Month: March 2011

Fondant Fun at CakeJournal

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I’ve been reading a whole lot of cake decorating ever since I was pregnant with Vierte. I was excited about his 1st birthday cake and it was my dream to make a handsome cake for him. Sadly I havent done one fondant cake for his birthday. Now that he will start preSchool and I really would want to have some income baking cakes and designing them as well I am once again slowly learning how to work with fondant. One favorite cake site that makes designing fondant real fun is Louise of CakeJournal. All basic things you need to start enjoying cake/cookie making and designing is explained well with photos. Don’t we all just love kid friendly tutorials? Yes we do! Louise for some time now have made her tutorials printer friendly by having pdf files of each tutorial featured on her site. The more exciting news is you can get all the tutorials for FREE! Yup you read it right free. Kid friendly pdf tutorials for free! What are you waiting for go ahead and spend …

Blogging in Dubai

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I’m craving for soup and my son requested for some crispy chicken. I’m lazy when it comes to making just soup that’s why we buy those packed soup mix that you just add on boiling water. Both my boys love soup. I searched the net for some recipes (Asian Soup) found lots but then most of the ingredients are not readily available and I don’t drive. Googled again but this time within Dubai pages only. And viola! I found the following Dubai base bloggers Miso Soup by Sandier PasturesKimchi Udon Chicken Soup by OutandAboutFried Chicken of Chef and Steward I still have 1 packet left of ready mix soup and would finish that today for dinner with some fried chicken and left over mashed potato.

Lemon Bars (circle for us)

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“I want some pie” … it has been weeks and I just ignored V’s request. Tonight I was craving for something with lemon. Lemon Squares! This squares were my favorite when I was still pregnant with V. Ohh and you may have notice from the photos that what we did was more of a pie since we use a round pan (my square pan had rust in them that’s why). Back home in the Philippines I didn’t use lemon to make this tarty treat instead I used calamansi which produce almost similar taste to lemon. I got this recipe from JoyOfBaking but I added a little bit more sugar to the filling. Lemon Squares source: JoyOfBaking Crust: 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar 1 cup all purpose flour 1/8 teaspoon saltLemon Filling:1 cup granulated white sugar 2 large eggs 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoons grated lemon zest2 tablespoons all purpose flour Garnish:Confectioner’s sugar Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place the oven rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray …

Learning to cook once again.

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I’ve always loved cooking though I’m not an excellent cook I try my best to learn everyday by reading, watching videos, and series like MasterChef (currently we are learning from kids of Junior Masterchef Australia). If you haven’t seen one episode go and look for one for sure you’d be challenge to enjoy and learn cooking. I started my kitchen adventure at a young age always task to first get the ingredients, then promoted to cutting, measuring and finally preparing a food all by myself. My first big baking event was on my Lola Mering’s 80th birthday. With the help of my mom and sister we baked 5 dozen each of brownies and chocolate chip cookies both recipe’s I got from a Hershey’s cookbook which I borrowed from an officemate. It was a hit! All of the guests asks to bring some baked goodies home. Years passed…I have a family of my own and now living far away from home. Cooking is now part of my daily routine. Everyday I try my best to prepare healthy yummy …

Stay at Home Mom not an easy job after all.

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Deciding to quit my corporate job 2 years ago was an easy decision. I want to Vierte to grow up with his Dad around and I don’t want to continue having to worry about unanswered calls and messages. Friends would say that I will have sort of an easy life being out of the busy life of an 8hr job. I thought so too…but boy they were wrong! Days come and go and I would think that I have not accomplished much and definitely a few “me” time that would most often times lead to an hour or so of drama. My housework starts at… 530am – prepare breakfast and packed lunch 630am – have lovely breakfast chat with C  700am – clean up kitchen, C off to work 800am – house cleaning (if V’s still asleep) 900am – V have his breakfast1000am – get back to cleaning while V watches his cartoons1100am – V bath time, playtime with him, read books1200pm – prepare lunch (V and I usually have left over meat and grilled veggies)0100pm – clean kitchen, clean bathroom and …

F is Football

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We love Decathlon at Mirdiff City Centre! Kids get to play. Staff are really nice. Lots of choices and a spacious area. Vierte has a ball collection (we would always leave a sports store with a ball or two) which started when we arrive here in Dubai. And so we left decathlon with a bag of football goodies for V! and he insisted we go to the park and so he could wear his uniform.