Sweet Cakes and Savory Vegetable Cutlets

My mom used to say that after eating sweet stuff, she would crave for something salty or savory and that is strange. After all, mouth watering sweet stuff does look tempting enough you want to gulp it pretty much like how Garfield does it ..'Waaagh,,' there no more.. Or maybe we can act a little fair lady and eat slowly cutting each corner by the spoon slowly and savoring each mouthful .. 'wam wam wam...'

Somedays ago, my colleague came to visit us and she made something called the 'vegetable cutlet'.. and that is because she was so modest and afraid of naming her own creation.. It tasted really nice and we all loved it very much. Thank You! Anyway, I surely can finish those vegetable cutlets easier than all those Mother's day cakes!!

Glutinuous Rice Dumplings! or Zong Zi!!

It is part of a chinese tradition to eat glutinuous rice dumplings. They can be extremely tasty with their fillings made out of red beans (sweet ones) or peanuts and soya beans (salty ones). The salty ones are my favorites as they usually stuff mushrooms, chestnut, salted eggs and meat inside. Exceptionally, there is one type that has nothing inside and they are meant for the sugar coating of your choice.

 Glutinuous rice dumplings are never easy to make but some great mamas at home do know how to make them well, and usually it takes many hours just to prepare the rice, the fillings and the wrappings using banana leaf as shown. Once you buy them, you can eat them straight or place them in the fridge. They will keep up to 3 days in the fridge and if you just have to reheat them in the microwave before eating them. The best hawker stalls that boast these would be able to sell them at a good price each and still leave people queueing for all the more!