【Unhealthy Healthy Meal 。里外不是猴】

March 09, 2011 Sunny day

It's been proven that bread contains higher sugar  than white rice does; and
it's adviceable to avoid taking bread too frequently.

It's almost impossible for not having bread in {ma-masak} kitchen;
The reasons are simple: mummy and Iroko love bread, it's the most common food for breakfasts, it's easy to prepare lor ;p

The most that mummy can compromise is to cut down the intake of bread.

【Unhealthy breakfast: wholegrain bread + cocoa butter spread + little strawberry jam + 2 little circles of cheddar cheese】

Tools used for preparing the 【Unhealthy Healthy Breakfast】

The work (preparing the Monkey) is not demanding although you need to use up to 4 pieces of tools: moon shape cookie cutter (to cut the ears), little container (to cut the eyes), XL size bubble tea straw (to cut the nose), and the knife (to trim the breads). The most "tedious" part is to outline the monkey face.

Level of difficulty: ** out of *****

【A Wonderful EAT-PLAY-LOVE Day 。好心情】

Jan. 13, 2011 Rainy day

Cat was the first animal attracted Iroko when she was 6-month-old. As she grows, more animals enter to her world and she is now not so fond of cat. For no special reason, mummy simply felt like making her a kitten this morning.

【Playful Dirty Kitten 。污濁貓】

Although it couldn't be done within a minute or two (definitely < 10min. for beginners), it is still considered as an easy-to-prepare non-cook breakfast!



Tools used to prepare the【Playful Dirty Kitten】

 Mummy used 3 cookie cutters (eggplant, peanut, and bell shape) to cut the tail, paws, and the ears. The body and head were cut by using the measuring cup and the lid of Marmite container (forgot to include in the photo). Now only mummy realised that she was so blundered--she was to put the scissors, which was used to cut the nose, instead of the knife >,<

The lunch is also Iroko's top favourite--ICE-CREAM!!


【Potato "Ice-Cream" 。不是雪糕，是“薯”糕】
arrrgggg, got cheated by mummy!!

 Of course mummy will never prepare real ice-cream as Iroko's lunch!! It's mashed potato. Besides, to make sure the little one gets sufficient fluid intake, mummy prepared spinach soup (forgot to take a picture of it).
Guess what, Iroko finished everything!! That was a big size potato!

Iroko loves orange soooooo much recently until she totally forewent her "EX"--strawberry. We don't always get nice strawberry even some were imported and didn't come cheap--RM12 for <10 strawberries!! Daddy, as you wished--your daughter found her new love!



看她這副吃得津津有味，多麼享受的模樣，就想像得到她是有多愛ORANGE!!

 

【an EVENTFUL day 。呯呯砰砰，就忙了一天】

Jan. 11, 2010 Windy day

After much thought, mummy has decided to stop posting photos to the {ma-masak} album on FB. Of course mummy will still share Iroko's *happy meals* with friends on FB from here!

In contrast to this new place, which is completely "quiet" and so deserted, the {ma-masak} kitchen is quite busy since this morning.

Mummy and Iroko are falling in love with kokoji (cockerel and chicken, or more appropriately, BIRDs) recently. So another cockerel was presented ;> The cockerel is not as cheecky as the one we had the other day.

【When they meet 。偶遇】

  Let's zoom in a bit...


Some asked mummy how much has she invested in cutters, moulds, or accessories used for making Iroko's *happy meals*. Well, be frank, not more than RM20!! Most of the time, mummy prefers to cut/shape manually. And the fact is, it's rather impossible to get all mummy wants.

As for this Birdies Breakfast, mummy used only a lid (of the container of cocoa butter spread) to cut the body of the cockerel, a measuring cup to cut the body of the crow, and a knife to cut the rest. It's that simple, isn't? ;-)

These are the tools used to cut the birdies.

Mummy has been waiting for a right timing to make a WHALE for Iroko. And this is the day! daa lang...

Until the last minute, mummy had no idea what should be used to mimic the water spout, daa lang--glass noodle!! Really love this amazing little noodle!! It made the mouse looks so real with the glass noodle whisker, and now it gives a plus to the whale. [Iroko: "Mummy, be humble a bit, please"!!]

【The WHALE is spouting water!!】

Look at the 2 "corals". They are beautiful, aren't they? In fact the whole stalk of the veggie (mummy doesn't know the actual name, should be baby bok choy （小油菜）??

Mummy always loves to groom the animals in the *happy meals*.
Look, the whale got curly eye lashes and rosy cheek ;)

Parents, do watch out what you say and your behaviour, kids are 100% effective + efficient copycat! This happened to mummy again today! When mummy started doing her cooking, Iroko told mummy, "OK, let's cooking." while setting up her little kitchen in the living room, and...

Mummy, take photo!!

She requested mummy to take a photo of what she had cooked when she saw mummy busy "ka cha, ka cha" (shooting photos for the whale). 

There you go, mummy ;D

She is absolutely a lovely girl... WHEN HER "ANGIN" IS RIGHT!!

Next, mummy spared some time to do cornflakes cookies as per daddy's request.

【脆到不行的曲奇餅 。SUPERRRRRR Crunchy Nutty Cornflakes Cookies】

This is mummy's first attempt. Mummy never thought of having such super duper crunchy cookies. However she's wondering if daddy loves the crunchiness because he had one very nice cornflakes cookies the other day with more solid and "firm" texture...

The peacan nuts have sat in the store for weeks. It's now their turn to perform!
Mummy also got them a friend--Chocolate rices

Guess what, it took the WHOLE AFTERNOON (from 3:30pm till 7pm)! Why? Because the mini oven could only hold a small cooking pan. Because mummy doesn't have a proper cookie tray but just normal square and round cooking pans. Only 9 PIECES of cookies to be baked each time >,< Almost gave up...

Well, luckily it worked out well!! Worth it!

【Mini Hegdehogs 。小小刺猬】

Dec. 29, 2010 Cloudy Rainy Day

This is the second attempt mummy tried hedgehog and she made it, yayyy (^.^)v

When mummy told Iroko her lunch partners are "hedgehogs", she repeated, "dog dog"... >,<

Not many veggies or fruits left in the fridge. Without much thought, mummy simply took a carrot and a slice a cheese; well, a small piece of seaweed to be used for the eyes, mouths, and noses ;)

Only 2 "hand tools" were used to make these two mini hedgehogs-- an 8-petals flower cookie cutter and an eggplant cookie cutter. Oh ya, not forget too, the most essential tool that mummy needs for almost all the *happy meals*--the manicure scissors ;p

【很簡單的挑戰。Making of *happy meal*】

Aug. 11, 2010 Hazy

To mummy, preparing a proper 2 or 3 dishes meal became so challenging since Iroko was born. Mummy used to have her LUNCH at 5pm!!-- Started preparing the lunch by 11am. and it took 6 hours in total to finish the meal. For a period of time, 一鍋熟 (all-in-one--steamed rice, veggie, egg, or fish... together) helped mummy a lot! There were just too many new things for the new mummy to pick up and to adapt to.

Mummy always admired those creative mummies who spent so much time and effort to prepare well-garnished kid's meal. That's luxurious! As long as Iroko finished her meal, that's good enough >,< Mummy really got inspired by those "ornamental meals" but just found no way to start although mummy bought a set of 4 rice molds and a few simple cookie cutters.

Until now, mummy realised a nice "ornamental meal" doesn't really need "sophisticated" tools/molds! It can be just as simple as this :)

Monkey Mashed Potato--it's considered as mummy's first Ornamental Meal ;-)