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title: Homemade Mooncake
date: Sunday, September 20, 2015 time : 3:50 PM
This year we had fun homemaking our favourite snowskin mooncake for relatives, friends and colleagues again. Less active this year for me but still managed to make Flesh Durian, Pure Taro and White Lotus mooncakes.
   Also, thanks Dad for driving us to Phoon Huat to buy the ingredients the day before and then to buy fresh durian from the durian stall nearby my place. we surprised Liling with an advance birthday cake  ADVERTISEMENTS
title: Skin Regimen: Aspirin mask
date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 time : 6:07 PM
Am having fever or pain? Nope!
I don't even have a box in my First Aid cabinet before trying on this..  Believe me not, I apply this (Homemade Aspirin mask) on my face once a week to de-gunked my pores. I don't really get pimples too often so I don't use it too many times in a week, but when I've needed to, it's worked great.
I am still trying it out obviously
but wanted to share my experience as of now.
Yes, like many others, sometime my
skin has a little temper tantrum too, after stressful and busy days coping with
kids + work, or even after my short trip to BKK recently, which wrecked my
hormones, a huge factors in the clogged nature of my skin. My skin can then get
a little congestion and then decide to rear their heads. Though it doesn't keep
my skin from getting hormonal acne before I adjust my life back to normal
routine, but it does take away some of the inflammation, oiliness, shrank it, not
only that, but the rest of my face look a lot better with clearer, smoother and
brighter skin.
For those periods, I will use the
mask for 3 days in a row. Sometimes I experience peeling and flake, but only
because it is healing old marks.
It actually WORKS for me! and I see positive
results.
Now, my skin is good again after all the masking, + back to healthy diet and slowly adjusting my life back again.
So why Aspirin? It's acetylsalicylic
acid - this is like a lightweight salicylic acid peel which I can do at home without
the high cost or pain as it does in providing a lightweight peel and exfoliation. It
really helps with blemishes, clogged pores, scars and also brightens the skin.
Aspirin known to reduces inflammation and it literally shrink the pimple, and acts as an antibacterial agent. It also exfoliate and help clear the blackhead and whitehead.
Overall it has no downsides, and with
positive results.
It's effective for me and + very cheap, about $7.90 @Watsons or any Pharmacy for a box of Aspirin tablets,
so it's never leaving my weekly routine.
How to use?
I dissolve three or four uncoated aspirin
tablets in just enough water (a few drops will do) to form a paste. If my skin
is too dry and needs moisture, I will add a little Organic Raw Honey or
lightweight oil to form the paste. Then apply the paste thinly to the affected
areas of my skin and leave the mask until it dries or 10mins (adjust the time according
to your skin). Rinse my face gently and thoroughly in lukewarm water and pat my skin dry….and
voila! My skin is clear and nice!
Use this technique with caution.
-
It can dry your skin, so follow with a leave-in hydrating mask or moisture well after
-
DO NOT let it get in your eyes! It is flaky if used
with water alone, so tiny specks of that can get into your eyes. It ouch!
-
People who is allergy to painkillers which are of the same
family of medication as Aspirin should avoid
* if any doubt, please check with your doctor :)
But still, best potion
to a clear and beautiful skin off from hormonal acnes is………
don't allow stress
to overtake your life.
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title: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival '中秋节快乐'
date: Monday, September 08, 2014 time : 9:13 PM
Homemade assorted mooncake again
5 different flavour; Lotus seed, Pandan seed, dark chocolate lotus, fresh durian and taro yam... finally all done yesterday.
Spending my sat and sun doing these to give out to parent, in-law for praying today and to my cousin again and woke up this morning with hands' joints and muscles aching from all the kneading.
Too much time and efforts to make the real durian flesh and fresh taro/yam mooncakes but all turn out super yummy. What an achievement, but I didn't eat much cause need to be on healthy diet, poor hubby who don't really eat mooncake has been trying out and ate most of the mooncake in the fridge and my 2 baobeis are loving the mooncake which are made with love by the mommy also with the best help of my 2 bffs 😄
Everyone was praying and offering... looking to the beautiful moon ever
 
Here on Lantern festival...
Wish everyone a Happy Mid-Autumn festival
'中秋节快乐'
Labels: Chinese occassion, Foodporn, homemade, mooncake ADVERTISEMENTS
title: Easy-to-make Snowskin Mooncake
date: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 time : 12:27 PM
Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) is just around the
corner on 8th September 2014. Are you looking for some simple recipe
for mooncake?
Our very
successful first attempt on these Lotus Paste mooncakes.
I
had shared these mini mooncakes with my friends and colleagues in the office.
Too
happy to receive many compliments, they feedback that the taste is great and wanna
the recipe and learn from me.
Anyway, this
is not my recipe but printed in the Redman Snowskin premix packaging itself.
BFF, von shared
this to us after she tried this out and we and bestie Sz, decided to get together on 8 Aug to make
mooncake for this year again with this recipe.
