Food Presentation 101

Dinner time.

Mat: Mom, would you like to have your dinner now?
Mom: Yes.
Mat: Can I prepare it for you?
Mom: Again? Er .. sure. But not too much, ok?
Mat: Ok.

Mat got a clean dinner plate out from the drawer and brought it near to the the rice cooker. Mom watched him as he scooped the steamed white rice out twice. Then Mat asked Mom to choose her food ..

Mat: What do you want to eat?

Learning from the veggie dinner he prepared the last time ..

Mom: I want to eat tempe and fish.
Mat: What about the potatoes? Do you want some?
Mom: No. Only tempe and fish.
Mat: You need to eat some potatoes too. I'll get some for you, ok? Just a few.
Mom: ..
Mat: Juuuuusst a few. Not much.
Mom: Well, ok.
Mat: You can wait in the living room.

So Mom went to living room and waited there.

After a while ..

Mom's aunt came out from the dining room and said to Mom,

Aunt: Look, what he prepared for you. With all those tempes and fish and potatoes.
Mom: Uh-oh.

Mat came out from the dining room ..

Mat: Mom, dinner's ready. Let's eat.

Curiosity thickened in the air as Mom headed toward the dining room ..

TAAAA-DAAAA!

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There was a time when Mom read all the recipes for children and learned how she should present the food to attract Mat's appetite. With smiley omellete, sandwich in the form of train, and all that kiddie stuff on.

Well, Mom never did that. Usually she just mixed all the food on the plate and fed Mat.

As quoted from Pablo Picasso:

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Wonder what Gordon Ramsay would say about this food presentation.

3P - Picture Perfect Painting

Cimory Riverside, Cisarua

The Lunar Love

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.  For love is the beauty of the soul. 

~ St. Aurelius Augustine ~

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

~ Oliver Wendall Holmes ~

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; 

effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

~ Germaine De Stael ~

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

~ Ivan Panin ~

Love doesn't make the world go round.  Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

~ Franklin Jones ~

You come to love by not finding the perfect person, 

but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

~ Sam Keen ~

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

~ Thomas Carlyle ~

Faith makes all things possible ... love makes all things easy.

~ Dwight L. Moody ~

A loving hearts is the truest wisdom.

~ Charles Dickens ~

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

~ James A. Baldwin ~

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

~ Plato ~

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

~ Anonymous ~

Moon Orchids bloomin' throughout the Lunar New Year and Valentine's week.

All pictures are taken at my mom's frontyard.  

By me .. of course.