When the girl wants to go downstairs for a walk...

Firstly, Mama puts on a bottom pce for her (if not she'll be in diapers only). In this case, a pair of leggings. The pair her Dad said "very auntie". Hello 死老头, Baby Gap leggings very auntie meh?



Then she somehow got the idea that we are going for gai gai and she picks up my Miffy bag for me. The one I usually carry with me for nearby trips.

There, this one :)

Checking for the contents in the bag.

Digging is more efficient.

She managed to open the note compartment of my wallet... and took out a $2 note.

And finally realised that a tenner can do much more. Ha!

P/S: This was days ago. Days after (now), she simply points to her pair of Hello Kitty mary janes left on the dining table to indicate her wanting to go gai gai. Upon bringing the shoes to her, she immediately sits on the floor to let me put on the shoes for her and let me hold her hands to walk the step out of the house. Next thing, she slams the metal gate close and off she walks towards lift lobby.

Recent cooks

"Cooks this week" is getting harder to do. Running out of ideas (and skills of course) of what to cook these days...

Another attempt at making fish tofu - This is how it looks like when it is steamed. After cooling down, it is ready to be cut into smaller pieces.



And this is the Fish Tofu with assorted veggies. Pretty right the fish tofu? 1 of my proudest creations :)

Finally made use of the porcelain ware from Daiso after so long...

Ah... bird's nest for dessert. Well I had a few pieces leftover from my preggie days. Was supposed to consume it all the way from can't remember which week to week 40 but not disciplined enough to make it weekly during that period so now I have it once a while when I feel like having a little treat. See how concentrated it is? That's why I never ever buy those bottled ones. Much more cheaper to make my own and it's quite effortless too.

A simple dinner of pasta with chicken in cream sauce. Pasta for me and plain rice for the husband (pasta hater).

First attempt at 冬瓜汤. Why I did not attempt it earlier?? So simple to cook and so tasty. The little one LOVES it.

Cheater dish - 奶白with luncheon meat. Found leftover luncheon meat in the fridge so I fried the dish with lots of chilli padi. Super spicy man. I eat till damn happy :)

The super upgraded version of My Lonely Lunch - 当归鸡. Defrosted a drumstick the night before and marinated it with 当归，枸杞子，玉竹片and 红枣overnight. Steamed it for about 40min and there I have a very nutritious lunch :) Why do I have to defrost my meat? I have this standard procedure to buy a few drumsticks at the wet market every week and pack them into separate plastic bags for convenience. The 当归taste was very strong. Felt very 补after eating it. Will definitely make this for K's dinner 1 of these days. He will be very very impressed. Hehe...

Linguine Carbonara. Just watched an Italian chef demostrate this on Martha Stewart's show few days back. The chef said that carbonara does not require cream as it is usually perceived to. I decided to try make it. Streaky bacon was used. I do not know what atas cured meat the chef used. I assume is similar to pancetta kind. Results was ok just that my pan was too hot resulting the egg yolk to curdle a bit. And I didn't have any Parmesean cheese to go along. Just discovered the 2 packs of cheese in my fridge were expired ones. Quite a satisfying meal I made for my dinner while K who looked down on my pasta (when I mentioned pasta for dinner he replied that he will buy FRIED RICE from downstairs) turned up his nose.

I didn't exactly make these dumplings. I merely pan fried them and put some cherrylinos to pair up. These are the Fairprice house brand chives dumplings I recently discovered. Surprisingly good and good to have those in the freezer in case of emergency. Never look down on house brands again ok? :P

It's Huggies day

Just back from the mall with 2 packs Huggies Ultra and found the Huggies Comfort sample in the mailbox. Very generous sample. 10pcs :)

iphone 4 pics

Ironically the pics were taken by K's colleague's wife on another colleague's iphone... hehehe

Miss Funny Expression

A comedy edition with continuation from Miss Kiam Pa Face which Clarice enjoyed very much...

And 2 smiley ones :))

湘颖走走

Kind of wobbly. I must buy her real soled shoes now!

Cooks this week

Was a bit mad about bacons this week...

Inspired by R's fb pics and could not help it but to make some for dinner. Too hungry that day and I had my dinner at 6pm!! K was back late that day. Luckily I didn't wait for him!



Made it again when my baby bro came over with his friend. Better presentation this time :)

Used enoki mushrooms instead of shimeiji. Both were equally good. Can't make this too often. Before I could clog my arteries, I think I clog the waistband of my underwear and bottoms first :(

Remember I cooked congee for my lonely lunch using the leftover stock last week? I promised to be hardworking this week right? 4 1/4 hrs to boil my chicken soya bean stock and another 1.5hrs to cook the congee! Even K agreed this was on similar standard with Crystal Jade's congee. Or maybe that was because I asked him repetitively yes or not? yes or not? yes or not? And he had to agree with me... Anyway for those ppl wondering why does CJ's congee taste so "creamy"? They use new crop rice. I did not use that but I used short grain rice which can also make the congee to have that consistency. Don't use normal Thai rice if you want it that way.

Steamed egg tofu with minced pork. The minced pork quite tough. Did I oversteam it or all lean meat that's why?

Veggie wasn't steamed together. I poured veggie with some sauce over the steamed dish. See AJ always like to do extra and end up have to wash extra frying pan. Btw, I take back my dislike for Shanghai Greens :)

湘颖走天桥

Before leaving home this afternoon, I took a few shots of little湘颖. Doesn't she look very hiao and model wannebe? Can't believe how much my little girl has grown up :)

I think she has the potential to model for shoes as well :P



My darling is still a baby to me no matter what...

Miss Kiam Pa Face

I wonder if she's born domineering...