We Can Cook - Vesak Day Home Cook Specials

We Can Cook - Linguine with chicken chop

We Can Cook - Baked Veggies on top of garden greens with feta cheese with Wafu salad dressing

ingredients
to bake veggies (those that goes into the oven)

• shitake mushrooms (6 nos)
• yellow and red peppers for colours (1 each)
• pumpkin for sweet taste (quarter)
• zuchinni (1 each)

garden greens (no baking is needed)

• all sorts of veg like spinach, rocket salad, butter lettuce or just a packet of veg mix 

dressing all in a bowl

• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp honey

Steps:

1. set oven to 220 deg C. meanwhile go and cut your to-bake veggies
2. add pumpkin and zucchini in with olive oil. bake for 10mins
3. stir pumpkin and zucchini. add in rest of the to-bake veggies for another 10mins. add pinch of salt and pepper for taste.
4. toss your garden greens with the salad dressing while the veggies are baking
5. once the baked veggies are done, add to the top of your garden greens.
6. sprinkle feta cheese
7. serves 4.

Velle Can Cook - Oven Roasted Salad

Hubs making dinner - Chicken chop Fettuccine

Hougang Maisonette - Porridge!

hanging yummy porridge from iron lady chef!

Stirling HDB Terrace - DIY Planter box

Finished planter box!

step1:  Things you will need:

a plan which has all the dimensions set out on paper - hubs already drew out the size that i wanted, approx 1m in length, 50cm in depth and width.

gloves

jigsaw

nails

measuring tape

step 2: JIGSAW: an early Father's Day present which I bought from HomeFix for hubs this year.

step 3: you will need to cut all your wood using the jigsaw to the right dimensions after measuring it out. Lay them neatly so that you will know what goes at the base and sides.

step 4: start nailing all the pieces of wood together once you have all of them cut out.

step 5: nail them as you go along

step 6: good to have your cheerleaders with you to give you extra moral support and get you drinks!

DIY - Canister Labelling Project

Do you have so many canisters filled with white stuff and sometimes you can't tell what is what?
i know that when my confinement lady was cooking for me, she mistook my white sugar for salt!! but it wasn't her fault because it was placed side by side and both were white.

but after awhile, yah she got used to the position. think it was left sugar, right salt.
hmm.
was it the other way around???
actually I'm not very sure myself too!!!

anyway, here's a quick DIY which i did for my canister project.
I printed the labels on a sticker using my printer.
Sticker was bought from Popular Bookshop.

here's a close up!

We Can Cook - Seafood Hokkien Mee

2nd Sunday of May 

Mother's day

hubs decided that he wants to cook up a seafood feast for my mother and me - and he wants to cook Seafood Hokkien Mee. Not that we mummies have a craving for hokkien mee, but he wants to cook, which is a good thing too, cos 

1. i miss his cooking 
2. i want to eat at home, tired of eating out 24/7
3. hey it's mother's day!

saturday night, after Jules went to sleep. Hubs woke up to clean the pork bone and shell the prawns for the soup stock. it took him about an hour to do all the prep work and set the bone and shell into the slow cooker.
that night the whole house smelled of prawn soup!

the next day, our helper was off for the day and i had to look after Jules while hubs went to busy himself in the kitchen.

because he has shelled so many prawns (1 kg) for the soup, he needed to do something with all those prawns. at first he wanted to do a prawn cake for appetiser, but because i wanted to eat portobello mushrooms, so i told him to improvise! And he puts the prawn cake into the mushroom.

12noon: my parents arrived and YEAH!
lunch is about to be served.

i did a simple salad - wafu sauce on top of a garden greens, cherry tomatoes and a chopped orange for some zest.

The portobello prawn cake mushroom was terrific!
and it was huge!!!

my dad thought that was lunch already. so funny when hubs served him a bowl of hokkien mee and dad went "huh??? got somemore ah???"

after our main, we were all quite full so we served a can of nice cool beer.
aaah.

after an hour, we served coffee.


that was my Mother's day this year.

hope yours was just as great as mine!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 

to all 

mummies, grandmummies and great grand mummies!!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - we are serving SEAFOOD Hokkien Mee

thank you hubs for the wonderful lunch

New Shoes for ME!

it's been awhile since i last bought myself a pair of shoe. and I've been searching for a certain pair, until date, i have yet to find it yet!!! Although it's killing me but i guess buying shoes isn't my priority nowadays or where to get them.

back to my new shoes.
was at Great World City's Jack's Place for dinner and I walked into Tangs after dinner and saw this pair of Martina Pink shoes which were on 50% sale!

so i bought it.

then the other day i was having dinner at Anchorpoint. after dinner i walked into Pedro and saw this pair of camel coloured killer heels. my heart skipped a beat. ooo. looks really pretty.

until now, i have yet to wear my camel coloured killer heels yet.

