Lulu's Drawing 如如的绘图

One of the day in April 2010, Lulu ran to me and showed me two of her drawing. I was surprised at first then overjoyed to find her drawing picture of a person with structure (head, hand and legs) though not in proper form for the first time.

On 9th October 2010, Lulu and her cousins played drawing competition at auntie's (eldest sister of Lulu's father) house. She is the youngest among all and she saw the better drawings of her elder cousins. The next day, she showed me her drawing and I saw sky, beach and picture of man with better structure. Few days later, she drew house, sky, field and there was "distance" effect on man inside, outside the house, near the door etc.
On 19th October 2010, she showed me her drawing of our happy family and this time, she clearly distinguished gender of man by girl in skirt and boy in pants.
One of the day in October 2010, Lulu's cousin brother Wang showed me his building block craft work. He built Malaysia Twin Tower. It was an impressive piece of craft and I praised him for that. Unexpectedly, Lulu was motivated and I saw her busy working on "building block" (a gift from my eldest sister beautifully stored in a wooden wagon) and she built house and school. Besides, she made a nice "I love you" from a IQ puzzle-Mix & Match play set gifted by Lulu's uncle (my youngest brother).
I am grateful to God for being able to be with the kids and see their development.

如如的绘图

在2010年4月某日，如如跑到我面前展示她的两个图画。我很惊讶，发现她画画有了结构（头部，手和腿)。

如如和她的堂表兄姐在阿姨的家比赛画画。 .她是年纪最轻的，她看到她的年长堂表兄姐更好的绘图。 第二天，她给我看了她的画，我看到更好的结构(有天空，海滩和人的图片)。

几天后，她画了房子，天空，现场有人，并有“距离” 构思(有人在屋里面，外面，靠近门口等)。 在2010年10月19日，她给我看了她的幸福家庭画，这次绘画，她清楚地分辨性别，女孩穿裙子和男孩穿裤子。

2010年10月某日，如如看到堂兄旺积木杰作。他建立了马来西亚双子塔。这是一个令人印象深刻的作品，我称赞他。不料，不久某日，我看到如如忙“积木”（我的大姐送的礼物)，她建房子，学校。

此外，她做了一个漂亮的“我爱你”

我感谢上帝恩赐我陪伴孩子的空间，能够倍他们一起成长。

Aloe Vera Dessert 芦荟甜点

Ingredients
Aloe Vera  3-4 pieces
Honey (Organic)  250ml
White Fungus 3-4pieces
Red Dates 12-15 pieces
Water 4L(Litre)
Pandan Leaf  2-3 pieces

Method:-
1) prepare 4 litre water in slow cooker
2) add aloe vera (cut in cubes)
3) add white fungus (soaked soft)
4) add red dates
5) add "pandan" leaf
6) boil for 4 hours
7) add honey (organic honey is strongly suggested)
8) ready

Story Sharing

I learnt this recipes from my untie Ji Yi (mother's 2nd sister).

One of the day in 2007, when I was back at hometown, I saw a lots of  aloe vera growing richly (big & juicy) in the backyard. Apparently they were planted by Ji Yi! She shared with me that aloe vera is easy to plant, just soil, pesticides free (organic!) and it will grow abundantly.

I know aloe vera by its richness in nutrients (especially good in wound healing and for beauty of skin) but have no idea of making it a food except juice. Then she offered to make me a dessert from aloe vera. This is how the "comeabout" of  this aloe vera dessert! It was refreshing in taste.

Aloe vera is costly sold in the supermarket at RM3 to RM5 a piece! Thanks to Ah Siew, my 5th sister in law for her supply of home grown aloe vera in each of my preparation of aloe vera dessert.

芦荟甜点

配料 
芦荟3-4件
 蜂蜜（有机）250毫升
白色银耳3-4 件
红枣12-15件 
水4公升
香兰叶2-3片

我从阿姨（母亲的第二妹妹）那得到这食谱。

在2007年，当我回到了家乡，我看到了很多芦荟肥沃的生长在后院。她告诉我，芦荟植物很容易生长，只要土壤，免农药（organic 有机!），它会丰盛传播生长。

我认识芦荟只有它丰富的营养（特别是在伤口愈合良好功效，美容皮肤)，却没有芦荟烹饪知识，除了做成果汁。

阿姨提出为我准备芦荟甜点。这是这个芦荟甜品食谱的来源！它口味清爽。

芦荟是昂贵的在超市出售(马币一块令吉至5令吉)！ 

万分感谢我五婶为我准备甜点时芦荟供应(她在家种植，有机！)。

Wheat Four Pasta (Mian Fen Guo) 面粉果(板面)

Ingredients:-

Wheat Flour 300g

Egg 2 peices

Cooking Oil 1 tablespoon

Water 150ml

Fish (Ikan Bilis) stocks 4L (litre)

