cooking rice

Benjamin is now eating rice (soft ones). This week, instead of cooking everything in one pot, i fry the ingredients separately. Andrea too eat the same with benjamin as she is still a very small eater. 

Saturday - Boiled pumpkin & apples soup. This serve as the base for cooking the rice. Afternoon had fried egg, long beans & meat. Night had stir fried ginger & onion meat with long beans. 

Sunday - Boiled corn soup. This serve as the base for cooking the rice. Lunch & Dinner stir fried broccoli, meat, mushroom and long beans. 

My face cannot stand the heat, yesterday after cooking my face feels warm for hours despite having wash after cooking. Sunday hence will only cook once and heat up at night. Having done all these, my kids still do not eat as fast and much as i like. I have spent sometime looking and thinking what to cook during the weekend and looking at their appetite really makes me disappointed. Andrea still eats very slowly and little. Ben on the other hand, do not know what had happen in my mum house, he seems reluctant to be fed if we sound forcing. I have asked andrea's help to feed him and at least 5 mouth andrea can feed. I'm curious, he still can eat but does not like adults to feed? With my burning face, i felt annoyed by them because they don't seems to enjoy my cooking. 

Strawberry Smoothies

I have tried making smoothies when my old maid was still here (beginning of the year), followed the recipe i have - some turn out to be good, some just not so nice. Last sunday, i did the smoothies on my own - follow my feelings :)

I have bought many strawberries from isetan last week, it was very cheap and very fresh! no rotten berries in it, well usually i found a few in a box. RM12.90 for one big box, only one day offer - no wonder it's so packed! 

Ingredient for 2 portion:

Strawberries - 2 handful

1 Banana

Fresh Milk

3 ice cubes

Turn out to be very yummy, maybe the strawberries are very sweet too. We made strawberries smoothies for consecutive 3 days! Andrea is happy, Mummy is happy! 

Ben's 1st Taste - 2

I have made cauliflower + broccoli for his cereal last week. He likes it alot, I'm really amaze, despite the strong broccoli smell, i thought he would reject it. However, the last cube of pumpkin he rejected, I guess he knows that was not very fresh anymore.

For fruits, he continue to eat pear. However we let him tried Avocado, banana & papaya. He does not really like papaya but banana & Avocado was OKay.

Ben is still allergic to sweet potato i think. We fed him sweet potato one morning and he had rashes on his back, after 3 days still there, but no fever, so we did not bring him to see doctor. I really hope is not because of my self cleansing (reiki) that cause him the rashes. 

Today he tried salmon, he likes it :) We were having dinner at ZiPangu just now.

Ben's 1st Taste

We brought ben for his monthly injection when he was 5 months 2 weeks, I've asked dr. musa if i can feed ben solid because ben does not drink alot of milk. Dr. said sure, not a problem, even ask me to let him eat fish, but have to blend it. I was thinking "fish? i thought only 7 months can eat??" hm... so i prepare his 1st solid & feed him the following week. At 5 months 3 weeks, ben started solid.

1. Sweet Potato was his 1st food. He has diarrhoea after 6 hours, poor boy. Luckily not very bad... he purge for 3 times i think, after 12 hours it stops. Phew... My sister said because his digestive system is not matured yet. So we stop solid after that one and only feed.

2. at 6 months 2 weeks, i've started him with Butternut squash & pear. Both are OK. Nothing happen

3. After 4 days of butternut squash, we feed ben carrots. He had fever after 30min of the feed. Now i don't know if the carrots cause him fever or the influenza jap he took yesterday. sigh.... My boy is really a 'xiao jie'

This week i'm gonna make pumpkin & apple. If there is sweet potato selling at justlife, i will want to puree it as well for next week use. Want to give it another try!

Ben loves the pear puree very much. I add water & he drink it one shot 2oz, after that still can drink 1.5oz milk! not bad....

Meatball Soup

Ingredients:
Minced pork, vege to be added into the meatball, organic vegetable stock, frozen peas, diced carrot & pasta

Chop the vege & combine the pork, then form the mixture into small balls. Just big enough for the small mouth. Put stock in a pot & bring to boil, add peas, carrots & pasta to cook. Drop the meatballs into the simmering soup for 5 min or until the meatballs turn white & float to the surface.

READY.

