Honey Chicken

... ever since I have started baking, hubby has been bugging me to try to cook food! I keep saying that I'm not interested in cooking as I find it too hard! ang weird ko, noh? I'm more into baking because of my sweet tooth! I would rather eat something sweet than something savoury, kaya I'm better off baking hehehe...

... anywho, I was inspired the other day to try cooking an easy chinese dish. I don't know what came over me but I was determined to find an easy dish... one of my kids fave is Honey Chicken, everytime we go out to eat hindi pwedeng hindi bibili ng honey chicken, so yesterday because of my sick kids plus the rainy weather, wasn't able to do any washing so I thought it was time for me to try on my cooking skills hehehe... had already found a really easy recipe on the internet so when my son and I went grocery shopping, bought all the ingredients and voilà!

what was left of the honey chicken, take note that was a kilo of chicken when they cooked it! takaw kasi ng pamilya ko, eh! hehehe


Although, my hubby and daughter would say that they were the ones who cooked it (sila yung nag prito), I was the one who prepared it! So, it is still cooking skills for me hehehe... anyway, the end result was yummmm!!! Didn't realize that it was that easy to make it.... hmmmmm, maybe I will learn to love cooking as I learned to love baking!

Here is the recipe I found...

Honey Chicken recipe
Ingredients
1 kilo Chicken tenderloins (the original recipe called for chicken breasts but my kids don't like that part of the chicken so I just switched it to tenderloins)
1 cup flour
salt and pepper
1 cup water
1 cup honey
sesame seeds for garnish (I roasted the seeds first before I garnished it)

Method
1. Cut chicken into bite size pieces.
2. Cook chicken until brown in a small amount of oil.
3. Sift flour into bowl with salt and pepper. Gradually add water until a batter forms.
4. Roll chicken into batter a few pieces at a time, then add to hot oil and fry until golden brown.
5. In a small saucepan, heat honey on low until runny.
6. Pour over chicken and sprinkle in sesame seeds.

Enjoy!

school holidays

... kids have started school again yesterday and suddenly I've got some spare time to use the computer hehehe... the younger kids are busy playing amongst themselves (which is unusual) so here I am blogging away... can't believe my baby boy is 10 months today! Where has all that time gone? I can still remember giving birth to him and that was 10 months ago... I don't want him to grow up yet! So I am making a big effort to make the most of my time with my younger kids before they start big school...

... anyway, was able to do a bit of baking during the school holidays, got a couple of orders and I am happy to say that they are pretty happy with my cakes... nice to hear that I am able to make other people happy with what I am doing, keeps me motivated... now I am experimenting on cupcakes, it's a bit tedious because you have to bake a lot, not just one but a lot! and my hand shakes so it doesn't help hahaha!

...I was inspired by a cake I saw where it had a lot of swirled roses on top, so this was my first attempt to make a rose swirl with a plastic piping head...

... so on my next attempt, I got me the right piping head and was able to make a better version of a swirled rose...

...I had more extra icing for this cake so I decided to place a border in the bottom, looking pretty professional now, I think!

I have been debating on whether I should start experimenting on fondant icing... good thing I knew someone who was having a birthday soon, so I had an excuse to make my first fondant cake... was so happy I was able to do it coz in the middle of making the cake I was getting disappointed that I wouldn't be able to finish it in time for the party...

one of my little helpers in the kitchen... this is what I love most about having a lot of kids... a lot of helpers and a lot of taste-testers hehehe...

I finally perfected my sansrival cake, customer was very happy with it!

...made a couple of ube-macapuno cupcakes, got a lot of positive feedbacks so will be selling these pretty soon!

...experimenting on what kind of frosting to put on top of the ube cupcakes

one of my taste-testers, hehehe... she said it was "yum!"

stress

... I made this blog yesterday during a period of rest hehehe but blogger was probably down or something because I couldn't post it... so now I am posting it... am calmed down now but I still have to keep on de-cluttering, I would like to see my house spic-and-span before the school holidays are over because I am sure when school starts I will be unable to maintain it until school is over again, hayz! the work of a mom, it is never ending, not that I am complaining =D

... this is the fourth day of school holiday and I am still rushing around... I was thinking that maybe I could just sleep-in, laze around with the kids, watch a DVD or something and pig-out but I guess that will have to wait... am just so stressed when I see the house a mess! It has been like this for ages and it has finally gotten to me! Everywhere I look, I can't seem to find a spot where everything is in order and it is really bothering me!!!... have been cleaning up since I woke up this morning and I can finally see the light! mabuti na lang hehehe!... so now that I am resting a bit, I just had to blog it or else it will eat me up inside...

now how can I stay mad at these 3 little chikitings??? guess, I'll just have to endure the house being a bomb a little bit longer.. hayzzzzz!