Vegetable (Bayam) 800g

FishBall 400g

Tools

Pasta Machine

  

Method:-

1) prepare fish (ikan bilis) stock

2) put wheat flour 300g into a medium size bowl

3) add 2 eggs

4) add 1 tablespoon cooking oil

5) mix & rub
6) add 150ml water little by little
7) knead the mixture until homogeneous
8) wrap in PE cling paper


9) put in freezer for 1/2 hour

10) while waiting 1/2 hour, prepare sup with vegetable and fish ball boiling in ikan bilis stock for 15minutes

11) fix the pasta machine on table

12) after 1/2 hour, remove dough from freezer

13) spread a little flour if moist

14) pull to ensure elastic texture

15) take a small piece

16) pull it

17) pass through smooth roller of pasta machine (add flour if too moist)

18)) repeat step (17), superpose until desired thickness is reached

19) peal small pieces by pieces with hand

20) put them into boiling water, boil till soft

21) wheat four pasta (mian fen guo) is now ready for serving in sup for 12 peoples

Story 

Lulu, my eldest daughter loves to eat "mian fen guo" sold at the stall opposite my house. As the frequency of her request to buy and eat the "mian fen guo" outside increased, I determined to learn up the recipes and home cook for hygiene & healthy reasons. Nonetheless, mother and kids can work together is the great fun part of it. A big "thank you" goes to  my 5th sister-in-law for her sharing of the recipes!

面粉果(板面)

成份： - 

小麦面粉300克 

鸡蛋2个

 烹调油1汤匙

 水一百五十毫升 

鱼汤（江鱼仔）4公升 

蔬菜（Bayam）800克

 鸡蛋400克

Tools 工具
做面机 
保鲜纸

 

我的大女儿喜欢吃在我家对面摊位出售的面粉果。随着她外食的请求次数增加，我决心学习面粉果食谱，原因是家庭烹饪卫生及健康。尽管如此，母亲和孩子们可以一起工作，正是它的巨大乐趣。

万分感谢我的五婶和我分享她的食谱！

Remember These Childhood Ice Cream Sticks?记得这些童年冰淇淋棒？

14 Oct 2010, I found ice cream bag at mini market unexpectedly which I thought it has long been in the history !! My two little girls jumped with joy when I told them that they were going to do their own ice cream back home later. We found joy deep in our heart as the two girls were going to do ice cream for the first time and I was holding my old sweet childhood memory with the ice cream bag on hand.

When I was a little girl, my neighbour who stayed few doors away ran business in the house selling ice cream sticks with variety of flavour namely barley, ribena, lime, milo, coke, sarsi, longan laici etc. I could vividly remember the ice cream stick was sold initially with 5 cents, increased to 20 cents few years later then inflated to 50 cents down the years and apparently it is now sold at the price range of 80cents to RM1.20! Imagine, what a power of inflation!!

My childhood was spent solely in the kampong (countryside village) with big cycle of neighbourhood playmates. We played own DIY (do it yourself) toys with materials found in nature. We handmade kite from newspaper and bamboo sticks, mooncake festive Lantern with milo container, "lastic" with tree branches,  gun with wood and bullet with seeds etc. We drank coconut juice plucked from the tree, ate sweet corn grown by grandpa, rice from paddy field, vegetable from farm, chicken duck grown by mother in the backyard and seafood caught from the sea by a relative fisherman.

Finally, we (my sisters brother, cousin sisters brothers and neighbour playmates) learnt to make our own ice cream sticks from the adults like mother when we were small. We would first prepare the ice cream syrup of our  desired flavour then pour into ice cream bags and lastly freeze in the refrigerator. Ribena was my favourite syrup flavour. We boiled "Ribena" syrup from the seeds of a flower plant with name unknown. My first encounter to the flower plant was introduced by my cousin sister and it was planted outside the fence of the neighbour house. It tasted and coloured like Ribena. I started to plant my own "Ribena" flower plant eventually.

Now, I share this childhood story with my kids and teach them to make own ice cream stick like my mother did to me.

I felt the joy joy joy joy delt in my heart....as I played the slideshow with music, I heard my two daugthers singing along especially with great surprise to find the voice coming from my youngest daugther of 2 years old!

