Bento #25 - Happy Mother's Day

This coming Sunday, 10 May 2009 will be the once a year Mother's Day. And we had this Pre-Mother's Day Bento last weekend just in case we are out for celebration on the actual day. It's done by me and my 5 years old boy. He helps to remove the shell from the cooked quail eggs, cut the features and assemble them into cute little farm animals. Cut the jam sandwiches and kiwi slices using the heart-shape cutter. We did have a lot of fun making all and it's a great way to bond with kids too.

Tata... this is what I did for the finally arrangement. After Rey had finished all the cutter and sticking of the features, I will do the finally touch up as well as the arrangement into the bento box. So in the end, this is what we have..........

This is the set of Quail Egg Cutter which CP from Bentomarket get it for us through the suggestion of Amy(Shoppingmum) from MotheringCorner to source for this cute cutter. Amy has a cute froggies bento using this quail cutter to make the frog too... take a look :)

I have help Rey cooked the Quail Eggs, then he did all the peeling and using the cutter to cut the features and assemble these cute little Farm Animals. Out of the 5 animals, I only help him to cut the zig-zag outline for the chick using the special cutter available in the set. He really have a lot of fun doing these and it's the best Mother's Day present for me because these cuties are from the hand of my darling......

Look at this row of farm animals queuing up in action..... starting from Little Dog, Chick, Rabbit and Piglets......

Happy 4th Anniversary - Cuisine Paradise

Today, 30th April 2009 is the 4th Anniversary of this blog - CUISINE PARADISE. At the beginning it was just a blog whereby I keep an online record of our family daily meals to share with friends and readers. But after sometime, I found that there are too many categories that I wish to try on so in order to keep a better view and records of all the posts. I sub-divided the Main Blog into another 4 individual blogs which is the Tea-Time Delights(collection of tea-time delights and kid's meal), Kitchen Tips(collection of ingredients and kitchen gadgets), Recipe Index(a list of recipes that I tried)and Eramblings(my walk with the Lord).

I sincerely wanted to thank all those readers and participants for joining the Blog Giveaway Event which just ended on the 17 April 2009. With all your warm co-operation, this event is held successfully with so many draw entries. I hope those winner of the draw will like their gifts and be of some use to them. Lastly, I wish to thank everyone for participating and stay tune for the next upcoming Blog Event which will be up soon in May.

Lastly, just wish to share with you some of my favour photos in my blog posts which marked my 4 years journey in blogging. There are so many kinds of food that I had tried & test out during my blogging days and I also wanted to sincerely thanks Lijie and Daniel who interview & published my blog and recipes. This credit really brings a BIG encouragement in my blogging life. Thank you..... and most of all..thank you those who support this blog. Hope there will be another 4 years coming by... lol

Winner Of The Blog Event

Finally the Blog Event had closed and ended on 17 April 2009. I sincerely appreciate and thanks all the participants for joining this event to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of this blog. After sorting the participants for each draw category, we conduct a mini Lucky Draw for each Gift Set and here are the 4 LUCKY WINNER of the blog event.


Gift Set #1 - Goes to Tan Yee Lin from Singapore.


Gift Set #2 - Goes to Christine Ong from Australia


Gift Set #3 - Goes to Carolyn Cheng from Singapore


Gift Set #4 - Goes to Estella from Singapore

All winners will be notify by email. If you do not received my email confirmation by Wednesday, 22 April 2009 do let me know by leaving me a comment here or send me an email. Once again, thank you everyone of of the participants of this event.

For those who participate but didn't stand a chance on the gift set. You will have Another chance in coming May 2009 for the next upcoming blog event with more exciting prizes to be won. So do come back and check out for more details which will be announced soon....

Blog Event - CLOSED

Dear readers and participants of this Blog Event. Thank you so much for taking your time to leave a comment here and as well as sent in your draw details via Email to me. I hope everyone of the participants have received my confirmation reply thru Email on your draw item.

At the meantime, I will be sorting out the list of participants for the lucky draw. The 4 LUCKY WINNER will be announced on Monday, 20 April 2009. Till then, just remember to come back and check out on the draw result on Monday to see whether you are ONE of the luck winner :p

GOOD LUCK! EVERY PARTICIPANTS!!!

Bento #24 - Homemade Fan Choy

This is my Morning Tea-break Bento. I reheat the Fan Choy that my mum specially made for us as Breakfast and packed it together with a few extra Siew Mai and Har Kao(prawn dumpling). This definitely marked my day with a hearty Homemade Dim Sum Breakfast.

