My Kampung Boy

Each evening when I’m busy cooking dinner, my maid will entertain the kids in the garden. The kids would kick balls, blow bubbles or just stand and watch the other older kids play by the road side. And almost daily the maid will push WH in the tricycle or the cart….

I like to see my kids play in the garden….so carefree, so kampung style….

Black Forest Butter Cake

Another cake post. I love butter cake so much that I bake once a week.

Ingredients

• 200g butter
• 200g castor sugar
• 4 eggs
• 200g plain flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 can dark cherry (drained) – since I dont have that, my cake ended up like a marble cake instead
• 80g chocolate
• 40ml milk
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1/8tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

1) Grease baking tin. Preheat oven to 175C

2) Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition

3) Fold in sifted flour and baking powder, mix until well blended. Divide batter into 2 portions

4) Fold in dark cherries into a portion of batter. Spread into prepared tin. ( In my case I ommited folding in dark cherries)

5) melt the chocolate with milk and cocoa powder over hot water, fold into another portion of batter together with soda, mix well. Spread over cherry batter (in my case , plain batter)

6) Bake in oven until cooked

22Month Old

 

WH is 22mths today. 2 more months before turning 2.

Weight: still remain the same between 9.7kg – 9.8kg

Height: Haven’t measured for a while..

Dexterity :
Likes to climb up chair, table, shelfs and grills

Still a little wobbly when walking and running, like a drunken man

Can grip the pen/crayons quite perfectly to scribble on paper and the easle.

Language :
~ Picking up a lot of single words. Able to put two words to form simple sentences.
~ Can recite 1 till 6
~ Able to recognize some alphabets
~ Keen to sing, especially Twinkle Star song, but he still can’t make up the words and tune but will moves his body along with music and do the action.

Feeding and Food:
Still latching on to boobies most time of the day. Drinking Sustagen for breakfast and 4oz formula twice a day. Wean from porriadge and on full solid and is quite capable to feed himself. Prefers fried food and dislike vege.

Emotions :
Each time when we scolded JS, he would put on a cheeky face and call us in the sweetest tone…hoping to get away from the scolding. He does the same when I’m about to raise my voice at him.

He knows how to complaint to me when his sister bullies him.

Friendly little chap. He can call our neighbour “uncle dik (Sidek), all the big boy “bang” (abang) and little boy “dik” (adik) eventhough the little boys are all older than him. He calls the opposite aunty “po po” each time he sees her. In JS music class, he likes to make friend with all the boys and always take the initiative to go near them calling them “kor kor”

Relunctant to have the maid attend to him. I’m taking over the feeding and bathing and changing now. He’s looking for equal attention that I’m giving JS.

She’s Not Even 4

When JS first started school early this year, I keep reminding myself not to push her too much and not to compare her with her peers as she has just turned 3 at the beginning of the year (the youngest in her class)…Before schooling, every of her milestone has been tracked down according to months

but after a few months, seeing her progress and behaviour, I tend to forget that my little girl has yet to turn 4. I have unawarely treated her as a 4 years old. I keep thinking that by the turn of the new year, she would be 5 already, (since she herself keep saying she’s already 4 yro) and that we will be celebrating her 5th birthday this coming dec, but the truth is that she will just be 4 this coming dec not 5….

Schooling does make her matures alot especially when she mingles alot with the 5 and 6 years old kids. So far she’s on par and sometimes slightly ahead of her peers in her class, which I’m truly please…..

I see this as one advantage of early schooling. But I do not mean that we solely rely on pre-school. As a parent, we still have to play important role in their homeschooling during this early childhood days.

Durian Butter Cake

Hubby bought some Durian the other day. It didn’t taste that nice, so got left over. Don’t know what to do as I have forgotten where is my “apam balik” recipe…..so decided to make Durian Butter Cake

Ingredients

• 250g butter
• 225g fine castor sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 4 eggs
• 125g durian flesh, pureed
  Sift:
• 200g self-raising flour
• 50g plain flour

 Durian puree

Method

Preheat oven to 170 ºC. Cream butter, sugar and essence until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time and add durian puree gradually.

Fold in sifted flours and mix well to blend. Pour batter into prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes.

Patriotic JS

JS singing Jalur Gemilang and Merdeka song doing a march as well. I suppose she picks that up from school. I myself dont know what she’s singing coz I don’t know the lyrics of these song, but for a family that didn’t speak malay at home and a girl barely four, I think she’s cute in her act… Jalur Gemilang…  Bulan lapan, tiga puluh satu (JS said lima puluh satu), merdeka, merdeka…

Craft Again

The little one constanly need activities to occupy their energy and time. Especially my girl, always asked to have art and craft session at home. In order to get rid of my guilt of not spending enough time with them with undivert attention, I usually comply to what very little we can do together.

Here’s another easy craft. Source from here

All painting coloring done by JS herself.

More of her drawings

 The bear family

 A Truck

Always with the creative side, be it drawing or building with mega blocks or wood blocks…

The Making Of Rockstar Supernova

While watching Rockstar Supernova on TV last night, I have my own little Rockstar Supernova performance at home too….

Lou Kong, Lou Kong

JS’s in the habit of calling hubby “lou kong” now. Obviously she picks that up from me.

She goes

“Goodnight, daddy lou kong“

“I Love my lou kong“

“I miss my daddy lou kong“

Told her she can’t call daddy “lou kong”, only I can do so, because I’m married to hubby, and she goes

“I want to marry daddy, we get married, then I get a lou kong loh”

*pengsan*

Mango Fried Rice

Favour another nyonya dish? A little modification I have done compare to the original recipes

Ingredient (notice I don’t have measurements on the ingredient, you need to do your own estimation according to how many mouth you going to feed)

• chicken fillet, cut into small cubes
• salt
• sugar
• chicken stock cube
• cooking oil
• dried small prawns
• sambal belacan (don’t want spicy then just use belacan)
• kaffir lime leaves (daun limau purut) finely sliced
• torch ginger bud (bunga kantan), finely sliced
• shallots, peeled and thinly sliced
• cooked rice
• cucumber, seeded and cut into cubes
• unripe mango, coarsely grated.

Garnish

• chillies, finely sliced
• crisp fried shallots.

Method

• Season the chicken with salt, sugar, pepper and chicken stock cubes. Set aside
• Heat the cooking oil, fry dried prawns till fragrant. Drain, set aside.
• Fry marinated chicken until golden brown
• Add in the cold rice and belacan and the rest of the ingredients except cucumber, mango and garnish.Fry the rice and mix well all the ingredients. Dish out.
• Add in cucumber and mango.
• Garnish with cillies and shallot