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READY IN:  1 hr 20 mins YIELDS: 1  loaves INGREDIENTS 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour / white bread flour ( 300+ 100g)  1 tablespoons yeast (or 1 x 7g ) 1 teaspoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cups  warm-hot water (45 celcius) 30g milk powder (optional) 1 ⁄ 8  cup  cooking oil Put 2 cups (300g) flour, yeast, sugar, salt into a large bowl.  Pour in hot water and oil and mix until it combined. It will be sticky. Add the remaining flour (~100g) in increment until the dough is no longer sticky.  HKnead about 5 minutes until dough is elastic and smooth.  Put the dough back into the large bowl and cover with a damp tea-towel and let it rise until double it’s size~ 1/2 hour. Punch it down. Roll piece long enough to fill oiled loaf pan and leave it rise until the dough has reached the rim of the pan.  Bake at 200 celcius for 40 minutes. May coverage layer with aluminium foil to prevent crust.  Rub hot bre...

Banana Bread Recipe This Classic Banana Bread is perfectly sweet, moist, and full of flavor! You can enjoy this bread plain, with chopped walnuts, or even chocolate chips. Perfect for breakfast or dessert!   Prep Time 20   minutes   Cook Time 1   hour   Total Time 1   hour   20   minutes INGREDIENTS  2   cups   (250 grams) all-purpose flour/ cake flour  spooned & levele 1   teaspoon   baking powder 1/2   teaspoon   baking soda 1/2   cup   (115 grams) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1/4   cup   (50 grams) brown sugar 2   large eggs   room temperature 2   teaspoons   pure vanilla extract/ powder 2   cups   (440 grams) mashed banana, about 4 large ripe bananas or 10 medium banana 1/2   cup   (80 grams) chopped walnuts (optional) INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9x5 loaf pan with nonst...

For baby: Grow: Her weight is 7.8kg and height 74cm. Her weight still under the curve but her height is at the border line. Feeding: Valerie eats most of the food. Most of time she eats snack and junk food. Mommy failed to feed her full portion of rice when she is not sending to her baby sister house. Snack n junk food and milk become her only food. Lucky her baby sister still able to feed her full portion of  rice or porridge, but she is busy playing while she feeding her.   Valerie will cry for it if we don't give her any soft or sweet drink when seeing it. She is weird because she doesn't like drink water much, she will get choke.  We just give her whatever food she eat. Fried, salty, sweet, oily and junk food given to her with one hope. Hoping that her weight will gain faster and more.  I changed her normal milk formula to partially hydrolysed protein (hypoallergic) formula by hoping that her eczema will get well. She accepts for it for few days during st...

Valerie can communicate with us. She can answer you by knodding or shaking her head whenever you ask her a question. For baby: Grow: Her weight is 7.5kg and height 73cm. Her weight has been not increased for the past three months. Feeding: Valerie would like to ask for drink or eat whenever she saw we buy something or drink. She will cry hard if didn’t give her the food. She prefer to feed herself. She is good to feed herself by spoon and fork now. She still like to use her hand to pick the food to eat. She will ask for her baby chair when saw we going to eat dinner and stand up from the baby chair when she feels she doesn’t want to eat anymore. She likes all junk food her sister is eating. She stil happy and like to eat when give her fish oil. She has not eating full meal when we feed her at home. But her milk demand has slightly increase to 5-6 times a day 100-130ml. Starting this month we changed her milk formula to partially hydrolyse protein follow to reduce her eczema. ...

For baby: Grow: Her weight is not increasing, maintain at 7.5kg since past 3 month and height 72cm. . Feeding: Valerie likes to eat all junk food. Mommy dint cook any food for her and just feed her with our food. She eats a little bit only and can’t finish her portion. I am not too sure how her baby sister feed her with 1 bowl of rice or noodles when at her house.  She likes to self-feed and not allow us to feed her.  She will cry loud if she saw we eat junk food and dint give her. Sometimes she will point to fridge and ask us to open the fridge. She will show excited when see me give her fish oil.  She drinks 120ml 2-3 times a day at her baby sister house. Her baby sister will feed her one breast milk and 1-2 time formula milk because mommy daily supply just around 80-100ml daily. But if mommy off day, she will direct latch and  top up with formula milk. Mummy had stopped pumping milk from 2 times during working day to 1 times after work and stop at last week b...

For baby: Grow: Her weight is still 7.5kg and height 70cm. Seem like no increase in weight.  Feeding: Valerie likes to eat outside food and like new food. She likes adult biscuit than her baby biscuit. We feed her adult food when she eating with us. She was give 2 main meal at her baby sister house and eat a little bit when dinner time with us. She likes fish oil and I give her bite whole in capsule. She likes all snacks when her sister eating those snacks. She will ask for all kind of food when see us eating.  She drinks 100ml -120ml 3-4 times a day. Valerie developed eczema at fold area , both legs and hands. I have been trying few moisturiser but stil not work. I switch her milk formula to engagrow. She has finished her Nutren junior and I dint continue her. Mommy breast milk only have 100-150ml each day. Most of the day during lunch hour I only get 20-40ml. I only breast pumping twice a day during working day. No pumping at all when off day but she also doesn’t latch ...

For baby: Grow:  Her weight is 6.8kg and height 68cm. Feeding: Valerie likes to eat outside food and like new food. She likes adult biscuit than her baby biscuit. We feed her adult food when she eating with us. I stop cooking her rice bacause she doesn’t like and not eating. I give her whole fill oil capsule started from 1 years old.  She drinks milk mix with formula milk 100 to 120ml 3-4 times  per day.  Night time: She sleep around 1030pm  now after latching and off light.  She wakes up 1-2 times over the night, maybe I guess is hot after giving her thick formula milk. She needs to latch then only continue her sleep. She likes to sleep on our bed.  Development: Valerie can walk independently and freely front and back very fast and stable. She likes to walk alone without someone hold her and will stop at everywhere and different direction with us.  She able to get down herself from our high bed but sometime she just felt off.  Sh...