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Kingston 10- 11 months

For baby: Grow: His weight is 8.5kg  and height 70cm. Feeding: Kingston given porridge most of the day for her lunch and dinner. He took around 200ml porridge each meal. He starts to get bored in eating porridge. He will ask for whenever we eat food. He has been given fresh cut fruit during our dinner time almost every day. Mango, papaya, orange, dragon fruit, guava, apple, grape, strawberry, cheesecake, some rice and noodles while we are eating. He is given outside food and rice to replace his porridge now because he refuse to eat his porridge at this month. He drinks less milk. He drinks 120ml 3 times per day at his baby sister house and ask for milk during dinner time 730pm around 60ml. he will cry for latching at around 9pm and latch before bed.  Night time: He will sleeps when we off light at 1030pm. He wakes up pretty frequent at 12am, 2am, 4am and 6am. He will continue sleep after a short latch and want his napkin.  Development: Kingston like cant speak but he like to call ‘AH’

Banana bread (bread machine)

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Ingredients: 750g loaf  1/2 Cup – Milk (lukewarm) 2 – Eggs (beaten) 8 Tablespoons – Butter (softened), or 8 tbspn vegetables oil 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract 3 – Bananas (Ripe), Medium Sized (mashed) 1 Cup – White Granulated Sugar 2 Cups – Flour (all-purpose) 1/2 Teaspoon – Salt 2 Teaspoons – Baking Powder (aluminum free) 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda Prep Time – 10 minutes Baking Time – 1:40 hours Bread Machine Settings –  Quick Bread , Light Color, 2 lb Beat the eggs. Mash bananas with a fork. Soften the butter in microwave. Pour the milk into the bread pan and then add the other ingredients. Try to use medium sized bananas. The use of 3 large bananas can make the mixture too wet. Leave the bread in the bread loaf container for 10 minutes after you take it out of the bread machine.  If the the bread is too moist, can check with toothpick and bake for another few minutes. Denser quick breads take a little longer for the interior dough to be fully baked.

Pandan bread loaf

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Ingredients (750g) For Bread: 2 and 3/4 Cups or 330g Bread Flour 2 Teaspoons or 10g Dried Milk Powder  1/4 Cup or 50g Granulated White Sugar 1 Large Egg, Room Temperature, 55g each 3/4 Teaspoon or 4g Table Salt  1 Tablespoon or 7g Instant Dry Yeast  1/4 Cup or 60g Unsalted Butter, Melted  1/3 Cup + 2 Teaspoons or 90g Milk 1/4 Cup or 60g of Coconut Milk 2 Teasoons or 10ml of Pandan Extract (with Colouring if needed) Instructions Place the ingredients in the sequence as specified by your Bread Maker’s instruction manual. For a reference, I added everything at the bottom before adding flour and then yeast! Bake as per the bread maker specify. However, different bread maker have different functions. For mine, I used a Soft Bread or French Bread Function. Then, add any toppings you would like. I added mine at a “feeding point” stage which is an hour later. Finally, serve and enjoy once you are done! This bread does brown quite a bit, sometimes I remove it approximately 5 minutes before the

Kaya Bun roll

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makes 16 mini buns Ingredients: For the Bread Dough 200g Milk  300g Bread flour 1 tbspn Bamboo charcoal powder  25g Sugar 1 tsp Salt 1 tsp Instant yeast 20g Unsalted butter For the Filling kaya Method: For the Bread Dough   1.  Place all ingredients into the pan except butter based on the sequence listed above or by following your breadmaker manufacturers' instructions regarding the order of liquid/dry ingredients. 2. Make the selection for 'Pasta Dough' setting on your breadmaker. 3. Press start and the machine will start kneading the dough. Add in the butter during this resting stage after 5minutes. 4. Let the breadmaker do the rest. 5.  When the bread dough is proofed, the machine will beep to signal the end of the 'Dough' function. Remove dough from the pan, punch it down and divide into 16 portions. 6. Roll up each dough portion into round balls and rest for 5 minutes. For the Bun 7. Flatten each ball into an o

Portugal Egg Tart

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Ingredients: Milk 60ml Sugar 30g Whipping cream 100g 2 Egg York  Kawan puff pastry sheet 5 pieces  Method: 1. Roll the pastry sheet and wrap one follow another. (The sheet must not be too soft or too hard after taking out from freezer). 2. Cut the wrapped pastry sheet into 6 small dough. 3. Roll over the small dough and lining it in egg tart mould.  4. Mix milk, sugar and whipping cream together and then mix well with egg York. 5. Pour in the mixture into the mould lining with dough. 6. Preheat the oven and bake at 200 Celsius for 25-35 minutes. Ingredients (filling for 10 tarts) Milk 200ml Sugar 30gm (less sweet) Whipping cream 100ml 3 Egg York  (90gm) Method:  1. Defrost the frozen pastry 20 minutes. 2. Mix all together and pour into the pastry leave 5mm from the edge. 3. Bake at 220 Celsius for 25minutes.