My First ~ Green Tea Chiffon

Chiffon and swiss roll always are my favourite. Since I start baking after being a full time mommy at home, I have no confident to try these, as my baking skill still on junior level. Hehehe...

Finally, I bought a chiffon pan on Dec 2014, only have time to try my first Chiffon end of December. Surprisingly, it turned out perfectly!!! It was super soft, super spongy and super moist. Yummy!!!!

My first chiffon was green tea flavour, as in my kitchen only have green tea powder. ^^

As usual, my baking will not put in any artificial coloring, flavoring and other chemical. Try my to reduce or totally eliminate the use of baking powder and baking soda.

Green Tea Chiffon Recipe

(A) Egg yolks - 5

       Sugar - 20gram

       

(B) Water - 90ml (20ml green tea + 70ml water)

       Oil - 60ml

(C) Superfine Flour - 125gram

(D) Egg white - 5

      Sugar - 90gram

      Lemon Juice - 1tsp 

1. Whisk (A) well then add in the (B) mixed well.

2. Gently fold in the (C), then set aside.

3. Whisk the egg white till soft peak. Avoid any water into the egg white, as a single drop of water will spoiled the meringue.

4. Scrap in the meringue into the egg yolk batter.

5. Bake in the oven 160c for 50 minutes.

~Bun~

明天给孩子的早餐准备好啦！有四种选择有 ~ 肉松小面包，Chocolate 小面包, Cheese 小面包 和 Butter小面包。让他们尝试不同口味的小面包！

原本就只是想简简单单做个 ~Hazelnut Wholemeal Loaf。到后来还是手痒痒，拿来做小面包。加上各种不同的口味来给孩子选。

已经凌晨一点钟了，但我永远抵挡不过面包的香味，每一个口味都被我吞掉了。哈哈哈……

看看这面包的柔软度！我又怎能忍住口不吃呢？太……太……太好吃了！

小孩的世界

小孩子的世界很简单，也很单纯。我们常都形容小孩子就像张白纸，由父母与身边的人为他们画面、涂上颜色。

身为母亲的我，都会尽能力以正能量来教导他们。最重要的是，孩子们一定要—开心。

今天跟小情人到超市进货 + 买菜。付钱时，小情人就如往常一样帮我把货物一一放进环保袋中。时工作人员看到他那么乖巧，就给他一粒会 "飞" 上天的汽球。

就这么一粒小汽球，小情人多么的高兴，无论见到谁(包括我们公寓的 guard)，都高高兴兴的告诉他说:"I have a flying balloon!” 因为平时他拿到的汽球是飞不起的。

小孩子不就是应该这样的吗？

新年快乐！Happy New Year!

转眼间，今天就是年三十了！第一年自己烘焙年饼，还是在最后五天才开始烘焙，才有四款。只有绿豆饼，杏仁酥，花生饼和腰豆饼。

自己已经很满意了，本人要求不高 ^^ 哈哈哈…… Anyway，新年快乐！Happy New Year!

Crochet Aeroplane

This is the first order from my customer to crochet according the photo. It was quite tough for me, as I go through a lot of failure before it ended up look similar to the photo provided. How you think?

Personally amended the side, as the original make the crochet aeroplane too complicated.

什么是全值妈妈？！

新年衣服买了，年饼烘焙了，最后就是帮我的小情人剪头发过年咯！美吗？不……不……不……应该说，型吗？哈哈哈……我也是第一次试剪这款发型，没想到蛮适合小情人。接着，也要跟宝贝换这个发型。

很多妈妈们常问我，生孩子之前是做么的？好的……读大学时，我开始教补习，教小孩游泳，因为我最爱游泳与小孩。我读的是关于 ~ 海洋。工作大多都要下海。这就是十年前的我。^^

结婚后，不想到处去了，就安定下来，找份 office work，朝九晚五，就误打误撞，当上 Head Hunter。也蛮喜爱这份工作，一做就做了四年。

直到小情人出世后，就当上了全值妈妈，因为我觉得~妈妈是孩子的最佳教师。孩子长大得太快了，我也不想以后后悔。后悔陪伴孩子的时间太少。我会尽量陪伴孩子们，减少他们看电视的时间。

