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So, we recently harvested not one, but TWO hands of bananas from our garden... which left us with a whole load of bananas ripening at the same time!Since it's the school holidays, I decided to get the kids into the kitchen and make some banana muffins together. This recipe has been adapted from...
Every year without fail, we would toss and eat our homemade yee sang on the 7th day of Chinese New Year. For the Year of the Dog, we made a cute doggy yee sang - for the face, you can use julienned radish and carrots. As it is a must to have fish in a Yee Sang, we used fish roe (tobiko) as well as fish...
Have you heard the news about the latest food trend about to hit UK and US? Yup, apparently pandan is set to overtake avocado and matcha, according to Nigella Lawson.A common ingredient in Malaysia, we use pandan to make all sorts of local desserts aka kuih such as kuih ketayap, kuih seri muka and...
Did you grow up playing masak-masak with your siblings and friends? I did, and it is one of the most vivid memories I have of my childhood. BabySumoKids love it too, especially when they get to role play and pretend that they are restaurateurs and chefs for the day.Welcome to CD Restaurant, where #HappyFood...
Pasta is definitely a staple ingredient in our home. Mention pasta for dinner, and you will see our kids eyes light up in happiness. All the better for mummy, as pasta is one of the easiest things to cook in the kitchen.With pasta sauces easily available these days, making pasta at home is made even easier...
For Hubby's birthday this year, I asked him if he would like to choose his birthday cake or if he'd like a surprise. Surprise, he said.. so I thought hard about what he would like. I remember a conversation we had once, where he spoke fondly about the Victoria sponge his grandmother used to make.I enlisted...
Onde-onde also known asglutinous rice balls with gula Melaka filling is Baby D's favorite kuih. We had some leftover glutinous rice flour from making tang yuan, so I asked Baby D if he wanted to make some onde-onde for our teatime snack. I watched proudly as my 6 year old son, measured, mixed, and...
It's the start of a new school year, which means exciting times ahead for both parents and children! One way to ensure your child is getting good nutritional food when they are at school is to take the time to prepare a bento box for him/her to take with them. As parents we know best what foods our children...
Hello! Over the past few days, we have been baking up a storm in our kitchen in preparation for Chinese New Year. We made pineapple nastar rolls, as well as German cookies to gift to our friends.While making the pineapple nastar rolls, I tried making them in rooster shapes too. I made it using the same...
Since the beginning of our Scotland trip, we had been on the look out for fresh scallops at the supermarkets and at the fishmongers. We finally got our hands on some on the third week of our holiday.Baby D then suggested that I cook risotto to complement the scallops (so proud that my son can think of such...
A couple of weeks ago, we were at the supermarket and our kids found curry puff (karipap) crimpers in the household / kitchen aisle and asked if they could get two of them. So, we did and for dinner that night, we made dry chicken curry with potatoes, keeping in mind to make extra so that we have leftovers...
Since the kids are on CNY school holidays, we decided to do some CNY baking with them to replenish our CNY cookie stock ;) I chose a simple recipe - cornflakes cookies, which requires only 6 ingredients and is very easy to follow, even for kids.It was a fun morning for us making these cookies -our kids...
For Hubby's birthday this year, he requested for a simple butter cake. When we were at the supermarket buying groceries, he saw some desiccated coconut and asked that I add it to the cake. This was an experiment of sorts, so I was happy that it turned out really well!Coconut butter cake with Crème...
As a parent of two children aged 5 and 7, I am constantly on the lookout for new learning experiences for our children. Children take great pride in their achievements and as parents, we should give them every opportunity to learn new skills and experience new things. One area where we genuinely see growth...
Every year, without fail, we would bake gingerbread biscuits with our kids. They enjoy it very much and look forward to baking them and then giving them away as gifts to their friends and teachers. It's nice that this has become a family tradition for us at Christmas time.This time, the kids made mini...
Hello! What did you get up to this Halloween?We put on make-up / dress-upBaby C's two front teeth came loose just in time for Halloween! What timing.Kids decorated a pumpkinHubby arranged all our Halloween crafts nicely...Kids went out with their grandparents for a bit.... got their face/hand...
Since Halloween is drawing close (31st Oct!), we decided to do some Halloween bakes with the kids. We had some overripe bananas, so banana loaf it is! You can also make this using a butter cake base, but banana loaf is good for this recipe as banana loaves are not very pretty and that makes it perfect for...
On Saturday 5th September 2015, we were featured in New Straits Times (Malaysia's longest running newspaper) in the Life Times Pulse section.Front cover of Life Times Pulse SectionPhoto credit: Hubby (love how happy and natural the kids look)Here is a digital copy of the article; I shared...
What time is it?It's Cookie O'Clock ;)This school holidays, we did a fair bit of baking at home. One of the things the kids really enjoyed making were German cookies. We made them before twice during CNY, and even then, they had enjoyed the simple tasks of rolling the dough into balls and then imprinting...
Hello everybody! It's "Kids in the Kitchen" time again ;)The kids were itching to bake in the kitchen, so I looked up an easy recipe that they can do and found this recipe for "Chorley Cakes" in James Martin's cookbook. Chorley cake is a flattened, fruit filled shortcrust pastry cake originating from the...
