Happy preparing dinner

Simple and healthy dinner ideas are easy to prepare and quick to make. Dad and mom decided to prepare a simple dinner with your helping hands on 17.3.2010. Both of you excited to participate in this great job. Cooking can be easy and fun, girls.First, Lydia peeled and cut white radish into pieces. As Lydia is old enough to use a knife, mom decides to teach her to cut gently.
We need to prepare ingredients such as boneless skinless chicken breast and some dried cuttlefish. Cuttle fish can add some sweetness and flavor to the soup.
In warm water blanch the cuttlefish and chicken breast for a few seconds. Remove and wash in cold water. This was the first time Lydia drained the chicken.Our family prefer soup which relatively light and not too oily.
It was Priscilla's turn. She gently peel back outer leaves of the cabbage.
Rinse the cabbage well and pat it dry. Priscilla used a stainless steel knife to cut up cabbage. Watch out, girl. Children need to be taught how to use sharp tools without injuring themselves.
Perhaps Priscilla was a fantastic chef. She cut the carrots into circles. She done a wonderful job.
Soak dried prawns until soft. Lydia chopped dried prawns to tiny pieces.
Rinse off prawns under water and pat dry. Then Lydia cut through the underside of the head and shell of each prawn with kitchen scissors.
Learn how to cook cereal prawns is definitely a plus point to save your money as having cereal prawns at the restaurants. It is one of our favorite menu. A favorite for all ages. As we need to make a simple dinner, so we used a packet of Crispy Cereal Instant Mix. It is convenient and easy to use.

What you need to do is to deep fried the prawns till it turn orangey colour and set aside. Then add 5 tbsp margerin into the wok and fried the curry leaves and chilli padi till fragrant. Add in the whole packet of crispy cereal mix, the prawns and mixed well.Mom started to melt the butter in a wok and poured in a whole packet of cereal and stir. Added in the prawns and continue stirring for 20 seconds. Turned to small fire so as not to overcook them. Done. Did you smell something nice to wake up your taste buds?
Heat oil in a wok. Added in garlic and dried prawn, fried for 15 second.Added in carrots and cabbage and stir fry for another 3 minutes. Cabbage is a great accompaniment to any meal. What a simple vegetable dish you can eat with rice.
Chinese soup is the instant magic to make your eating experience at home more pleasurable.A good tasting healthy soup awaits. Give this soup a try.
Brown rice certainly appears to be more healthy. Our family like to mix white and brown rice together for a great combination of flavor.
Our favorite simple dinner is ready. It may seem like a little too much work for a simple meal. A simple way to enjoy a stress-free dinner with family or friends.
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this food. Bless it to our strength and to thy glory.
Dinner time is precious time. A home is a fantastic place to have a healthy and wholesome meal for the whole family. A time to sit and hear about each other’s day. 

Fun of making pineapple pie

Lydia and Priscilla were very interested in the art of baking.

Mom decided to teach them how to make pineapple tarts on 16.3.2010. A must-try for all pineapple-tart lovers. Bakery has been a huge learning journey for them. Such a joy to be with.

First, Lydia sifted the flour and salt together in a large bowl.

Priscilla measured butter on a weighing scale.

Kenneth and Pin Rong who stayed back after tuition class joined our team. Four of them rubbed the butter with the flour until crumbly."Rubbing in" is a process by which you dump all the butter into the flour and use your hands to break up the butter chunks. Did you see that? They burst out laughing.

Haha. The dough was sticking onto their hands after mixing.Mom tried to replace milk powder with fresh milk. Dissolved sugar and fresh milk in the water. Girls, pay attention to tasks. You will have some progress on your patience.

Kenneth did a great job. He helped to dissolve sugar in the fresh milk.Our dear Pin Rong added water to the butter crumbs and mixed well. Children, please do not overmix the dough. Allowed the dough to rest for 20 minutes. Divided the dough into equal pieces.
Priscilla rolled out the dough to cover a pie pan.
Lydia was patting the dough into the pie pan.
Kenneth and Pin Rong carefully transfered dough to pan and ease into bottom and sides. They were really smart.
Well done, children. All of you successfully make a number of pie crusts.
Poured in the pineapple filling and spreaded it out evenly.
Look! Priscilla arranged the dough strips across the pie to form a lattice.
Lydia trimed off any over hanging dough strips.
Great. Our children did an incredible job. The pineapple tarts looked pretty good.

Baked the pie in an oven preheated for 45 minutes.Nice smell came from the kitchen. Wow, baked pineapple tarts on tray. Set aside and let cool.
The next morning, we shared these bite-sized tarts with some of our students. They enjoyed it and they said," Teacher, please, we want some more!". I was sorry, children. There was no more tart left.

Fun of making Tang Yuan

Dong Zhi began as a farmers' celebration of the year-end harvest. Most students didn't understand the exact meaning of Dong Zhi. In Northern China, people typically eat dumplings on Dong Zhi.

This dessert is usually serve in Chinese winter festival. It is also being served during other Chinese festival to indicate togetherness or reunion.

Dad and mom decided to let our students to knead dang yuan in the afternoon on 23.12.2008.

Kakak Siti put 1500g glutinous rice flour, 3 table spoon rice flour in a big mixing bowl, slowly added cold plain water and kneaded into dough. Put the dough on a cleaned table top, and kneaded till smooth. She divided the dough into three lumps.

After morning session tuition, we let some of our students to make dang yuan together.They were so happy.

Lydia, Wei Shu and Shi Wah rolled it into a long strip and pinch off bit by bit.

For each of these bit, our students put into the middle of both palm and roll in circular motion to make small ball.

We made three different colours of dang yuan. The green colour was the natural colouring from the pandan juice.After about one hour, we had done all the tang yuan.
Mom boiled and prepared a pot of plain water.Some girls put in the rice balls and let it continue to boil.

They were cooked when they floated in the water.

When cooked, balls will rise to the surface. Some of you drained balls and put in a big bowl.

All my girls were busy in the kitchen.

Kakak Siti brought water to boil in a pot with the pandan leaves. Added sugar and cooked until sugar dissolves. Kept stirring so that the sugar didn't burn. The sugar should completely melt. Discard pandan leaves.

Served the rice balls in the syrup. They were good either hot or cold.

Some of you were having dang yuan at 2.30p.m. Afternoon tuition session started at 3p.m. It was time to go home.

We were excited to share the dang yuan with afternoon session students.

Girls, you'll find fun and easy ideas to keep children busy in the kitchen.Dad and mom were happy because our students worked together as a team to prepare tea time.

After we ate Tang Yuan then we’ll be growing 1 year old. God makes you grow to become righteous.