Last afternoon cooking time

These all raw ingredients turned into western dishes by me and my girls, Melinda and Melina, at cooking time with our great talented Chef Vica yesterday. In western food they oftentimes use something creamy and made from milk.

Prepared to fillet the chicken and did the one of the crucial part, spread the seasoning in order to give more taste to the chicken itself.

Me and Melinda while prepare the chicken schnitzel before fried it.

And we made the mushroom cream sauce for serving with the chicken schnitzel.
Apologize for the uncompleted photos of all steps, even we was busy to take picture for the other menu which is Chicken cordon bleu. And I can't make a good narration for introducing the steps of dishes that we've already cooked.

And voila....

CHICKEN CORDON BLEU SERVED WITH MASHED POTATOES AND VEGIE

CHICKEN SCHNITZEL SERVED WITH MUSHROOM CREAM SAUCE, VEGIE, AND MASHED POTATOES.

LONGAN TEA , tea mixed with longan, nata de coco, and basil seed.

Perhaps it could be an inspiration for you.
What a perfect choice menus for dinner which cooked by yourself :)



clara

DIY : Doraemon on a cake

Here are several shoots when I made a cake with my little chef friend. At least, he had better skill in cooking than me, and I took photograph of him while making the cake. There's no photo of mine because he didn't want to take it, what a boy...

We start from making the concept days before, from which type of cakes, how about the layers, even the decoration. Then I choose the strawberry -  blueberry than a rainbow cake, I thought it will be so cute combining the pink one and the blue one, which are total six layers. And about the decorating, Doraemon face will be very incredibly cute (ps I love cute things). My dad loves Doraemon since he was young, so do I. Every sunday morning, I wake up early to watch it on a national TV channel, although my dad also buy me the DVD. The kindergarten Clara until she is in high school, always keep to watch it.

Making the dough for every color, three layers for blue, and three other for pink one.

My little chief friend helped to bake it.

Time for decorating!

The rainbow sprinkle.

Smearing the white cream. We dyed the white cream to get the colors. And we also used the blueberry and strawberry cream to gum the layers.

Start to draw the Doraemon face on the top of the cake.
To be honest, it was so hard to draw it, confused where have to start, because decorate a cake as one of cartoon character for an amateur like me is such a moment to think creative, have an innovation, and really explore the self soft skill. Also it need patience, exactness, and thoroughness.

Need a little bit touch, the cat whiskers effect.

Six layers cake with two colors, strawberry and blueberry.

This is it, The Doraemon Cake special made by me. But unfortunately, the box make the cake not perfect anymore especially at the side of cake. Took the last photo on my friend surprise birthday. Baking a cake was really fun. The result is quite good, the taste and the looks. Anyone order? Contact me :)



love love love!



clara

Self-made Dishes

What do you think about New Year's dishes? I decided to cook simple pancake at the last day of 2012 and start new day in 2013 by brunch with spaghetti. Cooking is such an fun activities, went to supermarket and then chose the ingredients, decorate the plate, and whatever about it was awesome. As usual, I prefer to do something with my self, including cooking of course! Even the taste is not really good, it has more satisfaction in my heart.

Is it the first post in 2013? Yeah sure it is. I'm away from blogging for last a week, focused on all my final tests. Studied hard but I don't know the grade that I'll get then, the important thing is struggle and struggle, fight for the laziness. Cooking is one of several ways to refresh your mind from whatever it is. I've already prove that :)

How about pancake with strawberry topping? Sure, I'm still in love with red, whatever it is.

A plate full of spaghetti bolognaise, what do you think?

And that's all the self-made dishes by me for the days which are the ending the 2012 and the starting the 2013. In fact both are so simple. Anyway, what do you think when I combine them with my make up kit for the photo shoot?

The Softness The Color Tone, The Fancy It Comes

The color is steal my heart since I was very young. Absolutely girl identical with pink, and boy with blue. It's public secret. There are many type of 'pink', but my favorite are from pastel tones. Softness one. I'm currently interested with Do-It-Yourself stuff a.k.a I made things by my self. I went to a small stationery shop near my residence, and I found several materials, I have many ways to combine them into sweetest thing.  From flannelette and help from cursor, worsted, feathering, and of course with love-dream-happy poison, the key chain is made.