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Having a Mum who is a housewife (SAHM) while growing up was great. Mum loves cooking and crafting. Now you should know where I get all those traits from . Anyway, Mum is a great cook. She’s always trying out new things and she can practically cook about almost anything!! My friends used to organise birthday parties at my house, even if it’s for their own party, they’ll ask my Mum if they can have it at my house and would request my Mum to cook delicious food. Friends just love coming over to meals.

Now, having been living abroad for the past 7 years, the thing I miss the most are Mum’s cooking. I’m not a good cook. I can’t do a lot of the stuff my Mum could do in her kitchen. Heck I’m not even half as good as her!!! Everything I know, I learned visually from my Mum. Well, I used to help my Mum in the kitchen most of the time, like cutting vegetables, washing rice, etc. which is basically preparing all the ingredients. I suppose in technical terms, I can consider myself the kitchen hand in Mum’s kitchen .

A few days ago, I had sudden cravings for some home cook meals that Mum used to cook for us. Think it went pretty well as there weren’t much leftovers When I’m in a good mood, I always try to cook three dishes.

The Pork Belly Stew was the main highlight for dinner. Cooked it on my pressure cooker for more than an hour and the meat was so juicy and tender. Yum . Will definitely have to cook that again some day.

I always try to include a vegetable dish for every meal. Well, we do need a balance diet which is good for our body .

Lastly, tofu dish again but this time, I steamed it instead . By the way, those spring onions are from my garden .

Once again, here’s the pork belly stew recipe because Feli asked for it

Ingredients:
500 g pork belly
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
2 tbsp raw sugar (I used the raw brown sugar most of the time as I do not buy white sugar at all)
2 star anise
1 cinnamon stick
3 garlic cloves, chopped
Dash of white pepper
Water

Method:
1. Firstly, I cut the pork belly into 2 cm cubes
2. Put the pork in a bowl and marinade it with 1 tbsp each of the soy sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, Chinese rice wine, sugar and pepper for at least 30 minutes.
3. When it’s ready, fry the garlic with some oil in a pot.
4. Put the pork in and when it’s lightly cooked, put in the remaining ingredients.
5. Add in water and make sure it’s enough to cover the pork.
6. I cooked it for about 1 hour in my pressure cooker on medium heat. If you’re using normal pot, cooked it for about 2 hours on medium heat but make sure there’s always enough liquid in the pot.

Please bear in mind that I always estimate my ingredients. The stew should taste both sweet and salty but not too sweet or too salty. You can always adjust the amount of ingredients to your liking.