BBQ @ Home

I had lots of fun (minus the exhaustion) barbecuing at home. Well, I promised to take some photos to show you guys where I normally do my barbecuing at home but, I should apologise to you as I had totally forgotten about it because there some unexpected turn of events throughout the day. Now, the next time around that I have a barbecue session at home, I will try to remember to take some snapshots of hubby and my god-brother grilling the food.

The first thing we did in the morning (but not so early...it was about 10.30a.m.) was to go shop for some barbecue items at a nearby supermarket. Before shopping, we had our breakfast first. I ate a bowl of wanton noodle and hubby ate a bowl of mee rebus. Hana shared the food with me. Then, as we were getting the things from the supermarket, arranging them in the trolley, mum called me on my mobile saying that a former neighbour, who hasn't come to visit for a very long time, Cik Hajrah, was coming over to mum's place. Since mum wanted to join us for the barbecue, she asked me for permission to bring Cik Hajrah along. Of course I said YES! How can you ever say NO to someone who wants to visit you at home unless you want your own privacy and rest on that day? It was supposed to be a day of fun...so I told mum to "drag" Cik Hajrah along.

At about 2p.m. they arrived at my place. We didn't strat barbecuing immediately as my plan was to start in the latrer part of the afternoon. Thank goodness I bought 4 packets of chicken rice to serve Cik Hajrah and her grandaughter and mum. So, mum, Cik Hajrah and her grandaughter, Nisa, had chicken rice for lunch.

Hubby started the fire at about 5.30p.m. It was a slow start and he was getting irritated. It turned out to be that we bought the wrong kind of charcoal...the ones that take alot of time to burn. Fortunately, my neighbour, kak Yati was around. She still had some leftover charcoals from her previous barbecue session at Changi Beach. So she passed the bag to hubby. Only by using the charcoals that Kak Yati gave that the charcoals were burning well! Alhamdulillah....or else, hubby woudl have to rush to the nearby minimart to get another pack of charcoal.

Then as mum, Cik Hajrah and myself were seating and chit-chatting to one another, my god-sister, Kak Intan, called and said that she was around my area, attending a wedding function. She aske dif mum was at my place and of course, I said YES. Upon hearing that mum was here, she decided to come over and relax at my place with her family. Of course at this point of time, she wasn't aware that we were having a barbecue....I was quite worried that there won't be enough supply of chicken wings, prawns, fish and cuittlefish to go around. So I had to tell her the truth that we were having a BBQ session at home. So I asked her to get some more prawns and chicken wings. In the end she didn't buy any as the supermarket taht she went to sold very expensive prawns and chicken wings. Then I remembered that I had another pack of chicken drummets in the freezer. I bought that pack more for me to cook some other dish on other days but it seemed that I had use it up first for the BBQ.

Then when Kak Intan arrived, she brought along some other food items. Her huuby then went to the kitchen and prepared garlic bread for all of us. It was FANTABULOUS as it was freshly made and baked. It was a WOW! They also bought some instant waffles and a tub of ice-cream(that was supposed to be the dessert) which we ended up not eating because, believe or not, there was too much food to finish! And to think that there won't be enough food to go around. How naive! No, not being naive...just making sure that everyone could enjoy eating without having to worry whether to leave some for a person or 2. In fact, in the mdist of all those activities, my big brother came. he was not aware that were having the BBQ. He came because he knew mum was here and he wanted to see Hana. Well, still, there was ENOUGH food!

All in all, it was a fun day. Everybody went back at about almost 12 midnight. That left hubby and me BBQ-ing outside the house. That's when Kak Yati and her 2 sons joined us and we chit-chatted outside the house and BBQ-ing till almost 3a.m.! How's that?

And today...what time did I wake up from sleep? 11.45a.m.! Haahaha...only to be awaken by terrible hubby reminding me that we're to attend a wedding function at Tampines. There goes my sweet dreams.

Now I have to get ready for the function. Will write in here again soon.

Bye........