Mother's Day

This Mother's Day, I didn't buy anything for my mum like I usually do. I think this year, the gift we gave was more special because it showed how much we care because we basically showered Mother with affection.

We ran a little spa day. But me and my sister did everything ourselves. We gave our mum a body massage, head massage, facial, ran a bubble bath and then a manicure. I made the face scrub and face mask myself:

Face Scrub:

Solidified honey (it was once runny. Solidified honey also tastes pretty good)

Lemon juice

Sugar

Olive oil

Face mask:

Cucumber and natural homemade yoghurt blended

Flour to thicken

I also made a dish for lunch. It was my first time making rice without any prompting or instructions or supervision. And I know this isn't saying much because I know it's very easy to make rice. It's not that I'm incapable of making rice, it's more the fact that there is always an excess of rice in our house as we make it everyday and since it's a schedule, my mum always does it. Sometimes when I pop into the kitchen, she'll tell me to get this much rice and fill with this much water. And she'd always be in the kitchen at the time. But today, she was having a bath so I had to measure it myself and put the right amount of water and put it into the pressure cooker without any guidance or asking about the measurements; only my own initiative. I was a bit wary about the pressure cooker as it has exploded once.

And the fabulous thing was, it came out perfect! 

It had such lovely texture, and was so soft and fluffy and you could taste and feel each individual grain. It was perfect! And it made me so unbelievably happy! The first time I made rice totally independently, it turned out better than my mum's. It's probably a fluke though. I didn't even measure anything accurately. But my cooking is like that, I don't know what half the stuff in my mums spice cupboard is. I'll just smell each thing and decide whether it'd be suitable in what I'm cooking. Smell is linked to taste after all. My final product was a cross between Indian, Chinese and Thai cuisine. 

And then I decided to give my mum this bookmark, though it was her Mother's Day gift ten years ago.

And on the other side:

The things that were most important about my mum in the perspective of my 7 year old self haha! The last one makes me laugh.