Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas!! Today we're going to my best friend's new place for a Christmas cum house warming party later, and I can't wait! Wrapped up lots of pressies~ ^^

*pending pic*

Anyway, I found the perfect doodle pad amidst my clutter to scribble down my bread recipe manipulations! ^^

Did a bread experiment today. The result is too sweet and too damp. Need to reduce amount of honey next time.

Sadly, the stirrer was embedded inside the bread and I've forgotten about it after leaving it to cool. I hit it with the knife and sliced out some of the teflon coating when slicing through the bread and I understand that it means the thing should no longer be used as it is no longer safe. Now I need to know if Mayer sells that stirrer separately... or I'll never be making bread again. Sigh. :(

Everyone wants a bread maker now

Look at all my friends asking me about my bread maker...

I should really get commission from Mayer for posting about the bread that I made with my Mayer bread maker right? LOL!

Food and bread and stuff

I cooked lunch for my girl yesterday.

Actually MIL cooked the soup, I boiled the beehoon and some tomatoes plus veg for her.

And today I cooked too. ^^ 

Her favourite vehicular-shaped pasta with tomatoes~

Today's bread creation~

Piping hot, fresh outta the oven!

The stirrer came out together... I itchy-fingers went and tried to remove once out of the oven... it's very hot!!

The stirrer's embedded in the bread.

My loots from TLO.com.sg arrived!!

Yay!!

Promptly delivered ^^

Food and bread

Yesterday I brought my girl out for diner at Vegetarian Express Cafe in Heartland Mall. :)

Yummeh!!

Enjoying her dinner~

This time, I did a little experiment with the bread maker!

Usually I follow this recipe in the instruction manual.

Yesterday I replaced water with grape juice!

Moment of truth...

Seems to look fine.

Yay!

Soft and nice. :D

Avocado

Before I start talking about avocado... well, I'm not good at cutting at all and as I sliced through the loaf of homemade bread yesterday morning for bringing to school, some broken slices were left at home. Today, I decided to make bread pudding with the leftover bits of bread. I made a small bowl with baking paper, broke the bread into smaller pieces and poured in a mixture of a small egg and about two tablespoons of milk, beaten together. Hmmmm... It wasn't a lot of mixture for the bread to soak in, so instead of being pudding-like, the result was more like french toast. I topped with dried cranberries and maple syrup, and it makes a hearty breakfast with my mum-in-law's kopi. Best part is, I know every single ingredient that goes into this breakfast!

And yesterday baby had her first food! She doesn't seem to be ready for solid food though, and only had a tiny little bit of avocado. In short, she had probably 1% of this avocado, and 99% went into the pizza I made last night, in previous entry. :P

We used her Miffy milestone card~ Nope, that's cards, not card... because multiple milestones were achieved yesterday! :D *proud mama*

We even celebrated her half-year-old birthday with a mini cake that MIL bought, and her sis and cousin sang her birthday song! I took a video for keepsake, but not uploading it. Overall, it was a very happy moment for everyone. :)

And today I made "eggocado" with the leftover avocado from her second day of avocado tasting. :)

More bread

Brought my homemade bread to share with my colleagues! ^^

Used left over crust from my homemade bread to make some homemade pizza ^^

This was before baking. My elder girl used to like avocado but now she's become very picky with food. :( So I made a small portion without avocado for her... it's late and this was supper. I didn't want to make her fuss all night by forcing her to eat avocado.

It was so good, she gobbled up everything and asked to make more pizzas in future. :)

Bread maker

I was indeed very pleasantly surprised when my department gave me a Mayer bread maker as farewell gift, one handpicked by my boss, instead of the generic pens that were given in previous years.

Received the bread maker on Thursday and last night I used it for the first time. I was so excited about it, I decided to take a short video clip using Instagram to commemorate the moment.

I'm so glad that my first attempt turned out successful as I've read cases of failed first attempts when following the recipe provided in the manual, and I was pretty skeptical as the ingredients were being churned around in the bread maker. Had a slice of the fresh fluffy white bread last night for supper and was brimming with satisfaction. New achievement unlocked! My very first homemade bread~ :D

Eagerly waiting to cut and eat the bread.

Today's breakfast with my girl - homemade bread toasted with cheese and cherry tomatoes.

And so I made another loaf of bread tonight, to bring to school tomorrow and share with my dear colleagues. Can't wait to treat them to my fluffy homemade bread! :)