Please Welcome Sean

Our second boy, Sean has arrived safely! When the nurse brought me a baby in pink, I thought she got me a wrong baby! Well, HE had a tag with my name on it.

I will be away from My Kitchen for a short while... enjoy these photos, hot from oven!

John was very excited to see his little brother, and also to be on the hospital bed!

He is acting like a big brother already.

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Pumpkin Muffin with Orange Glaze

Finally cleared the small chunk of pumpkin that had been sitting in the fridge for weeks! These muffins were moist, soft and fluffy. I baked 6 pieces but left with only 2 for photographing this morning! The original recipe called for raisin and nut, but I baked my without them. John picked up every single bit of raisin in oatmeal cookies I baked last week!

I don't usually glaze the muffin, but this orange glaze went really well with pumpkin muffins. Glazing them had turned them into a special treat, not just muffin anymore.

Ingredients (makes 6):
½ cup mashed pumpkin (I used freshly steamed pumpkin)
1 egg, lightly beaten
⅔ cup brown sugar
3 tbsp fresh milk
2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp grated fresh ginger

Glaze:
¼ cup icing sugar
¼ tsp finely grated orange zest
2 tsp orange juice

Methods:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine mashed pumpkin, egg, sugar, milk and cooking oil. Mix until well blended.
2. Stir in grated ginger.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon, then fold into the pumpkin mixture.
4. Transfer batter into muffin cases and bake at preheated oven, 200ºC for 20 minutes.
5. For glaze, mix together all ingredients and drizzle over warm muffins.

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Mixed Vegetables Omelette

Simple home cook dish that my little boy enjoys a lot. I cooked this dish at my sister's place once with erringi mushroom, my sister was surprised to see her son ate lots of vegetables! Recently, I cooked it for my boy and he ate all vegetables in it. Try this if you want your children to eat more vegetables.

Ingredients:

1 clove garlic, minced

50g minced pork or chicken or prawn, marinate with 1 tsp sesame oil + 1 tsp corn flour
100g long bean, thinly sliced

50g carrot, shredded

50g fresh shiitake mushroom, shredded

1-2 eggs, lightly beaten

½ tsp corn flour + 1 tsp water

1 tbsp cooking oil

Salt to taste

Pepper to taste

Methods:

1. Heat cooking oil in a non-stick pan, saute garlic then add in minced pork. Stir fry until pork has changed colour.
2. Add in all vegetables, cook until long bean changed colour. If cooking for toddlers, cook little longer. Add about 2 tbsp of water, bring to boil.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste, and cook until water has evaporated.
4. Mix together beaten egg with corn flour solution, pour over vegetables and let it cook on medium heat until set.
5. Serve with porridge or steamed rice.

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