Today we are still in lockdown in the UK due to Covid-19. This morning I woke up in a cooking mood. At first I wanted to cook 3 meals for today, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

However I ended up only cooking 2 meals. Brunch of roast chicken with noodles and dinner is traditional old British stew.

So early in the morning I phoned my mother in law and went over with her the steps for cooking this dish. I have watched her enough time cooking it but it’s nice to hear her instructions kekekekekeke She did give me a very crucial information that I did not know before!!! Then I realised why I don’t like cooking stews. It sticks to the bottom of my pan and I need to soak overnight to wash!

However due to my mother in law’s tip I cooked the best stew ever and nothing stuck to the bottom of my pan. My son woofed down 5 dumplings when he came back from. I will definitely cook this for him again! His ‘so good mum’ makes me so happy.

It is seldom that I cook stew because I am also not a big fan of stew but today I cook for my son as I know he loves a good stew with dumplings, lots of my special dumplings. Also when he last went out to do shopping with his Dad a fortnight ago he bought a stew pack – a packet from the supermarket containing the root vegetables for stew. I think that is a big HINT!

I have a few potatoes left so I decided to add them in too to bulk it up a bit. Both the hubby and the son were really happy!

Note – Traditionally you can serve this with mashed potatoes but I prefer to stew the potatoes as well. One step of work less.

With this Covid19 ongoing and the hubby working from home plus having the family here to be fed at least twice a day is mind taxing. I have been cooking only one meal a day for so long and have always taken my sweet time in deciding what to cook until now. I missed my quiet ME time! hehehehehe

Today’s breakfast is Square Egg. This was first taught to me by a 13 years old New Zealander boy by the name of Michael Meeham. I sometimes wonder where and how is he and his family now. I used to live in Kuching in an area called Rainbow Drive. It’s an area which is also homes to a bunch of New Zealanders and Australian pilots who flew for MAS. The Meehams were my next door neighbours. There were Mr & Mrs Meeham and their 3 children, Michael, Matthew and little Sophie. Sigh……those were the days like a lifetime ago now.

I asked hubby this morning if he has had this when he lived in New Zealand but he can’t remembered. So I decided to make it for him.

I was taught only to make the square eggs but I decided to up it a bit and serve with baked beans and a rationed piece of bacon. I was actually quite hungry this morning and so is everyone. Breakfast was much appreciated by everyone.