5 min CLAM CHOWDER SOUP

saturday night.
mouth itchy.
took out a can of campbell's clam chowder soup and heat up.
Added fresh celery and breakfast ham.

yumz.

it's good to have a pantry well stocked.

Hougang Maisonette - Laser Cut Rolling pins and edible pastry skins

was doing some research for a renovation work which we are currently doing, and this website just took my breathe away!!!
it gives the pale and flaky pastry skin a whole new level of diversity and meaning!
makes me want to eat not just the filling but the pastry too.

but the funny thing is that these are not meant just for pastry making but to make into edible bowls and plates!!! hahaha...

so ness if you are reading this, click here for further read!!!

Stirling HDB Terrace - Welcome Aboard!

Just came back from the SEA Aquarium with a new souvenir!

Reno@Yishun - Sneak Peeks

booth seat dining

vintage metal grill

country style kitchen

feature wall at living

compact master room

it's been awhile since I last updated on our reno@Yishun. They were super elated with the numerous options which we have provided for the dining/living area, master bedroom wardrobe and guestroom! guess the saying of "if you can't convince them, confuse them!" is somewhat true...i guess many options is the best option when you have a client who doesn't know what they want, but when they see something, they know that that is not what they want. (not sure whether you know what i mean here....)

Anyway, they have gone for the walk-in-wardrobe which i think the mrs is super happy about..and thus sacrificing the other room's space, but they still have another room which is left untouched in terms of area wise.

they have also opted for a booth seat dining area with storage underneath the seats, something which i thought was very practical too, since the household shelter isn't going to hold many things. And the kitchen sizes nowadays are pretty small.

So we are going to customise most of the furniture here...and I mean MOST.
there's the built in wardrobe, built in kitchen cabinets, feature tv console and cabinetry, built in shoe cabinet, built in tv feature wall in the master and even the bed they want to customise.

so we are having a feature "floating" bed with in built shelves for charging HP and uplit lighting incorporated into the bed head for their king size bed.

stay tune for more updates!

xoxo
velle

Stirling HDB Terrace - Our Family Area through the years

here's my doodle on how my family area has changed over the years.

it started off with just a window with a couple of rattan seats from IKEA, a coffee table from MOTTO and an overhang lamp.
click here for 2011 christmas look!

then 3 years later, we had Jules so our study table upstairs shifted down to make way for a cot and diaper changing station.

The following month, we draped our study table over with an IKEA shower curtain and transform it to a party counter for Jules' baby shower and hanged a bunting over it with paper poms poms strung on the overhang lamp with tears as "showers". click here

now, 2013 - another new beginning where Jules started crawling and soon walking, so the study table is gone, a transitional area sits - a playmat and toys.

click here during our sale of our study table before and after.

when i have time i shall compile the past photos and put them side by side...think it will be so fun to see the changes over time.

update!
click here for photos

Hougang Maisonette - Designing Kitchen Spaces

more updates on ironladychef's kitchen

proposing wood laminate bottom and white cabinets on top as she is getting a dining set from Scanteak, so we will use the same material through the place such that it will have a coherent language.

besides lots of storage area, we are also proposing a feature display bookshelf for her nick knacks like her tiffin ware, cups and saucers - which reminds me!!! Need to ask her for her tiffin height!!!


OMG. better do it soon.

Stirling HDB Terrace - Gardening

we have been so productive this saturday! Besides preparing for Jules' coming 1st birthday bash with all the DIYs, we also did some gardening to spruce things up.

 I did some ploughing and cleared all the heliconia roots which were in the way. Makes the land barren...now that i have removed the roots, hopefully more plants will grow.

 we added 4 bunches of orange cosmos plant. So vibrant the colour!!! Makes me very happy!

our cute garden gnomes from our neighbour who moved out and didn't have any space for them so we adopted them.