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.

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)

8.30am : working on floor plan & seating before the guest arrive at 12 noon

A must have! Party hat..

Menu of that day!

Mummy cum Creative Director for this party!

Weel Done Backdrop by Iven Tham (Daddy of the Birthday Boy)

Table setting

Please tag yourself kids, make sure Mr. Clown aka ABC gor gor did not missed you...

Birthday Boy

Birthday Boy getting ready for the party... 3..2..1

Big sister is all geared up for the party..

Mummy with Birthday Boy Oliver

Nicely decorated scene

Hearty Nasi Lemak 2.0, you will love this local cuisine with a touch of fusion
which was compliments with "fried soft shell crab" bliss...

Beef Bacon Sandwich, no ordinary Sandwich.

Happy & satisfied guests.

Uncle ABC is the attraction of the day. Kids love him so much.

Gangnam Style in Action!

Lovely cake from Bisou. The air plane goes pretty well with our theme.
I'm a big fan of Bisou, their cakes & cupcakes never failed.

Cheers!

My little Oliver.

Drained & exhausted little Oliver has got a shoulder to rest on, thank you Pik Lin.

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

An afternoon tea with some girlfriends, gossips with your favorites neighbors.
A slice of Pineapple Upside-down and a cup of feshly brewed coffee is just blissfulness!

Olivia, is my best fan ever. She is the first who tried, first who comment and
hopefully the last to say NO..haha

Pineapple upside down cake is way before my time. This is a very old technique probably started centuries ago. If you are wondering what is Pineapple Upside-down cake, here are some info.

*The first recorded recipe for Pineapple Upside Down Cake According to John Mariani's ( The Dictionary of American Food and Drink , Revised Edition, 1994), "The first mention in print of such a cake was in 1930, and was so listed in the 1936 Sears Roebuck catalog, but the cake is somewhat older." In Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads (1995), Sylvia Lovegren traces pineapple upside-down cake to a 1924 Seattle fund-raising cookbook...While rooting around in old women's magazines I found a Gold Medal Flour ad with a full-page, four-color picture of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake--a round cake with six slices of pineapple, candied red cherries, and a brown sugar glaze.

*information courtesy of http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/PineappleUpsideDownCake/index.htm

Preparing for the set, shooting for blogspot.

Ingredients

120g Flour

1/4 teaspoon Soda Bicarbonate

2 Eggs

100g Canola Oil

110g Sugar

I Can of Pineapple (5slices)

50ml Pineapple Syrup 

5 Preserved Cherry (halves)

Directions

1.Pre heat oven at 175 degree. Prepare the base of the baking pan with some sprinkles of sugar
   and arrange the pineapple (as shown from my photograph)
2. Sift flour and soda bicarbonate in a mixing bowl.
3. Combine Canola oil, sugar, eggs, pineapple syrup in a mixing bowl, beat till dissolves.
4. Add in flour bit by bit, until well blended.

5. Transfer the batter into the baking pan that has pineapple slices at the bottom.

6. Bake for 25 minutes or test it with a skewer, when the skewer comes out clean that means
    your cake is done.

My kids love it, I'm sure no one could resist this since it was made from canola and not butter... a healthy snack!

I personally like the spongy feel of this cake.

Corn Flakes Cookie

This is kinda fun...

Chinese New Year did not comes early (giggles), just that I would like to share this recipe with all of you which we made last Chinese New Year. Olivia has gave me a hand with the chores, and she made a pretty good sous chef though :-)

Corn flakes cookie is famous among kids and adults, nice & crunchy at the outside and soft from the inside. I did add some raisins, but if you like it plain and original, you may skip the raisins part.

Corn Flakes Cookies

200g Butter

150g Sugar

2 Eggs

300g Flour

60g Cereal/Corn Flakes (crushed)

1tbsp Vanilla Essence

30g Corn Flour

1. Beat butter and sugar till soft and fluffy. Add Vanilla Essence. Stir in beaten eggs.

2. Fold in flour and corn flour. (Mixture must not stick hands)

3. Scoop batter into crushed corn flakes.

4. Place them on pachment paper

5. Bake for 25 minutes with 200 degree celsius. (preheat oven)

Olivia started with her dough mixing.

Crush..crush..crush.. (mummy wants them crushed)

It tasted very good too.. ops! (Olivia was caught red handed)

Scoop the batter with Ice Cream scoop, then coat it with corn flakes crumbs.

One canister of corn flakes cookie, ready to go!