全值妈妈也不等于 “富太/少奶奶” 因为我这个全值妈妈要包完全部，做家务，煮饭，洗衣，顾孩子…… 是365天，24 小时，全年无休的工作。加上样样都要省，因为家里的收入已经少了一大半！

而“富太/少奶奶” 是完全都不必做，有佣人跟在后，每天去 shopping & high tea。

所以请别再叫我 “富太/少奶奶”，我只是个 ~ 全值妈妈。

升级为妈咪后，什么都学习去做，裁缝，下厨，烘焙，缝制，教学……当然也包括剪发。我不是厉害，但只想告诉妈妈们，任何事想做，就去做。别以为自己做不来，就不去尝试。尝试过，再练习，再学习，告诉自己 - 我可以做到的！我也是慢慢学的。

这些只是自己一点点的分享，妈妈们，我会尽量列出我们在一起的 activity。我尽量啦，因为全值妈妈真的蛮忙的。

~杏仁酥~ Almond Cookies

星期六才做了绿豆饼，感觉蛮容易，简单。加上孩子也帮忙，星期日又做另一个口味 ~杏仁酥~

这次搓杏仁酥的工作全交给孩子们完成。我就可以轻轻松松地…………拍照？！没有啦，要做家务嘛！^^

杏仁酥与绿豆饼的做法一样，先把粉类 mixed well，倒入粟米油，搓成圆形，涂上蛋黄液，就放进 oven, 150度，15分钟。好啦！可以吃啦！

~杏仁酥~ Almond Cookies Recipe
杏仁粉 - 100gram

特幼面粉 - 180gram

糖粉 - 100gram
盐 - 1/4 小匙
发粉 - 1/4 小匙

粟米油 - 120ml

~绿豆饼~ Green Pea Cookies

孩子们问我这个周末，有什么 activity 呢？想想…………再五天就新年了，就与孩子们一起动动手做年饼 ~绿豆饼~

很简单的绿豆饼，我只负责把全部 mixed 在一起，接下来的工作就由孩子们与老公完成咯！我做么呢？拍照咯！哈哈哈…………

我两个孩子的好是，他们会把工作完成，很少会半途而费。看看他们多忙！

别看他小小年纪（三岁+），搓汤圆一流！虽然这不是汤圆啦，但动作一样嘛！因为他有耐心，很多时候比哥哥搓的更圆，更美。

 搓好后，就是时候印个小洞洞。

然后就涂上一层蛋黄，弟弟多么专心在涂呀涂，涂呀涂。涂好后，就放进 oven, 150度，15分钟。好啦！可以吃啦！

~新年快乐！~

~绿豆饼~ Green Pea Cookies Recipe

绿豆粉 - 500gram

特幼面粉 - 400gram

糖粉 - 150gram

粟米油 - 300ml

Baking ~ Chocolate Chips Muffins

This is what my big boy always request for ~ Chocolate Chips Muffins!

Chocolate always not my cup of tea, just my big boy love it. So, not much comments, yet it still soft and yummy. Chocolate lovers will like it as my boy does.

As a mom of two, I mainly baking for kids, so I try not to use too much of chemicals and artificial ingredients, but organic raw materials instead. My cooking and baking always low in sugar, oil and salt. My kids have same taste bud as me too, they do not like sweet as well. If you are following my recipe and like the sweet taste, better add on some sugar (maybe around 30g - 50g).

We do not like sweet. If prefer sweet, can sprinkled some cinnamon-sugar on tops of the muffins before baking. Be careful do not burn the top of the muffins. OR may try other glazed to your favor.

For a nicer favor, may add in 1 tsp of vanilla essence into the wet ingredients. I would try to be more nature as usual.

As usual, most of the recipes on always start with ~ preheat the oven. But for me, I am a bit s~l~o~w, so I would like to take out all the ingredients, cool down to room temperature (if necessary) then measure the quantity as required first. After all these are done, then only I preheat my oven.

