15th Day of CNY

Today is the last day of the Chinese New Year.

Fistly, I wish to thank everyone who gave a red packet for my little girl for their good luck and well wishes to her. Grow up well and healthy, my beloved darling.

There are 15 days of celebration. 15 days of guiltless eating and snacking, thinking, dieting starts after CNY. That's me. Well, back to dieting tomorrow... because, McDonalds launched some new things yesterday and we tried some of them today!

Thai Milk Tea Hot Fudge Sundae - The outlook is abit not very pretty as the hot fudge kinda melted the ice cream a little. It's flavorful, but a little too strong for me. And it's heaty as I feel the effect in my throat after a few mouthful. Do share one with your love one as finishing it all by yourself is alittle... too much. #onceisenough.

Chocolate Pie - Everyone is craving for it when it was launched overseas. And it's finally here. The anticipation is there, the expectation is there. The chocolate lava inside do flows and a great chocolate treat for chocolate lovers. This too, is heaty. Do drink lots of water after finishing the pie. #onceisenough.

There are some other new products like the Thai Milk Tea ice cream cones (there are 3 variations), the Fish & Fries and the Sweet Chilli Fish Burger. These are for another day's happy eating.

Have you tried any of them?

CNY Puppy Cookies

This year is a Dog year in the Chinese zodiac. Everyone was posting their home baked CNY goodies on social media. The hot favourite was this koko krunch puppy cookies. Since it's still the Chinese New Year and we have some family bonding time, it was our turn to try it out. These cookies are pretty simple to make.

Presenting one by me, one by hubby, and one by Josie. Latte wants to join in too.

Recipe from: http://www.submerryn.com/2012/08/cute-doggies-koko-krunch-cookies-recipe.html

Ingredients:

• 200g plain flour
• 45g icing sugar 
• 125g butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tablespoon cold water
• Chocolate chips, chocolate rice, Koko Krunch

Method:

1. Sift flour and sugar. 
2. Add chopped soft butter.
3. Rub with fingers.
4. Once the dough turns into ‘breadcrumbs’ add in cold water and vanilla essence. 
5. Knead lightly.
6. Rest dough for 10 minutes.
7. Measure about 10g of dough and put 2-3 chocolate chips into it.
8. Decorate the dog. Chocolate chip as the nose, chocolate rice as the eyes and Koko Krunch as the ears.
9. Preheat oven to 160 degrees. 
10. Bake for 20 minutes.

The ingredients

My little helper

Baking in progress

Little model

Last day of CNY 2016

Today marks the fifteenth day of this year Chinese New Year. This year's celebration of the Chinese New Year is officially over. It's opening angbao day.

Last year we did the same too. It was much easier taking her photos then. It took me over a hundred photos for just this one photo (above) this year. Hahaa

Last year's 元宵節

Counting down to CNY

Chinese New Year is coming in another 3 days. And gosh. Nothing is done. House still messy and dirty and messy. I just have no motivation. And it's sooo difficult to clear stuff with two sticky kids. Everything seem so dangerous to the "everything oso wanna touch" kids. Hais.

I must be a little more motivated. Last weekday tomorrow. Jiayou. 

Grocery shopped a little. Yet I bought over $60. Omg. What did I spent on??! My happy little shopper kaki. 

Bought the oranges too. My first time buying. Nope I didn't try. I just bought base on price and gut feelings. 

I'm such an easy customer yet I'm treated like I'm invisible. Sian. Me so bully looking, carrier Josie then with reciept on outstretched hand. Yet no one attend to me. But i saw the shocked reaction when they finally realise this person is here to get orange, not kar jiao jiao for samples. 

Ok. Complain end. Lol. 

Melt-in-the-mouth Coffee Cookies

I have saved loads of recipes from this member, Jennifer Tan, in the Fun with philip airfryer facebook group. She's a genius baker. 

Well. I finally got down to doing something easier. Lol. The others either I have problems with the ingredients or the bake ware.  

Coffee cookies. Airfried. Go try. It's YUM. At least for me. Heh. 

Only 5 ingredients. I love simplicity. 

Ingredients : 

125g salted butter ( room temp ) 

60g icing sugar 

150g potato starch 

100g cake flour 

1 tbs coffee emulco 

Almond ( for topping ) 

Instructions : 

In a mixing bowl mix butter , icing sugar n coffee emulco till well combine with a spatula. 

Add in potato starch and cake flour mix to form a soft dough. ( half way i use hand with glove )

Roll to about 1 cm thickness .

Use a cookie cutter to cut it out .

Add d almond on top. 

Transfer to the baking pan lined with baking paper. 

AF 160deg for 18mins .

After the cookies were baked, transfer to a cooling rack for cooling. 

Cooled completely before store in an air tight container .

Happy Baking 😋 😍 😄

Recipe share by : 🌻 Jennifer Tan 🌻

Luncheon meat chips

I airfried some luncheon meat chips today. The recipe had been saved for a few days but I only got down to do it today. Really yummy and crispy. I hope they will last ans stay crispy. 

The recipe is posted by a member of the facebook group, Fun cooking with Philips airfryer. 

A night before making the snack, remove the luncheon meat from the can and freeze it overnight. 

