Opposite Day

Every once in a while, to get out of the ordinary, we do opposite day.

It's basically switching around the menu (having dinner meals as breakfast, and vice versa).

So, yesterday we had waffles and fruit smoothies for dinner. Well, Hello Kitty waffles to be exact to satisfy our Hello Kitty lovers.

    I love Hello Kitty :)

Measuring whole wheat flour

Sifting

Blending milk, oil & eggs

Filling the Hello Kitty molds

Voila!

I never imagined how therapeutic baking can be.

Little bit of sugar here and a bit of cinnamon there can brighten up the dinner table.

Especially when it's Hello Kitty. How can I resist?

Brunch?

I'm a city girl.
Although I have detoured into the suburbs (due to having a family), my heart was and is and will always be where the big city is.
I don't know, there's something so calming and relaxing about the buildings and never fading lights. I can never stop romanticizing about it.

Well, one of the things I love to do on the weekend is going out to brunch- especially in the city. Depending on my mood, it'll either be at Jojo's Apples, in Chinatown for dim sum, Olea Mediterranean Taverna for some Turkish breakfast, or @ Max Brenner's to satiate my cravings for some chocolate.

It's basically an adult version of Willy Wonka in real life. They serve hot chocolate in these cute little hug mugs but my favorite is their chai tea. It's so good and definitely the best chai I've ever had. I love their "After-party breakfast", which is their belgian waffles covered with white cholocate chips, berries, and whipped cream. It's decadent, I tell you. And it certainly makes me happy. 

Yes, it's my happy place :)

I Hope I'm Back

Whew.
The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind.
We've been struck with a stomach bug that got the 6 of us plus my hubby's parents sick. That was not fun. So, for a while, forget cooking and forget eating.
Did I mention, it really was not fun??
But now I'm back. I hope :)
Starting next week though.

But the good news is... the spring is almost here!
Love the spring minus the allergies.

I Must Face My Fear

I have a crisis.
My heart says one thing and my mind says another.
There's one thing that I really want to accomplish, and as trite as it sounds, I want to learn to sew.
With my sewing machine that is.
While I was preggo with my fourth child, I went on a crafting frenzy and convinced myself to purchase a sewing machine.
I can say I tried once, failed miserably and never touched that thing again.
But look what I found today. Such a neat blog called Momfetti. She's so awesome I want to cry.
So I'm determined to take courage and face my fear.
When am I going to face it is another story I guess.
Soon I hope, and until then, I will prep myself with Momfetti and all the other crafting blogs I bookmarked in my browser :)

Catching Up

I am totally procrastinating. Yes.
It's snowing outside. The kids are all asleep. I signed up with Swagbucks today and earned 141 Swagbucks. That was fun. I'm getting really into this "frugal" living. It's almost addictive.
There were few nice CVS coupons that came in the mail today including $5 off $15 and I still got few ECBs left. Yay.

So, back to cooking.
I made Shrimp & Andouille Stew couple days ago. It was so delish! I wanted a little taste of Louisiana, so I added some cajun seasoning and a bit of tobasco sauce. Little bit of spice will do you good :)

Winter Vacation

Um.. can you hear it?
The hustle and bustle going on in our house?
We've been quite busy and it's only tuesday.
I'm wondering how I can entertain and keep the kids busy and happy until this vacay is over.

Meanwhile, I did accomplish something this past weekend thanks to Trey & Lucy.
I made tutus for my girls and it was my first "craft" project.
It turned out pretty nice so I'm venturing out to my next project.
My second project might take a while to finish though since it involved my sewing machine.
We'll see though...

Family Matters

Guess who stayed up till 4 AM making 40 Valentine's Day cards? 
Yep, that would be me.
I promised the kids I will help them make the cards for today's party in their class.
With everything else, of course we forgot. But I happened to remember at 1 in the morning.
Promise is a promise, so I ended up making them from scratch.
Only had 3 hours of sleep and am totally procrastinating from the big load of dishes to be done. (Sigh)

We made Tex-Mex Lovers Mini Meat Loaf today.
I didn't have a heart shaped cookie cutter, so I used a flower shaped cutter instead. I don't think I'm that much satisfied with the way it looked. But it tasted fine and the kids like it.

I realize I don't really like the lighting in my kitchen for photography.

Gotta go back to my dishes. If they came up with Roomba, I'm sure they can come up with a machine that will load the dishes into the dishwasher all by itself. Just a wishful thinking I guess.