Wake Up and Smell the Cake

I have bookmarked two recipes for hari raya cookies! Pandan thumbprint cookies and chocolate chip cookies . That is on top of suji, my personal preference, and almond London, Husband's personal preference. If I'm ambitious enough I'll do pineapple tarts, but there's a biggg inertia for that. Haha. Now I have to plan my schedule already! Oops looks like I have to start this weekend?! Maybe I'll start with suji and almond balls for almond London. Those should last longer than the rest, provided the cookie monster (read: me) practises self control. I think I'll make pineapple tarts after puasa ends. HAHA. For our own personal cookie stash ;)

Weekend was filled with cooking! Okay I cheated on Sunday cos we went my mum's house to cook haha, but Saturday itself was tiring enough! Invited in-laws ++ over for Husband's famous chicken rice and I made sago gula melaka. MIL made sweet sour fish too which was yummy! We wanted to make stir fry vege but at the last minute our stove's spark wasn't working!! Like wth! Oh wells. Luckily the chicken is all cooked! Maybe I'll make the stir fry today for sahur. So after 2 pots of rice, two kilos of chicken fried, three times of boiling sago, 5 big bottles of bandung, we ended up with one messy kitchen but it was all worth it! I am so fortunate to have a husband that cooks well :) Then we went to Geylang after that. Ha. The mandatory, not-my-fave-place-to-visit bazaar. And time flew while we were there! We didn't realise it was almost midnight! Poor Junior fell asleep in his pram :( I wasn't in any shopping mood at all because I was worried about Junior. Any...

Warning: sorta religious post ahead. HAHA. I know, even I am not used to such things :D Came to work and they're playing Quran recitation over the PA system. Weird much. It's almost 9 already! But I'm looking forward to tadarus later, if there is one. Yesterday I joined in and I'm ashamed to say that I'm such a lousy Quran reciter. Shame shame. Made so many mistakes. But thankfully the other colleagues were encouraging. Truth be told, since I've moved out of my dad's house, I haven't really recited Quran much. I know I know, what a setan I am. Hah. So I think I shall start again. I need such pushes. Today is quite the "Islam" day. Not only am I psyched to recite, I'm also looking forward to Happy Hour. Instead of the usual games & sports, for Ramadan, they have organised for us Quran classes with Ust Zulkiflee Bachik. Yay! Looking forward to that :) Today is day 5 of Ramadan. Alhamdulillah fasting has been easier than expected f...

Yup made these again yesterday morning while Husband was asleep and Junior clinging to my leg (yes, clinging -_-), banana chocolate chip muffins. If I make them again, I must remember to make these few changes: use 1 tsp instead of 1 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate soda add more bananas! Or not. Maybe if I reduce the soda the banana taste would be better. This time round I remembered to add the chocolate chips in, and I sprinkled more on top too! HEEHEE. I ran out of milk too, so I used the leftover whipped cream I had. Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins 1 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda 3/4 cup sugar 4 medium bananas, mashed 1/4 cup cream 2 eggs 1/2 cup canola oil pinch of cinnamon Mix all dry ingredients in a big bowl. In a separate bowl, mix mashed bananas, eggs, cream and oil together. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until incorporated. Lastly, add in chocolate chips. Transfer to muffin cups and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes. M...

Just a quick update! I know I have loads to update and recipes to write here of my hits and misses of birthday celebration, but that will take me quite a while so I'll do a short update on blueberry muffins I made last Saturday morning. I got the recipe from homemadewithlove , and I loved it! Gave a little tweak here and there out of convenience haha, so here's what I used: 2 eggs 1 cup white vanilla sugar 1/2 cup canola oil 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tub light sour cream, 250g 1 cup frozen blueberries, don't thaw Zest of 1/2 a lemon Mix all dry ingredients together in a large bowl, including the zest of lemon. Make a well in the centre of the bowl and add your wet ingredients: sour cream, oil, eggs. Mix well but don't over mix. The batter will be sticky and with low viscosity. Add blueberries last, only mixing into the batter with a couple of turns using a spoon, then spoon the batter in muffin cups. I got 9 big muffins and 3 med...

I just have to remind myself to blog about these once I'm done with 14 July: Junior's birthday my birthday our birthday cakes our little family vacation Extremely busy at work, and tired when I get home. No time to blog yet, sadly. But I do wanna share about the birthday cakes especially! Some hits and misses. Okay back to the neverending work!