Mar

22

Fruity Sponge Cake

This recipe is so simple that you don’t need to be an experienced cook or baker.
 
When I made this the first time, I served it with sliced strawberries in the middle.  It looked like a sandwich with fresh fruits and whipped cream as filling.  One good thing I like about this recipe is that it [...]

Mar

21

Do You Want To Be A Mystery Shopper?

Mystery shopping has become a new way for stay-at-home or fulltime moms to earn a little bit and make spare time (if any) productive.
 
Let me give you some basic ideas about mystery shopping and how to become a member.  There are several mystery shopping websites and survey and research companies that offer mystery shopping assignments.  One can [...]

Mar

16

Child Care Centre: Advantages of Enrolling Your Child

Here in Australia, bringing kids to child care centres (they call it ‘kindie’) have become a normal errand for parents, whether working parents or full time moms.  Working parents have no other option but to leave their kids to kindie if there are no other family members or relatives to look after them.  Most child [...]

Mar

14

Good Eating Habits For Kids

Several hours before your child comes home and asks, “What’s for dinner?”  you’ve already asked yourself that question. You might have had an idea or two, but then, you started to think the food that she doesn’t like and ask yourself again what would you prepare for dinner.
Food preparation becomes so complicated for us mothers.  [...]

Mar

14

Meat Roll With Chunky Chilli Tomato Salsa

This is otherwise known in Filipino cuisine as “Embotido”.  However, to make it appealing to my husband who is Italian, I served it on top of rocket lettuce (no rice) with the salsa as dressing.  He loved it!
 
Ingredients & Instructions:
 
1/2kg. Minced beef/pork;
1 medium finely chopped onions;
1 small finely diced red bell pepper/capsicums;
finely [...]

Mar

4

Guidelines to Supplementary Feeding

I love sharing this feeding guideline my daughter’s paediatrician gave me. 
 
Ivana, my daughter, started eating solid food when she was 5months old.  As a first time mom I was so worried about how to feed her, what food to give her, and even worse when she wouldn’t swallow the food but just spit them [...]