Me baking?

Lately, I was influenced by some blogger who are so capable until I got to name them as "super women". They are multitasker, they work (some from home) yet can do cooking daily. They need to take care kids yet can manage house chores. They do blogging yet can do baking (perhaps one hand on the keyboard and the other hand holding mixer...ha ha). Agree with me that they are all "super women"?

How I was being influenced? I cook more nowadays but during weekend only. I started to learn making cheese cake. It becomes my habit now to hop to their blog daily, as I need cooking and baking ideas from them.

So far, I had tried to make 3 cheese cakes. Blueberry cheese, marble cheese and Japanese cotton cheese. 2 out of 3 turned out "ok", only failed in baking Japanese cheese cake. Will try again this weekend.

My first homemade cheese cake - Blueberry topping

Second homemade Marble cheese cake.

I simply love anything with cheese especially cheese cake. Hubby and Audrey not crazy for cheese but can accept it well. They kept on saying my cheese cake was yummy while filling up their mouth with it..... I'm of course moving my tail left right like a happy doggy after hearing that :D.

Fruitful Raya Holidays

I was enjoying my holidays and lazy to do blogging until today. No holidays trip but just stayed around KL to enjoy the Raya Holidays. Summarized on what we have done for the past 4 days.

Day 1 (19 Sept)

Cooked lunch at home. After afternoon nap, had dinner at mum place. Celebrated Jack's 7th years old birthday.

Day 2 (20 Sept)

Picnic at KLCC Park with few good friends (thank God no raining on that morning, in fact the weather was good, no hot sun). It was actually a reunion organized for a friend from Melbourne. Around 11am, we went to SS2 for lunch with parents and sister in law. Hubby recommended this restaurant (New Paris) of its famous and delicious food. Not bad, not bad.

After lunch, went to Tropicana Mall for shopping. Reached home around 4.30pm. Both my girls were sleeping soundly. Thought of cooking simple dishes for dinner but then hubby felt like going to Look Out Point for dinner. So we left home around 6.15pm to the place together with my sister family.

We reached there around 7.15pm and it's was so crowded. Due to parking on top hill were full, hubby got no choice but made U turn to park his car down the hill. So we (mummy with 2 gals) get down from the car and walked up. It was so exhausted even it's just a short distance (the road was very steep). Huh.... me got to carry little Shannen while one hand holding Audrey.

We already made reservation at Look Out Point Western Restaurant but no seats for us as it was so packed. I think they just simply took down our call for reservation but never reserve for us seriously. Em.... services was a thumbs down. Few other customers standing out there also making noise for the same incident. Without wasting time, I walked down to another restaurant, Gasoline to survey for empty table. Luckily they have a bigger space that can cater us immediately.

It was around 8pm, children started making noise for food. We quickly ordered something without spending much time to survey the menu. To my surprise, the food came quite fast even with the amount of people around. We wallop everything to fill up our empty stomach. Food is so so ..... I think it can be better if we come on normal day.

Oh ya, forget to report on the main attraction : night scenery. It's worth to travel 23km from my house for an excellent night view there. If you like to enjoy KL city night view with a cup of coffee or red wine, this is absolutely the right and romantic place for couples. We plan to come again next round for a better food (hopefully the other restaurant serve good food) as well as the scenery.

Day 3 (21 Sept)

We paid a visit to a recommended baby sitter's house at Sunnyvale (Bandar Sri Sg.Long). Most likely will send Shannen to her for baby sitting middle next month. We are quite satisfy with the cleanliness and environment of the house (not messy). Hope my little girl will cope with the baby sitter after one or two days cry.

We had tuna sandwiches for lunch as I planned to make Japanese Soft Cotton Cheese Cake in the afternoon. I had Audrey as my assistant this time. She helped to do the pouring of the weighted ingredient into the mixture bowl and did some washing for me too. The cake didn't turn out perfectly as it was too hard and not soft. I'm still figuring the root cause, anyone can help?

Dinner with my family members at a restaurant located right beside a Chinese temple, opposite Jusco Cheras Selatan. Another crowded place for dine in, almost full house even at 6pm. Foods are nice and cheap. Highly recommended.

Day 4 (22 Sept)

Home cook lunch for kids and hubby. After that requested hubby to send us (me and Audrey) to KLCC mall while on the way back to MIL place. Poor Shannen cried inside the car for not coming with us. I kept on teasing Audrey that she was lucky to come with me and insisted she must behave during the 2 hours shopping. And she did, good girl. We took LRT back to Wangsamaju and asked hubby to pick us up from the station. Audrey was excited to take LRT for the first time. Overall, it was an enjoyable times spent for both "kaki shopping" ladies.

You are 65th today!

Birthday celebration is one of the way to gather all of us beside CNY. As usual, we will have dinner for the big day, Dumpling's Day and cake cutting to celebrate father's birthday after that.

Again, we ordered green tea cake but this time with a bigger size to ensure everyone enjoys bigger portion for satisfaction. Father seldom eats cake but yesterday he ate two slices, it's so delicious yet not too sweet for him.

Green tea cake, it cost RM100 for 2kg.

Shannen again missed the photo session with grandparents and all the cousins.

We also celebrated Kee Wei's birthday one day earlier.

"Let me help you, mummy", see how helpful was this little boy.

Celebrate 66th Birthday

This post has been sitting in my draft 2 weeks ago, guess what? I've forgotten to post it :P.

Time really flies without our notice. We had celebrated my mum's 66th birthday on last Monday. Like all the past year, all of her grandchildren will be surrounded her to sing her birthday song (4 more granddaughters were missing in action, not able to join), and today we as her children chosen to take a step back to backup them in singing, do some photos shooting, to be the conductor as well. It's fun! As usual, Jack (the boy with light blue shirt) always be the louder one to sing birthday songs and followed by Audrey.

See, the kids are even more excited for cake cutting as they were waiting to eat the delicious cake. This year, we bought a green tea cake from Suki's Cake House. Another thumb's up for Suki after their famous mango cake. We finished the whole cake within half an hour. Next time (for my father birthday), we must double the cake size in order to satisfy everyone with a bigger portion.