All posts filed under: What to eat Mom?

It’s my birthday today! Dino Cupcake

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There’s a cake on the table and V declares “It’s my birthday today!” My demanding little customer with Debbie Brown’s “50 Easy Party Cakes” sat on the carpet flipping pages deciding on the cake design he want. V: I know! I want a dinosaur cake. Can we make it now? I will help. M: I will try my best to make you one. V: You can do it Mama. Meet V’s dino cupcake 🙂 I’m using a new fondant recipe suggested by my friend Sandy. I just have a little problem with the fondant it easily breaks when shaped or rolled and it’s way too oily compared to the usual MMF. I’m asking help online hopefully I get advise on how to fix the problem. *** and btw we are not celebrating any birthday we just happen to have a cake coz it’s the time of the month that my hormones go crazy!

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 …

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 …

6 and hungry

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Last month I’ve started searching the internet for some baby food recipe’s and all about introducing solid food. This site is very informative on baby food, how to’s, and recipe’s.See, the moment I learned that I was pregnant I have decided to breastfeed and prepare his food myself and would try my best not to rely on milk formula and store bought baby food.This week Vierte turned 6 months, which also means he can now start really eating with us on the table. When he reached 4mo, he would hungrily stare at us during mealtime which would always temp his lola bing to let him taste some fruit, veggies and even ice cream kasi “kawawa naman ang bata”. For his first meal, Coy and I planned for me to cook and mash potatoes unfortunately walang available sa bahay so I opted for the only available food for him which was apples.From the Mashed Apple recipe (yes I have printed a whole lot of babay food recipe) the instruction was to peel, cut to cubes, and …