Thoughts That Count

It's really very kind and warmhearted of Christine who actually send me a surprised parcel all the way from Victoir, Australia. I am really so touch and shock to receive this mystery gift from her. Although I only know her for less than 2 months, but she is so caring and sweet that she actually post me something that I love base on what she read from my blog. Thank you so much, Christine. Your little thought means so much to me.


Dear Christine, thanks for your "Super Food Ideas" magazine which enlighten up my week. I missed this magazine very much ever since I came back to Singapore from Australia. Actually I used to order it on line but then the postage is rather expensive so in end I gave up after 1 year of subscription. But..... one of my another friend is collecting this food magazine for me during her stay there.... So I will be able to get the whole year issue during her next year trip back to Singapore. For those who is interested in more food creation ideas, you can check out this book at this site(click here).

New Books On the Shell

Since today, 09 August 2008 is our Singapore National Day, Popular Bookstore is having a 2 days 20% Storewide Sale.......... these 3 books hence added into my books collection. I had long wish to buy the Cheesecake Recipe from Alex Goh, I had all his collection of books from cake, bread making, chocolate and etc.

Although I am long past the Pregnancy or Post Motherhood stage, I still love all kinds of confinement food. Maybe the reason is I didn't have a proper confinement meal when I gave birth to Reyon :p So I kind of missing all those foods. But then most of you will be wondering... Since I was such a wide collection of cookery books, why the posts in my blog is still moving at such a slow pace. The reason so is because, I love to collect all kinds of cookbooks but then I don't really have time to cook those dish as I am so tie down with all kinds of commitments. But I will still try my best to post those interest recipe that I come across with.

I bought this book especially for my mum :) Not because that she is already at the Old Age but then it's because it had a lot of information on the kinds of food which is suitable for her age. She will have a rough idea of what to eat and what not too. She is very keen in inventing all kids of dishes but then too bad, she is not interest in those cookbook that I own. Because she is more into those easy meals which involve less washing, cutting and less ingredients.

Collection Of My Recipe Books

These are some of the collections of my recipe books and food magazines over the years since I started to be a housewife and develop interests in cooking and baking. There are a wide range of collection from Asian to Western cuisine. I love to collect those recipe books which provide attractive photos and easy to get ingredients before I will consider to purchase it.



My favourite Food Magazines are Super Food Ideas from Australia. I came across this magazine during my stay in Australia in 2000 and ever since, I started to collect almost every issue of it. I even order it online before when I am back in Singapore but then the price and postage is much too high compare to purchase it over there. Other than that, I also love to collect the Food & Travel magazine from local publisher which often published some interesting bakes and meal ideas. I also have a collection of Alex Goh baking series which I find it easy to understand and follow.....

These are some of the Soup recipe books that I have. I love to collect all kinds of Asian Soup recipe books which involves using Chinese Herbs as one of the main ingredients. During my Stay at home period, I love to experience with different kinds of soup for our daily meal and it's really interesting when you gets to study what kind of herbs is good for building up our body immune systems and etc. Other than daily homecook soup, I am also interested in those sweet dessert soup and one of my favourite is Barley, Ginkgo Nut & Bean curd Soup. You can take a look at some of my homecook dessert under this link (click here).

Sushi!!!! One of Reyon's favourite meal. I guess it's because of it's attractive layout and presentation. So Japanese cookbooks are also one of my favourite collection as I love to see the way they present their food in bento setup. So far, I only did a few of the Japanese Recipes because I am still not very well-verse in handling Japanese Dish. Sushi Tale is one of the Japanese Dish that I did together with Reyon because he simply love to be in the Kitchen with me... Other than all these sample of the cookbooks and tested recipes, actually I am also interested in trying out all kind of cuisines as you can see from my Recipes Index List. I have a wide range of recipes from western, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and etc.... so do drop by and give me your suggestions or feedback.......

Cute Collections

This set of cute dessert cutlery is a gift from my oversea blog pal. She knew that I love to collect all sorts of baking utenslis and equipments that is cute. Ai Yen, thanks for your wonderful thoughts :) Now I can use them on my next bake.

A Mortar and Pestle is a tool used to crush, grind, and mix substances. The pestle is a heavy stick whose end is used for pounding and grinding, and the mortar is a bowl. The substance is ground between the pestle and the mortar. Mortars are also used in cooking to prepare ingredients such as pesto (which derives its name from the pestle pounding), as well as grinding spices into powder. I managed to find this mini utensils while tiding the cupboard. I bought two different sizes of this during my stay in Australia a few years back which I used to use it to grind spices for cooking.

Assorted Cookie Cutters I

With all these cute assorted design of cutters, you can either use it for making cookies, cutting out cute design from carrot, cucumber, fruits or even use it to mould rice and make into animal shapes onigiri or make assorted design sandwiches for kids' bento.

