April and May have Ejaan for BM, Spelling for English and Ting Xie for Chinese every week in school. They also have a different set of Ejaan, Spelling and Ting Xie every week in tuition. Altogether, they have 2 sets of Ejaan, Spelling and Ting Xie every week.
My husband and I will write those words along with the schedule date on the white board. We will also give them practices prior to the date. 
In order to encourage them to do well in all Ejaan, Spelling and Ting Xie, I reward them with RM1 for 100% correct for each subject. Every 2 weeks, I will bring them to either Popular Book Store or Mr. DIY to buy things that they like with the money that I reward them.  We have started this a month ago, and each of them has collected around RM20 in 2 weeks.  See, the amount of Spelling, Ejaan and Ting Xie that they have gone through in just 2 week time.
Now, they are the one to remind me to give them practise 2 days before the date. They even ask for more Ejaan, Spelling and Ting Xie from their Tuition teacher.

I don't know whether this reward scheme is a right way in encouraging them to do well for the subjects, but at least I see them looking forwards to each Ejaan, Spelling and Ting Xie right now.

1. 《闪亮的时刻》Bright Times - 漫画 Comic MYR 12.00
2. 二年级 我会读好故事（一套六本）Standard 2 Self Reading Stories Books (1 set 6 books) MYR 25.00
3. 《十月》 October - 漫画 Comic MYR 12.00
4. 风云人物郑小强 The Extraordinary Boy - 绘图小说 Illustration Novel MYR 14.00
5. 三年级 我会读好故事（一套六本）Standard 3 Self Reading Stories Books (1 set 6 books) MYR 25.00
6. 神奇望远镜 The Magical Telescope -  绘图小说 Illustration Novel  MYR 14.00
7.  一年级 我会读好故事（一套六本）Standard 1 Self Reading Stories Books (1 set 6 Books) MYR 25.00

April and May had finished reading all the Self Reading Stories Books of Standard 1, 2 and 3 in just 2 days.
I believe that my girls will improve in their essay writing by reading lots of books.

• A small box of strawberries.
• 250ml Whipping Cream
• 5 tablespoon Icing Sugar or to taste

How to do:

1. Cut strawberries into smaller cubes.
2. Mix or blend the strawberry with sugar and whipping cream.
3. Add some diced strawberry too if you like to the blended mixture.
4. Pour the mixture into a container.
5. Place a piece of baking paper on it and freeze till frozen.

I kept the ice-cream in freezer for overnight. We actually ate it on weekend. It was too sour for my girls' liking. I should have added in more sugar because the strawberries weren't sweet at all.

The 3rd snack was pancakes. I afraid that my two girls might not like the pudding bread, as they never tried it before. So, I quickly prepared the batter for pancakes, and got the pancakes ready before their tuition ended.

• 1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
• 2 teaspoons baking powder, sifted
• ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 50g unsalted butter, melted
• 1 banana

I pretty sure everyone knows how to make pancakes, thus I am not going to mention here again. This was my first piece of pancake. Angeline said that the first piece is always not good looking. Mine wasn't that bad.
Angeline also said that the last piece is always the best looking. So, this was my last piece of pancakes. It was quite round in shape. I actually burned 2 pieces, because I went to practise my line dance steps half way frying the pancakes. I thought the batter wouldn't be ready in just a few minutes. When I came back to the stove, it had become charcoal. T___T. Quickly I threw the two charcoal pancakes into the dustbin, and continued frying the rest.
I could have fried up to 8 or 9 pieces of pancakes, but now left only 6 pieces.

• 6 slices day-old bread
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups milk
• 3/4 cup white sugar (I reduced to 1/2 cup only)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I skipped this)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I skipped this)

3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, and sugar (vanilla and cinnamon). Beat until well mixed.
4. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until bread is covered and soaking up the egg mixture.