If you are still looking for easy and
nice recipe for mooncake, try this out cause it is a really simple Snow Skin
Mooncake recipe and the result is so presentable and the taste is so good. Even
my parent and FIL are so impress, taste as good as those selling outside.
They are so pretty too!
To buying ingredients and equipments
You can get mooncake ingredients and equipments from Phoon Huat, a one-stop specialty
baking store.
I love shopping at their newer branch:
Phoon Huat at Buona Vista
100 North Buona Vista, #02-01 Buona Vista MRT Station, Singapore 139345
Tel: 6776 0153
Fax: 6777 9181
Operation hours
10:00am to 10:00pm daily (Monday - Sunday)
Closed on Eve
to 3rd day of Chinese New year
You can see the rest of their branch location here
One of my trips to Phoon Huat at Buona Vista, so near to my work place
Different ready-made fillings to choose
You can
give it a try!
These are what you need   Ingredients for Pandan Snow Skin : 500gm [Red Man] Snow Skin Premix 100gm [Red Man] Shortening 220gm Purified Water / Cool boiled water  Half teaspoon [Red Man] Pandan Flavored Paste and colouring
-Use other Flavored paste and coloring for different filling
- I bought those that come with flavour and colour as one.
Small bowl
Kou Fen (cooked glutinous
rice flour)
Ingredients
for Lotus Seed Filing :
500gm [Redman] Lotus Paste - ready-made filling - [Redman]Winter melon seed - add the amount to your liking
Method :
(1) Add half teaspoon of Pandan Flavored Paste and coloring into the 220gm water – so the coloring is easier to mix in to get a uniformly coloured dough, do this step first only if you are making one flavor and colour of snowskin mooncake.
(2) Pour
the whole pack 500gm of ‘Snowskin Premix’ in a big mixing bowl.
(3) Then
add in the prepared water, mix well
(4) Add in
shortening and knead everything well till an even mixture soft dough is formed. Make sure there are no more lumps.
(*5) Come
to this step only if making different flavor and coloring of snowskin dough, divide the dough from step (4) into equal portion, add coloring
drops, a little at a time to get the desired coloring level and knead the dough
with your hands until I get a uniformly colored dough.
(6) Cover
the dough(s) in mixing bowl with a damp clean cloth, set aside to rest in the
fridge for 20 mins before used.
(7) Whilst waiting for the snowskin dough to be ready, add your desired amount of winter melon seeds to the Lotus paste filling 
(8) Divide the Lotus-seed paste
filling into each 25gm and roll it into a ball first
(9) Once snow
skin dough is ready, divide each into 25gm, shaped into a ball and flattened it into a thin round disc.
 (10) Place the ball of filling in the middle of the dough and seal the filling with the snowskin dough by wrapping around the fillings with your hands. Pinch edges to seal.    (11) Place snow skin ball into dusted (kou Fen) moon cake mould and press down so that the moon cake shape is formed and the face plate makes imprint.
(12)
Depend on the type of mould you use, remove the shaped mooncake from the mould
carefully. For the mould I'm using, hit on each side of the mould (mini mould) once and the mooncake will came out and viola..... out the beautiful shaped mooncake! Repeat with remaining dough.
(13) Keep
the mooncakes chilled before serving.
Tips:
The mini mooncake I made using the ratio of 25g dough to filling 25g.
Total
50g to fix into the mould (smaller mooncake mould) I’m using here
Above can make 30 over mini mooncakes
It's so
fun to get together and make mooncakes.
I loved the entire mooncake making process and the end products. That's when everyone compliment it is nice, I just wanna make more mooncakes in days to come, as the festival is getting nearer.
I did make different flavour mooncake twice alone myself after, quite troublesome and
time consuming to do it alone, cause I have to keep making a trip to wash cleanmy hands.
I arranged
with another 2 secondary school gfs to make again on 16 August, they chose to
make just the Lotus seed paste snowskin moodcakes.
I'm just aside guiding...lol  
Even my
dad and sis so liking my homemade mooncake that they wanna me to teach them and dad would sponsor me the ingredients, he wanna gives the mooncake to his
friends. haha
So just last Sunday, we got together with my dad, sis, 2 aunties and my cousin, huihui to make assorted snowskin mooncake at my place.
Dad drove us with 2 kids to Clementi for lunch then to Phoon huat at Buona Vista since Clementi branch is smaller and doesn't has much ingredients left.
Here the end product of our assorted mooncakes...
 Didn't have time to make the fourth flavour 'Pandan Lotus', else it will look nicer in the box to give out to friend and relatives. Total 12 boxes of mooncakes for friends and relatives
yuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm
 Aunt helping to prepare the boxes 
Dad arranging the mooncakes
looks how happy my dad is
haha
 I have another order coming in from my in-law. Will be doing 4 type of mooncake flavour, gonna starts shopping for the ingredients and do it again this Saturday. You still have time to make your own mooncakes, so are you ready?! :D Labels: homemade, I Can Bake, I Can Cook, mooncake, Recipes, Share |
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