I just watched my mom make filling for my favourite pineapple tarts for Chinese New Year

 Here’s the recipe:

• Grate 3 large pineapples and pour everything into a large wok
• Toss in 3 sticks of cinnamon
• Poke around vaguely in box of random assorted spices and essences
• Surface with bottle of vanilla powder. Eye it dubiously for a while, uncap it, and sniff it, and then shake an unspecified amount straight into the wok.
• “Not too much” though.
• Poke around some more. Surface with small bottle of vanilla essence that I once bought for cookies
• Hum consideringly. Unscrew the cap, sniff it, and then drizzle another unspecified amount in.
• Poke around. Come up with cinnamon powder. Sniff. Shake into wok
• Repeat with ground nutmeg powder.
• Grab the half of a lemon that’s been sitting in the fridge the whole week.
• Grate some lemon zest in, then squeeze whatever juice possible from the slightly dried-out lemon (”It’s enough.”)
• Turn on fire. Stir for a while.
• Toss in one large block and one smaller block of rock sugar
• Bring filling to a boil, then turn the fire waaaay down (to avoid burning the rock sugar) and leave it. Come back to stir it every now and then.
• “For how long?” “AGES.”

Serving: No fucking clue. She always just keeps making more dough until she runs out of filling  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We’ll get to the dough-making tomorrow. XD