Everybody Loves Bacon

School closed but projects for the kids are still ongoing. Was asked by little pumpkin to make a dish with bacon for her school project based on the story book ‘Everybody Loves Bacon’.

I decided to make scrambled eggs with bacon with her. She cracked the eggs for the 1^st time but it wasn’t easy for her and she was afraid of the fire on the stove, I prepared the scrambled eggs while she poured in the bacons. It turned out to be delicious with good teamwork. 😊

She had her 1^st Google Meet session with the teachers and her classmates. It was so fun to see everyone. The kids started to chat the one they are online. Teacher Illi then asked them to present their project one at a time and explained how they made the dish and how they felt during the process. 😊

Little pumpkin mentioned that she enjoyed cooking with me and the dish was not difficult except she was afraid that she might get burnt. Though it was just an hour session but I guess it really made all the kids excited and happy to see their friends once again.

HBL Art Project

As the kids are having their HBL and when it comes to homework or projects, it can be quite a nightmare especially when you have ten thousands things to do at home. Hahahahaha… 

Anyway, Lady Faith received a notice from her Art teacher to prepare a Art illustration of a similar action seen on a painting. She was excited to do the project and asked me to help her out. I was more than happy to help her as I used to be an Art student back in secondary schools and I somehow enjoyed doing those projects. 😊

She chose a picture provided by her teacher and we tried to bring it to LIVE as much as we can. 😊 I am pretty happy with how the picture turned out and her teacher also gave her thump up after submission. 😊What do you think?

Oil-Free Honey Chicken

This is one of my kiddos’ favourite dish and since it’s still CB, I got to satisfy their crave as we aren’t able to dine out. I found out some of our favourite hangouts are closed and guess I got to come up with some new dishes before they gets tired. 😊

Ferris Wheel

Lady Faith has HBL while little pumpkin gets to wake up at 10am daily. For the first time, I was happy that little pumpkin’s school has sent out some worksheets to keep the kids leaning at home and some projects for them to complete with timeline.

This time, she was given a project to make a Ferris wheel using recycled materials. Lady Faith was really excited about her little sister’s school project and volunteered to help. Little pumpkin and Lady Faith cooperated and gathered some recycled materials around the house for the project.

We sat down and try to build it together. It took me quite a while to measure and cut out the Ferris Wheel’s frame so that Lady Faith can start making the rest and little pumpkin to put them together. I was really happy that we can do it together as this is one good bonding session for the 3 of us.

Now, we have a pretty Ferris Wheel at home for the monkeys... hahahaaha

Burnt Basque Cheesecake

The Burnt Basque Cheesecake has been going viral on the social media during this CB and I am a big fan of cheesecake and having some cream cheese at home, I decided to give it a shot too.

I was pretty surprised that this recipe needed so many blocks of cream cheese and the sugar used were quite a lot too. I decided to follow part of the recipe but reduced the sugar and it worked out perfectly. It was soft in the side and tasted so GOOOOOOOOOODDDDD!!!!

I am sure I will be baking this delicious cheesecake again but perhaps after CB coz’ I noticed that almost the whole Singapore are making this cake as there isn’t any cream cheese left at the supermarket….

Family On Zoom

Zoom and Google Meet are the most popular channel for meetings during this CB. Thanks to my dear sister in law Maggie who kindly set up the zoom meet and even ordered cakes from the Cake Studio as a virtual tea session for the family.

Honestly, when the door bell rang shortly after lunch, hubby answered the door and brought in a huge box of cakes. We were so thrilled when we opened the box. It was some cupcakes with icing, decorations on the sides. The kids were so excited when they realized that they will be decorating the cupcakes during the Zoom meet later.

After we were connected with the family via Zoom, we started decorating the cakes virtually and it was so fun though we are not meeting the family physically. Parents in law on the other side were able to view the action of our kids and we can still chat with them. At the same time, the elderly managed to chat virtually which brought them to a new dimension.

The whole session last about an hour and the kids were getting bored as they preferred to play or chat with their cousins in person rather than virtually. Now, we are missing those times that we can hang out together and let’s hope this stupid COVID-19 will soon be over.

Thank you very much Maggie for arranging this session which is precious.

Kids Activities

It was a lazy afternoon and it was pouring outside. Just wanted to stay home and chill but kiddos were bored and finally I decided to get them to make their own Mantou.

Both kiddos enjoy eating mantou especially little pumpkin. She will always be the one who eats more than 3 mantous when we ordered them for chili crab dipping and always ended up ordering extra. They were so excited when I suggested to make mantou and all were ready to roll. 😊

Thanks to my Thermomix, there is no need for me to knead them and I left everything to my machine. After proofing for about 30 minutes, we are ready to create them. When it comes to designing the mantou, kiddos had so many creative ideas but just can’t seem to put them into hands …. Hahaahahahaha… they wanted to create animals like dinosaurs, rabbit, flowers but always turned out to be something else…

Anyway, whatever the results or patterns, they are just fantastic kids’ activities during this CB and diverted their attention away from the TV. 😊 I guess I will be having more baking sessions with the girls in time to come. 😊