Home cooking again

Since Christmas, I hardly got the chance to cook my family a proper meal. With so much celebration going on these 2 weeks, I only managed to prepare some very simple and quick meals at home or eat out.

Today, I started preparing my cooking since 3.30pm. Aiming to have our dinner earlier so that our girls can go to bed early for the school starts tomorrow.

Our girls love soup. They can just have the soup and rice for dinner. Less fuss. I prepared a pot of chicken herbal soup in the slow cooker just enough for 4 of us. Mixing some cucumber, carrot and pumpkin into vegetable pickles using apple cider vinegar for marination. I tried the raw pumpkin for the first time in my pickles. Not bad! I learnt from my colleague that pumpkin can be eaten raw, its taste just like the not so ripe papaya.

Taking off Christmas Decorations

Christmas is over, a brand new year is ahead of us. Before we got busy with the starting of school term and work, Clet with the assistant of, taking off the Christmas decorations today. It is a major task just to take all those decorations off, they need to be carefully wrapped and place into their respective boxes before putting into the big container for proper storage, so that we could still use them in the coming Christmases. Those Christmas decorations are becoming more and more expensive each year. I leave this task for Clet.

After this he is ready to put up the Chinese New Year decorations. :D

Taking the hanging Santa down from the ceiling

A try of Cheesy fruit cake

Baking time for me during holidays!

We love cheese. Yes, we do. It's fattening but a bar of cheese can be shared with others if make into a cake. So here I am trying out to make a cheesy fruit filling cake for the first time. I did not realise that I ran out of cream, no dressing for my cake as a result.

Our girls are very unpredictable, they love cheese but making into a cake like this, they prefer to eat the sponge cake than the cheese, I am speechless... :I

I received good comment on this cake from my mum :D, she is not a cheese person but she like this one.I also helped my niece to make a dark chocolate birthday cake for her friend. My sister bought the chocolate cake premix from Consfood last minute. The texture of this premix is not up to our desire, too dry. I will choose to make it from scratch next time though a lot of work needed.