A huge welcome to Week 19 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring three simple indoor games to play at home.
My Kitchen Story
My kitchen is a small and cosy place where I spend most of my mornings busily preparing and cooking for my blog post and my family. We moved into this brand new house at the time seven years ago now. Recently, I had painted the kitchen walls yellow to make it feel warmer and brighter. Now with a fresh coat of paint it looks so much better! My little cosy place is where all my kitchen gadgets are. I don’t think I could ever live without them. Especially my rice cooker. I bought it in Singapore 4 years ago and it not only cooks rice, it can steam food and bake cakes!
Our cosy place is quite small, so we don’t have a proper dining table. At the moment, it is a fold up table. Whenever we need it, I just simply fold out the table and set it up in a minute. We used to spend time having dinner together when both children were still young. Nowadays, we hardly have time to eat as a family as both children have so many after school activities and Mr C has been working hard with long hours at work. We seem only able to make time to eat together at the weekend.
Tuesday Tutorials Week 18 Father Day’s gift
Welcome to Tuesday Tutorials Week 18 of Pintorials Pin Party! I am so pleased to bring you these three DIY Father Day gifts!
Tuesday Tutorials Week 17
A huge welcome to Week 17 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring three hanging crafts!
Gressingham Duck with an oriental twist
This recipe is for Red Tractor #RTChallenge. This is my sixth recipe using Red Tractor Assured ingredients they provided. Do check out the rest of my other recipes like salad with couscous, homemade pizza, rhubarb crumble, Chinese almond cookies and Chinese ABC soup!
Tuesday Tutorials Week 16 – Craft
A big welcome to Week 16 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring three simple activities/crafts with kids!
Rhubarb Crumble
This recipe is for Red Tractor #RTChallenge. This is my third recipe to cook rhubarb crumble using the hamper full of delicious Red Tractor Assured ingredients they provided. We used the British grown rhubarb from Waitrose and British butter from Morrisons. My husband took this recipe from BBC Goodfood but modified it slightly.
Chinese Almond Cookie
This Chinese Almond Cookie recipe is for Red Tractor #RTChallenge. This is my second recipe using the hamper full of delicious Red Tractor Assured ingredients they provided. This time I am baking Chinese Almond Cookies that do not require butter. This is commonly consumed during Chinese New Year. I have not bake this recipe (provided by my sister) for years since I had my son! That was six years ago. This time around, I have my little helper Ms C to help me to bake.
Tuesday Tutorials Week 14
A huge welcome to Week 14 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! Thanks to Kate, Gude and Anna for inviting me to be part of their team as Anthea is having problems with her PC.
Banana Cake with Morrisons
Morrisons invited several BritMums bloggers to become a #MorrisonsMum (or #MorrisonsDad!) and to go into their local store and spend £80 worth of vouchers on their bank holiday shop. We were really fortunate to get picked!
We are no strangers to Morrisons as they are my fortnightly shop especially for Fuji apples and poultry. I like their fresh meat counter as they are British meat and of course their meat is endorsed by Red Tractor.
belVita Breakfast #MorningStories
I have two children who wake up without fail before 7.30 am but I am lucky that they will play with their iPad, play together or with their toys and don’t disturb my husband and I while we sleep on. Then at 8 am, I will tell them it is tell to go down to have their own breakfast.
Making Bread with Children
Making bread is one form of baking that I always like to do with my children. It’s such a simple food yet the smell never fails to make your mouth water. Ms C loves her bread and the only bread she eats is plain! We can’t get her to eat any other bread, like cheesy bread or even bread with sesame seeds. So this half term, we made bread together to go along with her soup.
Rosemary Focaccia Italian Bread with Piquanté Peppers
Having bought too much strong white bread flour and having some leftover rosemary, I decided to make Rosemary Focaccia Italian Bread. I also added chopped piquanté peppers on top as I had won 6 jars and I in need to use them up!
A day out at Barton Marina
Recently, I wrote a local guide for Lichfield for tots100 – if you have not seen it, click here. Barton Marina is one of the places I mentioned. It is a unique Trent & Mersey canal-side attraction with fantastic cafés and restaurants, shopping and fabulous walks around the beautiful lakes and woodlands. We love to take our children there for a bike ride around the lakes and to eat ice cream.
Yesterday, we had our photo shoot to update our blog photo with our regular photographer – Susannah Conway Photography. I am so excited that I can’t wait to update it soon! After that, we drove down to Barton Marina for Thai food! It had been a long time since we last ate Thai food! They had a buffet menu and there was a good selection of foods. It was very delicious and I would recommend going again.
Bring Barny to Scotland
This post is an entry for BritMums ‘Winter Little Adventures Challenge’ sponsored by Barny, individually wrapped bear-shaped sponges with a hidden filling. Find out more about Barny here.
Last year, Ms C took Barny out to explore the nature in autumn where she went on to look for insects. We have tried their chocolate and milk flavour. Now they come in two new delicious flavours: Apple and Strawberry filling. It is a sponge cake with a hidden flavoured filling. They come in a multipack of 5 single packs (5 x 30g) which is great to take out in a lunch box or as a quick snack as they are individually wrapped. They are not suitable for people who have allergies to wheat, gluten, soya, milk, eggs or nuts. They do not have artificial colours or preservatives.