It was a fruitful weekend. We managed to paint most of the walls in and out of our house with the help of an Indonesian worker on Saturday to paint my girls’ room and mine. All of us are happy with the colour that we picked. The children had fun painting on the biggest “drawing block”. Hubby had some fun too doing body painting; on ME! Thank God I have a good acne cleanser to clean my face if not I’m sure pimples will be popping out today. Baby helped to clean the spilled paint with his nappy!
Tada! Here’s my very own Elba Electric Oven; model EO-3586. Bought it at Carrefour at RM259.00. Considered a good price because at Jusco, it was RM279.00 and HSL Electrical shop RM270.00. Thank God both places have no stock. If not bought from them already.
Unfortunately, it is a lil bit small to bake a batch of muffins (12 pcs). I can’t place 2 muffin’s tray side by side like what I did with my mom’s electric oven. Like what I did at the above, the bottom tray bakes slower and the surface of the muffins did not crack like it should; just flat like cupcakes surface. I did switch their places after 12 minutes but it is too late for the cracking part. 
Since the muffins are for our own consumption, we have no problem with the look of our muffins. My children picked the non-crack one first to eat. Main thing, must save electricity. 
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Since that a few left comment about the control knob, here’s how I uses it.
The control knob:
At 12 o’clock is the Rotate Only.
At 3 o’clock is the Blow Only.
At 6 o’clock is the Rotate and Blow.
For baking cakes, cookies and muffins, I use the Rotate and Blow function because the temperature will be distributed evenly. So that the surface of our creation will be nice and brown. Oh ya! For cakes and cookies, I uses Bottom heating (the 3rd knob from above) only because if you use the Top and Bottom heating, the top of your cakes and cookies will get burnt very fast. As for muffins, I use Top and Bottom heating coz muffins get cooked within 15 minutes times and we need the heat to make the top of the muffins crack. 
About the temperature, I use between 150′c to 170′C. All this you got to trial and error. Another thing, even if it is at Rotate and Blow function, the inside will get cook faster; so rotate your cooking tray after half way cooking.
For baking chicken, please use the aluminum foil to cover your chicken when baking. I tried without and the chicken skin turned black; hangus lar tu. 
Use the Rotate only function with Top and Bottom heating at 200′C for about 1 hour. That should do it.
For Pizza, I uses Rotate only too with Top and Bottom Heating at 250′C.
For recipe and picture of my burnt chicken, visit my recipe blow at www.simpledishonline.info. Btw, I am a Nyonya; so if you wanna try some Nyonya dish, they are there too. 
Nah! Show you the picture of my first muffins baked using MY very own electric oven. All this while I have been using my mom’s.
Ya, I have finally bought an electric oven and at a very good price too. Because of the saving, I got myself a Stand Mixer too; just in case everyone got bored eating muffins and I shall start baking cakes and cookies.
After this muffins, pizza will come out from this oven very soon!!!
Will post the picture of my new electric oven soon. I need to continue with my sleep; it is 2.47am now! I was awaken by my 2nd girl for water so I took this opportunity to blog since I was not able to yesterday; busy getting a new haircut (I will blog about this too later), busy baking and busy with my newborn and my other 3 children.
Last week, at every opportunity being out in town, I requested hubby to stop at the electrical shops to scout for an electric oven that I have wanted to buy since ages ago. The first day, we went to Seng Heng. They have the brand that I wanted but their selling price is high and not offering a single cent of discount. The next shop I entered was HSL but the sales person just told me that they do not sell electric oven; only microwave oven. With a newborn in my arm and a hot weather, I can only afford to go in and out of the car twice. That’s it for the first day.
At home, I did some Google search and found HSL do sell the electric oven that I wanted. I gave a call to the shop and the lady who picks up the phone told me that they can order for me. That’s good news. Next is to check out the selling price at Jaya Jusco coz I remembered my SIL told me that electrical item sold at Jusco can be cheaper than the electrical shop.
That was where we stopped after sending my baby for check-up at the hospital. Memorized all the price then went over to HSL to bargain with them! We managed to get it lowered by RM59 and I placed my order. Hope to get it before the school holiday so that I can have some fun baking with my girls during the school holiday. Next in my shopping list is a Mixer and a Mixing Bowl.
