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For this post, I am sharing my next food recipe, oh well drinks actually... I used to love drinking this and my late mum used to make this and keep it refrigerated for better taste. Mmmmmm, recently had a bowl of this drink at my SIL's house and it sparked back my long lost love for this drink! So here goes my post on Red Bean Drinks:

Ingredients:

Methods:
* Put everything in the slow cooker - red beans, the pandan leaves, rock sugar and water.
* You can set to high mode for 2 hours and add in the sago in the last half hour or so.
* Red beans drinks is best served when chilled so you might want to let the drinks cooled down and refrigerate them first.

Outcome:

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With the recent craze of people queueing up at 12 midnight waiting at McDonald's outlets to get hold of the latest Despicable Me Minion toys from the Happy Meal set, I definitely couldn't be bothered to join in the minion craze. But my 2 kiddos love em' so what has a mum gotta do? Talked about the things I had to do for my children!

I actually ended up making these minions from toilet paper rolls. Tried googling loads of sites for template that I can just download and print out but nope.. no such luck... so I hand draw them myself. To be honest, I have phobia of drawing things as I'm not good in drawing but because I love my kiddos and mummy promised to give them minion toys... sigh...

What you need:

• 2 piece of A4 colored paper (yellow and blue)

• Empty toilet paper rolls (I used 3 rolls)

• Scissors

• Double-sided tape

• A black marker pen

What to do:

1. Cut the yellow colored A4 paper according to the length of a toilet paper roll (enough to cover the entire roll)

2. Put double sided tape across each corners of the yellow paper cut-out.

3. Tape the yellow paper cut-out to cover the toilet paper roll.

4. Cut the blue colored A4 paper about 1/3 of the height of a toilet paper roll to make the overalls jeans for the minion.

5. Repeat step 2 for the blue colored paper and tape it around the toilet paper roll from the base.

6. Use your creative hand drawing skills and start drawing the minion face and everything else using the black colored marker pen (I printed a sample of the actual minions faces so I can refer to them when I draw mine)

7. Repeat the above steps for the next minion(s).
   

The expressions on my kiddos face... priceless... and worth embarrassing my hand drawing skills...

The end results in close-up shot!

I hope you enjoy reading my tutorial and do give it a try! :)

It's been quite a long time since I last cooked for dinner since my kind MIL is taking charge of cooking the dishes for dinner all this while. But for this post, I am sharing my next dish, which I got over the Internet as MIL is taking the day off to enjoy herself and I thought time to get my lazy buttocks to do some cooking hahahaha... So here goes my post on Fried Tofu with Pepper & Salt:

Ingredients:

1. 1 block of firm tofu – cut into 1” cubes
2. ½ cup of cornstarch
3. Salt to taste
4. For the salt & pepper dip: 1 tsp of Szechuan pepper (I used black pepper) & 2 tsp salt

Methods:
* Dry the tofu with some paper towel. Sprinkle it with some salt.
* Heat oil in a hot wok until surface seems to shimmer slightly.
* Lightly coat tofu pieces in cornstarch.
* Gently lower the tofu into the hot oil – it is important not to coat the tofu in advance of heating the oil, or it will become very moist and sticky.
* Fry the tofu until they are lightly brown and crispy, remove and drain the oil on paper towel.
* Arrange tofu on a platter and serve immediately with the salt and pepper mixture.

Outcome (AFTER BITING HALF ONE OF THE TOFU):

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