Merry Christmas 2009 - Party at my house

I had such a fantastic christmas this year... I felt a little sad that it was over... 2 days before christmas, I was already suffering from insomnia... haha.. too excited... When I finally fall aslepp, it was usually only for about 3hours... and though I was lying on the bed... my brain was already "working"... kept thinking what else I can do... thinking what I have left out... Wondering if i have enough time for everything... I have fulfilled all xmas fruit cake orders by the 23rd... so I still had my sanity... If I had left everything till 25th to complete, I'd have died...

Anyway, My helper and I prepared Smoked Ham, spaghetti Bolognese, Mixed Vegetables and Garlic Prawns... The rest of the menu like Roast Piglet, duck and satay was proudly sponsored by my mum and cousin :-D and I must say, my auntie makes the most delicious nonya kueh... It was time consuming to prepare it... and for the fact that she is already 70 and still makes the effort to steam these kuehs for the party, it makes the party even better!

In order for my guests to have a little momento to bring home.. I baked some brownies and pack it into small xmas bags... I am really really happy that everyone likes it... It just makes all the hard work worthwhile...

I hope to organise more parties for my family and friends... Happy 2010 everyone... more parties to come.... A nice nice ending to a great 2009...

Brownies....

My back nearly broke baking the xmas fruit cake orders the whole of yesterday... Did not want to do anything related to baking today... I wanted to take a break and also to let my oven have a rest day.... In fact, I was supposed to do some administrative work for my mum... I ended up baking again... haha... and totally forgot about the work that I was supposed to do... duhz... I was just telling my helper "I seem so free today.. it just feels abit weird"... It did not occur to me that I have totally forgotten I had something important to do... haha... Well, age must be catching up with me... Or my baby must have killed alot of my brain cells during the time he was in my tummy... heh heh... ok excuses... excuses... It's just ME....

Anyway, I just browsed through one of my baking books for a brownie recipe... nearly every book has it... and I randomly chose one... Not too bad... simple steps... Satisfactory results... Will distribute it to my usual "guinea pigs"...

More baking tomorrow... what else? Xmas Fruit cakes of course...

X'mas Fruit Cakes

It's the time of the year again... Christmas!! I love the 'season of giving'... I love the atmosphere.... Many beautiful lights... Happy faces around... Bustling and rushing around to buy pressies for loved ones... This year, it is more meaningful to me than previous years... firstly, I have my little gift from God, Ethan... to celebrate X'mas with me... secondly, my parents will not be flying back to Perth this year... So we get to celebrate X'mas as a family... I look forward to our X'mas party... nice food, great company... YEAH! I am really not looking forward to Chinese New Year... Wish I can get away... leave Singapore... go on a holiday with my family... impossible... but still hoping :-)

These few weeks, I have been busy with the xmas fruit cake orders, on top of my usual cake orders... Seems that customers prefer the one with rum... It does not taste too strong... yet it has the nice mild aroma from rum... soaked in rum overnight... yumz... A nice little pressie for family and friends...

If you would like to place an order... Just drop me an email yah!

Have a merry merry xmas...

Love everyone loads...