Mum's Birthday Celebration

Every year during the month of April, I will be celebrating 2 of the most important persons in my life, none other than my Mum and Jared. This year I baked a sponge cake for my mum but it didn't turn out as well as the one I baked last year as I am still adjusting to my new oven.

I have been wanting to buy a turn table for icing my cakes, so when I saw this in one of the baking ingredients shop for a reasonable price, I immediately bought it. This turn table makes is so much simpler to apply the frosting and smooth it. I can also use it as a turn table for my dishes :)

Penang White Curry Noodle

My friend introduced this instant noodle to me and he purposely passed me a packet to try out. A person who tries to avoid instant noodle, fell in love with it instantly. 
I try to avoid eating when kids are around. Few weeks ago, I was actually craving for it, so I drove home from office during one of my lunch time, and wallop a big bowl of curry mee with added ingredients.. Yummy...

Jared's 5th Birthday

Tomorrow, Jared will be turning 5. We had an earlier celebration for him today at home within ourselves.
He has changed his mind 3 times about the type of cake he wanted and finally settled for a minion cake. I found some minions cake topper made of sugar when I was getting the ingredients for his cake from the baking ingredients shop. 
This year I decided to make him banana chocolate cupcakes, top with cream cheese frosting, added with edible yellow color.

Jie Jie gave him a little present of minion made using the pyssla beads

Jared Plays the Piano

Jared has started learning piano since January this year. His has the same piano teacher as Emily.
Some of the songs that he played during his practice sessions.



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Emily - School Choral Speaking Competition 2014

This is the 2nd year Emily has joined her school Choral Speaking team. Last week I took half day off to go to her school to watch the competition among other schools. Her school took the 3rd position, out of 4 schools which competed.

World's Women Squash Championship '14

Few weeks ago, the new SPICE arena was hosting the World's Women Squash Championship. We managed to get free tickets for the Opening & Final Games. The matches were interesting but we were disappointed that Nicol did not manage to enter the finals.

HomeMade Nutmeg Syrup

Soak whole nutmeg fruit till clean. Then slice into at least 6 pieces. Add the mace to enhance the flavor

Use 1 kg rock sugar for 1 kg nutmeg

Arrange a few pieces of rock sugar at bottom side of slow cooker pot, 

add nutmeg and finally the rest of the rock sugar. Cook for about 8 hours.

After 7+ hours, this is how it looks like.
Leave it to cool before draining the syrup.

Emily - Ne Tirez Pas Sur Le Pianiste

Dream Car ??

I have no idea how Jared has managed to pester daddy to draw this car . Is this daddy's or Jared's dream car ?

Cooking Fun #5

Soupy BakKutTeh

Dried BakkutTeh, cooked using the meat and soup of BKT
with tiny anchovies.

3 cups chicken

Assam Babi

Chicken Cordon Bleu (but did not turn out well)

Desserts

Mango Lassi 

Banana Milk Shake

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Baked Nin Gao wrapped with Pastry Skin

Nin Gao Taro Rolls

Turon

Thanks to JY for continuously pouring me with recipe ideas