Play-Doh Town Firehouse

~ Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:23 PM ~

We have previously reviewed the Play-Doh party pack a while back and everyone enjoyed the experience so when our kiddos saw the Play-Doh Town Firehouse box on my office table, they went crazy excited and can't wait to open up the box to play with the new Play-Doh set!

Play-Doh Town Firehouse

In the Play-Doh Town Firehouse box set, it included a Firehouse set, firefighter figure with hat, puppy extruder, roof, flame stamper, water cannon extruder, axe, hydrant extruder, and 4 cans of Play-Doh brand modeling compound (color: yellow, neon orange, teal green and bright blue). After making them wait for few hours (testing their patience hehehe!)

I finally opened up the box and slowly assembled the items according to the user-friendly manual that came along with the box. According to the usage guide on the box, the Play-Doh Town Firehouse is for children 3+ years, just nice for our 3 krakens age ranging from 3 to 7.5 years old at the moment :)

Play-Doh Town Firehouse

Like every other Asian parents, I'm very OCD and concerned that it will be messy when my kids play, but the trick is to lay a good "foundation mat" around before they start playing. I like it when our kiddos play with the Play-Doh as I truly believe it helps to cultivate their creativity and helps improve their motor skills as their little fingers squeeze and mould the compound and watching them immersed themselves in their role-play world is just a sight to behold!

I took the opportunity to show our kiddos how to make the fiery flame sculpture from the flame stamper, a bit of yellow in the center bottom part surrounded by some neon orange Play-Doh and voila... fiery flames ready to be played with! I should've used more yellow but I decided to let our kiddos try and figure it out by themselves hehehe... As parents, we should know Play-Doh is a really awesome teaching tool! You get to teach kiddos to identify colors, to mix and create new colors (blue + yellow = green for example). Just gotta seize the moments when the teaching opportunities come along!

Play-Doh Town Firehouse

I also allowed our 3-year-old girl to experiment on making the teddy bear sculpture herself. As you can see in the pictures below, she took a slab of bright blue Play-Doh and stamped out the teddy bear sculpture. Awesome!

Play-Doh Town Firehouse

The nice part is our 3 kiddos were sitting quietly and playing together, not fighting and just enjoy discovering the cool things that they can churned out from the Play-Doh Town Firehouse set. What a nice siblings bonding and teamwork activity hahaha!

Play-Doh Town Firehouse

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By the way, Play-Doh celebrates its 60th birthday this year! Whoaaaa!! 6 decades of awesomeness for many generations of kiddos! The iconic yellow can has expanded into more than 80 countries across the globe, with more than 3 billion cans of Play-Doh compound sold - that’s enough Play-Doh compound to reach to the moon and back THREE times! Cool-ness!

The Play-Doh Town Firehouse is available in all leading departmental, toy stores, baby shops and hypermarkets.

 

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Stir Fry Prawns With Spicy Chili Sauce

~ Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 4:54 AM ~

Today's recipe that I would like to share with you all is: Stir Fry Prawns With Spicy Chili Sauce. This dish is cook almost on daily basis as my hubby just loves loves loves the spicy chili sauce that I use (I bought it from a fellow mum in an FB group I'm in)

Ingredients required:

- Prawns (veins removed)

- Sugar, turmeric powder (little bit to marinade the prawns)

- Spicy Chili Sauce (about 2tbsp)

- Onions (sliced)

- Oil for frying prawns (about 2tsp)

- Chopped scallions (for garnishing)


Steps:

- Remove veins from prawns, quickly rinse with water

- Marinade with a bit sugar and/or turmeric powder

- Heat up 1-2 tsp oil

- Stir fry onions and add prawns and chili sauce

- Fry until prawns are ready

Stir Fry Prawns With Spicy Chili Sauce

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Spicy Curry Pork Ribs with Potatoes

~ Posted on Monday, June 20, 2016 at 11:58 PM ~

It's been a while since I last cooked curry pork ribs and since preggy with baby #4, I've lately been on this spicy cravings phase. So, today's dinner dish that I would like to share with you all is: Spicy Curry Pork Ribs with Potatoes.

Ingredients required:

- Pork ribs (marinade with a bit baking soda + sugar + soy sauce for 2-3 hrs)


Gravy:

- Curry powder (about 5 tbsp)

- Spicy chili sauce (2tbsp)

- Curry leaves

- 1 red onions (sliced)

- Water (1.5-2 cups)

- Salt for taste

- 2tbsp oil for frying pork ribs

Steps:

- Pan fried the pork ribs till they are golden brown

- Add in onions and the above ingredients for the gravy and braised for about half hour (or more, depends on the meat).

- Add salt/soy sauce if you need it to be saltier.

- Braise longer if you want thicker gravy and/or more tender/fall off the bone type of meat.

Spicy Curry Pork Ribs with Potatoes

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