Finally done ...

Daddy and Mummy had finally gotten the dining table from S**r Furniture. Though they had a wide variety of choices for their furnitures but we can't say we are pleased with their service. They had wanted to charge us a skyhigh fee of $120 for rearrangement of the delivery date. This is the 1st time Mummy had heard something so ridiculous. We could understand if they had asked for something like $50 but $120 is definitely out of the question. After a few calls of heated arguments (yes, arguments! Their staffs were pretty rude too), they relented and reduced the fee to $50. And that was after Mummy told them to keep the dining table and she'll just call CASE up and tell them we didn't get our dining table after paying for it.

Anyway this is the 1st and probably the last time we are getting furnitures from them so we shall not harp on it anymore. We are glad to see that everything is in place for our housewarming party on the 1st May.

Overslept

Mummy's post:

Took these shots while waiting for them to wake up ...
Now that they are older, they had learnt to sleep in late recently. Plus their sleep had been disrupted by bad coughing so I just let them be. However we had been late for a few times for breakfast in school so I guess I'll need to move their bedtime earlier.

Our dinner #17

Our dinner - rice with omelette, stir-fry minced beef with zucchini and carrots and celery from the vege soup

The pooh bears are cut with the new Pooh Bear cutter Mummy got from BentoMarket. They are very easy to use and looks good too.


Stir-fry minced beef with zucchini

Ingredients:
250g Lean Beef Mince (marinate with 1 tsp of cornflour for half an hour)
2 Tbsp finely chopped Brown Onion
Half of a normal-sized zucchini, cut into cubes
Dash of Pepper*
Dash of mixed herbs*
1/2 tsp Sesame Oil*

Method:
1. Heat a little oil in a frying pan or wok.
2. Stir-fry onion and zucchini until soft.
3. Add in minced beef, seasoning ingredients* and stir to mix.
4. Stir-fry and remove from heat once beef is cooked. (Do not overcook else beef will be very hard and dry)
5. Serve.

Swimming!!

The pictures don't really tally with the post title? However Mummy could only take the pictures of us in the swimsuits at home. Daddy had forbade her to bring the camera along cos he didn't want to end up being the only one taking care of us at the pool and it becomes a photography session instead of swimming.



Waiting to go off ...

Our dinner #16

We must say that we are in for good treat lately cos Mummy's in a mood for cooking.

Today she pan-fried the salmon instead of the normal poached teriyaki salmon. Though the same sauce used but the tastes are quite different. The poached salmon will have a lighter taste than the pan-fried one cos water had been added to the sauce to dilute it. And the texture would be softer with the poaching. However though pan-fried stuff tend to be drier, there's abit of crisp on the outer layer of the salmon and it tastes stronger of the teriyaki sauce. Guess it all depends on the taste of the kid.

The other dish we had is the stir-fry pork with spinach (refer to recipe below). Mummy had long wanted to add greens to our diet but it had not been easy cos we don't take vege as it is so she'll either have to add into the soup or blend it well into the dishes she cooks. Seeing that she's cooking the stir-fry pork with spinach for their own dinner, she scooped out a portion of it and cut into smaller pieces for us to try out. Well, not that we finished all but at least 75% of it were gone from our plates.

p.s: Mummy didn't have time to make nice cartoon characters for our dinner deco cos she need to prepare those dishes in a rush after we came back from our swim.


Our dinner - Rice, Stir-fry pork with spinach and pan-fried teriyaki salmon. The wolfberries you see on the rice are from the sharksfin melon soup that was poured onto our rice.


Close-up of it

Stir-fry pork with spinach
Ingredients:
400g spinach
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 stalks of spring onions, cut
400g pork fillet, cut into thin slices
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp of sugar
A dash of mixed herbs (optional)

Method:
1. Heat oil and sesame oil in frying pan.
2. Add in garlic and spring onions and stir-fry till fragrant.
3. Add the pork in and stir-fry quickly in 3 bathes over very high heat. Remove the meat and set aside.
4. Add the soy sauce, sugar and spinach and toss lightly. Cook for 2 minutes or until the spinach is just soft.
5. Return the pork to the pan. Add in the mxed herbs if desired.
6. Toss well and serve immediately.

Broccoli with dried scallops and crabstick sauce

This is for the adults but Mummy gave us some of the broccoli forets from it too. It acts as grass for our little lamb. :)



Ingredients:
1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon sugar
1 big fresh broccoli
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon of shaoxing wine
3 big dried scallops
3 sticks of crabstick, shred
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
Pepper

Method:
1. Put dried scallops in a bowl with water and steam it till becomes soft. Drain and shred the dried scallops and leave them and water aside.
2. Boil some water and blanch the broccoli, drain and leave broccoli aside.
3. Put some oil in a pan and add in garlic and fry till fragrant.
4. Pour the dried scallop and the water used to steam it into the pan. Add another 400ml of water and boil till dried scallops became softer. Add in the sugar, oyster sauce, shaoxing wine, pepper and stir well.
5. Mix the cornflour with little water (20ml) and pour slowly into the pan. Stir as you pour.
6. Bring the sauce to boil till it thickens and adds in the crabstick and cook for 1 min. (Do not cook the crabstick for too long else it'll turn very soft.)
7. Lay the broccoli on a plate and pour the sauce over and serve hot.

Our dinner #15

Mummy was very much inspired by a mummy from a bento website to do a lamb for our dinner. The lambs that the mummy made for her kids were so cute and sweet. However Mummy couldn't do an exact same one cos of the lack in her cutters therefore we'll have to make do with these 1st. She'll do another one for us when the cutters she just ordered come.


Reyden's dinner - steamed toufu with fishballs, chicken yakitori (see below for recipe) and brocoli


Reyes's dinner - same as above


Closeup of the lamb

p.s: Pardon her for the badly taken pics cos the camera ran out of battery and she had to use the hp camera.

Chicken Yakitori

Ingredients:
2 chicken breasts
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp sake
3 tbsp mirin
3 tbsp soy sauce
*Bamboo skewers (soaked in water to prevent burning)

Method:
1. Cut chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces.
2. Skewer the chicken.
3. To make yakitori sauce, mix sugar, sake, mirin, and soy sauce in a small bowl.
4. Grill the skewered chicken in oven, apply sauce on chicken in between until the chicken is cooked.