Homemade Banana & Passion Fruit Jam

This is definitely a simple and easy to attempt keeper recipe. I got to know this special Homemade Banana & Passion Fruit Jam from Happy Home Baking website(click here). You should take a look at her recipe if you are interested in making your own jam at home. It's very simple and straight forward. All you required is only 3 Ingredients which are:- Ripe Banana, Passion fruit Pulp and Sugar.

Put all these ingredients into a small heavy-duty saucepan and simmer on medium heat for about less than 10 minutes and you will have your very own Homemade jam in no time...... So do hope by to her blog shown on the above link for more detail :) I promise you will be in love with the texture and fragrant of this jam.

Bento #23 - Steam Herbal Chicken

It had being a long interval since I last prepared Bento for Rey on the Panda Bento. Since we have a long weekend last week due to Good Friday, I managed to squeeze some extra time to do marketing during Sunday after Church to grab some grocery in the market to prepare our lunch and my Monday, Bento Lunch to work.

Since I only have about 1.5 hrs in the morning to get ready for work and school for Rey. I have decided to prepare steam lunch, what I need to do is just to steam the rice, herbal chicken and dumpling together then arranged them nicely in the bento box :)

I am so happy to receive my Bento Contest gift from Susan Yuen last week. This is my 1st online contest and it is such a suprised that the Seaside Bento that I did for Rey a few weeks back managed to get into the 5th place for this Bento Contest that is organised by Susan from Hawaii Bento Box.

Thank you Susan for organising such a fun and interesting contest and as well as your gifts and card. Thank you so much.

Blog Anniversary Event

Cuisine Paradise is going to be 4 years old on 30 April 2009. On this special occasion I would like to giveaway some small gifts as a token to all my blog readers irregardless of where you are from as long as you wish to take part in this giveaway :)

All you need to do are:-
1. Leave me your Name and Gift Description that you prefer on the Post Comment Link(the comments will only appear after I approved it); AND
2. Email me Your Entry Details as shown below to ellenaguan@hotmail.com : (please put eg: Gift Set #1, Gift Set #2 or etc... on your email subject, in order for me to do the sorting and luck draw list as well compare your details in case i didn't received your email. Thanks)

Example:
Gift Description:
Your Name:
Country You are From:
Blog URL (if you maintain one):
Email add for contact if you are the winner:

Please Note:
Only ONE DRAW ENTRY is allow for each visitor, please help to let others to get a chance to get their desire gift too :) There will be a limit of 40 entries per Gift for the draw and I will update each gift so that you will know which items is closed for the draw. Thanks for your support and enjoy the fun............



This Blog Birthday give away will end on 17 April 2009 (2359hr Singapore Time). I would like to thank all of you for the regular visits, comments, feedback and sharing in all my related blogs to Cuisine Paradise all these years.

Four lucky winner will stand a chance to win one of these gift set and it will be sent via registered mail to you upon the announcement of the draw on 20 April 2009. And hopefully, as a winner you will be able to receive the "gift" before 30 April 2009 in order to celebration this joyful occasion with this blog.


Gift Set #1 -Pooh Sushi Stamp Mould & Egg Mould
(30 entries as on 17.04.09)


Gift Set #2 - 2-1 Mickey Mouse Multi-Purpose Cutters
You can use this set of cutter to make something like what is shown in this Mickey Mouse Bento Set.
(36 entries as on 17.04.09)


Gift Set #3 - Assorted Wiener Cutters + Mickey Furikake Case
(11 entries as on 17.04.09)


Gift Set #4 -Ocean Picks, Baran, Fork & Spoons and Animal Sauce Bottles + Winnie The Pooh Furikake Case
(8 entries as on 17.04.09)

P/s: Dear readers, thanks you for all the support and participation on this blog event. In order to show my sincere appreciation for your draw entry, I have included another extra item for Gift Set 3 & Gift Set 4. Thank You.....

Blueberry Yoghurt & Jam Muffin

At this raining and cosy afternoon, both me and my son tends to have craving for some hot and pipping homemade muffins. So this is what we come out with after sourcing for all the ingredients we have in our kitchen pantry....... Finally we decided to make Blueberry Yoghurt & Jam Muffins for afternoon tea.

