Pineapple Tarts with My Sweetheart

This morning I woke up earlier to get ready and even have breakfast before sending Junior to my mum's via bus. TWO buses sadly. Same town, but at different ends. Our car is spoilt and Husband followed the tow truck to send it to the workshop. I must say, getting up early and forcing yourself to have breakfast is really good discipline. Junior was still sleeping when I was all ready so I had to wake him up. But since he loves the idea of taking buses (he's been asking for it for countless of times), he got up all fresh and ready to go. After sending him off, time for me to take another two buses to work. All in all the journey took about 1 hr 45 min which is not too bad, I reached work around 8.45am. Fatty me was panting by the time I got to office haha!

Spent the entire afternoon in the kitchen yesterday, making pineapple tarts and daging masak merah. Junior helped too! He helped pound the garlic and ginger, then later with rolling of the dough. He loves helping out in the kitchen haha. I actually don't really have a craving for pineapple tarts, but last Thursday I ate a piece and I kinda missed eating it so why not make some. I was actually craving for chwee kueh but where to get halal ones! And to make your own is quite painstaking because you need four types of flours. So many!! So I ditched that.

Here's some photos of Junior helping me out :)

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