Very Satisfied with her Yummi Yoghurt now

At Suntec City food court now :)

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Marble Butter Cake

I bought a fruity cake book written by Alex Goh recently and find some of his recipes and methods easier for a amateur mommy baker like me... :)

So I started with the least ingredients needed like a butter cake. The marble effect was done using some coca powder and milk with a separate mixture. The whisking method was quite tedious for me when I am using a handheld electric whisk. I had to whisk the butter and sugar till light and fluffy state; and also the egg white and sugar till stiff peak. The most challenaging part was also when I had to fold in the flour into the butter and also the eggwhite later on.

Of course, with my gestational diabetes haunting me now and wanting my family to have some healthier home-baked cakes, I reduced the sugar by about 40%. Fortunately, the taste was still very nice.

I would say this cake was quite a success minus the fact that the flour and eggwhite wasn't folded in perfectly...

Fashion Show

Bought some Chinese New Year dresses for her n she was having a fashion show yesterday

Since she has been asking me to put nail polish for her, I managed to find a non toxic, odourless, hypoallergenic n waterbased nail polish for her. She was so happy n kept asking me to put on for her.

A Meaty Pork Dish...

I was wondering what to cook for today's dinner and managed to think of this dish using minced pork. Basically I add some oyster sauce, five-spice powder, cornstarch powder to marinate it. Then I pan-fried them using a shallow frying pan.

Giselle's daddy said it goes very well with rice just that they were a little too saltish... Oops!

Choc Chips Muffin

I had some chocolate chips left in the fridge and hence decided to do some mini-muffins. You can see from the picture above that it really has alot of choc chips. Haha.. Luckily I reduced alot of sugar for the batter so as to balance out the sweetness...

Giselle, being a sweet gal, tried to help me scoop the muffin mixture into the individual cups :)

I noticed that some of the muffins did smile very nicely but some not... weird? Don't know what exactly went wrong...

Blueberry Tart to try out... :)

Was trying to do a tart pastry from scratch and found this recipe which I modified abit.. Wasn't too bad though :)

Baking Session with her...

Since still have ingredients at home n I don't have activity for Giselle, I decided to let her have another round of baking session.

We did chewy oatmeal cookies n I weighted all d ingredients for her to mix. As usual, she was very anxious to pour everything at 1 go into d mixture bowl.

Basically, it is a very simple receipe n kids love d cookies. One thing good about homebaked items is that I can control d amount of sugar into d cookies or cakes.

Some Updates on my Current Pregnancy

Just visit my Dr Loh last evening which is about 31 weeks of my pregnancy. Giselle's baby brother is about 1.53kg now. He said my tummy looked abit big but baby is of normal weight. So nothing to worry about though everyone has been thinking that I am going to give birth soon. Dr Loh said alot of gases in my tummy... haha.

The good news is that didi's head is down now and his placenta has moved up, I can opt for natural birth this round :)

Giselle, thinking she would be excited to see her didi during the scan on the monitor, was busy playing with my iphone.... Haha, nevertheless, all these while I could sense her excitement about her baby brother and she would sing songs to her didi at night. Maybe it is because we told her if she sings and talk to didi more, he would recognise her immediately after birth :)

For me, I just have to continue to pray hard that everything will be smooth smooth....

Just for record purposes, didi weight was about 650g at week 23, 1.18kg at week 27 :)

2nd Day of School

1st Day at Kindergarten

After a long school holiday, Giselle is finally back to school this morning.

Had asked her to sleep early last night so that she could wake up on time. Well, the wet n rainy weather this early morning doesn't make it encouraging for all d kids to wake up for school though.

Anyway..., Giselle is promoted to K1 this year and her class name is JOY. She seems very happy to see her previous classmates again and her usual form teacher, Mrs Ng.

I would say she is lucky to be in this class under Mrs Ng again as she got herself a good n caring teacher. Academic wise, this is also a better class compared to the other K1 class.

Guess I can't be a lazy mommy at home too. Haha.

My 1st Cake of 2010

I haven't been baking eversince I got pregnant again. Mainly because I can't withstand d long standing time.

But after I bought a tummy support belt last night, I could bake with a breeze!

So did a Golden Citrus Chiffon for my 小宝贝!

My Personal Photographer - Giselle Koh

This photo was taken by Giselle on 1 Jan 2010 at Pacific Coffee Company, Vivocity.

Quite well taken by a 4 year old right?