zoopslife on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Family, Food, Ian, My Little Emperor, Places
It was the May Bank Holiday weekend, so we have Monday off as well. We took Ian to see Thomas the Tank Engine on Sunday. Woke up quite early, as we were getting ready to go..guess what….it rained and rained…. arghhh….it was quite nice and sunny the day before…just my luck…
I was not gonna let […]
zoopslife on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Family, Food, Ian, My Rants.., My Shopping Addiction..
This weekend I did some grocery shopping and then some spring cleaning. Instead of buying fresh food, I have opted for frozen food this week.
It’s because the fresh food usually gets thrown out when I forget about it. But with frozen food, it doesn’t and I get to save a lot doing that. Besides, […]
zoopslife on Apr 12 2008 | Filed under: Food, My Rants..
Look at the price of the petrol and diesel….going up and up..how I wish that this is the share/stock price ,and there’s no way it’s coming down. The first picture was taken at the end of January. The second photo was taken this evening.
That’s why I have been so good…haha..no more well…less retail therapy […]
zoopslife on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: Family, Festivities, Food, Hubby, My Rants..
It was Mother’s Day last Sunday in the UK. There was a year when I was a bit blur and thought that Mother’s Day was the same everywhere…haha…so I called my mom and wished her happy Mother’s Day…and she was like …huh?…hehe..and this was like 3am in the UK, I waited till it was morning […]
zoopslife on Feb 24 2008 | Filed under: Food, My Rants..
So what did I do during the weekend …. guess …. cleaning … cleaning and more cleaning ….. why… nowadays I work 3 nights a week, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Mondays, I have my computer class. So, basically the whole week is full. On Fridays, I take Ian to the speech therapist. So, no […]
zoopslife on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: Birthdays, Family, Food, Hubby
I forgot to blog about hubby’s birthday..hahaha… which was nearly 2 weeks ago. Luckily he didn’t complain..haha. Anyway, we just had a family dinner at his mum’s. That’s all nothing special. It’s the same every year.
We had pork dinner. Then later on, blueberry trifle and a piece of the birthday cake. I gave hubby […]
zoopslife on Jan 11 2008 | Filed under: Food, My Rants..
We had this the night before. I was a bit lazy, so I just marinate the pork in whatever sauce I can find..haha..which is err….Nando’s BBQ sauce and I also mixed it with the Lee Kum Kee Oyster sauce.
Then I leave it in the oven till it’s cooked. Just boiled the vegetables, as usual; […]
zoopslife on Jan 04 2008 | Filed under: Food
Experiment time…haha..it’s a good thing it worked if not hubby will probably end up spending his time at the “throne” ie; toilet.
Well, as I still have the “Kentucky” flour left; this flour is actually for chicken and you are suppose to deep fry it so that it will turn out like the KFC.
I made […]
zoopslife on Jan 03 2008 | Filed under: Food
Nowadays, I like to experiment with food, I was in the mood you see. So, as hubby can’t take spicy food, I make it as spicy as I can because I love spicy hot food. Oh dear, blogging about it makes me drool now…
I use the Thai tom yam paste from Waitrose, Zhong Shan Laifen […]
zoopslife on Jan 03 2008 | Filed under: Family, Festivities, Food
I forgot to post about this. Nowadays, I have a lot on my mind, so I have been getting SML - Short Memory Loss….hehehe.
My hubby and I had a quiet New Year’s Eve in, welcoming in the New Year together and watching the countdown live, from London, on the TV. Oh yes, with wine […]
zoopslife on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Food, My Rants..
We had this on New Year’s Eve. I was experimenting with the salmon…haha. I dipped the salmon in eggs and the “Kentucky” flour. It was supposed to be used for chicken…haha..so luckily it turned up quite good…and yummy!
As the sausages were going out of date so I decided to use them up. Delicious sausage..chicken sausage […]
zoopslife on Dec 25 2007 | Filed under: Family, Festivities, Food, My Little Emperor
Every year we will have Christmas lunch with my MIL.
We have the same yearly as well, kind of boring this way..hehe..turkey dinner
with brussel sprouts, mashed carrots with parsnip, roast potatoes, sausage meat,bacon, stuffing and gravy.
Christmas pudding with custard
mince pies
Christmas cake
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zoopslife on Dec 23 2007 | Filed under: Family, Food, My Rants..
We had Sunday lunch at one of the pubs, the week on my birthday. So this is actually a backdated post..hehe..I forgot about it! Getting senile nowadays!
It’s just a simple lunch. All of us, MIL, hubby and I, we had traditional turkey with vegetable and roast potatoes and parsnip as well.
It was 3 course […]
zoopslife on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Food
We had this the other night with the cold weather, it is great to have something like this..pork meatballs with carrots, potatoes, onions and leek.
Just put the pork sausage meatballs in the oven for 20 minutes and then lightly sauteed the vegetables or boil them lightly and add the gravy.. ready to eat..nice and […]
zoopslife on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Food
Food….yummy food. When I was back in Penang, I didn’t manage to snap many photos on food…just a few now and then. These are some of the photos of food that I had.. These are different Nyonya or traditional “kuih”, all my favourite..but I like the most is the one on the left […]