Stay TUned! - Upcoming Bake: Biscotti

Yup.. I have bought all my ingredients and will get the oven heating soon this week. Would really love to try out this biscotti recipe before I fly off to my "rest and do nothing" holiday. Really looking forward to that, really have been a work-oriented year for me in office. A lot of major changes and adjustments. Therefore, it is always a bliss to find time and bake, eat and just rest the mind and soul!

Well, enough ranting.. all in all, stay tune to my updates soon! =)

Home Cooked Laksa to keep you all enticed before my next bake! Hehe!

THe PRooF!

My dear blog is still alive! wahahah... ages since my last update. Here is my latest bake as a proof that i have not forsake baking ! Other than the washing that comes along with baking... I still find the whole process fulfilling, especially so when your end product looks like this!  = ) 

My Mix Fruit Tart

ChIneSE NEw YeAR PrEp

A busy busy month of January! I am so pre-occupied with the CNY stuffs... i have become very forgetful! To start off.. what is prep without baking!? And so, this year i bought all my ingredients and also not forgetting the very important plastic container (that i really regret last year for not using and ended up my cookies went soft). I made altogether 4 types of goodies. They are Almond Melting Moments, Chocolate chip with Rasin Cookie, Apricot with Almond Cookie (Drizzled with melted choco) and also my must have Choco Cornflake Crisp!

For consecutively 2 days, my unit was soaked in the aroma of baked cookies and i am not sure about my neighbours, but to me it is aromatherapy... Mmmmm... Though i was really tired at the end of it..hur hur... I did not take any pics when baking as it was really like a warzone. Therefore I only have the final packed products for your to see... =)

All 3 Flavour

Almond Melting Moments

Choco Chip and Rasin Cookie

Apricot and Almond Cookie

All My Bakes!

Choco Cornflake Crisp

What is CNY without new clothes??? !! A must have for all people regardless you are young, old, fat, thin, gal or boy! I bought a lot of clothes for this CNY. I also did my gel nails at Iputa... my first time and i must say, it is really pretty and durable! Next up will be to trim my hair.. Here is a little sneak peak at my clothes and my nails!!!

Chu Yi Dress

Chu Er Dress and my Nails

An update on my lil garden collection. As said in my previous entry, I kept my word and add on a few more plants to my garden... A very sad news to share as well. My rose plant died. I am not sure, but i feel is that i over-watered it and also the salt level of the soil is too high. Anyways... it died. I had to move on. Luckily all my other plants are doing fine and i googled (How can I live without Google?!!) on how to look after them more professionally. Most are growing by day and budding even (for my tie shu) =)

My Tie Shu

Signs of New Life

My New Addition

My Growing Money Plant

My New Addition - "Pineapple" Plant

All my Greens..

Well... That is all for the time being folks... Will update you more on my prep and CNY celebration when time allows.. Wishing all my chinese readers and fellow bloggers happy CNY Preping!!! =)

HaPPy NeW YEAR 2011! - BackDated

Have been some time since my last entry. Some quick updates on my New Year Celebration. I invited my bro and sis over for a dinner since my Dad and Mom had their own events to attend to.

I knocked off early on New year eve and rush back home to whipped up the dessert - Tiramisu. Followed by cooking the pasta for the Sausage Baked Pasta and also Chicken Breast Cesaer's Salad as a Starter. There you have it.. a simple meal and celebration to mark the ending of Yr 2010 and staying hopeful for the new year 2011!

Apologies for the limted pictures, as i was too busy eating .. hur hur...

 

Cesaer's Salad

 

Sausage Mushroom Baked Pasta



PoST ChriStMas DaY

On a lazy Sunday morning... i woke up at around 11am and started to make our Brunch... Pancakes with Tomato Scrambled Egg... Yummy! A lovely sight to wake up to, if you ask me... =)

Yummy!

After which, I took a bath and make my way to Ikea to buy all the stuffs needed to set up my lil garden...
I am starting my garden with 3 plant - Money plant, "Tie Shu" and a mini rose plant. I intend to expand my collection during chinese new year since that is when all the nurseries have sales...

I also finally bought some stools for my house, which i needed badly especially when i invite guests over and they really have no place to sit... so embarrassing...
And also bought a small shoe rack to put our slippers and boots ... =)*Happy*

CHRiStmas DAy Bakes....

On Christmas day, i decided to make another batch of cookies for my mother, as she complained why we did not give her any from our last bake....

And so i located this recipe which i have all the ingredients ready. Easy and really nice cookie which melts directly in your mouth... =) Do give it a try!

Fresh from The OVEN!

 

ChRIStMAS COokIE MaKinG

This the season to be jolly.... lalalalalala....
Yup the season of giving and love... And also one of my favourite season - Christmas!

This year I finally did mass baking of cookies for some of my friends at work. Was really tough and tiring... lucky my sis was there to help and of course shared the end product with her, as she needed it to give to her frens as well...

The Naked Cookies

My sis made the purse specially for me ! *Hearts*

My Creations!

Aside baking for my friends, I also invited my hubby's little nephews over to do some baking... and the recipe i chose was the one Horlick Doggies from Coraine's blog. We had a lot of fun and of course like all kids does... no rules were followed .. doggies eventually turned into monsters.. dinosaurs and super power doggies... ahhahha...

Can you spot the dino? the super dog? and the monster?

Other than cookies... this year i scrapped 2 frames for my besties L and PX. Was my first and i think more to come.. i really like the outcome and also the effect.. I am definitely planning to do more... here are some pics to share! Enjoy !

For L

For PX

Lastly, I would like to wish all my fellow bloggers and reader a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011!