Baked Tomato With Potato & Corn

This is our Saturday Quick Lunch - Baked Tomato Cups with Mashed Potato & Corn Kernel serve with extra herbal butter toast and a cup of Camomile Honey & Vanilla Tea. What a simple and relax afternoon lunch for a sunny weekend meal.

Since I bought some potato, carrot, sweet corn and tomato to make ABC soup for dinner. I add in extra dose of potato cubes and sweet corns to make the soup so that I can use some of the potato and corn to make this Quick and Easy Lunch. If for normal day, you can just steam 1 medium size potato together with a small corn then use it to make this baked tomato cups.

Ingredients:
2 Medium Tomato
1 Medium Size Potato
1/4 Carrot(optional), cut into thick slices
1 Corn Stick
2 Slices of Sandwich Cheese
Pepper
Butter & Herbs(optional)

Method:
1. Rinse and slice the top of the tomato off and scoop out the seeds and pat dry the tomato cups and set aside.
2. Peel, and cut the potato into square chunks.
3. Remove the husk of the corn and cut it into 3 section and halves it.
4. Place the potato and corn on a plate and steam it for about 15 minutes or so until the potato are cook through and soft.
5. Mashed the potato and carrot with some pepper then add in 1 slice of cheese(tear into pieces) and 1.5 tablespoons of corn kernel and mix well.
6. Scoop the potato mixture into the tomato cups, top with some extra corn and arrange on a baking dish.
7. Add 1 teaspoon of butter and some chopped parsley(optional) or mixed dry herbs(optional) into the remaining corn kernel and mix well.
8. Scatter the corn kernel mixture around the side of the tomatoes in the baking dish and place it into the oven toaster for about 5 minutes.
9. Next the extra cheese slices on top of each tomato cups and baked in the oven for another 30 second or so..... remove and served with tea and cut fruits.

Notes:
a) You can also used the frozen or can corn kernel instead of fresh corn.
b) You can place the butter herb toast together in the oven toaster with the tomato cups at the side.

This is a very Easy and Health snack for both kids and adult. If you kids do not like tomato as what it is, you can try to stuffs it with this mixture of mashed potato and corn kernel the next round when you make ABC soup.... Tomatoes have lots of important health benefits, including reduction in risks for cardiovascular diseases, colorectal cancer, inflammation, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer and thrombosis, so you should certainly consider including a cup of tomatoes in your daily diet for the maximum benefits.

Traditional English Afternoon Tea

I have saw this Traditional English Afternoon tea from one of the food variety show in Media Cop Channel 8 series before. During my study days in London, we used to have afternoon tea at school but that was not as grand as this. But I do missed those days, when you can enjoy a cup of freshly brew English Tea and enjoy some oven baked scones with jam.

Today, my brother was free to treat us to this Traditional English Afternoon Tea @ The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Millenia "Chihuly Lounge" offers this wonderful tea special from 2.30pm - 5.00pm from Monday - Friday. You can have your choice of any Traditional English Tea to serve with these wonderful snacks.

Upcoming Mystery Event

Dear Readers and Visitors of CUISINE PARADISE blogs, there will be a Mystery Event that will be review to you before end of MARCH 2009. Till then do come back and check it out at the Main Blog @ Cuisine Paradise to find out more on this exciting upcoming event........

Don't MISS out this opportunity to be able to participate on this Mystery Event........ So from now on, stay tune and get prepared for the party ......... :)

Bento #22 - Panda Panda

Em... this weekend Bento is...... Panda theme and ... one of Reyon's favourite movie is the Kung Fu Panda which I brought him to watch during last year school holiday.... Since today he wanted rice to be include in the bento, I decided to make him this Panda Panda Bento.

As you can see from the picture below how I roughly arrange the layout of the items in such a small kiddy bento box. I used some curl lettuce to put on the base of the box for decoration as well as lining purpose. Next I secure one side of the box with two Taiwan sausage wrapped with lettuce and I put a food cup containing poached shredded chicken breast with corn kernels.

Don't worry if you do not have a mould to make the shape of the panda head. You can used a piece of cling wrap and scoop about 2.5 tablespoons of sushi rice on it then wrapped it tightly and mould it into a ball shape then shape it according in order to fix the space in the lunchbox. When you have, cut out oval shape from the Nori sheet and cheese to form the features of the panda. You can also decorate it with some cut fruits and extra accessories like panda pick or panda chocolate cookies.

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