kwa stir-fry

Aside from the slight bitterness of the cabbage (guilty of not blanching it due to time constraint), Yang is quite pleased with the overall flavour of this stir-fry.

Again, the recipe is actually the same as my earlier asparagus & chicken stir-fry and French beans, kanimi & tau kwa stir-fry. Yep, just explore around with the main ingredients and you get a different dish. Hahaa... Stir-fries are great for novices in cooking like Yang.

And so our ROM anniversary day came to an end. A sunny, peaceful day of comforting McDonald's lunch with Kirin, meeting my gynae who helped deliver 小雨, then a homecooked dinner with our little one.

Peace is bliss. Sharing lyrics of this lovely song 風和日麗 by Rene Liu, 劉若英, which I chose as our wedding day first march-in song:

難得風平浪靜 難得風和日麗
難得晴 難得雨 難得生命裏有過你
難得有你可以 讓我認得 記得 值得
難得 一年總有一天 我的好天氣

♪ 風和日麗, 劉若英 ♪

作詞：陳沒
作曲：藍奕邦

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