Breakfast 21.10.06

A very sinful breakfast.......

Pizza

Thanks to Aunt Del for the recipe and Tina Jie for the tips. I managed to make the pizza tonight. I prepared the dough in advance using my breadmaker.

Chicken Dumpling with Yee Mee

Left office on time today to go for a swim. By the time I reached home, the haze seemed to get worse and decided not to go swimming. Did not plan to cook initially. Still got dumpling skin leftover in the fridge. So just made do with what I have in the fridge.

Chicken Dumpling with Yee Mee

Feast of the month

Whip up another feast today. Isaac is going back to India end of the month and going to UK to work. Moreover, his wife will be going back to India first on 16th so we decided to invite them over for dinner tonight. At the same time, hubby also invited some ex colleagues over for dinner. The dishes are almost the same. I really wanted to make something different. Seemed like hubby only know to order these few dishes for gatherings. haiz... Initially, wanted to make pizza but realised I do not have cornmeal. Then decided to make the no baked cheesecake since I have cheese in the fridge. After preparing biscuits base, realised I do not know to how fix the mixer. So cant make cheesecake also. :(
Chicken Rice

Spaghetti

Sweet & Sour Fish

Chicken Dumpling Soup & Prawn in sambal chilli with egg

Marinated Guava as appetizer & Mango Pudding as dessert

Snowskin Mooncake part 2

Made the 2nd batch of mooncakes... Thanks Josh once again!

Snowskin Mooncake

Made the snowskin mooncake tonight. Went to choose and try gowns for the photos shooting in the afternoon and then went Bugis Junction for dinner. Actually, was too tired liao. But I already bought the ingredients last sat. If I dun make some today, I afraid I cant finish them by Friday.

This year, decided to stick to snowskin mooncake using Josh's recipe. Last year, I failed to bake the mooncakes and the ingredients ended up in the rubbish bin. Such a big waste. :( But I do not know what happen this year also. Many cracks in the mooncakes and so uneven. So sad.. Maybe will try making them tomorrow or Wednesday.

Fried sambal Tanghoon

Cooked "teochew" style porridge to go with sambal tang hoon & xiao bai cai for breakfast
Fried Sambal Tanghoon

Coleslaw

With Tina's tips, I decided to make some coleslaw to go with the spaghetti and baked chicken.


It also had been so long I baked cripsy chicken. Yeah. turned out better than previous times. Best of all, no oil was used. :)


Made 1 plate of spaghetti to share also. Seemed like we had a heavy dinner tonight. *guilty*

Claypot Vegetables Yi Mee

No more kuay teow when I went to market during lunch time. But had a nice lunch instead. :) Still feel like cooking one dish meal for tonight dinner. Decided to use my new claypot and cook Yi Mee with all the vegetables I have. Though no meat, it cannot be considered as a vegetarian dish as I put shallots and egg. I only cooked one piece of Yi Mian out of the whole packet. We still have problem finishing this claypot. Think I add too much vege & tau pok.

Chocolate Mousse cake

Today, went to Josh house to collect the mixer and also learnt how to make the cake from him. When I saw his posts days ago, I like it very much and am sure my hubby will like it. So decided to learn from him at the same time. hehe...

Today is really a fruitful day for me @ Josh place, received a mixer, learnt the cake method, saw his flowers and plants, had seafood pasta made by Josh and I even had the chance to bring back the cake. Thanks, Josh!!!

Fried Vegetarian Egg Noodles

There is 1/2 pack of egg noodles in the cabinet leftover. Decided to make a simple dinner with cabbage & carrot.

Dinner

Chicken cubes with potatoes

Beans with carrot

Spaghetti

Ever since I started to work in the new job, today is the 1st time I experienced heavy rain after work. It had been almost a month already. Wanted to cook porridge again. I thought having porridge on a rainy day will be quite nice. BUT when I reached home, I feel like cooking spaghetti. Haiz.. This is me. Always change my mind. haha... In the end, spaghetti for dinner.
I have cabbage & carrot in the fridge and a bottle of salad cream bought by hubby. Feel like making coleslaw for him as he asked me whether I know how to make coleslaw. Frankly speaking, I do not know. haha... I was brought up in a kitchen with chinese cooking. No western cooking. I learnt how to cook spaghetti on my bintan trip. Josh taught me how to make it before. However, I did not take down the notes. I just cut the vege and put in the salad cream and little bit of salt. Taste very funny. Think I am wrong to use the salad cream. Must go and check with my shi fu later. haha :P


These are what I made for dinner 2 days ago.

Cauliflower with carrot and mushroom.

Sambal hae bee with baby kai lan

Tiramisu

Today, he bought back a cake made by inmates that he ordered few days ago. He will be posted out in Sep so decided to order the cake back for me to try. Otherwise, no chance to try liao. Verdict: Soft and not too sweet.

Teochew style porridge

I had lost voice for a few days. Finally, I regained back my voice today. But the cough still persists. Had no choice but to see the doctor again for the cough. Decided to cook something very simple but our favourite for dinner tonight after seeing the doctor. Moreover, he will be home late too after his table tennis game.

Stir fried Baby Kai Lan

French beans with carrot.

Yes and No

The cake is out. The verdict is successful and unsuccessful.

Yes, the cakes are out. No waste of the ingredients.















No, there is a crack on the loaf cake again.















If the cake top portion can be like the bottom too.... So even.....

Lunch for my family

Thinking this is a super late post. Cant remember exactly was it 3 weeks ago or 1 month ago that I made this lunch.

Curry Vegetables














Braised Chicken wings















Overall

Sigh.. and sigh...

The pooh play room had been shut down temporary for operations. However, her hands are so itchy today and wanted to bake a cake for her new colleagues. Guess what? After I put in the sugar and butter into the bowl, the cake mixer is not responding at all. It is down.... Sob.. sob... There are 250gm butter and 200gm of sugar. I really do not wish to see them ending up in the rubbish bin. It is such a big waste if I throw them away. Went over to my neighbour & see whether I can borrow one from them. BUT they do not bake so no electric mixer to lend.

Tried online at MSN but no advisor is around to assist me. I decided to use the newly purchased wire whisk and beat them manually. I remembered I beating something manually during sec school days. Its baking in the oven now. Don't know how the texture will be like. Its very tiring to beat them manually. HOPE it will turn out well.

Anyway, the master agreed to get the pooh play room a new toy. hehe... A good excuse for me to buy something. Been thinking of the mixer from KitchenAid all along. But I do not think I will get it this time round. Unlike Josh, I will not make very good use of this mixer. He can play with that toy better than me. Moreover, its so expensive. Better don't waste money. I will just get one normal electric mixer.

Too lazy or too busy??? haha...

Been too busy or too lazy to post? I also dunno. My dear hubby is on diet prog now so the pooh play room have to be shut down for operations coz no one to be my guinea pig liao. haha.. But I wanted to make something today. Will see how later. hehe...

Dinner tonight.

Been talking to Solo and Josh on what should I cook.

By the time I post up all these pictures, too tired already. No going to write a lot...going to zzzz...







The carrot cake for them to pack home

Baking time

He is trying to rush out one report so we cannot go out today. After finishing the housework in the morning. Went online and met Josh and Judy there. Discussing what should we do today. Josh wanted to go Daiso @ IMM. I decided to bake something for my colleagues to eat since I am leaving in 2 weeks' time. Initially, wanted to bake cookies and cake today. By the time I reached home, its already 5 plus. Decided to bake the butter cake 1st. It took me almost an hour to finish baking the loaf cake. After the baking and dinner, sianz already. hehe.. so no cookies.

Sambal vegetarian bee hoon for dinner tonight