Chocolate Chips Muffins
Dry Ingredients: 2 cups (250g) self-raising flour 110g granulated sugar 2 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips	Wet Ingredients: ½ cup (120g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled 2 large eggs 2/3 cup (160ml) milk
(bake 12 regular muffins)

1. In a bigger bowl, mixed well the dry ingredients, fold in the chocolate chips at last.
2. In another bowl, whisk all the wet ingredients.  MUST mixed well!
3. Pour the wet ingredients into dry ingredients, gently fold in till moist, do not over mixed.

I had tried a few time to find out the best temperature and duration for my oven before I get the BEST results. The best for my cheap oven is 160^oC for 25-30 minutes. How about yours???

~Happy Baking~

Baking ~ Cranberry Muffins

Awaken at 530 in the morning by my little boy asking for my milk. Ya.... my 35 months little boy still breastfeeding. Aih... Since woke up, let's bake some fresh muffins for my family breakfast. Checked in the fridge... Checked what was available?? chocolate? hmm.... only my big boy like it, I do not like chocolate. Hmmm...  Cranberry! My favourite!!! OK, let's bake ~ Cranberry Muffins!

I ate three right after the photo taken, this cool boys were super moist! Add on with my favourite cranberry, Mmmmm..... superb!!! Had them together with a hot coffee, enjoying the morning breeze, sitting at the balcony, watching the moon, awaiting for the sunrise. Wow... Nice morning! All of lovers were still sleeping!

As a mom of two, I mainly baking for kids, so I try not to use too much of chemicals and artificial ingredients, but organic raw materials instead. My cooking and baking always low in sugar, oil and salt. My kids have same taste bud as me too, they do not like sweet as well. If you are following my recipe and like the sweet taste, better add on some sugar (maybe around 30g - 50g).

As usual, most of the recipes on always start with ~ preheat the oven. But for me, I am a bit s~l~o~w, so I would like to take out all the ingredients, cool down to room temperature (if necessary) then measure the quantity as required first. After all these are done, then only I preheat my oven.

Cranberry Muffins
Dry Ingredients: 2 ½ cups (320g) self-raising flour 130g granulated sugar ¼ tsp salt Zest of 1 lemon	Wet Ingredients: 1 cup (240ml) buttermilk 120ml oil 1 large egg 1 cup Cranberries
(bake 12 muffins)

1. In a bigger bowl, mixed well the dry ingredients.
2. In another bowl, whisk all the wet ingredients.  MUST mixed well!
3. Pour the wet ingredients into dry ingredients, gently fold in till moist, do not over mixed.

I had tried a few time to find out the best temperature and duration for my oven before I get the BEST results. The best for my cheap oven is 160^oC for 25-30 minutes. How about yours???

~Happy Baking~

Baking ~ Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

When I was cooking for lunch this morning, found a leftover lemon in the fridge. An idea popped into my mind ~ Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins!

This really a extra soft & super yummy delicious muffins. Due to the citrus fruits, it really an open appetite for tea time to eat together with a cup of hot coffee of my favor. I love the texture and the tangy lemon flavor and addition of crunchy poppy seeds.

As a mom of two, I mainly baking for kids, so I try not to use too much of chemicals and artificial ingredients, but organic raw materials instead. My cooking and baking always low in sugar, oil and salt. My kids have same taste bud as me too, they do not like sweet as well. If you are following my recipe and like the sweet taste, better add on some sugar (maybe around 30g - 50g).

As usual, most of the recipes on always start with ~ preheat the oven. But for me, I am a bit s~l~o~w, so I would like to take out all the ingredients, cool down to room temperature (if necessary) then measure the quantity as required first. After all these are done, then only I preheat my oven.

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Dry Ingredients: 2 cups (250g) self-raising flour 2 TBS poppy seeds ¼ tsp salt	Wet Ingredients: ½ cup (100g) unsalted butter 160g granulated sugar 2 large eggs Zest of 1 lemon 1 cup yogurt
(bake 12 muffins)

1. In a bigger bowl, mixed well the dry ingredients.
2. In another bowl, whisk room temperature butter till light, then add on sugar continue to whisk till light and fluffy.
3. Beat in the egg one by one till well mixed. MUST mixed well!
4. Add in zest of lemon and a cup of yogurt. I used normal Nestle plain yogurt. Mixed well again. Pour into 1, the dry ingredients, just moist, do not over mixed.

