Kai's cooking

I’d been waiting for this day but when Kai pulled a plastic bag of some soggy thing out of his pocket after school one day in early July, I was quite appalled… 

Guess what he made for his first kitchen session?

Yes, omelette tortilla wrap. The tortilla had gone all soggy in the plastic bag. He was supposed to bring a box but he either forgot about the kitchen session or didn't know. I didn't think he brought his apron and towels too...

Anyway, he didn’t want to eat it. I have a weak stomach.. Papa gamely ate it all and said it was good! Best part - Kai asked me if I had reheated it to 60degrees - so I guess food safety education was well done??

Back in our time, boys didn't have home economics. But I remember my brother bringing home some food he made. Don't know if it was still called home economics then but now it certainly isn't. It's called food and consumer education (FCE) now. Think that means no more sewing? I broke my mother's sewing machine more than once haha!

Potato patties

Kai doesn't like potato except as fries or hashbrowns so he didn't eat his food again... It was nicer when we toasted it as it wasn't fried enough.

Cinnamon and banana muffin

This was so good! I think I can replicate it one day. I love cinnamon stuff :) But of course our boy wouldn't have it.

Fried rice

This, he had. Yummy fried rice with a tad too much chicken powder haha! So after that, I scrambled my eggs like this for fried rice. Also tried added chicken stock to the fried rice. Now Kai would praise my fried rice when he sees my eggs scrambled like this 💕

Exam piece - a reprise of the tortilla wrap

See, less soggy with the box! But no, he still wouldn't have it!

Some cheese puffs?

Like the potato patties, these didn't really have a name. Or Kai couldn't give us a proper name. Just a mish-mash of ingredients he used. But these were really nice with a quick toast!

So that's his Sec 1 kitchen experience. I had never expected him to make waves in the kitchen, and this is reinforced after the above. Not that the food wasn't good, but that he just wasn't interested and found kitchen sessions a bother. Ah well... Lucky for him that food is easily accessible in Singapore!

I compare his kitchen sessions to mine back in 1993-4. Really 小巫见大巫 but I guess cooking skills aren't terribly essential nowadays?? 

Back then, it was also pair work but each pair worked on two items rather than the same item. We started with a simple orange cordial - don't laugh, need to boil ok... Then there was fried rice of course. But we also had prawn toast. And once there was a whole fish! I couldn't gut the fish but a friend at the next table came to the rescue 👍

I guess some kids are just better at cooking than others.. Or at least, more interested. Today, Kai went to a friend's place to play after lunch, before the two of them headed off to Bishan for a chess tournament in the evening, actually happening now as I type. This was the first time he travelled to an unfamiliar place on his own - plenty of text messages along the way, very cute :)

Anyway, his friend A cooked fried noodles for him! We were so impressed.. It will be late when he comes home tonight. Tmr, I shall ask him if he feels inspired by his friend to get wokking at home!