Dining With Jewelle

When Eu was still a baby, I was told that feeding her potatoes (in addition of rice) would make her gain weight faster.

So there are times when I would add some potatoes to Eu and Qi’s rice porridge although usually, I prefer putting other ingredients as rice and potatoes are both carb so it seemed unnecessary to cook both at the same time.

Nowadays, whenever I do cook potatoes, it’s in addition to a meat dish such as this minced pork with sliced potatoes which is a variation of my mother in law’s minced pork recipe that goes with the “lau su fun“.

Both Eu and Qi love this dish and although it looks very dark (from the soy sauce), it is actually just nice as long as you don’t put anymore salt.

Besides, this way of cooking potatoes surely beat one advice my friend was given by a Brunei government nurse when her daughter was not putting on enough weight :

“Why don’t you feed her french fries?”

If this is what government nurses advise parents, is it any wonder that some of our children are having this problem?