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Last Friday, I came across something really interesting on Facebook and I thought to share it with you:

A group of married women gathered at a seminar on how to live in loving relationships with their husbands. The women were asked: ‘How many of you love your husbands?’

All the women raised their hands.
Then they were asked: ‘When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?’
Some said today, some yesterday, some didn’t remember…..
The women were then told to take their cell phones and send the following text to their respective husbands: “I love you, sweetheart.”
Then the women were told to exchange the phones and read aloud the responding text messages.
Here are the replies:

1. Eh, mother of my children, are you sick?
2. What now? Did you crash the car again?
3. I don’t understand what you mean?
4. What did you do now? I won’t forgive you this time!!!
5. ?!?
6. Don’t beat about the bush! Just tell me how much you need?
7. Am I dreaming?????
8. If you don’t tell me who this message is actually for, you will die today…!!!
9. I asked you not to drink anymore!!

and the best one

10. Who is this?

After reading this, I thought to myself, now when was the last time I said ‘I love you’ to my husband and … I just couldn’t really pinpoint when. I know it wasn’t that long ago, but yup, not being able to remember when I said it kinda said it all.

I picked up my phone and sent him the exact text that the women at the seminar were supposed to send. I paused before I sent it out. I had never called him ‘sweetheart’. That was rather weird and he would probably be wondering what happened (to me).

I decided to send it out anyway after pausing for a grand total of 20 seconds and I waited for the response eagerly. It was late in the evening, about time I hoped he would be back soon from work, and it was the usual time that I would text a naggy message to hurry him home. Ah, but that day, instead of a time-to-come-home message, it was a lovey-dovey one. Now just what would he think?

Usually he’d take forever to reply with a ‘ok, leaving now’ or ‘ok, need another 30minutes to complete something’ then of course 30minutes becomes at least 45minutes.

This time, he promptly replied within 2 minutes with, ‘I luv you lots too dear. Why the sudden burst?’

Well, the whole thing was kinda fun and I refused to tell him why until he got home. But I thought it was a nice reminder to not take each other for granted despite being married for years – something that is easily forgotten when almost all my time and attention are spent on the kids and his, on work.

And yesterday, I was in for a surprise when I received a text during his work hours that read, ‘I love you sweetheart’. Now he had not sent me a lovey-dovey text from work in a long while! I guess the reminder on Friday kinda helped. 🙂

So when was the last time you told your spouse you love him/her? Take the challenge today (and see if you get hilarious results too)!

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Cod potato balls

I’ve been down with a nasty bug and nursing the two kids back to health over the past 3 weeks. I’m so glad that I have so many food blog posts which I’ve done up but not yet published because these would really help fill in the gap while I’m trying to get back to my normal self. Any new posts you see in the next few days would also have been pre-written at least a week ago. 🙂

So yes, back to the topic of this special dish I made. I was quite bored with cooking cod in the usual way the other day and I decided to challenge myself to come up with something new. And so here’s the outcome!:

cod potato balls

This can be quite time-consuming to make but take heart that these can be prepared and frozen and fried the next day and paired with fruits, it’s a complete meal on its own! 🙂

cod potato balls

My little boy is a super huge fan of this dish! My little girl however was down with stomach upset that day when I made it… anyway, so here’s the recipe!:

Potato cod balls

Author: Simply Mommie

Prep time: 2 hours

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 2 hours 20 mins

Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

3 egg sized russet potatoes
80g cod fillet
1-2 teaspoons salt
a couple of dashes of ground black pepper
a couple of dashes of garlic powder
a few dashes of unsalted mixed herbs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 eggs
plain flour
breadcrumbs
water
oil

Dipping sauce (optional):

2 tablespoons apricot/ orange marmalade jam
2 teaspoons golden/ maple syrup (optional)
2 tablespoons hot water

Instructions

Peel the potatoes and dice them.
Bring some water to boil in a pot.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt to the water.
Place the diced potato in when the water boils and cook till potato is tender (15-20min).
Meanwhile, dice the cod fillet.
When the potatoes are cooked, sieve out the potatoes and mash with a potato masher.
While the potato is still hot, add in the butter, black pepper, garlic powder, ½-1 teaspoon salt and mixed herbs and mix well.
Add the diced cod to the mashed potato and mix well then place the mixture in the fridge for at least half an hour to set.
Meanwhile, prepare the dipping sauce. Mix all the ingredients for the sauce and set it aside.
After the potato-cod mixture has set, take about 1-2 teaspoons and roll it into a small ball. Repeat the process (you should yield 25-30balls).
Get three bowls for the flour, beaten eggs and breadcrumbs.
Coat the ball with flour, egg and breadcrumbs (in that order). Repeat process for remaining balls.
Heat oil for frying the balls. To reduce the amount of oil used, the oil should only cover half of each ball rather than submerging the whole ball in oil.
Flip the ball over when the underside turns golden brown.
Drain and serve with dipping sauce (optional).

Notes

1. For a complete meal on the go, serve with fruits like strawberries/ grapes/ blueberries.
2. Potato cod balls can be prepared the day before and fried the next day.