Simple joy :)

Simple joy...got to spend 1 day with my bestie's (Yarra) newborn son Kai...and spent another 1 day with my cousin's (Don) newborn puppies from his beagle, Kerry :)

Amazing :)

Simple happiness :)

Qisha's (my niece) simple happiness (and my simple happiness too) > Puppet play with my DIY boneka handpuppet, my DIY shadow puppet and 2 handpuppets from Pak Oteng. She made her own story too :)

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Got the recipe from easy-cookies recipes.

All you need:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups rolled oats
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

How to make: 

 

Preheat oven to 180-200C.  Mix together butter, sugars and the eggs until well blended. Combine baking soda, salt and flour and add to the creamed mixture. Add in the oatmeal and the chips stir. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookie

Got this recipe from my bestie's blog Yarra :)

All you need:

1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar (or mix 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup brown sugar)
1 egg

How to make:

Preheat oven to 180-200°c. Mix all of the ingredients altogether. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake for 8 minutes to 10 minutes (or according to your oven).

Very simple! :)

Broccoli Parmesan Fritters

Got the recipe from Smitten Kitchen website. I'll copy paste it for you :)

You need:

8 ounces (1 small-to-medium bundle, 225 grams) fresh broccoli (3 cups chopped)

1 large egg

1/2 cup (65 grams) all-purpose flour

1/3 cup (30 grams) finely grated parmesan cheese (or to taste)

1 small clove garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt, plus more to taste (or to taste)

A pinch of red pepper flakes or several grinds of black pepper

Olive or vegetable oil for frying

How to make:

- Prepare your broccoli: Separate the florets from the biggest stem(s). Cut the florets into 1-inch chunks. To prepare the stems, then slice them into 1/2-inch lengths. You should have about 3 cups of chopped broccoli total.

- Steam your broccoli until tender but not mushy. Drain the broccoli, then set it aside to cool slightly.

- In the bottom of a large bowl, lightly beat your egg. Add the flour, cheese, garlic, salt and pepper. Then, add the somewhat cooled broccoli and, using a potato masher, mash the broccoli just a bit, 1/4- to 1/2-inch chunks that you can press a mound of the batter into a fritter in the pan. Once mashed a bit, stir or fold the ingredients together the rest of the way with a spoon. Adjust seasonings to taste.

- Heat a large, heavy skillet over moderate heat. Once hot, add a good slick of oil (I usually use a mix of olive and vegetable oil), about 2 to 3 tablespoons. Once the oil is hot (you can test it by flicking a droplet of water into it; it should hiss and sputter), scoop a two tablespoon-size mound of the batter and drop it into the pan, then flatten it slightly with your spoon or spatula. Repeat with additional batter, leaving a couple inches between each. Once brown underneath, about 2 to 3 minutes, flip each fritter and cook on the other side until equally golden, about another 1 to 2 minutes.

- Transfer briefly to paper towels to drain, then to a serving plate if you’ll be eating them shortly or a baking sheet in a 200 degree oven if you’d like to keep them warm for a while until needed. Repeat with remaining batter, adding more oil as needed. Serve with some of the suggestions listed in the head notes, above.

To serve:

With 1 cup plain yogurt, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 tiny minced clove of garlic, a bit of zest and salt. It would also be good with this homemade ricotta, with or without additional lemon juice. They’re also good simply, with just a squeeze of lemon juice. I think I’d also enjoy them with a little crumbled feta on top. Oh, and of course, you can put a runny fried egg on top of it 

DYSKOGRAF

Got this article from The Kids Should See This website. 

"DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.

The installation is above all a tool, which allows the creation of musical sequences in an intuitive way. The notion of a loop, closely linked to electronic music, is represented here by the cycle of the disk. The disk passes indefinitely in front of a camera fixed onto an arm. This substitution for the needle converts the drawing into sound by way of a specific application program (software). Through this system, the sequential ordering of music is learnt in a playful way, at the same time creating a unique object, souvenir of the musical composition.

The numeric world is a world of binary choice. The object of DYSKOGRAF is to give room again for accidents in numeric creation, accidents that often favour creativity."

Cool right? Feels like sharing it with my students and let the kids enjoy & explore :)

KidsYogArts is back :)

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What I've learned from my autistic brothers

"Normality overlooks the beauty that differences give us, and the fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. It just means that there's a different kind of right. Autistic or not, everyone's got a gift inside of us..." - Faith Jegede :)