What to do with Mandarin Oranges??

Thanks Joyce (jthorge) for sharing this muffin recipe using the orange juices from the CNY mandarin oranges. Instead of leaving it to rot, I used some of it to make this simple and yet delicious Blueberry and Mandarin Orange Muffins.

Happy Valentine's Day - 14th Feb!

Wishing all pals a Happy Valentine's Day!

This cake is baked for A. Thanks for being such a wonderful friend:) Hope she enjoy the cake.




with some leftover melted chocolate yesterday, I made into little chocolate cuppies..

Birthday Cake for Hubby

11th Feb is Hubby's b'day. We had dinner at A's place on 10th Feb. Thanks for her yummy prawn noodles soup! Thanks B for his great wines too! We enjoyed the good food and great company on that night!

I baked a birthday cake for hub to share this joyous occasion with a few friends on that evening:)

More CNY Goodies!

Managed to upload more of my CNY cookies today.. squeeze out sometimes this afternoon to do some updating before I am back to my daily chores! hehe..













Assorted Pineapple Tarts
(Thanks Got2bme for her recipe)

Crispy Almond Slices
(Thanks Yochana for her recipe)


Green Peas Cookies

ready packed and gave away...

CNY COOKIES

WISHING EVERYONE "A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS LUNAR NEW YEAR!"

GONG XI FATT CHOY!!



Melting Moments - Original Flavour


Melting Moments - Chocolate Flavour


Peanut Cookies (using fine peanut powder)


Crunchy Peanut Cookies (using roasted chopped peanuts)


Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies


Chocolate Chip Cookies


Green Bean Cookies

Oreo-Cookies Cheesecake

With 2 blocks of creamcheese, I decided to make a cheesecake for ds' cell group on Saturday. Knowing the children except elder ds, love anything chocolate, I was set on making a chilled Oreo-Cookies Cheesecake for them. I am happy that all of them like it very much. In the end, elder ds was tempted or I should say 'force' to give it a try by eating a small piece of it:)

Fishy Fishy!!

A simple dinner for all at home. We had fish and chips! But 'Ah Gong and Ah Ma'(my in-laws) not use to eating this (just fish and chips), I cooked some rice for them to eat with the fish instead. Well, I m glad that hub and the children love it. Oh btw, I bought the sutchi fillet at Carefour for $2.50/pkt. There are 3 big pcs in a pkt. I bought 4 pkts altogether. Think is on promotion then..

Here is my FISH AND CHIPS!

What we had for Christmas Day?

Is PARTYYYYYYY!!!!!! Yippee!!! Youngest bro-in-law suggested the Christmas Party to be held at my place this year. We usually do it every year at his place. So, this was our FIRST Christmas Party at home. We had some friends and relatives over to celebrate with us this festive occasion:)

We decided to do pot-luck. Beside the logcake and cupcakes, here are some of the dishes from friends and relatives. Was busy eating and only managed to take some of the food photos, missed out the pizzas, chicken drumlets, veg lemak, cocktail dessert etc...hehe..


Onigiri

Mee Siam
Mini Char Siew Pao
Roasted Duck
Mee Goreng
Salad with Mango Yogurt dressing

Colorful Agar Agar

Christmas Bakes - Logs and Cupcakes

Didn't have much time to bake much for Christmas this year. Very much wanted to bake some gingerbread cookies and shortbread cookies but time did not permit. Well, I managed to do 3 Logcakes and a batch of cupcakes.

From these to.....


Vanilla Logcake....







Chocolate Logcake and.......


Coffee Logcake



Baked a batch of Chocolate Brownie Muffins, frosted with chocolate ganache and decorated with toppers I bought from Taipei.

Bei-Tou, Taipei

Beitou 北投區 (Peitou in Wade-Giles) is a northern district of Taipei famous for its hot springs.





























One of the dessert shop in Beitou.






Traditional yam and sweet potatoes balls dessert (serve cold or warm).





Chilled Japanese Mochi drizzled with chocolate/mango sauce, topped with grounded nuts.

Sweet potatoes with Beancurd dessert served warm.

XI-MEN-DING, Taipei

Ximending (西門町) is the trendy shopping area just west of Downtown. It's popular with local students. If it's pink, plastic, and imported from Japan, you can probably find it on sale in a store here. To get to Ximending, take the MRT Blue (Bannan) Line and get off at Ximen Station.

Ximending is now called the “Harajuku” of Taipei.

* Introduction quoted from this website.
* click the above link to find our more.









Ah Zhong Mee-Sua


Korean Rice-Cake






Charcoal Grilled Japanese Muah-Chee

Modern Toilet Restaurant , Taipei (便所主题餐厅)

Modern Toilet, a toilet-themed dining place in Taiwan. All seats are made from toilet bowls and not chairs. We were all seated around a bathtub (this is our table) surrounded by toilet bowls (our chairs). Interesting huh! The food is served in individual toilet bowl (the main dish) with few side dishes along . Our desserts, ice-cream and ice-shaved fruit platters serve in squat toilets. The ice-cream is shaped like faeces... yulky but we are game to give it a try! haha.. The children especially find it very fun to be there. The pricing is reasonable, you can choose from Ala-carte or set menu, priced at abt SG10 - 15 bucks. It was indeed an unusual dining experience for us.

