From Chef Maiyuu, a chicken risotto dish with spring onion on top. In one version, he has cut the spring onion into strips, then chilled, and curled it.
In the other version of the same dish, spring onions in their natural pointy state are paired with a dab of caviar on top.
But perhaps the most interesting dish of the three pictured here is the desert - that's Earl Gray tea cake, sitting on a bed of whipped cream, and coco powder sprinkled on top.
It contains no self-raising agent, so Maiyuu relied on eggs to make the cake fluffy. Cool tea is poured over the thing to give it a tea-like taste and aroma.
'It looks easy to make, but is actually hard,' he said.
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We have embarked on a household savings scheme - B1000 every pay day - to create a small income buffer should one of us need an urgent visit to the dentist, or meet some other unexpected big-bill expense.
It is something we should have started years ago. Previously, I would ask my parents to send me savings from overseas.
I don't like using that money for anything other than truly deserving cases - a dentist's bill, for example, while no doubt important, is still just routine spending, even if a toothache does arrive unexpectedly.
Last night after I came home from work, Maiyuu said he had been shopping.
He presented me with a small, simple handmade wooden box, which looked like it should be carrying someone's ashes.
Not knowing what it was, I opened it - and found a B1000 note inside, which he offered as the first instalment in our savings plan.
'You lovely kid,' I said, and gave him a big kiss.
Maiyuu says he understands the need to save, and is willing to help me do it. I wasn't sure I'd be able to get him to agree - it is so much easier to just live for the day, after all.
That's the box in the picture. I know I should deposit the money securely in a bank, but I want to see it building up every week.
Apart from that, deposit interest rates are so miserable these days that whether I keep it in a bank, hidden under the mattress, or left in my ashes box really makes little difference.
10 comments:
How sweet! I used to have so many containers too but they never got filled up, coz I kept digging to spend. LOL
The money should be moved to a bank when it exceeds 10,000.
omg the risotto looks so good >< ahahahah and is that caviar on top? =)
kekeke.
Twilight Zone: It is sweet, you are right. Hopefully no one will be tempted to take the money from the box for any unauthorised spends.
Anon: Yes, sir!
Aaron: Thank you. Yes, that's caviar. How's the food in India?
l feel so much better having a small amount of savings. l only save £15 a week but it is surprising how it mounts up. lt's so useful and a necessity for the unexpected bills.....or Radley handbag, new shoes, computer game.......... :)
l've just made a chocolate cake, l hope it's as nice as Maiyuu's specials!! ;)
This is the first time I have read Maiyuu gave "you" money?
I won't go there, if you don't mind.
Where did Maiyuu get the cash? Is he working now?
(different anon)
Maiyuu looks after the ATM card, which means he pays the bills, buys our food and other household items.
To all anti-Maiyuu readers: Please don't turn this into a debate over Maiyuu and whether I should let him run the finances.
I have just deleted one offensive comment, and won't hesitate to do it again.
The risotto looked very nice indeed!
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