Midnight Indulgence

In anticipation of one of my fav persons in the world's visit tomorrow, I baked a simple yet delish coffee cake. And my oh my, was it delish or what?! It was soft and light and the crunch of the streusel complemented the cake perfectly. Thankfully I had most of the stuff needed except sour cream, so I replaced it with buttermilk instead, and an hour after I got started, this is what came out from my oven:


Look at that toasted walnuts, Hershey's milk chocolate chips and cinnamon sugar goodness on top of the cake..



15 minutes later.. one piece went missing



and ended up on my plate!



Recipe from Joyofbaking. Think I'll warm this up tomorrow and drizzle some milky chocolate ganache and caramel syrup for the chocolate lover. Hmmm.

Best Part of Parenting - Shy Chicken

Nia, while eating fried chicken: "Papa look, this chicken is malu (shy)"

Papa laughing, "Why is the chicken malu?"

"Nia ate the chicken baju, so the chicken malu!"said she non-chalantly while peeling off the crispy flour layer off the chicken and smugly tucking it in her mouth.

Papa & mummy : ROTFL..

Foghorn Leghorn ain't really a shy chicken I knw - I just love my looney tunes!!

Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (2010 Version)

Oh My Bottle!

I've not exposed the little one to bottle yet, we tried a few times when she was about 2 months old, but it didn't work. She has flatly refused to drink expressed milk from the bottle the few times I've left her home and went out to run errands, that my mum had to spoon feed the milk to her.

Guess what? Now, at 22 weeks, she wants a bottle! Why? because the che-che drinks milk from the bottle lying down next to her, and she's been trying to grab it all these while and suddenly a couple of days back she managed to wrestle the bottle from her che-che and was trying to put the teat into her mouth, when I dived in to rescue (the bottle) of course!

There goes my plan to weaning her from breast straight to sippy cup! Dang!

Yea, to avoid further injury (to the bottle and babies) I took out her bottle, that has been unused since the last attempt by mum, and filled it with some cooled boiled water and gave it to her. Look at the joy!

on my last post

OK, since someone actually asked what the hell am I babling about, let me explain. That was just some rambling my gf and I used to do for hours, on a daily basis, sipping our cuppa after dinner at Chinois on the Park. Yes, really. We specifically like to look at the couples around us especially outside, at the cancer-stick zone, and try to figure out what's going on. Ha ha. It's quite interesting all sorts of things we can come up with based on little cues we pick up from a particular table.

So, I was just thinking of that while writing that post, which is, obviously, inspired by my surrounding, no doubt! Here's to Miss E or shall I say, Mrs. S for all the good times at Chinois on the Park!