Talking about bowl; at one of the electrical shops I saw a few Crystal Singing Bowls on display but not for sale. Looks like the Singing Bowls are not only used for meditation and prayer for the Buddhist but art decoration too.
I really Praise God for His blessings. Not only He blesses me with a beautiful baby; exactly like what I prayed for but a speedy and almost painless child birth. He also blessed me financially. For the first time, I received so many assignments from of one the networks that I can even afford to buy a new patio furniture for my home. But I am not going to do that first; I want to buy an electric oven and fly my children to Kuching to visit their cousins before they come back here for good.
I want to buy an Electric Oven.
That thought has been on my mind the whole day.
Chinnee told me she bought her Faber 40L Electric Oven at only RM350.00. That is exactly my budget for a new oven!
A few days ago, I finally sold my Empress Breadmaker for only RM150.00 after owning it for almost 2 years but only use for baking bread around 5 times only.
And I still have not spend my birthday Angpow money which one of my in laws gave me last year. I want to really make full use of this money. Must spend it on something tangible.
All I need now is another RM100 then I can bake from home.
Must get one by June so that when the Chef come home, I can get him to bake pizza for ME! hehehe Not that I dunno how to bake pizza but his pizza is superb using a few types of flour and spices.
Apart from that, my children would be happy because Mommy can bake muffins for them until they see muffins they would puke! 
It is kind of frustrating when there is some repair works to be done at home and we do not have the right tool for it and we have to borrow from others if certain tools are needed urgently. We don’t like the idea of borrowing often so, hubby has started collecting his own tools. Some of them are not cheap so, he buys them whenever we are really in need of the tool.
So far we have the power drills and the circular saws besides the basic tools and hardware like bolt and nuts and hand tools.
Next in his “must buy” list is a welder. That is for repairing broken chairs at his shop. This item is not cheap but it is better to invest in one rather than replacing the chairs each time it got broken.
“Mommy, I don’t like the auntie. She likes to take things from our house. When I want to pluck the bird eye chili, she said cannot coz she wants it. That auntie naughty eh? Maybe we should put something around our house so that she cannot come in.”
You see lar, even my 5.5yo knows wants to fence up our compound. The family did discussed about it but it would cost a bomb for an aluminum fence installation.
Well, the fence is not just for that neighbour but for safety reason because we have drug addicts coming to our place looking for things that can be recycled. And sometimes, strangers used our place as a short cut the housing area next to our house. And there are some Malay who uses the back portion of our compound for cock fighting which is illegal.
New bigger and wider bench, Sandpit and House Washing.
It used to be the above bench under the rambutan tree.
Now it has evolved and grew! Look at the size of our bench now. It is the size of a queen size bed. That’s hubby and his brothers taking a nap and a massage there! After the CNY is over, it will be my children’s “playpen”.
The Making of a Sandpit. It is so blessed to be the children of this family!
Sandpit under our durian tree. This Sandpit will not be safe for playing in 4 months time because the durian tree is budding now.
Some of the children taking a plunge into the Sandpit. Still not big enough to fit all the children in this family.
While the smaller children plays at the Sandpit, the men and the older children washes the house. We wash our house on every CNY eve. In the picture; that’s half of our dining hall. Big or not???
Wait for my Part 3 ya…the Reunion Dinner. I go eat first ok.
I have mentioned before that my hubby’s family is a HUGE family. He has 11 siblings; all married except one. So when everyone comes home for CNY, even our 7 rooms kampung house is not big enough to accommodate everyone.
This year they pitched 2 tents; one on the verandah and another beside our durian tree and my children and I sleep over at my parent’s house so that the ladies can use our room; 3 young ladies slept on our king size bed, and 2 of our single bed is occupied by hubby’s eldest and 2nd sister.
The tent on our verandah.
The tent beside our durian tree.
We also make more benches this year so that all of us can hang out outdoor to enjoy the cool breeze at night and also early in the morning.
The nephews painting one of the benches.
Removing the existing bench made of coconut trunk to make way for bigger and wider bench.
The children watching “Chain Saw” show.
More pictures and updates later today…
