Tuesday 8 July 2008

homemade birthday food

It was my birthday recently.

sweet potato, peanut and coconut thing

On Friday D’s mum tried some new things, a green split pea soup and a kumara peanut coconut thing. I saw her recipe books lying around but I forgot to note down which ones they were, so I can’t tell you where these were from. The peanut thing was really tasty. This doesn't mean that the soup wasn't tasty also (I know that she will read this and fret)! But the peanut thing was the highlight.

birthday dinner

On Sunday my mum cooked a whole lot of my favourite food, a sweet pumpkin curry, a chunky dahl (filled with vegetables) and pad thai. Not pictured: delicious, flaky roti. For dessert we had a fruit salad filled with my favourite fruits, watermelon, papaya, banana, lychee, orange, mangosteen. Not exactly fruits that are in season, but fruits I love a lot. If only there was also rambutan! We also had some lime sorbet and some mango sorbet from a local store. The lime had this delightful, tart taste, I really liked it.

fruit salad (yummy yummy)

Then we played mahjong, and I felt really lucky to be fed all this food and then able to play my favourite game (which is played at birthdays, weddings, etc, so appropriate to the day).

mahjong (my mum won)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh my gosh. that fruit salad is my new favourite thing. i really want to make one!

Anonymous said...

p.s. happy belated birthday!

steph said...

Thanks!

The fruit salad was very tasty.