I had tried a few time to find out the best temperature and duration for my oven before I get the BEST results. The best for my cheap oven is 160^oC for 25-30 minutes. How about yours???

Oh ya...... I drizzle the top with ~Lemon Glaze~ once it is ready from the oven. This will enhance the lemon flavor of the muffins.

Lemon Glaze: 1 TBS lemon juice + 60g confectioners / icing sugar

~Happy Baking~

Has a mania for CROCHET

Yupe, being a full time mummy is super busy, but.... still looking for new stuff to try on ~CROCHET~

Herewith some of crochet, nice?

Baby beanie, toddler hat, baby booties, amigurumi (small stuff animals), bags, puppet, alphabet....

Washing Dishes by my Boy

At the age of 4, I had start to let him try to prepare milk by himself. I will well prepared a cup of warm water, a measuring cup (he takes 6oz), a fork (as stirrer), a cup and a BIG tray. 

Why a big tray???? Hahaha.... Cause I will put everything in the tray, this is to minimize the mess and easier for me to clean up.

This is not only allow him to be independent, at the same time, he learned how to "MEASURE" and count (2oz = 1 scoop of milk powder)

Although there was a bit mess, wasted a little of milk powder, he manage to complete the task without any mess after a month.

Why took a month so long????

My teaching method is - I will not force my kids to complete any task, unless they volunteer to do it by himself. Therefore, kids will not resist to do it by themselves in future. 

After mastering the skill, slowly, I introduced dish washing for him, not to wash our oily dishes, but start with his own milk drinking cup!

By encourage him on dish washing, I made his favourite Captain American Shield as his tawashi as below. Nice?

Age : 4 years 6 months
Chores : Prepare milk & Dish washing
***p/s: Do not force your kid on daily house chores. 

JOEY's DIY Homeschooling ~How my 18months toddler learnt alphabets & 123

Fully utilize the ABC mat in your house. This is how both my boys learnt the alphabet in their 18 months. At the same time, beside learning, they are helping parents to arrange the mat. For my 20 months toddler, he took about 30 minutes to put back all the alphabet (A to Z) back into the mat. During this 30 minutes, I able to cook for my families. YEAH!!!!

In fact, they are not only learning alphabets, but:-

• develop hand eye coordination
• fine motor skill, by putting in the alphabet, they will be interested in playing puzzle soon

**Tips: Do not arrange the alphabet mat in right order, just put in randomly. In order for them to learn.

Crochet - Fondant Minion

I am not crazy in Minion, but my boy like them. After spending a few days working on this, my boy holding it for lunch, dinner, sleeping etc....

Anyone interested to order this crochet Minion, can email me, psedornna@gmail.com OR do it by yourself following the steps below. Frankly speaking, I am the original of crocheting this minions, but I have lost the original post.

Body ~ Yellow yarn
Round 1 - 8sc, mc
Round 2 - inc 8sc (16sc)
Round 3 - inc 8sc (24sc)
Round 4 - inc 8sc (32sc)
Round 5-19 - remain 32sc
Round 20 - dcs back to 24 sc
Round 21 - dcs back to 16sc
Round 22 - dcs to 8sc
Round up the end, it a cylinder.

Overall ~ Blue yarn
Round 1 - 8sc, mc
Round 2 - inc 8sc (16sc)
Round 3 - inc 8sc (24sc)
Round 4 - inc 8sc (32sc)
Round 5-9 - remain 32sc
The following step will be the overall front/back,
Line 1 - 8sc, ch & turn
Line 2 - 8sc, ch & turn
Line 3 - 8sc, st. crochet about 30 chains for the overall strip, depends on your size.
Space 8sc, start up with the 3 line for the overall for the front/back.

