Domestic Diva Wannabe

I just arranged our book shelf and I found out that I already have quite a lot of recipe books at hand. I never got the chance to try out most of the dishes in my recipe books.

But as it’s in my new year’s resolution to try out one new dish a week, then I have to start browsing through these books and find one per week.

Here are a sample of the books that I have:

Company’s Coming – Recipe’s for Leftover by Jean Pare

Contemporary Cooking

The Perfect Picnic Book

Fabulous Birthday Cakes

Cook’s Library- Hot and Spicy

The Best Thai Stir Fried Dishes

My li’l girl loves to help me bake. I, on the other hand loves to bake but  is worried of finishing all the baked goods as I have a sweet tooth. So, as much as I can, I try to avoid baking cookies and cakes except on special occassions or when we have to give these goodies to our friends.

But one afternoon, after a lot of prodding and convincing from my li’l girl, I agreed to bake cookies with her that afternoon. Good thing I bought a cookie mix from Tesco the other month. It was actually my first time to buy something premix as I usually bake goodies from scratch. But it was on 80% clearance sale, so that explains me buying it.

But I think I will have to buy more premixed goodies in the future. It’ll make a good baking practice for my li’l girl with less mess, less ingredients and less time to prepare. I think these premixed goodies are a bit more expensive but maybe there will be more stock clearance sales coming up.

Here are the cookies we baked.. Yum!

Let me show you what I’ve been cooking for the past days. Most of these dishes I’ve cooked for the very 1st time , so that explains why I’m very proud to show them off.

Well, congratulations to me.. I’m on my way to become a Domestic Diva.

Thai Fried Rice

Sotanghon

Cashew Nut Chicken