September 2007

Crepe

September 28, 2007

I love crepes. It’s so versatile. You can have it anytime of the day. Slather it up with orange marmalade or strawberry jelly/jam, you can have it for breakfast. Fill it up with savory filling like tuna or chicken salad, you can have it for lunch and for my favorite crepe, fill it with ice-cream, [...]

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Mooncake

September 24, 2007

After last year’s attempt at making snowskin (ping pei) mooncake, I decided that for this year I wanted to try making baked mooncake instead. After all I did lug back the heavy mooncake mold from Malaysia, so I better make full use of it. But as the mooncake festival draws closer, the lazy bug in [...]

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Toddler Bento #1 & #2

September 23, 2007

Ever since my little one started pre-school 2 weeks ago, I started packing lunch for her because after school, I will bring her to the park or mall depending on the weather. She’s not a very good eater so in order to encourage her to eat, I started making Bento lunches. I find that she’s enjoying [...]

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Welcome to my new home . . .

September 18, 2007

Welcome, welcome!!! Thank you for dropping by!! Please, have a seat, relax, put up your feet & make yourself at home . . . Here’s some coffee . . . . . How about some donuts? Or maybe some roti canai? Look around, drop me a comment or 2, & hope you enjoy this [...]

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Mini Donuts

September 17, 2007

I’m baccckkkk…. I survived my little gal’s first week of pre-school!! If you are interested, see here & here for details. How about starting this week with some sugar-high??? Donuts, anyone??? When I saw these mini jelly donuts, I thought they were so cute! So I decided to try them out. I omitted the jelly [...]

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On a short break. . . .

September 12, 2007

Sorry for the lack of update this week. For those that requested for recipes, I haven’t forgotten. I will put it up ASAP. Sorry! It’s my little gal’s 1st week of pre-school this week so life has been a little crazy. On a side note, she did very well on the 1st day of school [...]

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Bak Kua (Pork Jerky – Malaysian style)

September 6, 2007

After a taste of the bak kua I bought in Canada, it triggered off a craving for it. Since I can’t buy it here, I had to make it myself. Here it is before going into the oven for the drying process. After the drying process, cut into little pieces & throw them on the [...]

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Almost Forgotten Award!

September 6, 2007

I was going through my blog when I realized that I had forgotten all about the award that Hijack Queen passed to me a long time ago. Sorry HQ! So here it is, a lot late but better than never, right? Thank you very very much!

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Steamboat

September 2, 2007

It’s labor day weekend and that means a 3 day weekend for us. Usually on a long weekend, we will try to go out of town but this weekend, we decided to hang around locally, explore some local attractions and pig-out instead!! Started off the weekend with steamboat. Clear ikan bilis (anchovies) soup on one [...]