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Easter Sunday Activities, Games and Crafts

Our plan was so spend the Holy Week at my mom’s place.. but some unfortunate events made us stay and just spend the week here. It was such a disappointment for my kids. They have been looking forward to this out of town trip. To make it up to them, we had a swimming party yesterday and I also promised them a fun day on Easter Sunday. I was thinking of bringing them to one of the Easter Sunday Events near us (Fun Ranch or Eastwood) but considering the number of kids I have, it’s not practical. I think we’ll just stay home and make our own Easter Sunday Celebration..

THAT is WHY… I am hunting for Easter crafts for the kids as well as Easter games and Easter food..

Tomorrow, we will be making Bunny ears that they can wear on Sunday. And we will make Paper Plate Daffodil that we can put on our plants..ideas came from Kaboose (and the bunny ears photo)..I am planning to decorate our small front with flowers and bunnies.. which will serve as the eggs’ hiding place for the egg hunting activity I am planning. We will be making bunny cups too and bunny toppers for cupcake.. I hope someone will bring a carrot cupcake on Sunday (eherm eherm)>

Our activities on Easter will include egg hunting (now, I have to hunt for eggs first!), egg decoration activity as well as some fun Easter games (egg relay and put the bunny ears).

As for the food.. oh I might try Devilled eggs.. but still not sure with it.. I am still looking for Easter food that I can prepare easily.. any idea?

Hassle Free Food Preparation

I’m a mother of four kids and I am still breastfeeding my youngest. I have a husband who also demands my attention and I had to feed them all. I don’t have a helper.. and I maintain more than 10 blogs.. of course my sister is here and she really is a big help to me.. but do you know how I manage to be a mult- faceted mom? Hassle Free Food Preparation! (and a microwave oven)

Food preparation for a large family can be time consuming.. if you will not manage it well, half of your day will be spent preparing food, with my technique, everyday food preparation only takes 5-10 minutes. No Sweat!

No, I don’t rely on fastfood and carinderia.. and also not on instant ulam, I still cook our food. My secret is to devote one a week in food preparation. Usually we go to the market on Saturday mornings then the whole Saturday is devoted cooking dishes. After each dish is done, I let it cool and it goes straight to our freezer. I only do that on meat dishes though, as with veggies, it’s tasted different when you it is placed on that freeze. What I do is blanch the veggies then put it in the freezer and defrost it when I need it.

This has been my technique for more than a year already and so far it has been very helpful to me. Just imagine, for a week, you will have to cook 5 dishes that needs garlic and onion, on a daily basis, for a week, you will have to peel and cut (and cry) garlic and onion, where in if you will apply my technique of cooking just once a week, you were able to save 4 peeling and cutting time.

The technique is very useful to moms who have no time cook on a daily basis. Another reason why I devised this technique is to preserve the freshness of the produce that we buy specially the veggies (hence the blanching) since we usually do our shopping every two weeks or every week.

When it’s to time to eat, we just put the food on the microwave and voila!

Please Take Me To Mexico NOW!

If there is a food that I can eat every day, that would be CHILI CON CARNE. A dish I first encountered during my college years. A dish that haunted for years until I finally learned to make one. Well, mines good but not as good as the one I tasted from a recent tour at Faith Academy.. a tour that I am having a hard time blog about.. because every time I tried to, I am haunted by the chili con carne we had for lunch…. which is the best I had so far! argh now I am getting hungry again!

That’s my version of Chili Con Carne..steaming rice.. and cheese on top.. plus an ice cold coke! waaaaaah I’m in heaven!

So yes aside from Piñata, another thing that I love from Mexico is their food (and the festivities too!)

And a few weeks ago, we had another Mexican treat.. after a creative afternoon at Global Art, we had a tasteful snack at B&T Mexican Kitchen (just beside the Global Art HQ @ Sekai Center).. opps no photos of food that time (if it is not a food event I don’t take photos of what I eat *wink). Their chips and dips are soo good but what caught my attention and my kids’ appetite is their Mango Glazed Chicken.

The photo’s not from the event but from a take out.. wanted to try City Delivery but that would cost me 400+ more..so hubby and I drove all the way to San Juan for this.. and the supposed charge for delivery just went to another serving of Mango Glazed Chicken. We all agreed that we can finish one serving in one sitting.

As expected, we try to imitate the dish, but this time we used pork chop. The result was not as good as the B&T Mexican Kitchen’s Mango glazed chicken but it will do for a while.