I just tried out to make one layer in my first attempt. It will be nicer if it is in multi layers of original and Milo taste. 
 I love this cake more than those cakes that I have steamed earlier, because I love how it tasted.
Ingredients:
250gm butter
170gm Castor sugar
200gm cream cracker ( I put about 15 pieces of plain cream crackers into a plastic bag and mash it)
5 eggs, beaten
2 & 1/2 tbsp Milo/coco powder (I skipped this)

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add the beaten eggs in batches and mix well.
3. Pour in cream cracker powder in batches and mix well.
4. Divide the mixture into half. Add coco powder too one of the portion. (I skipped this)
5. Spread a layer of original flavoured batter in the baking tray. Steam for 5 minutes. Then continue with a layer of coco flavoured batter and steam for 5 minutes. Continue doing this with alternating flavoured until finish up the batter.
6. Test with toothpick and it should come out clean.

Ingredients:

• I used 10 Chicken Winglets

Marinade:

• I used 1 tablespoon Borvil
• I used 1 teaspoon Honey
• I used 1/2 teaspoon Sugar

How to do it:

1. Mix marinade together well.
2. Add winglets to the marinade and marinate for 2 hours.
3. Drain winglets from marinate and place on a baking tray. Retain marinade.
4. Bring reserved marinade to a boil and set aside to use for basting. Add a bit more sugar if you want the sauce sweeter. ( I skip this step)
5. Grill in preheated oven at 220C for 25 mins, basting it with Bovril and honey in-between.
6. Remove when done and serve.
              

2 adults and 2 children polished off the 10 yummy Bovril chicken wings. I will definitely cook this dish more often in future.

Folks, do you have a halogen oven at home too? what other things that I can cook with it?

Ingredients

• 1 ripe banana, mashed
• 1 egg (can be substituted with 50ml of milk or water; I once ran out of egg and substituted with water and it worked fine)
• 1 teaspoon oil
• 2 teaspoons water
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup icing sugar
• 100g (2/3 cup to close to 1 cup) all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate chips or raisins, optional 

Instructions

• Place all the ingredients in a small mixing bowl.
• Mix the ingredients with a fork until well blended.
• Bring a pot of water to a boil. Steam the cake on a rack for 15 to 18 minutes until a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

While waiting for the banana cake to be ready, I gave my girls dragon fruit juice Konnyaku jellies in source plates. No added sugar in these jellies, so I allowed them to have these jellies as many as they liked.

Remove banana cake from the steamer and let it cool for a few minutes. Use a knife to loosen the sides of the cake and pop the cake out of the bowl. Here you are, a warm and fragrant cake ready in less than 25 minutes. 
You may add some chocolate chips if you prefer. I just melted the chocolate bar with margarine and poured it onto the cake. My girls brought this cake to school on Monday.

If you have some over ripe banana at home, don't waste it. Try this very simple and quick steamed banana cake recipe.

Friday evening, April and May were allowed to read "Blog with Yan".  I was at down stair steaming their cakes. When I came up checking on them, April said "Come here, mummy. You read this..." She then pointed to the line that I highlighted below.
Lil May also said, "You read this yourself, mummy."

I was then bombarded by April and May, one question after another, " Mummy, mummy...., do you know you have "老公" already?" , "How can you love someone else ?" , "How dare you love John Carter?"......and bla bla bla.

I surrendered. I tried to explain to them this way, "John Carter is just a movie character, ok?" , "It is just like how you girls love Barbie, Mickey and Donald.", "John Carter isn't exist in mummy's life."

They were not truly convinced.

The last thing April said before we off the light, "You better don't let Papa know. 他才是你的老公."

Before the school break ended, I planned a baking session for my two princesses. I have mentioned that I want to get them into the kitchen more, and we want to try to steam a cake again.

I must blame the new pan that I bought yesterday. The ingredients are meant for only a mini loaf pan, but I used the 9 inches round pan. The batter wasn't enough to fill up the pan, I tried to flat the batter more, so that it could spread evenly on all the surface of the pan. That is why chocolate short cake.
My all time successful dessert for my girls, konnyaku jellies with kiwi and strawberry.  I had finally used the jelly moulds that Amelia gave me. Thanks again, Amelia.
The most satisfying moment was to see my girls indulging in Cooking Mama's food. They finished off the konnyaku jellies, and left some short cakes as the next day breakfast.

I will definitely bake steam the chocolate moist cake again. This time, I will double up the ingredients.