A cake to sweeten up the Toddler's day

photo courtesy of the Husband

Last week was a stressful one for us. The Toddler was sick for 5 days (he never got sick for more than 3 days!). It was a hellish week! It all started Saturday early morning. He got a fever of 39°C so we stayed at home hoping it was just the usual fever. But on the night of the third day his fever was still 39°C and up! So we rushed him to the E.R. Good news was that all his tests were normal and it was possibly just a flu that will last 4-5 days. And it did! By the morning of the fifth day he was no longer sick. Thank God!

Paella: A Labour of Love

There was one family reunion when I was still a kid, New Year's day lunch, that I remember so vividly. Lots of laughter and stories. Playing with kids around the house. And more so of this dish that I ate for the first time. It was a sticky and yellow-coloured rice with shrimps and bell pepper and sliced eggs. They called it Arroz Valenciana. I liked it so much that when we went to a Spanish restaurant to celebrate a special occasion, I tried to order their Paella Valenciana thinking it was the same. But upon tasting it I knew it was so different. The very rich flavoured rice, the soccarat or toasted rice at the bottom of the pan, the variety of seafood and the smell of it! Way better tasting, yum! When I got older I found out that Arroz Valenciana is like the low down version of Paella Valenciana. It uses glutinous rice, turmeric to make the yellow hue and sliced eggs as garnish. So if we do eat out at Spanish restaurants I made sure to order the paella valenciana or seafood  paella.

Cookie disaster

It was a lazy Sunday at home and we didn't set any plans for the day. Since I've got some spare time (and I've got new baking toys!) I decided to try to bake butter cookies. Been wanting to bake some after our stock of the store bought danish cookies was depleted some weeks ago. I didn't want to buy more until I get to try baking one from scratch. And anyway, I wanted to bake my first ever cookie.

I looked for an easy peasy recipe and found this. With just 5 ingredients I figured what could go wrong eh? So I used her recipe as a guideline.

Butter Cookies
adapted from Justonecookbook
  1 1/2 cup plain flour
  1/2 cup sugar ( I didn't have white sugar so I used what I have, the unrefined brown sugar)
  6 tbsp or 3/4 of a stick of butter
  1 large egg
  1 tsp or 5 ml of baking powder
  1 tsp of vanilla extract (optional)

Baking supply store in SG: Phoon Huat

Right after the disappointing visit to B-I-Y, I called Phoon Huat near Bugis MRT to check if they've got the rolling pin and mat. When they said yes, we went straight to their store because I don't want to go home empty handed. That was how sad I was.

Baking supply store in SG: B-I-Y

Me and the husband went to B-I-Y store in Bukit Timah to buy some baking stuff around 3 pm last Saturday. I was so excited because this link said they had a whole range of Wilton products and when visiting their website I get giddy because they seem to really have all the things I need. I don't like buying things from different stores. I'd rather pay a little extra if they've got everything.

Free blog templates

Several years ago, I used to have a blog which I kept for 3 years. And then I got busy with life and all that I neglected it and eventually deleted it. I used to try to personalize it by editing the layout all by myself. I learned a few tricks on how to edit in HTML. But I eventually forgot all about it.

Since I'm starting a blog again and wanted to personalize it, I searched the internet on how tos and I stumbled on Leelou Blog free templates! They have tons of free designs for you to use! So try it! Thanks Leelou Blog!

Project Cakes and Mom

When I was still single and living with my parents I wasn't into cooking, doing diy stuff or ghadd forbid even sewing. My mom was the chef, the tailor, she was our Martha Stewart at home. Our Dad was our Mr Fix it Felix jr. He'd try to fix everything from light bulbs to washing machine. Me and my siblings would just assist them and critic their projects and mostly just do the household chores.

Fast forward to today, I now have my own family to take care of. I love baking, testing food recipes, doing diy stuff and even sewing! It's now my turn to be our home's Martha S.

My goal is to become the best Homemaker this family will ever have. I invite you to come and take a sneak peek in this wonderful life of mine: Cakes and Mom