Grilled Shrimp Paste Chicken Wings

What do new moms do?
Waltzing around with her super adorable, smiley, cooing baby?
Dressing her cute baby up in cute outfits?
Shopping for more cute baby outfits?
Having high-tea or dim sum with other moms with cute, smiley baby in tow?
Cooking delicious, elaborate, complex and elegantly presented dishes while baby is gazing adoringly, quietly from his/her crib?

I wish.

Most of my days as a new mom involve these fun activities:
Bottle feed baby.
Try to make baby finish his bottle of milk.
Burp baby.
Clean baby.
Groom baby.
Try to stimulate baby to ensure that he develops well, i.e. playing (thanks for making "playing" sound so-not-fun).

Try to stop baby from crying.

Check diaper.
Try to figure out why baby wouldn't stop crying.
Pump breast milk for baby's next meal.
Try to stop baby from crying.

Check diaper.

Try to figure our why baby wouldn't stop crying.

Clean baby.

Change diaper.

Try to play with baby.

Try to stop baby from crying.

Bottle feed baby.

Try to figure out why baby wouldn't stop crying...

...and so on ^_^'

So...elaborate, complex dishes?
Thanks, but no thanks.

Here's one of my latest super duper easy dish.

Recipe

- Chicken wings (as many as you want)
- Shrimp paste (I use Lee Kum Kee)
- Sugar, white pepper, olive oil

Marinate chicken wings in shrimp paste, sugar, white pepper and a bit of oil (I poked chicken wings with a fork to let the marinate penetrate the wings) in a refrigerator for at least half an hour, the longer the better (ideally overnight). Preheat oven to 200C, grill chicken wings until golden brown.

Lip smacking and super easy.

Ideal for new moms, who generally need to stop in the middle of meals trying to figure out why the baby wouldn't stop crying.

But when my baby smiles, it just makes my day like nothing else does.

Ohhh....how sweet and sentimental....

I blame my hormones.