September 2, 2011

Where did summer break go?! It just zoomed us by like a feet of cars in a NASCAR or Formula 1 race, faster than you can say hyundai sonata custom floor mats! Whew! Tomorrow already marks the 10th day of school. We’ve pretty much already gotten into a comfortable groove.  I am back preparing school lunches for my daughter.  Here’s the lunch I put together for the first day of school…

It’s Sweet and Spicy Shrimps with steamed brown rice and fresh cherries.  I always make sure I involve my daughter in planning her school meals.  She’s the one who will be eating them anyway!

It’s going to be a good school year. I already know it!

Cheers, y’all!

PS:  More school lunch photos from last week HERE.

 

July 17, 2011

I’ve been cooking with my wok a lot these fast few days.  After a very very long time, I made homemade fishballs.  Gosh, I’ve missed these! I even attempted to make my own fishballs dipping sauce, hoping to at least come close to the taste of the dipping sauces of the fishball vendors in the Philippines. I dare say that the dipping sauce I cam up with tasted so much like the street vendor variety. Hee hee.  I need to work it some more before I even start to dream of bottling the sauces for possible online sales. Haha! I will surely have a better chance of succeeding in a food-related business than say, selling the products being offered at Wholesaleinsurance.net!

Cheers y’al! Mabuhay!

June 27, 2011

After a very very long time, I baked some cookies a little over a week ago: Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies.  I got the recipe from my favorite Hershey’s recipe book. My daughter had a craving for chocolate chip cookies and because I was too lazy to go to the the store to buy some, I decided to  just take matters into my own hands and just bake the cookies myself.  You can find the recipe HERE.

I’m glad I satisfied my daughter’s craving for cookies.  It was a welcome break from our daily summer routine of swim lessons in the morning and 30 or so minutes of homework in the afternoon. You read that right! My daughter might be on summer break from school but that doesn’t mean she should stop learning. For the summer, I’m her full time home teacher, teaching degree or no teaching degree!

Cheers, y’all! Have a great week ahead!

June 23, 2011

That wasn’t a typo! It’s really Swan (well, swans!) Cake and not Swan Lake.  I made a 10th wedding anniversary cake for a dear couple friend of mine. I got the inspiration from their original wedding cake, the photo of which I still haven’t scanned up to now!

I encountered a few hiccups while making the swans. Thankfully, everything came together and didn’t look bad at all.  You can read more about this cake HERE.

It’s been over three weeks since I last worked with fondant. It’ll be one heck of an arm workout when I do! If only my arms would get toned from all the kneading and rolling involved in cake decorating with fondant. Well who knows?! I just might not have to  buy testoripped! (As if I really would! )

Cheers, y’all!

My daughter’s class had a luau-themed year-end party. I brought cupcakes which I thought to be apt for the theme. I came up with two designs – one, which I hoped would appeal to the girls and one, which I hoped would appeal to the boys.

These were the cupcakes for the girls…

I like how the colors came out, although I wanted the frosting to be a more obvious blue. Haha!

These were the cupcakes for the boys…

The sufboards got soft because of the heat of a nearby lamp and besides, they didn’t really have enough time to dry and harden. I made them just a few hours before the party! Talk about poor time management (perhaps I’m better at document management?)

Anyway, the kids loved the cupcakes…as always. They’re sweet like that.

Cheers!

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