Salad Bowl

A fruitful and healthy Friday Morning!
Quite a number of salad ingredients were stored in refrigerator, so Ling prepared 2 portions for both of us.  We enjoyed it for breakfast.

Traditional Mooncakes

This evening, I brought home a box of Traditional Mooncakes Egg Yolk White Lotus from Tung Lok Group, this was given by my new boss (one of the nicest boss that I ever worked with). 
The mooncake is nice and the egg yolks are very fresh.  We will share this with our friends on the actual day of Mid-Autumn Festival ~ coming Wednesday (22 Sep).

Egg Mayonnaise & Fruits

Time flies 时间不饶人!  Another Monday morning ~~~ After the long weekend, a fresher day to start with a simple egg mayonnaise with veggies, mini sandwiches with butter spread and some fruits.

This is my 7th day at work and managed to make this charaben.

It's no exception a busy Monday to move on for the rest of the week, lots of documents to be sorted out and I was home late again! (Missed the yummy pumpkin soup that Ling prepared today)

It's been awhile I have not worked longer hours for a 5day week, but simply enjoying this new environment.

Salad & Fruit

After sending my god-daughter to school this morning, I decided to prepare a very simple salad for breakfast with the leftover red capsicum, Japanese cucumber, carrots, red cabbage and sweet corns. 

Today, I used one new 'nori puncher' which Ling bought from Cake DIY, Hong Kong during her recent trip.  They are unlike other nori/craft punchers, didnt give a complete cut as mentioned by Karen.  I tried using the "crispy" seaweed, somehow it turned out "ok" with little 'hiccups'.

Strawberry Short Cake

Today is Ling's mother-in-law's 71st birthday. 

Nowadays, Ling will try to bake instead of buying from a cake shop.  Remember, she has a new oven?  Trying to make full use of it :) 

Finally, she decided on a Strawberry Shortcake with Chantilly Cream.  This is her 3rd tries on the cake.  1st time, our dear friend, Diana baked the cake using her own oven, so the cake turned out beautifully.  Ling did the frosting for the cake and everyone loves it.  2nd time, Ling baked the cake herself using her microwave oven and it was a total flop.  Her cake came out half cooked.  The top part was alright but the bottom was not cooked.

This time round, she was quite confident that the cake will come out alright since it's going to be bake in the new oven (Fingers crossed).  And YES, the cake did come out beautifully although it did sink a bit after cooling. Ling then chilled the cake overnight in the fridge.  The next day, she frost the cake and decorate it. 

Here is the finished product!!

The verdict? Mother-in-Law loved it and so does everyone else.  Texture of cake was soft and the fresh cream also complements the cake very well.  This cake is "Super Yummy"

Ling didnt miss out the traditional "red hard boiled eggs" 红鸡蛋 for birthday celebration.

Simple Meals of the Day

After the great meals yesterday, have decided to make pancakes for breakfast. 

Last evening went to FairPrice supermarket, WhiteWings Panjacks Pancake Mix caught my eyes as it indicated as "Just Add Water".  Well, I need something easy & fast as I have to manage other activities on Sunday. 

The pancakes didn't turn out in 'good appearance' but they are very tasty!

Used the 焼き型 silicon moulds bought from Daiso, they are pretty easy to use compared to frying eggs.

 

Stir Fried carrots, french beans & bean curd and steam egg with minced pork for lunch.  As for the steam egg with minced pork, didn't add enough water and too much meat.... sigh :(

Bought this triangle sandwich cutter recently and I made used of it to prepare these egg mayonnaise sandwiches for my god-daughter to share with her friends after swimming lesson in the late afternoon.

We were invited to our good friend - Karen's house for dinner.  Thanks Karen!

Makizushi

Packed this for a simple lunch and added some favourite fruits.
After several trials, managed to add more ingredients for sushi-making :)

Mixed Vegetable Salad

Awaken by a "nightmare" that I had "+" sign on the weighing scale! Hence, decided to have a good start on 1st day of the month (wonderful Sunday morning). (先听着，哈哈，greedy me!)
Made 2 sets of mixed veggie salad for both Ling & I ^.^

Ingredients : Red Cabbage (finely shredded cabbage, marinated with Calamansi Honey Juice, Olive Oil & Sugar), Baby Carrots(Sumich), Japanese Cucumber, Real Bacon Bits (Hormel), Sweet Corns (Watties), Hard-Boiled Egg, Butterhead Lettuce, Iceberg Lettuce, Raisin (Sun-Maid) , Cherry Tomato, Sunflower Seeds, Red, Yellow & Green Capsicums.