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EDD: 9th December 2014
Gynae: Dr Lee Keen Whye
Clinic: KW Lee Clinic & Surgery for Women, Gleneagles
Delivery Hospital: Gleneagles


Actual Day: 29 March 2013
Wedding Dinner Venue: Marriott Hotel Singapore
Bridal Studio: Julia Wedding News
Wedding Bands: The Diamond Atelier
AD Photography: Avenue 8 (Douglas Fun)

ROM Date: 20 November 2011
Solemnisation Venue: Poolside, Swissotel Merchant Court
Venue Decor and Flowers: Love Droplets
ROM Photography: Avenue 8 (Dave Wong)
Love Nest: Punggol Emerald (2014)
JP: Dr Phua Tan Tee

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Blueberry Crumble Muffins

NTUC was having a promotion on blueberries and I bought 3 punnets of it. I was down to my last one plus I had some sour cream left from cheesecake baking so I decided to use them up by baking some yummy breakfast blueberry muffins. But plain old muffins sounded boring, so I added some crumble on top to make them mega sinful. And oh my they turned out so beautifully! Crunchy and crumbly on the outside with a moist and fluffy interior. Yummmeh!
Adapted from Wen's Delight with slight modifications. 


Ingredients: (Makes about 12 regular muffins)

225g Cake flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
100g Butter
150g Castor sugar
2 large eggs (65g-slightly beaten)
220ml Light sour cream (Yogurt works great too)
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
125g Fresh blueberries

Crumble Topping:
60g Castor sugar
120g Plain flour
60g chilled butter (cut into small cubes)
A pinch of salt

Method for crumble topping:
Sift the flour into a bowl with salt, add sugar and butter, then rub with fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. If you find mixture too wet, add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time and mix it well so that it results in a breadcrumbs consistency. When done, chill mixture in fridge.

Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line the muffin tray with paper cups.
1. Cream the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add in vanilla. Then add in beaten eggs slowly, about 1 tbsp at a time, beating constantly for about 2 minutes.
2. On low speed, stir in 1/3 of the flour mixture until just combined. Beat in 1/2 of the sour cream. Then stir in 1/2 of the remaining flour mixture, followed by the remaining sour cream. Finally stir in the remaining flour mixture. 
3. Flour the blueberries and fold them into the mixture. Be careful not to over mix.
4. Spoon into muffin cups and add crumble topping plus extra blueberries.
4. Bake for about 20-25 minutes until skewer inserted comes out clean or the top turn golden brown.
5. Serve warm or keep in airtight container for up to 2 days!

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Happy 4 months!

My little milk monster turns 4 months today!

Yes my darling, sometimes you drive mummy and daddy up the wall now that you have found your voice and know how to scream. 

But we'll smoother your high pitched noises with more kisses anyway...

Happy 4 months my little munchkin! Stay healthy and grow strong!

A special note: At exactly 8.59pm today, Lucas flipped over on his own for the first time! Bravo my little one!!

Monday, April 6, 2015

First life lesson...

Lucas is currently into thumb sucking, or basically stuffing every possible thing into his mouth.

I was curious about the attraction of his fingers and if they were truly that tasty. Then today, he offered them to me because I asked nicely.

Nom nom nom....

In conclusion, I still don't get it.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Hong Choo Catering - Tingkat Dinner

The demands of work, motherhood and the chore of deciding what to have for dinner every night pushed us into trying out tingkat dinners. Plus staying in Punggol doesn't help much with the food situation. So I scoured the internet and found Hong Choo which received pretty good reviews. So we signed up for the 10 day tingkat trial consisting of 3 dishes and 1 soup and here's what we have received. 

Bittergourd Soup - Tasty
Stewed potatoes - Watery sauce
Cabbage with Tau Kee - Slightly oily but good!
Steamed fish - Really good!

Fried omelette with hot dog - Don't fancy
Cabbage - Good
Steamed minced pork - portion small otherwise good
Sichuan veg + chicken soup - Tasty without being too salty

Sambal stingray - Really yummy but fish was slightly soggy by dinner time
Mixed vegetables with chicken - As usual, too little
Fried Beansprouts - Pretty decent
Wintermelon soup - Slightly bland


Blackbean soup - Tasty
 Xiao bai cai - Decent
Tofu - Tasty! Wish there was more!
Stir fried pork - Pretty good!

Curry chicken wings - Yummy but too little! *obviously*
Baby spinach - Good
Deep fried fish fillet - Really yummy!
Meatball soup - Tasted like ba chor mee soup

Tau Pok - Good
Oriental Sauce Chicken wings - Awesome!
Curry fish - Really yummy but too little gravy!
Watercress soup -Soup was bland with too little vegetables

Cabbage - Tasty
Stir fried pork with onion - pretty good
Steamed egg - Portion.too.small (3mm thick)
Fish ball soup - Like fishball soup from a fishball noodle stall

Spinach - Good
Soy Sauce chicken - Yummy!
Chilli fish fillet - Pretty decent
Seaweed soup - Bland

Stewed pork belly - Portion too little but otherwise yummy!
Chap Chye - So so good!
Hot dogs with ngoh hiang - Much too peppery
Chicken soup - Bland with floating chicken bits
Cabbage - Oily but nice
Steamed pork - Nice but too little (about 3mm thick)
Sweet and sour fish - Good sauce and good portion size
Fish dumpling soup - Not too bad


We like Hong Choo because it taste very much like home cooked food unlike some other Tingkat dinners which are MSG laden. But I have to lament that the portion is on the smaller side and despite 2 attempts to get them to increase the portion, it was still somewhat insufficient. Hubby and I ended up cooking a more rice or adding another side dish of our own on some nights. 

The fish dishes from Hong Choo were impressive! No dory fish or batang nonsense but proper good quality ones like grouper steak. Overall, for the price and the taste with the exception of some hotdog dishes which I seriously am not keen on, Hong Choo is definitely worth a try! They operate out of a small kitchen unlike big commercial ones and do not have pre-set menus because they believe in cooking what is fresh from the market on the day itself. 


We have decided to continue with Hong Choo because of the reasonable price and the quality of food. Shall review them again after a month!



Hong Choo Catering Service
126 Joo Seng Road, Singapore 368355
6858 3170