Method

1. Preheat the airfryer at 180 degrees for 5 mins 

2. Use a vegetable/fruit peeler and shave the luncheon meat into paper thin slices

3. Layer the shaved luncheon meat into the basket (do not overlay or overcrowd the basket)

4. Air fry for 5 mins at 160 degrees for 3 times. 

5. After every 5 mins try to breakup the sticking luncheon meat. 

6. Divide the luncheon meat into several batches.

7. When done, cool and store into airtight container. 

** Frozen luncheon meat is to ensure that the shavings be thin. 

正月初七：人日

人日快乐! On the lunar calendar, the 7th day of the first month is everyone's birthday. Usually it's another round of reunion with loved ones. 

We had our own mini reunion. The hubs got us chinese salad (yusheng) and longevity buns for dinner. 

And since it's a birthday celebration, how can we miss out the cakes. And they are for supper. Oh my waist...

Happy Lunar New Year

Today is already day 6 of the Lunar New Year. My bad. I'm late. I wish everyone a prosperous Lunar New Year. Huat ah~

This year's Lunar New Year is different from all the previous Chinese New Year. This year we have a LO with us. Man... I was worried about her sleep and feeding. End up, the feeds were ok. Just the sleep. She was too excited with all the crowd and chatterings.

Eve of CNY
Lunch's reunion was at home with the hubby's immediate family. There's braised duck, chicken, pork, soup, braised mushroom... Too much food. Some cooked, some bought. And most of the time, I was with LO, making her sleep. Ah..

Reunion dinner was at my parents'. We brought Latte over with us too. My parents cooked a very scrumptious meal. Desserts was icecream. Burps...

Haha.. LO wants to taste her angpow. 

Day 1
Happy lunar new year! New schedule this year. Instead of going to the hub's grandmother's place in the morning, we headed to the hub's uncle's place for lunch. Lots to eat. And they had this cute Angry Bird fishcake. Haha..

Next was to my grandmother's place. Alamak. Second round of lunch. Ate alot. Again. LO was kinda the centre of attention. So was her cousin, JY. She was running all around. I guess next year is LO's turn.

Wefie with my sister. Squish is sleeping in the carrier. 

Dinner at home with leftovers from Eve. A quiet, we-time. I'm grateful for it. There's just too much excitement for LO.

Day 2
We went to hub's grandmother's place for visiting. Yup, eat again. My nephews were busy running around and making everyone busy. Haha.. Kids..

Then we went home to have dinner with my family. They lugged the heavy wonder pot from home, with very 入味 food. While they rested and played with LO, Hub and I took Latte to the park. He's a happy boy. Tired (from running) and happy.

Day 3
It was a slower paced day compared to the previous days as we have the entire afternoon to ourselves. Tried to make LO sleep more and the hubs was busy doing his assignment. 

We then headed to friend R's place for steamboat. Left pretty early as we have a second round of dinner at my Uncle's place. 

Ahh ended quite late and missed LO's bedtime. We had a hard time making her sleep. Sigh... My poor girl. 

Day 4
Visiting at Hub's godpapa's place. Simple yet yummy lunch. 

Then we brought Latte for his annual vaccination. He was terrified. And he's the most jittery one among the other pets when waiting for his turn. 

On the whole, Latte is good and the vet praised Latte on his clean teeth. 

Day 5
I spent the entire day at home. Gf Ying asked me out for lunch as she's on leave, but I declined. This whole week's weekdays will be spent at home. LO has already has her fill of fun and (over)excitement on the eve and first 4 days of the lunar new year. She needs her sleep and her routine.

Day 6
Stay home day 2. Daddy came over to play with LO with my lunch. Haha.. I'm a slacker with my own lunch as time away from LO is very very little. Fire over the stove is too dangerous with such short amount of time. 

Happy Lunar New Year

The baby and family wishes everyone a prosperous new year. May the year for you and your family be filled with love, health and wealth.

Gong xi gong xi

Happy Horse Year

Greetings from our little fox and us. Happy lunar new year. 

Chinese New Year Eve

How did the day went? 

Breakfast with the hubby and the in-laws at Marsiling hawker centre. Lots of the stalls were not open and alot of seats were available. Usually it's pretty difficult to find seats. And we decided to eat from the vegetarian stall that usually has a long queue and the queue maintain even today. 

A wrong choice... As it took us one hour to buy T.T and the mifen was pretty bland. 

After we got home, the hubby and I did one more round of vacuuming and mopping the floors. It's really dusting staying near MRT and LRT tracks. 

Then it's time for Latte's bath. He didn't run away as much as the other two times. Hopefully he enjoys bathing. 

Then we towelled dry him. And blow dry his fur. And combed his fur. It usually takes us 1 to 1.5 hours for the whole session including bathing. At least he looks like he enjoyed this home grooming session today. Today I combed out a bigger ball of fur compared to yesterday. He looks like some malnutrition unloved dog when he's shedding. Hopefully this phase passes by quickly. I prefer him looking like a big ball of fur. Haha

He looks cleaner and neater after the shower. 

And he's exhausted. 

We had our reunion dinner at my parents' place. It's a huge spread. We were all so full. Too much meat though. But the prawn was HUGE. And no eggs this year T.T

Even Latte also wants an angpow

Back home, prepared myself for tomorrow. Done my pastel coloured nails. Spent almost 2hours on it. Tsk. Slow..