NEW YEAR 2012........new chapter in life

Happy New Year 2012 to all the bloggers! Wish all of you with good health,lot of the happiness and wealth prosper.

Year 2011 was proof to be challenging for me in term of my work and consume my time completely. Any how I'm grateful. Mika also face his worst time with patience and with lots of love, he had gain his weight back in just 2 month! Now his weight 6 kg!

2012 is time to face new challenge and explore new opportunities. With all to eager to face the new beginning, don't forget to love oneself and be kind to oneself. For me, I will properly update my blog ( I've been slacking so badly....haaiizz) and also to learn how to "upbeat" my blog and continue on baking and cooking so that the passion won't diminish!

What a great way to celebrate the first day of new year with this simple roasted chicken. Thanks to Edi from Adorablecupcake for this quick & easy dish. It's my first and well..... it's all right the outcome not so purrrfect.

I cook 1/2 chicken and this is what you need:

Seasoning the chicken:

Lemon juice + lemon zest + black pepper + salt + olive oil-be generous( all to your taste) or just buy ready seasoning powder. I use Marcomick's Lemon and pepper seasoning.

In your roast pan, drizzle olive oil, smear the rosemary or thyme(dried or fresh) all over and then place the unpeeled garlic, butter(about 1 tablespoon) and chopped onion. You also can add

chopped carrot, broccoli and red potatoes . Place the marinate chicken and drizzle more olive oil

on the chicken. Depend on you oven,if use electric oven temp at 180 C and roast about 1 hour.

Since I use gas oven,I preheated the oven 250 F and it cook for 1hr & 30 min.

The end result not so perfect as I'm not generous in my seasoning and not put extra olive oil. However the taste is not that bad just lack of seasoning. I will try again and now I'm proud that I can do roasted chicken! Yippey!

For Mika, a good way to celebrate is to conquer the sofa for a greaat sleep!

Haaaa....life so simple and peaceful. Can you see his big tummy!

Enjoy your new year! Cheers!

LOL,

Yong+Mika

Simply relaxing and lemon cake

Yong: This is the cake that I bake on Saturday night. Very easy because.......jeng...jeng... I use cake mix from Pillsbury Moist Supreme Cake Mix. Sorry I forgot to take the photo of the box. Simply.....add water, oil and eggs to the cake mix. Since last two days we had a hot weather, I'm bit lazy stay at the kitchen to mix the ingredient for baking cake. Thanks to Edi (http://adorablecupcakes.blogspot.com/2011/04/cheating-lemon-cake.html) who share this cake mix since I never use any ready cake mix. I belief that making it from scratch is the best way to bake cake.

I made with round baking pan and muffin bundt pan. The taste very tangy and soft. If you are very lazy or in a hurry to make something for guest this is the best cake mix. I will try others flavour from Pillsbury

On Sunday, we all just relaxing.....watching tv and watching Mika sleeping style. He simply sleep....sleep....after breakfast sleep under the car.......after lunch sleep in the hall......after dinner sleep in the kitchen. May be because of the hot weather.....he just simply relaxing, besides Aqie not disturb him for the whole day. By the way, Aqie's yellow car will be sent to the toy shop for repair. It's been few month stranded in the kitchen

Yong: Moon crescent sleep style...........

Almond and chocolate chips cupcake part 2

Yong: Well....this is the finish touch. What do you think? As beginner, I think not bad after all....ha..ha...praise myself...Anyway the taste of cupcake is wonderful. We all like it, even our neighbour like it. I can't wait to do the next project this weekend. Hope my schedule will not let me down....... :o)

Yong: Sunday was a very hot day, even Mika had restless napping day.....Look at the way he sleep!

Yong: He choose a best spot where there is breezy to cool his body....

Mika: ..............