Vegetable Pasta for Kids

Posted on June 26, 2012June 26, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

In the past, I have always cooked pasta with either fish, chicken, meat or anchovies. Most of the people I know stick to the pasta basics such as bolognese and carbonara and perhaps one or two other staples such as chicken mushroom, lasagna and other tomato based pastas........click to learn what next.

Best Kick Ass Burger for Kids

Posted on June 7, 2012June 7, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

My entire family concurred that these were the best kick ass burger for kids although the Hubs said that if they weren't so small, they'd be the best kick ass burger for adults too! *SCORE!!!* I'm showing you the picture below because I love the way my crappy.......click to learn what next.

Home Cooked Vegetable Tempura

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

I wanted to make vegetables more appealing to the kids so decided to use my packet breadcrumbs to coat the vegetables to make it seem like a vegetable tempura but failed to follow a recipe and just winged it. I did dip the carrot sticks into an egg.......click to learn what next.

Delicious Home Made Burgers

Posted on June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

I'm sorry if I'm arrogant but these were the absolute best burgers I'd ever tasted! Learnt from gourmet chef Godpa Soorya, the above burger is actually HALF vegetables!!! I kid you not. Choose any vegetable you want to add into your burger - we added minced celery, carrots,.......click to learn what next.

Home Made Pancakes with Love

Posted on April 26, 2012April 18, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

For the most of it, we make pancakes out of a pancake box at home, like Betty Crocker or Hungry Jacks, but the other day, I felt nostalgic and full of love that I wanted to flip up some pancakes from scratch, so not only did I use.......click to learn what next.

Vegetable and Fruit Smoothie

Posted on March 5, 2012February 19, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

I wish I had space for a proper juicer, but I don't. I even have a proper blender but hardly use it as it takes up space in my already tiny kitchen. Yet, whenever we have fruit or vegetables that look like they would die in a day.......click to learn what next.

Chinese Home Cooking

Posted on November 20, 2011November 15, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

My Mom is awesome. Whenever she cooks, she's always thinking of each and everyone of us. I'm convinced that she believes that the way to our hearts is through our stomachs. Man, it totally is...... All dishes half eaten: Mashed tofu for the kids. . Green vegetables. ........click to learn what next.

Crab day

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

One fine day, I started the day healthily with berries, low fat milk and that Kellog's Special K stuff. In preparation for this!!! Assam Prawns...... . Steamed Fresh Crabs....... . Crab Curry....... . Snake Beans........ . Herbal Sugar Cane to wash everything down with..... *burp* *rubs tummy* Thank.......click to learn what next.

Ipoh TAUGEH from IPOH – YES!!!

Posted on July 13, 2011July 11, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

One day, a sexy Yoga enthusiast came over to hand me a large packet of authentic Ipoh bean sprouts from Ipoh. I know many of you lovely lasses are from Ipoh where great food hails, and I am jeaous! But then again, if I were an Ipoh lass,.......click to learn what next.

Feeding a Toddler

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

I must admit that I am Malaysia's Number One LAZY MOM. Lately, I have been so busy that my baby doesn't get to eat proper meals every day. Well, part of it is her fault because she is so darn fussy that gone are the days when I'd.......click to learn what next.

Freezing chilli padi

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

If you knew me, you'd know that I eat my chilli padi every day. I eat it with everything as well, local fare and western, short of breakfast meals like French toast, cereal and pancakes! The Indian blood runs deep. The hotter and spicier the better too. Lately,.......click to learn what next.

What’s on the menu today?

Posted on April 18, 2011April 18, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

Writing 20 posts in half an hour is barely achievable but perhaps in an hour it is. I am also all over the place, rushing T2 to finish her lunch so we can go pick her sister up and I'm having a bite too whilst typing. Need to.......click to learn what next.

Best Home made Spinach Quiche

Posted on April 10, 2011April 10, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

For the benefit of those of you interested in baking my terrific spinach quiche, the best home made spinach quiche in the world, here is the recipe: PASTRY: You can use frozen PAMPAS short crust pastry from your local supermarket OR make your own. If you suddenly feel.......click to learn what next.

Home made Spinach Quiche

Posted on April 10, 2011April 4, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

This is one of the healthiest meals to offer a kid yet so easy to cook! It comprises spinach (iron, vitamins, fibre), cream (fat), eggs (protein), pastry (carbs), loads of cheese (fat, calcium) and whatever else you want to add into it. Speaking of which, I should cook.......click to learn what next.

