Homemakers' Thoughts: August 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Eating Spree in Malacca

It was great to be back to Malacca (my in-laws and parents' house) during the recent school holidays (August 18-24, 2008). It was really a holiday .. i mean i need not do anything ... i mean the "anything" are; going to the market, cooking, fetching the kids to school/tuition, cleaning the house, washing clothes/plates, ironing clothes, etc etc etc. It is good to take a break during the school holidays. It was a good "REST" in Malacca. Got the luxury to get up late in the morning and the breakfasts (bought by my father-in-law, my sis-in-law, my sister and my father from the hawker stalls - hee kiow mee, mee siam, yong tow foo mee, nasi lemak, pau, lo mai kai, siew mai, wan tan mee, pumpkin/yam cake with chee cheong fun) were always ready on the dining table. Lunchs were good too; delicious home-cooked dishes by my sis-in-law and my mom. Teabreaks were served too (popiah, coconut tarts, siew pow, mee goreng, tong sui, famous chicken rice). Dinners were as good as lunchs. Suppers were also good - fried oyster egg, chee chong fun, duck mee, putu piring, steamed cake. I have put on 2kg during so-called eating spree. Now back to KL, I have to start drinking apple cider vinegar and lemon honey for about 1 week to lose the 2kg fat. Hope it works. Cass and Aly also enjoyed their stay in Malacca. They like to visit their uncles/aunties' home. Got to play with their cousins. Cass was happy that her dad took her to the beach and managed to build her first sand castle (see picture below). Have taken some photos of my favourite food in Malacca. When come to makan-makan, Malacca is the makan-makan paradise which offers a variety of tasty, yummy, delicious, authentic, mouth-watering, satisfying food.

Yummy fried fishball

The famous "hee kiow" mee

Delicious assam mee siam

A good combination of pumpkin, yam and chee cheong fun

Cass's sand castle

Cass at the beach

Cass and Aly's Art Gallery (Pic 30)

Title: My Colourful House

By Cass

Cass and Aly's Art Gallery (Pic 29)

Title: The Red House

By Cass

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cass and Aly Have Visitors

(From left to right: Aly, May Yee, Cass, May Ling and Kwan Kwan)

(From left to right: Aly, May Yee, Cass)

(From left to right: Cass and May Yee)

(From left to right: Aly, May Yee, Cass)

We have guests from Houston, USA who paid a visit to our home. They were our close friends from Malaysia who have relocated to USA 4 years ago. Uncle Peter, Aunty Chen, May Ling and May Yee came back to homeland during their summer holidays. They came and stayed with us for about a week from August 6 to 11, 2008. Cass and Aly were very excited. They played almost the whole day during the weekend. After school, Cass and Aly would take every opportunity to play with them. They are like best buddies. Aly cried when they have to say bye-bye to us on their last stay with us before they fly back to USA.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Cass and Aly's Art Gallery (Pic 28)

Title: The Red Sun

By: Alfred, Cass's friend

Title: My Home

By: May Yee, Cass's friend

Cass and Aly's Art Gallery (Pic 27)

(From left to right: May Yee, Cass and Aly)

Cass and Aly together with their friend, May Yee were playing and doing drawing on the computer. The picture below was done by May Yee.

Title: Condo

By May Yee - Cass's friend

Cooking Book - Like to see but don't like to cook

Since last year, I began to like to collect cooking books. Once a while, I like browsing through the cooking books. Usually I will buy the cooking books where the frontcover attracts my attention (eg. colourful, tempting food). But most of the time, I do not follow the recipes in the books because I am so lazy. I usually want quick and easy cooking. I am not a good cook either. If I have the time and money, I wish to learn cooking and baking from a centre. Recently, I bought a cooking book entitled. "Breezing Into Motherhood" by well known chef, Patsie Cheong. In the book, it mentioned that Madam Patsie has a cooking centre in PJ called Gobests Food Cooking Centre. So far, she had trained more than 2,000 students from various parts of the country. My favourite cooking book is "Yum Yum - Easy Home Cooking". It costs RM10.00 a book and published 2-month once (in English and Mandarin). I like the book because the recipe is simple and easy to follow.

Vidaylin MiniBear

As mentioned in my previous post, Cass and Aly are picky eaters. They don't like to eat vegetables. I came across this product for children - Vidaylin MiniBear (gummies with garden vegetables). The delicious berry flavour gummy contains vegetables in dried form (spinach, tomato, carrot, beetroot, artichoke). Since Cass and Aly don't take much vegetables, I bought this supplement for them. They like it so much. True to the manufacturer's words, "Yummy Taste Guaranteed or Money Back".

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Birthday, Birthday, Birthday

MONTH OF JUNE - Father in law's Birthday

We celebrated our father-in-law's birthday at New Good World Restaurant in Malacca on 28 June 2008. It was a small family gathering with all my father-in-law's children and grandchildren attended the dinner.

Father-in-law's Birthday Cake

MONTH OF JULY - Hubby's Birthday

On 14 July 2008, it was my hubby's birthday. We celebrated his birthday at The Gardens Hotel & Residence, Mid Valley. We stayed one day at the hotel, checked in on 13 July and out on 14 July 2008. The hotel management gave him a cake for his birthday. Cass and Aly enjoyed their stay at the hotel because the hotel is new and the room is spacious.

Hubby's Birthday Cake

MONTH OF AUGUST - Aly's Birthday

Aly's Birthday Cake (Ice-Cream Cake)

Aly turned 4 years old on 2 August 2008. We had a popiah party for her on her birthday. Her Aunty Jenny is the chief cook. She prepared all the popiah ingredients and cooked nasi himpit with petai sambal, fried chicken, nugget and tow kee with chicken and fish paste. While the mommy cooked pasta. Desserts were coconut tarts, green bean with durian and cheese tarts. Aunty PG sponsored the cheese tarts.