Red Bean Bread and Choco-Piggy

Another bright and sunny day today, so I'm blogging from outdoors! 

This weekend I made some bread from scratch, and we took a trip to the Korean market on Saturday, so I got some red beans to give some red bean buns a try. I still have to figure out the perfect thickness ratio for breading and bean, but they did come out nice for a first attempt. 

I also made hamburger buns the day I made my last post, here they are in their non baked glory, lol.









Here they are after the baking! Yum. Squishy fresh and warm hamburger buns. Non dairy and all that jazz, like the rest of my baking creations of course, to accommodate the allergy needs of the peanut gallery.




And finally, my pride and joy of baking this weekend, the red bean filled bread and the animal faced bread lol. Piggy face bread was filled with semi-sweet chocolate and decorated to be a cute little piggy face. L of course enjoyed eating the face of, LOL
M had taken a nap and was grouchy upon waking up so I made him a bread version of his best friend Spot the Yellow Puppy. He enjoyed eating the face too, LOL!

Schooling at home has begun again, we've got our crayons and markers out and loads of paper to go with for lots of days of school at home. M is working on shapes, colors and general kindergarten level things at 3 years old. L is busy reading everything she sees, and our current project is writing a story to fill a spiral bound notebook. She's also started writing letters to her friends all across the country; kids from her birth club that I was a part of, so all of the friends are almost exactly her age, only a few days or a week apart between birthdays. She loves to get mail and writing and drawing a new letter to send is always exciting.


Well, that's all for now, time to get the peanut gallery back inside and pry them off their bikes!

Ah it's a nice day out today and the peanut gallery has decided that they agree too. They're happily running around the yard kicking soccer and beach balls around.

Since they're outdoors today, I can't be in my "office" to work, so I've moved outside with the laptop to work. It's nice having a cool breeze and very little humidity, it's been rough the past few weeks, it's been so suffocatingly hot here that it was just pure misery to have to step outside.

My kitchen computer that I was using was fried the other day, it ate a splash of Mt. Dew that was spilled and died. Upon taking it apart to attempt to fix it, I think about a cup of flour came out of it, lol. My video card which is an on board card, ate the dust. Oh well. So I'm on one of the other laptops that we have in the house.

I am really excited about this contest that I won, which I found out recently. I have been browsing youtube for makeup tips and beauty stuff in general and there's this one channel that I like to watch, the youtuber is MszJackieChu, her videos about everything are just great to watch, she's a bright and cheerful person, just watching her talk about whatever the topic is, makes you feel happy like she is. And she has the cutest clothes!

Anyway, she held a contest for a really nice flat iron that she was giving away, and I entered, I figured, hey what do i have to lose by entering, I may have a slim chance, but at least I entered, right? Well it turns out that I won! I will be getting a really nice professional flat iron to use!! No more walmart Conair flat iron! I was getting really tired of using it, doesn't really do the job, only seems to make my hair worse. Conair irons, I have used you for years not really knowing what really great things were out there. Thank you to Jackie for this great contest. <3

Maybe I'll get brave and post a pic of the after I use the new iron, when it arrives. :-) Maybe. LOL.


On to the topic of what I've been doing lately, I have been working fairly intently on cleaning the house and eBaying what I do come across that we don't need anymore. It's been doing fairly well, about half is being sold, half still sticking around, lol. Not too much of a market for children's clothing, I guess.

I've also been watching this Korean Drama, King of Baking, Kim Tak Goo. I originally turned it on because it was about baking, or so I thought, lol. It does have baking in it, although it's not as baking oriented as I originally thought it would be. I'll watch it again for re-creating some of the neat looking breads that they have in the episodes. I am really interested in figuring out how they made the neat looking braided bread, it's so pretty.

Well I better get scooting, I need to make hamburger buns from scratch for the burgers tonight.