Breakfast of muesli and toast

Posted on March 30, 2011March 29, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

Sometimes, when baby is in one of her demanding moods, I don't have my breakfast till noon. My food intake is totally screwed. I eat at odd hours and I am inconsistent with my intake. Such is the life of a Stay-At-Home-Mom without help. One with a baby.......click to learn what next.

Getting kids to help in the kitchen

Posted on March 3, 2011March 1, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

Getting kids to help in the kitchen is a good idea. From the age of two, T1 has helped me in the kitchen and everywhere else. She loves peeling garlic and peeling/plucking vegetables. Now that she's a bit older, she's finally been allowed to use the peeler and.......click to learn what next.

Making your own muesli

Posted on February 21, 2011February 21, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

Last year, I spent a lot of money frequenting my favourite breakfast place because they had an awesome muesli mix that I just couldn't get enough of. You know how it is, the ones at the supermarket are just never the same no matter how much you pay.......click to learn what next.

Chicken Pie Dinner

Posted on February 13, 2011February 12, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

.......with fresh buttered asparagus, broccoli and cheese sausages......... Simply cooked by our beloved Nana.

Lovely green apples

Posted on February 6, 2011February 4, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

We have abundance of lovely green apples at home because it is soooooooooooo good for you. It has always been my plan to juice them for the family but so far I have not yet attempted it with my blender (I don't have a juicer). However, I eat.......click to learn what next.

Scrambled eggs on toast

Posted on February 3, 2011January 27, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

All four of us in this household loves this. Simple, quick and nutritious. All it needs is a side of baked beans and some fruit. And coffee!!!

Making jelly shapes

Posted on January 29, 2011January 27, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

Can someone teach me how to make agar-agar? I am dying to make jelly that I can actually cut out into shapes. What about those yucky instant jellos? Can those be cut into shapes too? I hate those but T1 loves them. Yuck. So I'm going to convert.......click to learn what next.

Cleaning vegetables

Posted on January 29, 2011January 27, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

How do you clean your vegetables? I usually soak mine for at least 15 minutes in salt water. And then re-soak them again and again until I can see no more soil and sediments in the water after which I would rinse them. We don't have that changgeh.......click to learn what next.

Traditional Mee Siam from Kelantan

Posted on January 26, 2011January 20, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

A traditional dish at every visit. Hours of standing in heat and muscle work. The night before, prawns are peeled and cleaned, millions of them. A truck load of chilli and spices go into a clay pot (and it HAS to be a clay pot according to my.......click to learn what next.

Baby games and cooking……

Posted on January 24, 2011January 19, 2011 by Mamapumpkin

That's what I have to do whenever I want to cook up a storm, even if it's just for my little humble family, which really means just cooking for the Hubs and myself since the girls don't usually eat what we do. For your information, I am a.......click to learn what next.

Helping in the kitchen

Posted on July 28, 2010July 26, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Wherever I can, I'd make use of the kids for some free child labour. It certainly gets things going faster, never mind about the mess. The Hubs will take care of that! Yesterday, I got T1 to peel a whole bunch of French Beans and T2, of course.......click to learn what next.

Baking during the school holidays

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Another thing we did during the school holidays was to bake. It was also one of the first things we did when we finally returned from the hospital after a week's stay. I felt that T1 needed a treat after that ordeal and since we were in no.......click to learn what next.

Freezing baby food

Posted on April 10, 2010April 10, 2010 by Mamapumpkin

Guess who's been busy in the kitchen every weekend with the blender? T2, of course! I make her hold the hand blender, she loves it as it vibrates and makes NOISE!!! Child labour at 8 months, not bad eh? Which brings me to a very curious question. The.......click to learn what next.

Meatball spaghetti in mushroom sauce

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

There are 2 people on the internet whom I always go to for recipes because after trying them once and they tasted real good, it was only natural that I went back. One of them is the lovely Jomel, who I wish would one day open her quaint.......click to learn what next.

Cooking Black Pomfret

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

What are the many ways to cook black pomfret apart from cooking sweet and sour fish and plain frying with various condiments??? What about white pomfret? Is it only to be steamed with ginger or teo chew style with salted vegetables and tofu? And the silver pomfret, the.......click to learn what next.

Best Scones Ever

Posted on July 19, 2009July 15, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Scones are not easily available in KL – well, good scones that is. The ones that are all buttery and melt in your mouth kind of scones, not the crumbly ones that fall apart at every bite. For the longest time, I’ve been on the hunt for the.......click to learn what next.