Arms ~ Black & Yellow yarn
Round 1 - 5sc, mc (black yarn)
Round 2 - inc 2sc (7sc)
Round 3-9 - remain 7sc (yellow yarn)

Legs/Shoes ~ Black & Blue yarn
Round 1 - 6sc, mc (black yarn)
Round 2 - inc 5sc (11sc)
Round 3 - 11 sc
Round 4-5 - 11sc (blue yarn)

Eye with goggle ~ White & Grey
Round 1 - 4sc, mc (white yarn)
Round 2 - inc 4sc (8sc)
Round 3 - inc 4sc (12sc)
Round 4 - inc 6sc (18sc) (Grey yarn)

Goggle Strip (Black)
1st line - chain 35 (depends of the size of the head), chain and turn
2nd line - chain 35.

Combine the arms, legs, goggles strip, eyes together.

Butterfly Artwork ~ JOEY's Homeschooling Method

It's time for me to jolt down the artwork I have done together with Bryan. Today, we go on for a simple artwork, which included Drawing, Cutting, Gluing and Writing.

Herewith the artwork we did this afternoon. I did the top right butterfly, whilst the one my boy holding definitely was did by him!

Materials:

• A4 white paper
• coloured paper 
• pencil
• scissors
• glue

Method:

1. First, draw a BIG butterfly on the A4 paper
2. Cut different shapes from the coloured paper. This is a very good motor skill for a toddler to learn using scissors, beside learning the shapes they are cutting.
3. Glue the shapes on the butterfly. Allow the toddler to glue anywhere they like.
4. Last, teach the toddler to write his name and date on the A4 paper.

Time: We spent about 45 minutes. Most of the time spending on cutting.

***Parents/guidance/care taker should be always beside the toddler when they are using scissors. 

Tadaaaaaa....... That was what we did this afternoon after lunch.

Out of idea what to play with your kids at home??? Maybe you would like to have a try with your kids as well?

Share with me if your kids like it too~~~~

Kids Have BIG Imagination

Bryan was helping me in the kitchen to prepare our dinner tonight. While I was cutting the capsicum, he quickly STOP me from continue cutting the capsicum! 

Then he hold the capsicum up asking me "Mommy, what do you think this is?" 

IT LOOKS LIKE A PIG SNOUT!

~My son has BIG imagination~

Am I Happy?

Am I Happy? I will say YES!

As a full time mommy by taking care of my 2 little boys, I am not happy all days, as

they make me MAD...

they make me ANGRY...

they make me FURIOUS...

 they even make me CRAZY!

 BUT.....

When I see them laugh happily, I knew everything is worth!!!!

This is 3.5 years old Bryan & 17 months Isaac laugh happily while their daddy was blowing balloon. This video remind me about 2 years old Bryan did laugh crazily as well... Enjoy LAUGHING....

This was 24 months Bryan. Same... Daddy was blowing balloon. 

~KIDS LOVE BALLOON~

Learnt Shapes in 14 months

My darling ~ Isaac learnt 8 shapes in his 14 months! I will said he is QUICK as compare with Bryan. He learnt circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, star, crescent, heart shapes! Good job my little boy! 

Isaac loves reading books rather than playing with toys. Maybe this is the reason he learns faster as a toddler. He is 17 months now (Sorry back dated post again) he learnt a few numbers and alphabet! eg, A, B, C, E, G, I, J, K, T & M. Whenever he sees A & M, he can even SAY the letter correctly by pointing at the letter!

Colours ~ He learnt a few colours ~ blue, red, yellow, green, orange & purple.

To My boys ~ Bryan & Isaac, 

Sorry Isaac that mommy realized that I did compare your growth development with your elder brother. For sharing, I was being compared since young, so I will never compare my sons with others. 

Both of you are my precious boys, I will compare both you unwittingly. I am not mean to do that, but hope both of you learn from positive way in comparing.

Multi-Language Boy

We are proud to be Malaysia, as we learn more than one language in school - English, Malay & Chinese. Therefore, I teach my boy in different language start from young. My 3 years old boy was reading numbers in 5 languages - English, Mandarin, Malay, Japanese and Cantonese. 

I didn't learn Korean, Spanish, French, Italian, Thai....... If not, I will teach him as well! Hahahaha..... 

~HAPPY LEARNING~