of wintry foods and minced meat eggy goodness

Because it's uni term break now,
and because I should rightly be home Malaysia home right now with my family and homecooked food,
and because it's wintry cold and I thrive on sunshine,
and because almost everyone has abandoned the winter and me and left for sunny greener pastures,
and because I can,
I shall list my tummylicious comfort food for the winter.

1. porridge: plain ole' starchy mushy Chinese porridge. I can gobble a whole mangkuk down with a teaspoon of Chinese preserved shredded olives in under 5 minutes, and yes, I require no other condiments or side dishes to make it fancy. It's the simple things that make my tummy happy. It must be those potfuls of Sunday lunches made of good ole homemade porridge with the family.

2. cheesy pasta: 'nuff said. The more cheese(es), the happier I'll be. My go-to cheering-up food of all time.

3. steamed egg with minced pork: it's one of those dishes that remind me of my childhood dinners sitting around this small little table built right onto the wall in the old kitchen. The table was so small that all 4 of us was quite a tight squeeze. It's the simplest dish ever, but it's so homey that whenever I miss home, I just whip it up, steam the heck out of it, and every single time, a perfect yummylicious comforting eggy dish. And if I'm feeling a little naughty, I put in a wee bit of Chinese cooking wine.

4. sour/sweet plums: and preferably those that are seedless, thank you very much. I have this little annoyance with those itty bitty seeds. But, omg, what I would do to get a pack of those preserved plums. Must have inherited that rationale-killing unhealthy craving for plums from the mum.

5. tomyam soup: yes, I'm a Malaysian through and through and I need my soups to be spicy. And I'm of the female species so yes, I like my food to have a bit of that sour punch/kick to it. And since I'm a student and don't have the knowledge/time/mortar&pestle/grandmotherly instincts, I use the instant paste one, so sue me. But, it has to be that particular brand with the steamboat picture on the label, so don't say that I have no taste whatsoever. =) and yes, I inherited that particular knowledge from the mum. Again. She said and I quote (to something of this effect), " Never use any tomyam paste except this brand (cue serious unblinking Stare of Knowledge)".

6. yummy sugar-coated pastry: ditto.

shall continue this later on as I have a dishful of eggy mincymeat goodness to tuck into this cold wintry night.
be still, my fluttering heart and rumbling tummy.