Recipe: Pancakes

THis is the most easy recipe for pancakes

Ingridients:

1 Egg

1 Cup of Self Raising Flour

1 Cup of Milk

Method:

1) Mix them up the ingridents, stir them but don't over stir as it would be a bit tough

2) Low heat pan - put in some butter and quickly put in the dough. If you let the butter shimmer too long it would be burn feel and the pancake would be "blackish". Nevertheless if you can't control the butter well, use vege oil (eg: olive oil).

3) Let it cook for 1 min and then flip over for another min. Remove from Pan.

Recipe: Apple Crumble Pie/Cake

Ingridients:

1 1/2 cup self raising flour

115 g butter

1/2 cup caster brown sugar (50/50)

1 egg, lightly beaten

1x440 g tin fruit (approx 3 - 4 granny apples)

1 tablespoon of cinamen (optional)

Method:

1) Shift flour and sugar

2) Add butter in and mix it to resemble crumble (don't use electric mixer, normal wooden spoon would do or better use ur own hands)

3) Add Egg and mix again

4) Press just under half mixture to a 20inch greased lined pan - make it like a pie shape

5) cover with fruit (if fresh apple - shimmer it for a while to make it soft - sprinkle the cinamen on to it - if u got a sweet tooth, add a some brown sugar to it and give it a last mix)

6) Top it off with remaining "crumbles"

7) Baked at 180'c for 40 mins (but i think 30 mins is enough.. so depend on ur oven as mine got a bit burned at the side)

8) Dust with icing sugar or serve with Vanila ice cream

Recipe: Cream Cheese + Avacado spread

Its a simple combination.

As recently tigerbaby dislike cream chese (eg: Kiri, Laughing Cow) so I am thinking of ways to increase her interest again.

Indeed, cream cheese (one cube) with half a avacado (or more) works. if you feel it is a bit too dry, add a bit of water or milk would do. I haven't use yogurt because I would like to give it as another snack but i think yogurt would go well with these 2 as well, logically.... *to be experiment next..*

If the toddlers not interest at all, not to worry, mummies can just whip it off with a ham sandwitch.. it goes Heavenly ~~

Milestone: 13.8 months (416 days) 6 Oct 2011

- Tigerbaby has grown taller a bit as she can now stand up and her nose can touch the tv stand. Hands stretching to touch the wireless / cable box which is place way back.

- Likes dancing. When she hear music, she would shake her bum and swing her hands left right if it is really good music she like

- loves pointing at things with her Right hand (2nd finger)

- loves digging into things

- likes to take things and put them back to their orginal spot *kinda like this !! :)

- Loves dishwasher and always trying to figure out how to pull it open *she does try to observe me to learn and found out where the handle is but couldn't figure out the pulling part...

- can climb down sofa's (she would do a 180 degree turn so that her legs goes down first with her butt next)

- Loves rice!!

- Start to bite and pinch. Loves bitting my thighs while she go around the chair (whilst i am sitting on it). Loves to pinch my neck whilst I am putting her to sleep. arghh those little monsterous fingers of her... and devlish teeths!!!

Reasons I bake...

BlurDad asked me this question many times, why do i bake so much.. and instantly my response is.. for Crystin snack! as i don't know what else to give her. Blurdad is not much of a Cake/muffin person. He is more into "fry" stuff. However as he asked me this question few times, I made me start thinking deep inside, why do i love baking... *well more of muffin baking ...* reasons are simple.

1) Muffin is a nice snack (small) for tigerbaby. easy to bring around as well

2) To prepare takes only 15 mins and to bake takes another 15min.

3) Ingridients are simple and smaller quantity than a cake

4) I enjoy the smell of fresh baked muffin ~~

5) I too can have a snack on-the-go. As some stay at home mom would understand, sometimes there really isn't much time to even have a proper lunch if your little one wakes up and seeking full attention. One muffin munching on while playing with your little one seems to go much easier than making a sandwitch. :)

5 good reasons to bake muffins~~