Feast #3 - Sia Suay!

Women have a natural ability to multi-task. But tonight, I realised that this does not apply when it comes to juggling work and cooking concurrently.

Over the last weekend, I was on leave, so was totally psyched up for some serious cooking for our friends. But some things cropped up at work, so I had to sacrifice half a day to be at work first half of today.

Back home, in between the mise en place, I was attending to some media enquiries. The juggling between the ibook and cook book proved fatal.

MY PUMPKIN SOUP TURNED OUT TOO SALTY.

We had The Boy's boss and one of his colleagues over, together with their wives. We are quite close to them, so I wasn't too worried when The Boy thought that the salty soup would mean the end of his career advancement. Haha.

It was quite hilarious though. At the point when everyone started tucking into the soup, the Jemej looked at each other across the table. Our eyes met, and we knew instantly what both of us were thinking, with that slight nod of heads and raised eyebrows. And he very bravely said, "Think I added too much salt." Till he said that, everyone was being very polite and kept drinking their soups quietly. So it was after this "confession", that they started saying, "No wonder lah!"

While I was exonerated of producing this salty soup (supposedly not of my "standards"), my dear husband valiantly took the blame and said he got too passionate about the shaking of the salt into the pot. So while everyone at the table was laughing at him, exclaiming how I should never allow him into the kitchen ever again, we winked at each other and laughed at the fact that he had just taken the bullet for his dear wife.

Truth is, it was ME who added too much salt. I got too distracted with everything else. Think my heart wasn't in the cooking this time round. I was totally disappointed in myself. How could I????

So when our guests left, we laughed even harder. The Jemej partnership - in ways more than one.

The Boy:: You thought I was sweet?

Me:: Yah!

The Boy:: You thought I was brave?

Me:: Yah!

The Boy:: You enjoyed seeing me go down into flames right?

Me:: Yah!!!!

Haha, no lah. This whole thing was really so funny. MY HUSBAND IS THE HERO!!!

In the end, thank God my chocolate fondant saved the day. :)

And this little guest of ours slept through it all. Reminded me of Baby Jayden who slept through all the din that the BMWs were making the last time they were here early this year. Time flies, we're going into another new year!!