Vanilla Cheese Muffins

Pi Pi climbed onto my bed this morning and said "妈妈，读!!" It was the fruits and vegetables flashcards... got me thinking of baking some little cakes for her as a Sunday treat! Must be the guilty mummy syndrome kicking in, never spent enough time with the kids during the week :)

Rumaged through my baking cabinet and drawers and TA DA!! found a packet of French Muffin mix.. keke... play cheat.. added eggs, vanilla, butter and water to the mix and beat the mixture for 5 mins. easy peasy... then realised that the little paper cups that I have are a tad too big for my muffin trays.. arghh.. never mind, just make sure they don't slant too much and spill in the oven can liao...


sprinkled some chocolate rice on half of the muffins and plopped small chunks of the laughing cow cheese into some of the cups



the muffins were not too sweet, not as fluffy as I like (maybe that's the way muffins are supposed to taste??), but the cheese in it.. OOH LA LA!!!! me thinks Pi Pi's daddy will love the cheesy ones :) :) Pi Pi will have these for snack time after she wakes up from her afternoon nap :)
Next on my To Bake list.. Black Sesame Muffins and Cranberry Cheese Muffins !!

Afternote : after I posted this entry, my maid yelled for me... naughty Pi Pi had somehow gotten hold of the container holding the muffins, bitten off the top of a few muffins and fed 1 to Di Di!!!! Aiyoh! I hope he doesn't get an allergic reaction to the egg in the muffin!! hmm.. Pi Pi likes the muffins! *GRIN*

Durian Overdose

It's nearing the end of the mid year Durian season... and I really had a great time bingeing on durians with my fellow durian kaki, Daryl's mummy, heehee... I think I'm more durian crazy than her, but everytime I mention the word durian, she will also start to crave and her grocery nights will be postponed to accomodate our Durian expeditions.. HAHA :) A pity that Keith's mummy couldn't join us coz she was very busy at work..

So far, we have feasted at Sindy @ Balestier and 717 @ Yio Chu Kang Road. Sindy has good stuff, but the parking is really atrocious there. The last time I was @ Sindy's, the traffic warden came and chased me off the roadside, I drove off with my precious half eaten Mao Shan Wang durian seed in one hand and scratched my rims while parking my car with one hand on the steering wheel (the other hand still holding that damn MSW seed).

Since the durian article came out on Sunday Times few weeks ago, we have been to 717 for our durian fixes at least 4-5 times... I brought my mum there few days ago and she 'refused' to eat the expensive branded durians, but preferring to choose those small little durians at the side. Here are the gems that she picked up from that little durian pile for $3 per durian ... :) the 2 boxes cost a total of $18 only!!

Pi Pi and Daryl also started to eat durian after being influenced by their 2 crazy mummies.. kekeke.. next time we can have durian parties!

Yoga

One day, Pi Pi pulled her legs into the half lotus position and proudly proclaimed "OOO gaaa"... blur mummy was still trying to figure out what Pi Pi was saying.. ooooh.. it's YOGA!!!! She must have picked up the sitting position while looking at the advertisements in the newspapers! Her Yee Por Por then taught her how to hold her fingers together to make it look more real... HAHAHA.... so funny...



"Hmm, which finger should it be?"



"Yay, I got it right! Do I look like I'm meditating? kekeke"

Feast at Lei Garden

Pi Pi's 舅母 brought us all out for a wonderful sumptious dinner at.... Lei Garden at Chijmes ... to celebrate her recent promotion!!!

wow... look at all the lipsmacking dishes we had... there were a couple of yummy ones like the 脆皮烧肉 and black glutinous rice with grass jelly and vanilla ice cream which are not shown here... coz... the tam jiak photographer forgot to take pics before she attacked the dishes!!


Wasabi mayo prawns (hot hot), lightly fried fish slices with a soup base


千叶豆腐 and 蒜香排骨 with sweet sour sauce....


Asaparagus on yam basket, French style lobster noodles (lobster chunks baked with cheese on 伊面 with potato by the side) .. very special!!

the bill was very special too.. came up to $70 per head... many thanks to YY for the superb treat :) :)

my only grouse.. the fantastic parking charges at Chijmes ($9 per entry) and the super bigsized angmoh who tried to squeeze into his car parked next to mine (parked by the valets) and in the process banged my passenger door several times right in front of my eyes!!! *faint*

四川豆花 = 黑店 ？？

MIL's birthday is just around the corner, so TT proposed to bring her to 四川豆花 at UOB Plaza for a nice dim sum lunch :)

We had the usual dim sum, 小笼包, 腐皮卷, 烧卖, 虾饺, la mian, 皮蛋粥, etc etc and enjoyed the nice river view from the restaurant situated on the 60th floor of the building. TT settled the bill and we continued to enjoy the very very smooth 豆花.

Being the usual nosy accountant, I asked TT for the bill to see how much we had eaten...HUH!!! My eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets... the bill totalled $331 and our dear Mister didn't even bat an eyelid when signing the bill!

The offending item read "xx飘香盒 $48 x 4 = $192"... I questioned the waitress and she said it's the TEA OF THE DAY and the tea was a very GOOD and imported exquisite tea! When asked why didn't she alert us of the cost of the tea when all we asked for was TEA, expecting the usual tie guanyin, jasmine tea, ba bao cha etc, she was speechless. Later she admitted that there was a mistake in our table invoice (tea of the day costs no more than $5-$6 per cup) and they waived off our tea charges to compensate for the error.

The bill came back looking more decent at $105... told TT that he has to eat up all the tea leaves and bring the tea cup back if it really costs $192 for the tea... we had a good laugh.. but TT remained convinced that the restaurant was trying to RIP us off and in his words... 黑店

Max and JR

Max and JR were born 5 weeks apart... this photo was taken at Daryl's mummy's birthday cum CNY party (you can see mischievous Pi Pi trying to tickle Max's legs)... sorrie Di Di , you were dressed in jie jie's hand me down rompers and socks.. look so girly.. HAHA


and this was taken at Giselle's and Daryl's birthday party :) can you tell which is Max and which is JR? :) :) correct answers will get a cupcake at the next gathering!! keke

New pics of Di Di

Haven't been posting on Di Di for a very long time, not "pian xin" but simply no time! haha... okie.. this was taken last weekend.. Di Di's in his new Kenneth Cole Reaction ensemble!!! my favourite!!!



Di Di making a face when we fed him Sambucol for the first time, after a few days, he prefers this to the Orange/mango flavour multivits! Pi Pi loves the multivits but not Sambucol.. hmm..



Have Di Di's eyes grown bigger? I wish !! haha.. he's merely raising his eyebrows while looking at his mummy taking his pics instead of playing with him...

For the past few weeks, he has been crawling all over the place and he moves really fast by pushing the ground with his big toes.. so much that the skin came off his toes... poor boy!!

Although he can crawl very fast, he's still abit wobbly when sitting upright.. and occasionally topples over when he's too excited and forgets to put his arms in front of him for support.. keke ;)