Baking : No Bake Oreo Cheesecake #1

Wanted to make the oreo cheesecake that I saw from this blog : Happy Home Baking

Her recipe read simple and her cake pictures also look delicious.

Invited my cousin, Lynn to join me....being me, the careless. I wrote down the ingredients without the quantity for shopping. Came home with loads then start putting everything to mixing without reading the recipe properly. Also as blur and clueless about cooking, lynn and me can even get the quantity of the ingredient wrong after reading recipe several time. We also missed 1 step - "Sprinkle coarsely chopped oreo cookies on top of the first half of cheese mixture which has been chilled. Pour in the remaining half of the cheese mixture." so u can only see 1 layer of my cheesecake.

Friends said they can see some greenish spots on my cheesecake.

It's not algae or fungus, it's just the hundreds and thousands sprinkles I scattered on the cake before chilling...

I covered them with chopped oreo immmediately instead because the sprinkles melted and looks ugly.

Taste not bad, unfortunately my hubby do not like cheesecake.

Lesson learnt : Prepare ingredients with all right measurements prior to all the mixing etc.

Baking : Cookies making with toaster oven

Wanted to add baking to my daily activties since I am learning to cook from my in law.  I mean if I never achieved anything in life at least I can cook meals for my kids and hubby and then treat them with pastries when I can.

Women mah!!...I comfort myself all the time when I am morale at all time low, if married then just take care of family and leave money making to husband, do what business...and get all "bruised" out there.

Anyway, read from many home bakers' blog that baking is therapeutic. I love anything that is therapeutic to my neurotic soul.

Know that toaster oven may not be all capable for baking, I bought Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookies premix and here how it went...

The mix is abit sticky and I have difficult dropping the dough evenly..

See them in the oven

First batch of cookies, not bad...

After a few batches, we have some nice and just right cookies and some burnt...

I think betty crocker cookies are supposed to be soft ...

These are how many cookies yielded...

Using toaster oven to bake cookies is possible, but you really need to keep an eye on the oven.

When they are almost done, looking brown and crispy. You needs to turn the pan around then after about 5 mins baking on the other side. Pulled the pan slightly out to block the oven door so it leaves a gap to introduce some cool air.

Self review - I am too impatient to be a baker... :(

I think I am creative too...see this

Dunno why, my creativity just overflow...

It's all Xiaxue's fault...kekeke

I think when you became mum, u no longer like to spend too much on art and craft

I am not using real swaroski, it's those arylic blings with adhesive from novelty gift store and Daiso.

Yes, my camera was not spared!!

All for the Power of Motherhood...

For my mother in law

Cooking : Bento for Hubby #1

Nothing fanciful...My hubby's new job is quite demanding and he sometime do not have proper lunch. Recalling one of his almost choke to death incident, rushing to pack lunch then rush to eat lunch...I decided to try making him lunch box aka bento so he do not need to rush out to get food and back.

It's actually killing 2 birds with 1 stone for us...giving him more time to eat and cut down food wastage.

I can't get up to the bento making spirits like cute character eggs or rice balls, because hubby got good appetite and doing those cuties will mean wasting abit of food.

So this bento, I made for him is like a  " REMAKE of Japanese Oyakodon". Using leftover rice and dark sauce meat and chicken.

Step 1 : Steam rice

Step 2 : Boil the leftover dark sauce meat and chicken in a pot, when it's boiling, pour 1 beaten egg over. Stirred for 1 min on small fire then pour over steam rice then put the japanese rice topping - Furikake.

I also made him a simple ham sandwich to munch along the way to the bus stop.

He is a happy and healthy office worker ever since...

Gift Ideas : Personalised Goodies For Birthday Bag...

Cloie didn't get to celebrate her birthday in school due to the HFMD.

Still we packed up some goodies bags for her friends.

Shopped all the gift shops and find their items totally not interesting and then I remember kids do loves or appreciate things with their names on it so I bought the snap bracelets and start to write their names on it with this special glue like pen I bought from ANBC in Parco.

Last year with more budget for birthday, I ordered personalised chocolates too from

Chocoholic prints for my kids' birthday...

Gift Ideas : For the April Girls...

It's tough choosing the right pressie for going to be teen girls. So I decided to just mix and match something in between kiddy and teen for my nieces whose birthdays are in April too...

I selected a nice mini mug, carebear and a Majolica Majorca lip gloss.

A milk carton gift box which I find it special...

oh, forget about this nice sticker...

Buy or make some colored shredded paper to lay it on the bottom to cushion the mug

then arrange the gift inside the mug

Put the gift nicely in the box

Cooking With Elsie - Assam Fish Head

Cooking Date : 15th April 2010

Digital recipe card made with Smilebox What you see this digital recipe card are the ingredient necessary for Assam Fish Head. My 2nd attempt to cook it without Elsie (my in law) around lack of the sour taste of assam and also the chili paste was not mixed properly while frying. I am still finding out what makes a good chili paste mixture and will post it. Because the first attempt, I used Elsie's personal chili paste mixture and Assam taste just right. Preparation Wash the fish head and remove the inner skin near the brain area Sprinkle and apply salt, msg onto the outer and inner part of the fish head Cut up the vegetables (ladyfingers, tomato, lemongrass) For lemongrass, we just need the inner portion so remove the external hard layer then slice to small pieces. Pour coconut milk to mix with assam paste Cooking method Steam Fish Head in boiling water (10-15 mins) After Fish Head is cooked, used the water to boil ladyfingers Stir fry the chili paste till slightly darker red (about 2-3 scoops depending on how spicy u want) After 1 min, add in lemongrass then mix in coconut mixture and stir Leave it  for 1 min, add in 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 1/2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons of msg Pour in the ladyfingers to boil, then add in curry leaves and tomato then leave them to boil further (1-2mins) Taste the mix, if too spicy, you can add sugar. Pour the mix onto the ready steam fish head. Our Ong-Style Assam Fish Head

Ryl-ly Good-For-Nuttin'??

I finally decided to separate my personal blog from the blog I wish to keep for my kids.

Good For Nuttin?? came from my mum's famous scolding to us when we share our wildest dream and crazy ideas.

For this blog, I will showcased my simple creations that I learnt or inspired in my daily life around my family.