记得这些童年冰淇淋棒？

2010年10月14日，我意外在小型市场发现冰淇淋袋，我以为它已成历史！当我告诉我的两个小女孩，他们回家后可自己做冰淇淋，她们高兴得跳了起来。我们发现了内心深处的喜悦，这两个女孩将第一次做冰淇淋，俄我正抱着甜蜜的童年回忆。 当我还是一个小女孩，我的邻居经营售卖冰淇淋，有各种口味如玉米，利宾纳,milo,sarsi,龙眼等.我清楚地记得冰淇淋棒最初卖马币五分，上升到后几年20分，然后膨胀到50分，显然现在售马币80cents 到马币1.20不此！想象一下，通货膨胀的力量！ 我的童年是在乡村长大。 我们玩用然天材料自己动手做的玩具。我们用报纸和竹条手工制作风筝，“Milo”罐制作花灯，用树枝制作弹弓，用木头和种子制做枪弹，我们喝从树上摘下椰子果汁，吃由爷爷种植的甜玉米，乡村耕耘的稻米，从农地种植的蔬菜，养在后院的鸡鸭及渔民捕获的海鲜。 最后，我们（我的兄弟姐妹，堂表兄弟姐妹和邻居玩伴）向妈妈学会自己做冰淇淋棒。我们会先准备喜欢的口味冰淇淋糖浆，再倒入冰淇淋袋，最后冷冻在冰箱。 我是由我的表妹介绍，第一次接触到姓名不详但味道像极利宾纳的植物，它种植在邻居家围栏。我们用这花植物的种子煮“利宾纳”糖浆。我也开始亲手种下我自己的“利宾纳”植物。

 现在，我和我的孩子分享这个故事，并教导他们自己做冰淇淋棒，像我母亲对我做的。

 同时，我觉得极大的惊喜，.因为当我用音乐播放影片，我听到我的两个女儿跟随哼唱，特别是我最小2岁女儿！

Huai San Mushroom Steamed Egg 山药香菇蒸蛋

Above slideshow demonstrates the cooking process

Ingredients

Huai San (Chinese Yam) “raw “- 200g

Eggs (preferably organic) – 4 pieces

Water - ratio to egg: 4:4

Mushroom (Oyster mushroom 100g , Shimeji mushroom 75g, canned mushroom 100g)

Soy Sauce - 1 tablespoon

Stock –fish (ikan bilis)/ chicken – 1 bowl (medium size)

Methods:-

1. prepare 4 eggs on a plate
2. grate huai san on it
3. stir & mix
4. steam for 15 minutes
5. mince mushrooms (Oyster mushroom 100g , Shimeji mushroom 75g, canned mushroom 100g)
6. fry minced mushrooms mix with rice bran cooking oil, add fish stock and light soy sauce
7. spread the fried mushrooms on steamed huai san eggs
8. ready for serving
   

Tips

• Water ratio for steaming egg is 1:1 (i.e. 1 egg full filled of water to steam 1 egg)
• Huai San is a good source of healthy food for improving appetite

Watch out

Huai San can cause itchiness thus handle it with glove is advisable

Especially dedicated to my dear hubby:-

特别是献给我亲爱的老公： -

山药香菇蒸蛋

以上影片演示烹饪过程

 配料

山药 - 200克

鸡蛋（最好是有机的） - 4粒

水-蛋比率：4:4

 蘑菇（鲍鱼菇100克，Shimeji蘑菇七五克，罐头蘑菇100克）

酱油- 1汤匙

鱼汤（江鱼仔）/鸡汤- 1碗（中型）

小贴士

• 蒸水蛋比率为1:1（即1个鸡蛋全装满水蒸鸡蛋1个）
• 山药是一种健康食品改善食欲好来源

 当心
山药可导致发痒，用手套来处理为宜

Sweet Sour Beancurd/ Fish/ Capsicums Fish 甜酸豆腐/鱼/三文鱼

Above slideshow demonstrates the cooking process
Ingredients
Beancurd ( Wet Tofu) - 6 pieces
Orange - 1 piece
Organic Honey- 2 tablespoon
Frying Flour - 50g
Water
Cooking Oil

Fish - 3 slices
Capsicums traffic light - 3 pieces
Tomato - 1 piece
Carrot - 1/2 piece

Tips

• Orange skin can be retained and innovatively cut in pattern for presentation use. It can add spice to other simple cooked dishes making a nice meal of the day !
• Fish can be an alternative to beancurd
• Salmon Fish is a good choice for fish as of its good oil and nutrients
• New Dish can be created with the same sweet sour sauce with just one simple "add-on" (stir fry capsicums, tomato and carrot) as follow:-

Above slideshow demonstrates the cooking process

甜酸豆腐/鱼/三文鱼

以上影片演示烹饪过程 

配料
 豆腐（湿豆腐） - 6件
 橙 – 1粒
有机蜂蜜2汤匙 
油炸面粉 - 50克
水
 烹调油
鱼 - 3片
 灯笼椒 – 3粒
 番茄 – 1粒
胡萝卜 - 1 / 2条
 
小贴士

• !橘子皮可予以保留，并创造性地削剪型状，作以点缀摆设用途，把一简单菜肴成为不平凡一餐！
• 鱼可替代豆腐
• 文鱼其良好的油和营养是理想选择的鱼
• 用相同的甜酸味酱，只简单的“附加”灯笼椒，番茄，胡萝卜”等，就可创新食谱，如上.