Apple Cake

Nice....

Ingredients:

125g butter, 125g caster sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla essence, 1 medium egg, 125g self raising flour (sifted), 2 dessert apples (sliced)

1. Beat butter & sugar until light and fluffy

2. add vanilla essence & whole egg then add flour until the mixture is smooth. 

3. line up apples in the bottom of the baking tray & pour the cake mixture on top of the apples. 

4. Bake the cake for 20-25min

Avocado Smoothie

Andrea loves it!

Ingredient:
1 Avocado, Fresh Milk, Water, Maple syrup

Avocado & fresh milk to blender, add water to smoothen the texture & blend somemore. When done pour into cup & add 1 tablespoon of syrup.
I add 1 cube of ice into the drinks.

Blueberry Muffin

Very Successful!

Ingredients:
150g plain flour, 1tsp baking powder, 1 egg, 60g soft brown sugar, 45g butter, 1/2tsp vanilla extract, 40g blueberries (i put 100g)

1. Sift flour & baking powder.
2. Combine egg, brown sugar, butter & vanilla extract then add in flour & baking powder. Gently fold in blueberries.
3. Spoon into 6 muffins trays, bake for 25min

Andrea loves it because she loves blueberry muffin story in strawberry shortcake book :)

Weekend Recipe: 4th & 5th July

1 breakfast, 2 Lunch, 1 snack, 1 dessert. Andrea likes all of them.

Banana Pancakes
Ingredients:
3 ripe mashed bananas, 150g white flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 250ml reduced-fat milk, 1 tbsp maple syrup
Sieve the flour + baking powder into the mashed bananas. Add reduced-fat milk + maple syrup and stir constantly until smooth. Set aside for 1 hour. Fry it with non-stick frying pan using butter. Use Maple syrup as dip if desired.

Cauliflower Mornay
Ingredients:
cauliflower, green peas, pasta, chicken (diced), onion & garlic, 2 tsp cornflour, 125ml reduced-fat milk, 3 tbsp grated cheddar cheese
Cut the cauliflower into small pieces (enough for the small mouth), boil cauliflower, pasta & green peas until soft. Fry chicken, onion & garlic separately. Heat the milk & add in the corn flour, when it simmers, add in everything & finally add in cheddar cheese. Add sea salt to taste.

Chicken Potato Chowder
Ingredients:
potato, green peas, carrots, pasta, chicken (diced), reduced-fat milk, cheddar cheese, butter
Cut the potato & carrots into small pieces, boil potato, carrots, pasta & green peas until soft. Fry chicken with butter in a pot, add everything into the pot & finally add in cheddar cheese. Add sea salt to taste.

Chicken sticks
Ingredients:
chicken fillet, sea salt, sugar, soya sauce, thyme (herbs), bread crumbs, 1 egg, sticks
Marinade the chicken fillet with sea salt, soya sauce, sugar & little thyme leaves. Set aside for 1 hour. Thread each fillet onto the stick. Beat egg & prepare bread crumbs, use the egg to coat the fillet and then bring it to the bread crumbs. Pre-heat the oven earlier, bake it until golden brown (around 30min)

Black Sesame Agar-agar
Ingredients:
agar-agar, apple juice, brown sugar, 2 tbsp black sesame powder, small cups
cook the agar-agar as per package, when it's dissolved, remove from stove. Add in apple juice & brown sugar to taste. Add in black sesame powder & divide it into small cups. Put in fridge, serve cold.

Butter Garlic Mushrooms

I never thought i need to look into what to cook for my kid or to worry that they won't eat what my mum & maid cook for her. Well, i think the time has come & i need to spend sometime 'thinking' what to cook for Andrea. Hope adding variety to her daily meal would get her into eating well again. Hope that i will not get myself into trouble too! haha... everytime new meal will die man....

1st dish i add to my maid's main course is this Garlic Mushrooms, Sadly, Andrea does not even want to taste a bit. Well me and hubby eat it all and it tasted yummy.

Ingredient:
White button mushrooms (sliced it)
Garlic
Butter

Put butter in the frying pan & melt it, add garlic to fry till golden brown. add Mushrooms, no need to add water as the mushroom will extract the water from inside when it's cooked. Just before you off the fire, add a pinch of sea salt. Ready to serve.