Today's dinner & dessert!

We attempted to cook the 2nd time this evening, drawing inspiration from a Food & Travel recipe for our soba with tomatoes dish. The dou4miao2 and shitake mushrooms was an impromptu addition to introduce more veg into the meal :) D also baked some chicken thighs with crispy skin but unfortunately that didn't turn out too photogenic so no pics of it here heh :P

A yummy and nutritious dinner - all thanks to my hubby :)

I was also quite excited to chance upon an easy lava cake recipe and attempted to make lava cake... Alas, one of my lava cakes decided to really erupt and all the lava flowed out 3 min before I was supposed to get the cakes out!

The midway 'eruption' made me slightly frantic and so I ended up leaving the lava cakes in the oven longer than I shld have and all the 'lava' got toasted in the end :( So there was no nice molten chocolate in the end but a pictorially lava-ish cake... FAIL! Nmind as it was kinda funny; and since this is easy I shall try to make it again!

Someone's DIY party blog post inspired me to try making my own party fans and hats this morning. Am supposed to help out with D's nephew's bday party in June - the art part. And this can be one idea! Thought it might be cool to use recycled materials so as to teach kids to be more environmentally conscious. Sadly my fan is quite flimsy so nice to see but not so nice to play with till I find a more hardy solution heh.

These were flowers we bought for Mother's Day last Sun - bright and cheerful :)

I made some home-made barley drink this evening for falling-sick D and felt v proud of myself! Haha. It turned out to be quite simple; just that being unfamiliar with our induction hob, wasn't too sure which power level to leave it at and the over-efficient cooker caused the water to overspill again.. :P But one whole pot with half a packet of barley only yielded me two cups of barley water.. Think I shld put less barley and more water next time heh.

We also i-roboted our living room floor for the very first time (all thanks to j & s)! The machine turned out to be a lot noisier than expected; but was amused how cleverly it could go around (quite closely) the legs of our nice green chair. It seems to go around in random spirals and knocks its head all the time; floor seems clean enough though it failed to wipe away the footprint a guest had left at my living room floor tile :P