Wagyu Rib Eye M7

Special appearance by Iven (my hubby) to cook his specialties Wagyu for dinner. Thank You! The steaks were lovely and delicious.

Simplee Dinner Ideas - Steam Drumstick with Wolfberries

Preperation time : 15 minutes
Cooking time : 25minutes

When you had a very busy day at work and again you wish to have a homecook dinner with your family? That's not impossible!

I usually plan my dinner only 1 to 2 hours before dinner time, as a working mother like me, sudden cases do just came pay you visit without prior notices. Ok, what you could do, you may cook something simple, which I'm going to share with you. This recipe is simple, don't need much preparation. All you need are drumstick or thigh, wolfberry, some cuttlefish (optional), some rice wine and salt.

First of all, if you have a frozen drumstick and you wanted to defrost it. You may use microwave or the basic way, you could put in under running tap water. This will help to defrost your piece of frozen meat.

Rub the drumstick with some rice wine (Shia Xing Wine), i use 1 tablespoon then with 1 teaspoon of salt. Leave it marinade for 10 minutes. Meanwhile soak 2 tablespoon wolfberries (gei zi) and cuttlefish shred in seperate bowl of water for 5 minutes, then drained.

Place wolfberries and cuttlefish on top of the drumstick. Put into food steamer snd steam for 20 minutes. Done! Your dinnet is ready less than 1 hour.

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.