Mum's cooking

This is one of my favourite dish which my late mother used to cook. Lately, my wife begins to cook it more often when my daughter falls in love with it after she tries it. It is basically a simple affair - braised chopped turnip and dried oyster with some good quality soya sauce and some sugar.

I vaguely remember that the dish is more fragrant than what my wife can produce; but I just cannot remember exactly what the taste is. Perhaps, my mum used the good old oyster sauce as well - which my wife detests.

Minced pork with black beans - This is another of my favourite dish. My wife does not like to cook it as she loathes the chore of peeling the skin of the black beans. Only recently, she finds a way to do it efficiently - something about toasting the beans and then douse them with water. In any case, as my daughter also enjoys it, my wife is less reluctant to cook it these days. Once again, the black soya sauce is the main star in the dish.

As I grow older, I am less adverse to vegetables like bitter gourd. In fact, I am beginning to enjoy them more. There are still exceptions like mustard. Anyway, bitter gourd with roast pork is something which I do not detest. My wife prefers pork rib; but I have never liked bones. Once again, the brown hue is caused by soya sauce.