Sunday, May 24, 2009

My First Cookies

Tried two different kind of cookies, Mickey & Minnie Mouse Cookies & Milo Doggies Cookies.

Using a Mickey & Minnie cookie cutter, here are the pre-bake cut out dough.

The taste are quite nice, but somehow the colours were really out of my imagination. Such a far cry from what I saw in HHB's blog. Here are the final product - "Sun Tanned" Mickey & Minnie.

But the girls said it's nice.. that's good enough for me.. keke

The 2nd type I tried was Milo Doggies (well as the description says, there's milo in it). But this recipe does not need any eggs... which made me puzzle in the first place and I read and re-read the recipe many times over and over again to make sure my eyes are not playing tricks on me!

Here's the doggies before baking.



Taste is totally different from the mickey mouse cookies.. they were very soft not as crunchy as compared to Micky & Minnie.
A tray full of freshly baked doggies..





Recipe Source: Happy Home Baking

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Thank God!!...& Breast milk too :)

This is a rather late post, cos finally i got some time off to work on the blog..
(ermm was too busy learning baking and playing farm & restaurant city :P)

On the 8th of May (Sat), my little niece, Joey, came from KL to visit us and also to celebrate Amy's 21st.
During the party, she played with Lucas and another niece of mine, Leanne (same age as Lucas).
As Lucas was too busy climbing and crawling all over the house, so he had lesser contact with her as compared to Leanne.
Just after the party ended, Joey's mummy realised that her mouth is having a few ulcer!
Since they are going back the next day afternoon, so decided to see the doctor only when they are back home.

The following Wednesday Leanne was diagnose with HFM!!!
Her mum was very puzzle as in how could Leanne be infected when she is not attending school or childcare. (She is recovering well now.. but she had infected another niece.. sigh!!)

Only when I told my mum about this, then she realised that the cause could be Joey as she was having some ulcer!!
I was so shocked and quite upset that my mum overlooked this and she didn't told me about it at all. The worst thing was, Lucas's toys were also being played by Joey and she forgot to wash them when they went back home!!
My mum quickly called Joey's Dad and they confirmed that she is having HFM!!!!!

Till now, Lucas did not show any signs and I think he should be quite safe... Thank God & Breast milk for his strong immunity... :)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Feeding nightmare

It's getting more & more difficult to feed Lucas these days.

Refused milk, refused porridge.

When it's milk feeding time, he will just suck the bottle but no milk is being drink. He looks as if he is drinking with the sucking sound but when I put the bottle down, it's still at 7 oz!!!

When it comes to porridge feeding, eyes rubbing, head swinging, lips tightly closed, staring at the TV (even when it's showing the news) and treat me as if I'm transparent!!

When you ask, "Lucas, do you want your stars?" His will grin from ear to ear and start shouting "Star Star"
("Stars" is actually the Gerber baby cereals in star shape and that's where he learnt the word)
When he sees that container of Post cereal on the coffee table, he will shout for "mum mum"
He just loves his biscuits but I can't be giving him that all the time.

I know kids tends to refuse food or have poor appetite. Hope I will get over these soon!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Chocolate Chips & Raisin Muffins

Browse through quite a few blogs on baking and decide to give muffins baking a try...

The first time failed as I over mixed the batter (suppose to be lumpy but i got it smooth)
They still turn out to look like muffins but then they are quite hard and dry. The next day, I think they taste almost like scorns!



The 2 time i was a little too greedy and fill up the muffins cups to the brim. Ended up with muffins overflowed!!



So I did another batch again.. Ah-ha.. i got it.. this time i only half filled the muffins cups.






Taste wise is not too bad as I follow exactly the recipe provided by one of the blogger mummy.

With the 3 baking experience.. I "confidently" promise Amy to bake some for her birthday.

As I still prefer them to be abit overflow and so I actually filled up the cups a little bit more than half.. and the results are quite ok.
So here are the ones for Amy.. Happy 21st Birthday Amy!!







Individually packed muffins for Amy's guests :)


Recipe source: Happy Home Baking

Monday, May 4, 2009

Labour Day Cooking..

Did lots of cooking over the long weekend.. end up I was so exhausted that I couldn't get out of bed on time for work on Monday morning !

But the efforts are paid off as Lucas finished almost 90% of his meals and Des finished everything that I serve him for lunch. :)

I only cooked once for adult meal. Think it's easier for us to buy packed food back from coffee-shop rather than cooking. It's very tedious as I need to look after Lucas, do housework and do cooking.. never in my life am I so busy at home than at work.

Made some stock to cook porridge for Lucas hopefully it will make his porridge more flavourful. Every weekend when he is back home with us, he simply refuse to take his porridge even though I uses the same cooking method as my mum...

Stock cooked using chicken bones, potato, carrot & corn.. taste so sweet! Yes, it's oily due to the chicken bones, so we have to filter it before using for cooking.



Uses it to cook porridge with dried scallops, Japanese sweet potato (those with purple skin), pumpkin and fish / chicken. Added the carrot & corn from the soup as well. I tasted the porridge and it's really nice.. (WY, if you are reading this, trust me, slow cooker works, it does cook tasty porridge!)



Home made pasta sauce for Lucas's spaghetti, cooked using tomatoes, diced carrot, chopped onions & minced chicken.



Baby spaghetti for Lucas, he took about 3/4 of it. (had to cut the spaghetti into smaller pieces so that he can chew and digest).



Bought some salmon and decided to pan fried them for me & Des's lunch.

Salmon marinated with salt, pepper, lemon juice and herbs, oh my.. they look so fresh!!



The final product... Yummy & juicy pan-fried salmon!!
(oops... did you see the burnt salmon skin?? It taste nice actually though unhealthy..hee)



Tada! Lunch for me and Des. Spaghetti cooked with ready made pasta sauce serve with pan fried salmon.



Also tried out making this Mash Potato for Lucas. Thinks he is sick of porridge, porridge and more porridge everyday.. So decided to give him something different.

Mash Potato with tuna flake, diced carrot, broccoli and corn kernels. Added with some cheddar cheese before baking it in the oven.



Mash potato freshly baked from oven, only slightly bake to melt the cheese.



Mash it up & it's ready to be serve!!



Recipes source : Tona-mama & Little Gastronomy

Friday, May 1, 2009

Some changes to be made..

After much considerations, Mummy decided to make some changes to this blog.

It will still be a blog to update my growing up, but going forward Mummy will blog in her capacity.

She thinks that this is the best because at the same time, she can make use of the same blog to put down her thoughts as well (rather than keeping 2 blogs)

Of course, the main subject will still be me and on me.. and of course she will try to keep posting as much pictures / videos of me as possible.
Recently, it become more and more difficult to take pictures of me. I now seldom want to pose and smile at the camera...

She might be changing the layout and theme of the blog as well.

Stay tuned!!