What a woman!

In order to be more efficient and save money, we usually cook an item to last us for at least a week, and bring it to school for lunch, have it for dinner and anything in between. For the last few weeks, we had American chilli, Penang curry and this week, Hannah cooked Beef stew with drop dumplings.

I have to admit I had my concern whether I would like the dumpling or not when I saw Hannah making it last night. In my mind, as a Chinese, I always envision the best dumpling as having thin skin wrapped around well marinated pork. So you can imagine my surprise when Hannah just prepared a huge bowl of dough and dropped a tablespoon full of dough into the beef stew and called it - dropped dumpling! I was skeptical but again, I was proven wrong! and I am glad!... It was not the most beautiful thing I see in a soup bowl, but it was deceptively delicious!...Beef stew with dropped dumpling - I would recommend you try it :)

And have I told you how amazing this woman is? Hannah is the only "ang-mo" I know who can differentiate the quality of a brand of rice just by looking at the texture and by smelling it! And she can put a few Asians to shame with her excellent skills in using the chopsticks!... well, she couldn't really make great Chinese stir-fry like me :P, but she can make a mean beef stew with dropped dumplings!