【ELF 。凡間精靈】

July 11, 2011 Reasonable hot; Intolerable hazy

是天使，亦是魔鬼！
孩子總叫父母又哭又笑 >,<

Fairy doesn't really mean much/special to Iroko at her age.
Rather, she is thrilled to see and play with gorgor jiejie didi meimei (other kids).
That doesn't mean she wants sibling--she told mummy she wants playmates didi or meimei BUT not from mummy's tummy!

*happy lunch* includes:
Pear + mashed potatoe, pumpkin & carrot + steamed fishballs + watercress soup

童言童語：
之前有提到小妞“對付”+安撫媽咪的絕招是她的那『五字真言』---媽咪，笑哈哈 ;D
這兩天她又給自己的招數注入甚是有點威脅媽咪乖乖就範的元素！！一察覺媽咪對她的言行舉止有異樣/媽咪開始不耐煩時，小妞就馬上把自己的臉，往媽咪的臉上貼，再叫媽咪：“Mummy must be good girl, 笑哈哈huh!” @.@

如果形勢危急，她乾脆就用嘴堵著媽咪的唇，再加上楚楚可憐的眼神和聲音哀求媽咪：“媽咪，笑哈哈，不要罵罵。”

這麼一來，誰還忍得下心拒絕她的要求？

【Golden Indulgence。黃金誘惑】

2011年5月26日 南果飄香的午後 ;)

由於明天要回鄉了，所以要把冰箱裡不能藏太久的蔬果都消耗掉！
那天明知道不太可能把那個南瓜在2天內吃完，媽咪還是手癢癢買了下來！
煮了一次南瓜湯，還剩很多，就開始南瓜蛋糕食譜的搜索行動。。。

“折騰”了一輪，終於出爐了！
很香，真的很香。。。

真的很滿足 :-)。。。因為{媽-masak}烘培室很久沒有像這個那麼讓媽咪驚喜的蛋糕了！
雖然賣相（龜裂的表面）有點“抱歉”，但味道和口感真的。。。無話可說！連平時不怎麼捧場的爹地，也豎起拇指，大贊“可以跟OUG那當butter cake * 媲美”，呵呵呵。。。 (^.^)v


* 隆市裡的某個住宅花園的茶餐室外面專賣butter cakes和marble cake的檔口！價錢蠻貴，但很好吃（至少很合媽咪和她老公口味）！

但，對偏好牛油(butter)的媽咪來說，唯一的遺憾就是牛油味不夠。因為媽咪打算把蛋糕帶回去給不能接受牛油味的媽媽和家婆分享，所以換成了『白蘭他』。

 Pumpkin Cake Recipe

(intelligence property of Alex Goh posted in My Kitchen)

A) 250g    Unsalted Butter [replaced with Planta]

     180g    Castor Sugar

B) 3 pcs.   Large Eggs

C) 150g    Steamed Pumpkin (mashed)

D) 300g    Self-raising Flour [replaced with cake flour + 1 tsp baking powder + 1 tsp baking soda]

     20g      Corn Flour

     (sieve the flour together)

     Pinch of salt

E) 60g     Milk

F) 150g   Pumpkin (peeled & diced)

G) Pumpkin slices, for topping (optional)

     Pineapple-cane Sugar (optional) [used honey instead]

Methods:

1. Preheat oven to 175ºC. Line and grease the baking pan (7"x7").
2. Cream butter together with sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, and cream until light and smooth or the colour turned pale.
4. Stir in mashed pumpkin and mix until well blended.
5. Fold in the sieved flour and salt to the mixture alternate with milk. Mix until well combined.
6. Stir in diced pumpkins.
7. Transfer the batter in to baking pan, arrange pumpkin slices on the surface and sprinkle with pineapple-cane sugar. You may also add some pumpkin seeds.
8. Bake for 50 to 60minutes or until it is cooked. Cool on rack. [my oven took 65min.]

人家說“無三不成禮”
這也是媽咪的第3個南瓜蛋糕。第1個，是完全沒有南瓜味道的蒸蛋糕；
第2次是南瓜芝士蛋糕，雖然味道很特別，但那是芝士在作怪！
這次，是色香味俱全的南瓜烤蛋糕！yayyy!!

小插曲：
小妞今天特別地乖，媽咪忙著烘培，她自己坐在沙發上看Hi-5直到不知不覺睡著了。蛋糕混料快打好時，媽咪才驚覺她睡著了，見她坐著睡得好像很辛苦就想把她抱進房裡睡，怎知一抱，小妞被嚇著，哭了起來，結果媽咪被她捉著“陪睡”，害得媽咪心裡七上八下的，擔心那蛋糕不知會不會因為被拖延時間送進烤爐而毀於一旦。。。

【1 + 1 。眾樂樂】

May 24, 2011 It's sunny, it's rainy...

Guess what, Iroko told mummy her lunch "partners" are tortoises!! aakkkakakaaa... it's funny and completely out of expectation, nothing wrong though ;p

"We are not tortoise but worm >,<"
“我們不是龜！！是蟲”

All the while, Iroko is a generous girl who is so willing to share whatever she has. At one time, she suddenly became reluctant to share one particular "spring rabbit chair" at a particular playground. According to daddy (mummy attended a funeral that evening), she rather sat on it and not to play her favourite slide, spider web, and etc. in order to monopolise the chair. She even laid herself on the floor when other took the seat after she got up from it!!
The next time, on the way heading to the same playground, mummy reminded her not to be so selfish. She didn't promise anything but kept herself quiet through the journey. The same thing happened, she refused to played other games except the spring chair. As she saw mummy walking towards her direction, she bowed her head. After being tempted by mummy, at last, she left the chair and carried on her "extreme game" at the playground.
Mummy was wondering there must be something went wrong or happened to her that caused her to behave in such an "abnormal" way. However, kids at her age might find somewhat difficult to narrate or to disclose accurately especially in terms of psychological aspect.

Since then, mummy grabbed all possible opportunities to get her learned SHARING!

*happy lunch* includes:
Apple & strawberries (starter) + fried onion egg +
stir fry giant-wrinkled-long-bean + pork rib pumpkin soup 

PS: Western style thick creamy pumpkin soup is still the best. Unless Cameron mini pumpkins are used to cook "chinese style clear watery" soup.

童言童語:
自從有了自己的睡房後，小妞就認定晚上睡幾時，媽咪是跟她“一體”的。如果爹地要取代她，跟媽咪一起睡，她會吃醋，馬上擺出受盡委屈的臉孔，帶著濃濃的哭腔告訴她的老爸，“Daddy, please go away. Go back to daddy's room!!”