Assorted Colour Animal Shape Cookie Cutter(small size)

Animal Cutters

Aeroplane, Boat & Car Cookie Cutter

Assorted Animal Cutter(med size), you can use the bear to cut out bear shape from pancake slices to make Bear Design pancakes. (click here)

Christmas theme design cutter (med size)

Assorted plastic food/cookie cutter (small size)

6 in 1 different Size of Heart-shapes cookie cutters which you can use it for different usage or making jam tarts which you can two different size of over laping shape.

Same as the above, but this is 6 different size of Star Shapes instead of heart shapes.

Mickey Mouse Disney Cookie cutter come in a set of two different design.

These are the Pooh and Tigger and Pooh & Piglet Disney Cookie Cutter Sets. They come in a set of two which you can get it from BHG Bugis in Singapore. But they are always out of stock due to the high demand. You can make use of these cutters to do many creative items such as Cookies, Pooh Sandwiches, Snowskin Mooncake or etc....

Hello Kitty medium size cookie cutter/rice mould.

Next is this Kitty Cookie Cutters collection, they come in different kitty design stamps which can make into interesting kitty cookies that bring joy to all ages of kitty fan...... More Hello Kitty items here. (click on the link)

Assorted Pancake / Egg Ring

Got these cute Bear, Xmas Tree and Flower shapes Pancake/Egg Ring from Daiso. They came in a few design and you can use it for either making pan-cake directly by placing the lightly oiled mould on the non-stick pan and top with pancake batter and fry as usual pancake method.

Or you can use it to fry cute design of sunny egg for the kids on weekend breakfast or you it as a cutter to cut shape out of bread, omelet or even use it to mould the rice into different shape accordingly.

I have use this to make flower shape pancakes and the bear ring mould to make Bear Onigiri bento and decorate it with side dishes.

You can use this heart-shape ring mould to make lovely heart-shape sunny eggs, heart-shape pancake, bread and etc for Valentine Day meal....

I struggle a long time to select either this Pooh Ring Mould or a Pooh Pancake Mould. Actually these two serve similar purposed but great different in prices so after much consideration, I choose the Pooh Ring Mould instead which can be act as a cutter or mould to make bread of pancake. Em... do you wan to have a plate of these Pooh Pancake for Breakfast or snack?

I bet you will love this Kitty Ring Mould which can act as a cutter or mould to make bread of pancake. How fortunate it will be like if you can have a plate of these Kitty Pancake for Breakfast or snack........

Collection of Bento Boxes I

One of my friend managed to find these two sets of Bento Box from Daiso and immediately, she grab a set for me since she knew that I am collecting Bento Boxes :) Thank you so much and it's really so nice of her to have me in her shopping list too.... :) (updated: 13 September 2008)



My colleague Rebecca knows that Reyon and I are big Pooh Fans.... so she bought us this 2 tier square lunchbox with handle for us to go for picnic. Thank you pal for your warm thoughts. This lunchbox still come with a attached spoon....... (Updated: 11 September 2008)

Recently I had being making Triangle Shape Onigiri so I thought of getting this cute kids' size Onigiri lunchbox so that we might be able to use it for one of our picnic trip.(updated: 09 September 2008)

These are the collection of bento boxes for Reyon and myself. As you can see, all the Pooh design boxes are definitely belong to Reyon rather than me. Em.....maybe I can consists getting myself a set of the Hello Kitty Lunch Box :)

This is definitely Reyon's most favour Pooh Bento because of the cute POOH Face design. The 1st sight when you look at it, it's almost similar that Pooh himself is smiling at you. And this lunch box has a detachable compartment that you can either divide the box into two or you can use it as it own. You can use this box to put the Pooh Face Shape Bread (or click here to view the bread cutter)that we used to make in another post.

This Hello Kitty Bento box is the same price and size as the above Pooh Lunchbox that Reyon had. It come in the shape of Kitty Head Print and with a extra side compartment inside to divide the food area.

This is my 2nd collection of Pooh Design Bento Box which I bought at a local gift shop. It's consists of two layer container with multi-compartments and a pooh print design bag to put the bento box.

This is Reyon's 1st Pooh Bento box from Aunty Julia get for him especially from Japan when she return during her visit. Until now I still keep it well and didn't actually used it as it's such a treasure for us. Guess when Reyon is older, it will be time for me to take these boxes out to make something really interesting for him to bring to school as lunch or snacks.

When reyon is a crazy about Mickey Mouse cartoon, I also bought a set of this Mickey Shape Bento for him to put snack while going for our usual picnic. This mini bento box consists of 3 different sections where you can use the black mickey face as a bowl for the and the red and white compartment as the main dish portion.

This is one of my favour mini bento set that I used to pack some simple snack to bring to office and share with my colleagues. As it had 3 small compartments, it is just nice for the 3 of us to share our tea-time snacks. You can take a look on one of the sample tea snack that I had prepared for them.

This is also another one of my bento box which consists of two main compartment for rice and main dish. This is a slightly bigger box for adult portion rather than kid. I got this from Daiso which cost only S$2.00. If you are looking for some really cool and economic bento, do go Daiso and take a look, maybe you can find something interesting.