Kor Kor is Sick!

Samuel 's school organised an excursion for the kids at explore kids at Downtown East. We always try to support school events and try to let our son join them for more exposure and space to grow. Samuel wakes up very early that morning and took school bus at 7.20am! Is was really a very relaxing day for me as he won't be home till 3pm! Wow, I can have space to breath too! I brought Matthew to KKH to buy my fish oil supplement and visit my lactation consultant, just to say hi. I was so glad that this time round of breast feeding is a breeze. I don't even need to use my medela pump at all as Matt suckle so well. Had a good chat with YenPing and she invited me to join the baby massage session on 17 Aug.

All was well till Sam came home. He looks abit off colored and to my dismay, he fell sick at night with raging fever. He was shivering non stop and vomited. he turn a bit bluish as his temperature climb higher! Oh my gosh, he even vomit in the car when hubby send him to see doctor. My god, the car stink like a stink bomb even after cleaning it with dettol. He was down with stomach flu and suspected viral infection. I believed that he recently try to imitate his brother thumb sucking habit which led him to this illness. Imagine so many kids playing the rubber balls and slides and he kept sucking his thumb, eating up all the virus and germs :(. I was so tired taking care of him and baby all night, So worried that Matt might get it also as stomach flu is highly contagious.

This explained my disappearance from this blog for a while. Too busy catching nap when both of them fell asleep. I have to count my blessing that I have a maid at the moment. Sam is still having a slight fever at the moment but at least he is much better as compare to the day before. Taking care of 2 kids is not easy, this really makes me wonder how did our grandparent and parent did it last time? Do they have 8 pairs of hands? hmmm..mmm

Prata Soon Kueh

From my previous post of Soon kueh, I have some leftover filling. I wanted to use up my popiah skin left over from my previous cooking but it has became so hard and dry that i have to throw it away. My very innovative maid suggest to use the frozen prata to wrap the stuff. This is the end result. Looks like curry puff :)

Soon Kueh

My concept to be a SAHM is to cooked for the family and spend time with kids. The problem is nowadays kid grow up too fast. My son Samuel woke up late, and he always hang out with my neighbour's girl after he came back from school. I hardly see him around! He won't even appeared when is dinner time and most of the time my maid has to send his dinner to him. *sign, I thought this will only happen when he is in secondary school, never know that at the age of 3 he already walked out of me :( Wonder when Matthew will follow his brother footstep.

Parenthood is kind of mixture of feeling, when the kids stick around too much, you find them nuisance, and lack of space to breath. When they are not around, you kind of missed them.What can I do during my spare time is to blog and cook stuff i never try before. Good in the way too because I love cooking helps me to unwind.

Today i found some left over turnip. Bought this huge turnip for $0.40 at NTUC. Cook half only and my hubby complain that it taste funny. So I dun want to fry it again, else it will ended up in my tummy only. Saw NTUC selling flour to make soon kueh so Iwant to try out. I have lots of carrot in my fridge, another sale item from NTUC (see, I am getting more auntie) 5 fat carrots for $0.50! is a great time to clear all this stuff :)

Is A Great Success! (see pic)

Here is the recipe.

half turnip (shredded)
a small handful of dried shrimp (soak, keep water to fry turnip and carrot)
2 tou gua (season with salt and later cut into cube)
1 carrot (shredded)
coriander chopped
garlic chopped
small onion chopped
light soya sauce for seasoning.
mushroom powder (optional)

PS: all amount is based on my left over, so is all agaration!

Fillings:

1. deep fried the tou gua, drain and keep aside.
2. fry garlic and small onion till fragrance (keep sound oil and shallot)
3. add dried shrimp
4. Add in the turnip and carrot
5. Add in the cube tou gua and parsley
6.Add in seasoning

set aside to cool

Soon Kueh skin:

260gm soon kueh powder
0.5L boiling water
1 tbsp oil

In a big pot pour in the powder then slowly stirred in the boiling water, stirred vigourously till all mix evenly. Add in the tbsp oil and knead the dough. Careful coz is really hot!

Pour some of the soon kueh powder on the working table and pat some on your hand to prevent the dough to stick. Take some of the dough and roll it to a ball and flatten it. Put in the filling and seal it, just like the curry puff. Voila! Drizzle the soon kueh with shallot oil and steam it over medium fire for 15 mins. Remember to add oil or else the kueh will stick to the plate. Decorate it with fried shallot and spring onion when is done.

My hubby like it pan fried, so you can pan fried in a non stick pan and serve hot. Do not add more oil to pan fried as there is already shallot oil.

Cracking my head

Start my full time housewife life on 5 July 2008. For a start is not too bad, I can sleep longer hours, that's the luxury of having a maid lor. Wonder how long can I keep her also. Is not easy to have single income during this period of time where inflation is so high. So i have to start cracking my head on how to earn more $$ while staying at home. A few of my colleagues are interested to start a childcare Biz. Childcare is on high demand now with both parent working long hours to meet the end. I have been lazing a bit and not really started on the research yet. Only found a contact to ask how to start a franchise. Need to do a bit more reading and maybe got to attend courses. Lots of work but what to do, how to make the wealth grow rather then sitting there doing nothing.

Do a bit research on a Lingzhi product my hubby has been consuming too. It seem like a great product as my hubby fell sick less often and that day, we consumed some tau huay and I got tummy ache and vomited but he didn't. Normally he got such a weak stomach that he will suffer the effect of spoil food quite immediately. He only suffer a bit of tummy upset a day after. (delay action?) To start a biz out of it seem a bit tough for a SAHM like me. Who do I get to share this information with? I did introduce to my ex-colleague who wife suffer the similar condition as my hubby's friend. She was better after taking the product. People has a negative impression with MLM product but some is really not that bad. If people get to benefit in term of health, is really helping people in a way.