I basically don't skip cooking, especially for my kids' meals. Somehow was rushing for an assignment so time to cook has be shorten eventually. Bought some instant foods like hamburgers last weekend and it was useful at such occasion.

I like to teach the kids how to use folk and knife for table manners. Kids tell me what I learned easily before wasn't as easy as I thought it is to them. The way to hold both seems like something alien to them.

From their reaction, I learned that I was actually very accustomed to western culture than my kids though I would expect they expose more than me in today's digital environment. This could be due to we are in Japan, an island country where she has all the seas surround to give her the leisure to filter the foreign culture that comes in unprotectedly.

Being a Malaysian, I didn't even have the thinking that I was more brought up by foreign culture than my own.

The "who am I" dilemma comes back again.

So, how’s that beef stew with beef? :)

I wanted to make it for the next morning breakfast, but at evening time while I tried to get all the green curry ingredients for dinner, my wife was on her way out. So I made a speedy cook of omelet rice with beef stew gravy in 5 minutes. That’s fast.

I start to get the feel of cooking speedy but get the right taste on it. If I were to open my own restaurant, that’s the spirit I need; never tolerate.

All of a sudden, I felt like to change the menu for breakfast from omelet to omelet rice. It may not be obvious, but it does have quite an impact on the kids’ reaction. Meat lovers like it, and love me.

What I did was just put rice into the omelet in fry pan, roll it a bit a let it fall into the plate. Them I use beef stew gravy, add in water and pork (yeah I know, I didn’t have beef!), let it boil and just pour on the omelet rice. Now kids want to have more of it instead of omelet only.

They have rice, they have eggs, and they are been enjoying their breakfast more. I will have to get up earlier as it takes more time to cook omelet rice.

That’s what daddy is for.

I have been making omelets for kids every morning. Eggs are difficult, it looks easy but when you try, you find it isn’t that easy. So I am making a habit to cook daily with eggs, to get the feel of it.

There are many dishes where you can use eggs: in Japanese, Chinese, or western style. Once you figure out how to go around with eggs, you will be a survival.

Let’s see what kind of fusion that I can do with eggs. Nowadays we have omelet with Thai sweet chili sauce. It sure is yummy.