Productive Indeed!

Okie. As mentioned in my previous entry, I am on leave today. So, I managed to finish quite a bit of kitchen projects which I'd planned.

Before that though, here's our menu for yesterday since hubby did not break fast with us at home. Frozen springrolls which I'd bought at the office, bubur kacang hijau which Ana made and fried noodles with seafood.

nota kaki : cili padi jeruk tu home made yer....mmg acara wajib bila makan mee goreng mcm ni :-)

And this sweetheart is in her special pose :-)
Yup! She's learnt to pose for the camera!!!
And of course, we'll just laugh hysterically each time she does this..... LOL


Rite...now back to my kitchen projects for today. I managed to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles and also prepared samosa, springrolls and mini murtabak to be frozen since Aina now loves this kind of food i.e. with a crunch, and has spice as well as taste. Give her rather bland, mushy food and she'll just spit it out!

Snickerdoodle a.k.a cinnamon sugar cookies

SNICKERDOODLES

you need:
1/2 (approx. 110g) cup butter
1 cup fine granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 Tbs. granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder

how to:
beat butter. add in sugar, baking soda and cream of tartar. beat in egg and vanilla.
beat in flour as much as you can, and stir in remaining flour. cover and refrigerate for an hour. the dough will be very soft, so don't worry. mix the 4 Tbs. sugar with the cinnamon powder in a large plate.

use hands and shape dough into rounds, then roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. place on ungreased cookie sheet/baking tray and bake in a pre-heated 180'C oven for about 12 mins, depending on oven.

NOTE 1: the baking time here makes for chewy cookies and not crispy ones. if you do want crispy cookies, then increase baking time but watch cookies carefully as they will burn easily.

NOTE 2: the cookies go in the oven in little balls, but come out flat, as seen in the picture above so ensure that you allow plenty of space for expansion! :-D

Now, while waiting for the cookies to cool totally, this was what Aina was up to. She started off playing with Babah's songkok, and ended up with the box for the said songkok!! She preferred having the box over her head compared to the songkok itself LOL LOL LOL



And this was our menu for iftar -- mini murtabak with pickled onions, bubur lambuk and home-brewed lemon tea :-)


Tomorrow we'll be going to TTDI so that's a break for me from the kitchen LOL
I'm still not done with my Raya projects, but we'll see if I have time on Sunday to catch up....




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