A Sunday Family Lunch

I have two younger brothers. The older of the two is married with two children. The younger one (who is my foodie partner-in-crime) is still available. But whoever is interested must go through an interview with me first hah..hah...hah...

To avoid confusion I shall name them YB#1 and YB#2 (YB = Younger Brother, not Yang Berhormat).

Well, my parents are in town and YB#1 recently moved into his new house. So we were invited for a housewarming lunch last Sunday.

This is my first social outing ever since becoming carnivore, so my immediate concern is what's on the menu. So I asked. 

Fish head curry. Everybody (in the family)'s favorite. Fish is animal mah, so it is suitable for carnivore although the curry is not. But who cares. I will just eat the fish and not the gravy.

This is my brother's sub-contactor kih..kih..kih..

And this is our lunch.

Nice! This is the sort of dishes that call for loads of rice.

The star of the show, the curry fish head. There was another portion in the kitchen which my mum happily took home later.

This is mantis prawns. 

Sambal petai. My niece loves this. In fact both my niece and nephew (he is away overseas for studies) love petai since they were kids.

This is the only dish from the main contractor hah..hah.. my brother's ladies fingers masala.

Fried chicken.

And curry chicken.

That was a scrumptious lunch and I saw people (I won't say who) having a second helping of rice. Well, in my past life I would have done so with gusto. But all I had was some fish head and a piece of fried chicken.

And that's not all. Got dessert, eh!

It was so thoughtful of my brother and sister-in-law to get a cake to celebrate my dad's and my birthday. Yup, me and my Pa are September babies.

After the birthday song, me and my dad blew out a candle each.

It was a Tiramisu Cake and it was lovely. You know, last year, I told myself that I was going to buy myself a small cake and eat the whole cake by myself (one of my fantasies lah). Of course, that did not happen. Mana tau I was going to turn carnivore. 

Aha! So you ask me, you got eat cake, ah? Got lah.

Just one bite and YB#2 helped me to finish it.

At the end of the meal, my sister-in-law insisted on doing the washing up so my mum and I accompanied her in the kitchen. Then she asked me why did I eat so little, was I on a diet?

So I told her that I hoped she did not think that I am crazy (hah..hah..) because I am on a carnivore diet. Without batting an eyelid, she was like "Oh, one of my colleagues is also on an all meat diet. In fact a few are keto".

Phew! It's good to know that the carnivore diet is catching on in Malaysia. In fact I met one on the Steak & Butter Gang and she has been carnivore for one year already.

Then when I left the kitchen, YB#1 asked me the same thing. So I told him that I'm a carnivore and he was like "Why didn't you tell me? I would have cooked a steak for you!" hah..hah...

So now they all know and I don't have to worry about Chinese New Year 2023. 

It was a wonderful and happy family lunch gathering and I am looking forward to our next gathering next year. 

Back home, I cooked dinner.

Air fried beef trimmings (again). I ate this while watching the last episode of Monster : The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. YB#2 also watched this series and YB#1 told us he binged watched the series until 4:00am one morning.