Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Disney and Munchkin, Inc., the international baby and toddler brand, have teamed up to create a fun, clever and exciting new dining range for children. A beautifully designed premium collection of feeding products and Click Lock™ cups, the Disney Collection for babies integrates the rich Disney heritage, known and loved by generations, with Munchkin’s award-winning and innovative feeding products. The range starts from £4.50 and for more information visit www.munchkin.com.
Have you heard about a chocolate containing probiotic? I had not until I found Ohso probiotic chocolate through Twitter. It is the probiotic that interest me in their chocolate. So I asked the lovely company to send me some for reviewing.
As a PlayFest Official Toy Tester 2013, I got to test Haba Pizzeria Allegro Soft Food and made a video review. Haba Pizzeria Allegro Soft Food is a tasty fun playset for 1 – 4 quick bakers aged 3 to 6 years old. It comes in a rectangular box where the bottom part of the box is a pizza oven. It is made from thick cardboard. The ingredients are made from felt and velour.
Baking with children is one of our activities we do at home when it is a rainy day or simply because we fancy it. It is a great way to teach them and enjoy family time together. I can not say I enjoy it 100% because inevitably you spend double the time cleaning up the mess they make. But it is a great way to prevent them from watching too much TV.
Cooking can be so easily using Pyrex! I am loving the new 4-in-1 Plus Multi-functional cooking and storage range standard rectangular dish with lid. It is the perfect multifunctional solution for busy family life – cook, store, freeze and reheat food with just one product. We try to eat fish at least once a week and I have found this Marinated Salmon’s recipe from Pyrex’ website. It looked so simple, easy to cook with minimal ingredients. These are the ingredients and preparation method I took from their website.
As a busy mother of two, I always try to find quick and easy ways to cook a healthy meal and food that my family would enjoy. So when I came across Pyrex’s website for recipes, I found this 10 minutes quick and easy meal – Spicy prawns. Prawns is my son and my favourite seafood.
After having a quick shop around Derby, we popped by Chiquito Derby for breakfast. Chiquito is a Mexican restaurant and bar. Recently, they launched their new breakfast menu. Breakfasts are available at 25 restaurants that opens from 9 am onwards. The other restaurants will open at 11 am for lunch. Please check before you go.
When we reached the desk, we were shown to our table by the lovely waitress. Each child was given a pack of activities to do. Ms C was so eager to get the crayons out to draw while Mr K wanted to play the board game. They also provided a complimentary bowl of salted popcorn. It is quite an unusual starter/snack!
Ms C is a massive fan of Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom. She has a good collection of Ben and Holly’s toys and watches the cartoon every morning on my iPad. I am so excited that we got the chance to review this beautiful pink lunch bag from Internet Gift Store! They have a fairly extensive range of lunch bags on their website. Use 20SITE to enjoy 20% on your order.
Celebrate the Mexican festival Cinco de Mayo (the 5th of May 2013) with Discovery Food! Cinco de Mayo is a colourful carnival marked in Mexico with singing, dancing, fireworks and fantastic food. I am so excited that I was picked to review Discovery Foods: a Perfect Fajita Kit, the *new* garlic and herb sour cream and a Fajita Cooking Sauce.
This is my entry for the BritMums/Special K – How I’ve Changed Linky Challenge
Thirty years ago, I was just a toddler playing with Barbie dolls. I always dreamed of being a Cinderella, finding a prince to marry and happily ever after. I always set myself a goal that I must find a boyfriend and be married by the age of 25. Kids would then follow and I would then be a housewife like my mum to look after my children and raise them well. Soon, I passed my adolescence and studied nursing. After working for a year and a half, I came to UK to work in Charing Cross Hospital. I came to UK alone and hoped to find new friendship. I think my fairy godmother answered my call.
I’m overjoyed at how well our Twitter party went yesterday morning between 10.30 – 11.30 am. It was brilliant! At some point during the party, Josh Robson spotted that we were trending and we were trending in the top three UK list for the rest of the party! I have to thank Pippa @RedRoseMummy who came up with our #hashtag #HealthySnackChat.
A young company determined to revolutionise the ready meal category, SCRATCH provides a range of easy to follow recipes, designed by Michel Roux Snr., along with the freshly prepared ingredients. The range of meal kits includes a Singaporean Crayfish Laksa, Thai Green Curry, King Prawn and Chorizo Paella, Makhani Chicken Tikka Masala and the vegetarian, Tagliatelle Pistachio Pesto. Each meal kit takes the same amount of time to prepare as a standard ready meal and allows the individual consumer to cook, without wasting money on superfluous ingredients.
I was very eager to try the Laksa as it is one of my favourite Singaporean foods. I cook Laksa every few weeks at home or whenever I have friends come over to visit so I was eager to find out whether the Scratch meal is up to my standard.
From April throughout to September delicious varieties of South African fruit are widely available in UK supermarkets. They are affordable, produced in a sustainable manner and fairly traded. Did you know? Approximately 99% of South African fruit is shipped, not flown. The lovely people from South African Fruit has kindly given us a variety of fruits to taste. They are: Comice pears, Red Williams pears, Royal Gala apples, Songold plums and Angeleno plums.
I was so excited when a lovely PR company sent me 4 packets of Walkers TigerNuts Peanuts for review. It was a new product launched by Walkers Snack Foods this April 2013. What made Walkers TigerNuts Peanuts different from the rest of brand peanuts? Each peanut is covered with a distinctive tiger-patterned shell. This is unique to Walkers.
