April 25, 2012

Couple Cooking Class – Our 1st Kitchen Date

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts wordless/wordful wednesday

On Sunday R and I went for our 1st Kitchen Date. We signed up for a couple cooking class at ToTTs. On the Menu were Mushroom Risotto, Nutless Brownies, Classic Eggs Benedict, Classic Hollandaise Sauce and Rocket Wrapped with Parma Ham.

Cooking Mushroom Risotto

This was one of the most tiring dish which I made that day. The constant stirring and pouring of chicken broth was exhausting.

eggs benedict

Egg Benedict on smoked salmon (left) and on fried bacon (right)

eggs with sauce

Eggs Benedict with the Hollandaise sauce.

handsome chef

My Handsome R

parma ham

Rocket wrapped with Parma Ham

It was a fun class and both R and I enjoyed ourselves. Am looking forward to more of such activities together.

April 23, 2012

Kids Amuse Me Monday

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts meet me on monday, Monday Music Moves Me

Raising girls book Last weekend we took the kids to the library to borrow books for them to read during the week. We have been bringing the kids to the library more often now that there is a new library that opened up in a mall that we frequently visit after mass on Sunday.

Guess who picked up this book for R and I to read?

A- Monkey Boy

B- Doggie boy

C- Tiger Girl

I was surprised when this book was selected and thrust to me to borrow. I never expected one of my kids to select such a book. One of them must really feel that as parents we still lack the relevant skills in parenting girls and need to read up more.

We have only been raising our girl for the past 20 months and still have lots to learn about raising girls as compared to boys. I guess this must be on the mind of my kid who took the book for me to read.

So can you guess which of the three made us borrow the book? I would like to read your guesses below in the comments. 😛

This week the theme is 1 hit wonder. I’m choosing Don’t say you love me by M2M. Do you remember listening to this group back in 2000s.

Questions:
1. I keep putting off making a photobook for Tiger girl. I can’t put it off any longer as the voucher expires on 25th April which is 2 days time!!

2. What is your current weather?
Wet and humid.

3. What is the nicest room in your house?
It would be the kitchen as it is the least cluttered room in the house at the moment. It also has all my fancy gadgets (toys) in it 😛

4. What jewelry do you never take off?
My wedding band. The only exception was before delivering the 3 kids as no jewellery was allowed during the C-sections which I had to go through.

5. Do you eat a snack before bed?
No. I’m actively trying to lose weight so no snacking for me.