Finally, a recipe!

We enjoyed this past weekend so much and managed to get quite a lot of things done that we've only been talking about for a few weeks now. We managed to go up to Bukit Tinggi to the Rabbit Park and took loads of pictures, (pictoblog will be duly updated) we ordered Nia's Pocoyo birthday cake, sadly though, our cake lady can't make 3D pocoyo & friends, so we settled for drawings instead :o( *sigh*; we checked out the birthday venue and surprisingly it was quite impressive; and we've ordered the food for the party except few more "loose items" from different suppliers!

Hubz made fantastic chicken rice yesterday, I call it Chicken Rice with a Twist! As instead of having the usual roasted chicken, he decided to make Beggar's Chicken, and OMG did it take ages?! But the outcome? Succulent, juicy chicken that just melts in your mouth! Unfortunately, by the time the chicken was ready all of us were starving like hell that I forgot to take the pictures! hahahaha You wouldn't want to see the picture of chicken carcass now, would you? I thought not :oPP

Baby Food Recipe
I also made different stuff for Nia throughout the weekend as her nanny was compalining that she doesn't want to eat her rice porridge any more, she wants what the adults are having, so I on Saturday I made Leek and Cod in milk. It goes very well with either soft white rice, toasts, plain bread or just on it's own. For dinner I mashed up the fish mixture and shaped into patties, dipped them in egg and rolled them in babies' oats and pan fried them. So that Nia didn't think she was eating the same stuff that was fed to her at lunch! :oP Yesterday I made her Chicken Brocolli dumplings, which was modified from the Steamed Chicken & Brocolli I made for her Sunday dinner - recipe at the bottom. Unfortunately I have no pictures of these! Will remember to take some the next time I make them.

Leek and Cod in Milk
Ingredients:

• 1 leek
• 1/2 of a large slice of cod fish
• 2 oz - 3 oz baby's formula
• 1 clove of garlic, chopped
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter

Directions:

1. Prepare leek by washing and slicing it up, put aside.
2. Wash and cut up the cod into small bite sieze pieces, put aside.
3. Heat butter in a pan, throw in chopped garlic, saute for a minute then add leek, saute again for another 2- 3 minutes (or longer if your baby prefers softer vege).
4. Add the fish followed by the formula, (add more formula if you want it soupy) and cook till fish is done which would only take 2 -3 minutes. If you are using a shallow pan the liquid may dry up faster so have some warm water handy.
5. Scoop em up and feast!

Steamed Chicken and Brocolli

Ingredients:

• Half a chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
• 1 small brocolli florette, cut into bite size pieces
• 1 small potato, sliced into small pieces
• 1 small sweet apple chopped up
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter
• a drizzle of sesame oil (for dumpling)

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients in a steaming dish, steam for about 1/2 an hour until the apples are mushy and chicken pieces are cooked well and serve.
2. To make dumplings, add sesame oil to the mix, put a heaped teaspoon into the dumpling skin, pinch and seal. You can either steam them or pan fry in very little oil , they taste just as good.