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Aaaand It's February!

2 more weeks and this misery is over!

Had a pretty good weekend, Saturday we were out and I brought Junior to the library while waiting for his grandparents. Geylang East Library is good for kids! The books are still new, and there aren't many kids around. Junior was happily roaming the shelves and the reading areas.

Went to Tampines after that and there was a fantastic pots and pans sale I just had to get something! For only $69 I got a 34-cm skillet cum steamer. Yeah now I can make steamed cakes woohoo! I also grabbed a hair dryer which has been on my to-buy list for years and this one cost me only $15!

Sunday was spent at home, it was raining practically the whole day.

For Saturday's breakfast I made white chocolate raspberry muffins (project clear-fridge #1: raspberries) and mushroom & cheese omelette.

White Chocolate Raspberry Muffins
Recipe from Best Recipes Australia, but below is what I used:

2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cups caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla paste
1 cup milk
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup frozen raspberries
Lotsa white chocolate buttons

  1. Mix flour, baking powder and sugar in a large bowl.
  2. In a measuring cup, pour in vegetable oil, then milk, then vanilla paste and crack the egg in. Mix well.
  3. Pour the mixture in the measuring cup into the large bowl and mix till just incorporated.
  4. Add in the white chocolate chips and raspberries. Add the raspberries last or even in the muffin tray itself to prevent them from bursting.
  5. Bake at 190 degrees Celsius for 20-25 minutes.
 All in one wet ingredients
 
Prebaked muffins that Junior poked his fingers in hahaha. He loves the raspberries! That boy has weird tastes. He even took one that was already in the batter.
 
Sunday's breakfast was simple campak-campak macroni goreng. I'm cooking more than when Husband is around! Haha. I shall make it a point now to cook when he is at home.

Project clear-fridge #2: clearing 2 blocks of chocolates (Cadbury & Cotedor), marshmallows and hazelnuts in the form of rocky road brownies.

This is one calorie-laden dessert just because I want to clear my fridge. So to reduce the already fatty chocolates, I used a cocoa brownie recipe from a health website hahaha. The brownies itself wasn't sweet, but it balances out with the overload of chocolate and marshmallows.

Rocky Road Brownies
Recipe adapted from Eating Well

1 cup all-purpose flour
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably natural
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla paste
1/2 pack mini marshmallows
About 120g hazelnuts
1 bar Cadbury chocolate cashew + 1 bar Cotedor dark chocolate hazelnut
3 tablespoons milk

  1. Melt butter in a saucepan till bubbling, then add in vanilla, cocoa and sugar and mix well. Once cooled add in eggs and milk.
  2. Mix in flour until incorporated.
  3. Use an 8 inch pan (I used 9 inch) and layer 1/2 of the batter. Sprinkle liberally mini marshmallows, hazelnuts and 1 bar of dark chocolate.
  4. Spread the remaining half, and sprinkle more marshmallows and nuts and the 1 bar of chocolate cashew.
  5. Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 20-25 minutes.
 
All baked!

 
All packed for office!
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