Simplee a Kitchen Affair: November 2012

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Simplee Kiddy Meals : Cheesy Millet Cake

If you have young kids at home, probably you want to cook something that can catch their appetite. I have tried this recipe myself and my daughter loves it, even myself just fall in love with this Millet Cake. Millet is nutrition and I start feeding this to both my baby and toddler. I added millet into their daily dietary such as rice and porridge.

It could be a perfect snack for kids and dinner for us. I made the smaller bite size for kids and a bigger for us to be served at dinner.

Preparation time: 20min
Cooking time: 10min

Ingredients

1 Cup Millet
1/2 Cup Grated Mozzarella Cheese
1/2 Cup Shredded Carrot
2 Cups Chicken Stock
1 tsp Olive Oil
1 tbsp Minced Garlic
some parsley and salt to taste

Methods

Heat the saucepan, add in some cooking oil/olive oil and brown some minced garlic, add in the millet and stir fried for 5 minutes when you smell the nice aroma of the garlic and millet, add in Chicken Stock.
Bring Millet and Chicken Stock to boil, keep stirring.
Add in carrot and cook for another 15 minutes, keep stirring.
Add in cheese, stir till the cheese melted.
Add in Salt & Parsley to taste.
Let the millet to cool down.
When the millet is cooled, take am adequate amount and make it into a ball, flatten it between palms.
Heat a frying with some Olive Oil, fried the millet cake.
Enjoy them while warm.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Oliver's First Birthday Celebration at Wondermama Cafe, Bangsar

Oliver's first birthday is in November, Iven and I are cracking our heads thinking for the theme of the party. We wanted a party that makes every guest happy, we have kids which loves a party that allows them to run around enjoying themselves with other kids and the other hand we have a bunch of parents which wish to enjoy a hearty lunch but of course a good ambiance is very ideal. But again, this is supposed to be Oliver's First Birthday, location has to be kids friendly.

We have decided to use "air plane" as out theme, just like how boys always wanted to be an aviator when they when they grow up. Ok, themed chosen! We spend nearly 2 weekends looking for door gifts, at shopping malls but ended up we found a shop in China Town which sells nice handy crafts. Iven was so amazed and ended up we bought 80 pcs of them.

We fully utilized our creative skills for this party as-though we are getting paid (laughing) but again this will quench our thirst, of course.

An exquisite air planes with 6 designs.

Big sister Olivia at work. She is in the midst of packing the door gifts for
the Oliver's party. A helpful 姐姐

Door gift with specially designed packaging that compliments the party

Colors and crayons for the kids to paint

Let's paint the SKY, kids

Finally, we found the perfect venue for Oliver's party. It's Wondermama Cafe Restaurant in Bangsar Village 1. The owner is a very flexible guy which permitted us to apply whatever we have in mind to his restaurant. And nevertheless both the restaurant manageress Yen & Bryanne are pretty helpful, responsive to our request. We have the whole first floor occupied.

Here we are! Oliver's Birthday Party @ Wondermama

A very well designed restaurant which makes such a big impact with all it's decorative item.

A simple menu board duet with a creatively design lamp shade, which was converted from an ancient noodle siever.
(If you were born before the 80s you will probably seen this in your childhood)