See their website for more branches.

Hello Kitty Cafe, Taipei

Kitty Cafe Taipei Taiwan
Hello Kitty Sweets

台北市大安路一段90號
90 Da'An Road (across the road from 45 Zhongxiao East Road (Sec. 4) Sogo department store)


Hello Kitty Sweets Cafe opened it's business since January 2008. Their business is so good that you've to make a reservation in advance just to make sure you get a table! Lucky we have our sil who is a taiwanese who helped us to arrange our luncheon there on one of our days in Taipei. We managed to get a table for 12 of us after an hour of waiting though we have made our reservation ahead. So, please book before you go otherwise you will have to wait hours as this cafe is very popular among locals and tourists as well! Gosh, this is crazy! The cafe is so pretty decorated, from the entrance to the dining areas with Hello Kitty picture frames. There are 2 storeys in all. The stairs leading to 2nd floor, the lightings, tables, chairs, the walls, cutleries all so beautifully display. The Hello Kitty cakes; big or small are just too pretty to be eaten. We went 'Wow and Wow!' at those cakes and dessert stuff! For sure we took as many pictures as we could..btw, min dining per pax is NT300. That's equivalent to about SG15.

I will let the photos do the talking here...

Back from Taipei!

Have not been active in blogging..needless to say no baking for quite sometimes too. Health is the main reason.. for 2 to 3 months, on and off I was feeling giddy and head was spinning terribly. I have consulted my family doctor and gynae several times, from taking blood tests, whole body check-up to scanning. I have to reassure I am alright. Well, things didn't look quite bad, scanned result showed that I ve a cyst and a fibroid. My fibroid is harmless and as long as is not growing, gynae advised me to leave it alone first. It was the cyst that is giving me the problem and i had to get it remove by taking a 10days medication course. It did remove but it affected my menstrual cycle, my period lasts at least 10 days instead the normal 4 days now, and my flow is excessively heavy, running like a tap sometimes... Thus, it lead to loss of too much blood every month. Medical report shows I have low blood and everyone commented I'm looking too pale. Doctor prescribed Iron tablets for me to take daily and I will be seeing her in a month time to have my body check again. I m relieve that I m feeling much better, praying hard my health will get better day by day.

Christmas is coming!! Guess I will not be able to bake as much as last year, probably just two logcakes for 2 invited parties :)

Well yes, I was away for holiday with my hubby, 2 children along with my bil's families in Taipei. The lucky thing is I was very well thru out the whole trip! I standby my medicines but didn't need it at all. Thanks GOD! I truly enjoyed my trip! Will be downloading some of the photos soon to share with everyone :)

Home-Cooked Luncheon

My colleague, LT, also my lunch kaki has gone for a holiday break last Wed and will only be back next Wed. Didn't want to lunch alone outside, I prepared some simple one-dish meal and brought to work on Thu and Fri, and I will continue to do so till next Wed when she is back to work :)

Very simple dish, I made Spaghetti for Thurday. Some olive oil to brown the minced garlic, lots and lots of it..added some Honey Chopped Ham and a handful of beansprouts. Seasonings wise is very simple, salt and pepper, and added a tablespoon of hot pepper sauce. I know we don't add beansprouts into Spag but I just love the crunch and as long as is yummy, who cares right! hahaha.. I sprinkled some seaweeds mix as toppings and sliced few pcs of Japanese cucumber to go along. I used my hp to take the pic, so is not so clear :)






For Fri, I made Minced Meat to eat with Rice. Is good enough and very filling. Oh, I love the Spicy Hae-bee-Hiam. I added a few tablespoon into my rice, oh gosh, is so delicious!

Sweet & Savoury Breads

I have not been baking breads for quite a while. Dss's buddy came to stay overnight and I baked some breads for their tea-time. The bread flour that I used is from Japan. My galfriend bought a kg for me. The texture is very fine as compared to the local bread flour that I used. It still stayed soft on 3rd day.

KAYA BUNS

CHOCOLATE CHIPS BUNS

BLUEBERRY BUNS

HOT DOG BUNS



HOT DOG WITH CHEDDAR CHEESE BUNS

CHILLI HAM BUNS

HOT & SPICY SAUSAGE BUNS

TUNA MAYO BUNS

HAM WITH SEAWEED BUNS

CHICKEN FLOSS BUNS

Breakfast & Dinner

My galfriend brought few of us to a wholesaler in Jurong and we bought many stuff from there. I used some of the stuff that I bought to make breakfast and dinner for my family.



Cheddar Cheese Sausage with Harshbrown and Omelette

Ooooo... the cheeseeeee..........

Bought 3 nos. of Cornish Game Hen... and I grilled these....

marinated with Salt & Pepper..... with side dish, Onion Rings...the children's favourite!

A packet of the Hot & Spicy Marinate.... the output....



These were so yummilicious!!! MY children and Hubby craved for more of these chicken!