Monday, January 31, 2011

All gone wrong ... just b4 CNY!!!

Oh gosh ... It is 5:12am and I am still awake puking my guts out!!! This is exactly what Owein went through on Friday night. Now it is my turn. Sigh ...

Whole body ache like crazy due to the gagging. Seems like gotta drag myself to the doctor early in the morning and don't think I will be able to send Oswald to school. Luckily in laws decided to help take care of Owein ... Cannot imagine having to lag 2boys to the clinic in my sick condition.

Just before I decide to head out to see the doctor, I'd decided to call TMM to check on owein. But guess what ... Not only that owein had a relapse, my MIL is also down. Oh gosh, how bad can that be. Sent an SOS SMS to hubby for him to bring Owein to see doctor.

Hubby came back, went all the way down in law's place to bring Owein to see doctor while I rest at home. But guess who is next to see a doc after Owein. I think you must have guessed it ... it was my darling hub. Including my MIL, 4 of us are down all at the same time!!!

What a terrible way to welcome CNY, which is just a few days later.

Rest ... Rest ... Rest ... Is all what we need. Hope we will all be better just in time.

Friday, January 21, 2011

兔年快来了!!!

Getting ready to welcome 兔年!!!

This year, I'd decide to 'gel' up my nails so that I no need to head to the medicurist 2 times just to get my nails all done up for CNY.

A new gel product (soft gel) had arrived at my regular medicure shop and it is not as harmful to the nails compared to hard gel.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Macaroon Frenzy

After attending our Macaroon class, I am so geared on to making my perfect macaroon.

After setting aside a few hours for intensive macaroon baking and testing out different recipes, I finally decided on the perfect recipe to follow and made my most satisfied batch of macaroons today ^_^

Presenting my bake for today ... Green Tea & Cream Cheese Macaroons!!!

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Macarons @ Palate Sensations

Perle and myself attended our very 1st workshop in 2011.

This is a session on Macarons with Palate Sensations. We were so looking forward to the class as we both love to eat Macarons.

Perle had a book full of Macarons receipe but we hadn't had the courage to try any of the recipe in there yet. We read about too many failures on the internet and how temperamental Macarons can be.

Ok, back to our class ... lesson starts at 10am this morning. We paid 101% attention during class and made extra effort to get our products right. This is so brain draining ... especially on a Sunday morning!!!

But just look at our results ... 100% successful Macarons!!!


We were taught how to make these too ... Chocolat Noisette ^_^


How exciting right ... ^_^

Friday, January 07, 2011

Recipe - Rice Cubes

So inspired by those pretty bentos prepared by people I am very tempted to give it a try. For a kick start, I went shopping with the boys at Daiso and let them picked up rice moulds and other decorative items.

Armed with the necessary equipments but no recipe, I've got to come up with something on my own ... LOL.

Gut feeling + imagination = Edible 'bite' size rice cubes


Not bad for 1st try and luckily both the boys like it. And when the boys like it, mummy like it too ^_^. Judging from responds, this would be one of my favourite 'to cook' dish when the boys need a fast meal or when we are on the move.