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My Children Blending Adventure With Philips Viva Collection Blender!

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Recently we are having hot weather, MR and baby MH requested to have ice-blended drinks. In Malaysia’s intense tropical heat, cold drinks are always in demand. From a young age, our children have enjoyed the cool relief that an iced drink offers on the hottest days. While they typically consume chilled cordial drinks or mass-produced juices, there are concerns about the sugar content of these drinks, with nutritionists recommending that children reduce consumption of such sweetened drinks[1].

Mouse mommy got a new blender helper - Philips Viva Collection Blender that comes with Duravita Tritan Jar that 20x stronger, not easily break off. Cool! That is my concern eventually whenever MR and baby MH eager to be my little kitchen helpers. My kids love to touch, explore, curious and experience together to see how the things works! Headache ya sometimes….

The first impression that mouse mommy loves this Philips Viva Collection Blender with Duravita Tristan Jar is the suction cup at the base of the blender, it is strong and able to keep the blender stay still on the table. Mouse mommy was feeling safe to allow my kids to operate on the blender itself.

Besides that, this blender is also easy to operate and easy to clean up. There are a control knob that in pulse setting mode for ice crushing and speed setting from minimum to maximum. User-friendly and child-friendly too!

The Duravita Tristan Jar is large with 1250mls capacity with 20x stronger the Tristan jar material that allows mouse mommy worried-free when my kids are handling the blender. Eventually mouse mommy was quite reluctant to allow MR and baby MH to “help out” in blending works, as in experience before that my kids accidentally drop their water bottles and blender jar, as a result break off and unable to use anymore, got to fork out money to buy a new one. Sad… sad…

This round, mouse mommy was happy to let MR and baby MH to be the little Chefs to make their ice-blended drinks. MR love orange and wanted to make orange milk smoothies. Baby MH loves apple. Hahaha… my little baby cannot wait for his turn and start chewing on the apple itself.

Mouse mommy always allows kids to Learn Life Today. Explore, experiment and experience life together to allow children can learn how things works and the science behind it.

MR was helping to peeling off the orange skin before putting in to the blender jar. This is able to train the children motor function. While peeling off the orange skin, MR also told mouse mommy that the orange aroma smells good. He was wanted to blend two units of orange with ice, milk and honey.

First of all, MR and baby MH putting in ice cubes, honey and milk, use pulse setting mode for ice crushing. The ice blending required adequate fluid in order to works well. Do not put too much of water too, as in the outcome will be too watery.

Once the ice cubes turn to small in size, MR is putting in the orange to blend it together. Recommended to peel the orange and section by hand before put into blender jar for easy blending.

Baby MH was busy to help to blend the orange milk smoothies. He is enjoying the blending session with brother MR.

After orange milk smoothies done, they are quickly go and get their favourite The Bare Bear cup to fill up with their yummy smoothies! OMG! MR and baby MH were enjoying the orange milk smoothies that done by them. Finished!

We love the texture and the taste of the orange milk smoothie. It is smooth and all the ice cubes are fully blended. Yummy, healthy and nutritious fruit smoothies drink that we can make it on our own! Last but not least, boys, you got to help in cleaning too. MR and baby MH also help to clean up the table. Good boys!

Mr Muhammad Ali Jaleel, Country Manager of Philips Malaysia also shared that “Food preparation can be a fun way for parents to bond with children, besides teaching them about nutrition and training them to be handy in the kitchen – definitely a useful life skill. Routine kitchen tasks such as blending ingredients can become an exciting adventure when you have an extraordinary tool to use. With the Philips Viva Collection Blender, you can get creative and have a lot of fun making healthy and refreshing smoothies. Its highly durable and shatterproof Duravita Tritan jar frees you from worry even if the kids are helping. There’s no fear of having to replace the blender jar if it is accidentally knocked over.”

Other that using fresh fruits, delicious frozen smoothie by frozen fruits could just be the thing that hits the spot. No more difficult to prepare at home, this all-in-one blender that efficiently combines all ingredients and crushes ice speedily to make the perfect frozen smoothie in no time at all, and we can complete control of all ingredients to boot. Awesome!

Since this Philips Viva Collection Blender with Duravita Tristan Jar can make nice and smooth fruit smoothies, mouse mommy also would like to make baby food by using it. Mouse mommy has prepare rice, chicken, vegetables and potato to blend together with cool boiled water.

After that can put in breastmilk bottle and keep in the freezer, recommended to be consumed within 1 to 2 days. This is some tips from mouse mommy that hope that benefit to mommies with baby above 4 months old and start to weaning and consume solid food.

Mouse mommy also a working mom and understand that food preparation for our baby is not an easy task. The earlier that our kids explore to more foods, vegetables and fruits with different texture and taste. The more likely they will be easily accepted the wide range of food taste and do not become picky eater. Therefore, mouse mommy will blend the food that we are having and put in the breastmilk bottle and keep in the freezer.

The next day, mouse mommy will send chilled breastmilks together with frozen baby blend food to nanny house. Nanny was only required to warm up to the frozen baby blend food for about 30 minutes and directly served from the bottle itself. Clean and hygiene technique is to avoid food contamination issue. Hope helpful tips for mommies especially working mom.

The Philips Viva Collection Blender HR2157/91 is enhanced with blades that use ProBlend 5 technology, enabling you to crush ice 20% faster compared to other blenders. This means you no longer have to use tough, knuckle-cracking methods like hammering or pounding to break up blocks of ice. What’s better, this blender comes with the Duravita Tritan jar, made of copolyester that adds strength, versatility and flexibility to the jar. With this added element, the blending jar is shatterproof and will not smell or stain, leaving it easily washable and as good as new after every wash. It can also withstand the pressure and velocity of blending solid ingredients such as ice and hard types of vegetables or fruits.

Start off your #PhilipsPerfectBlend adventure with Philips and transform your kitchen into a “playground” for learning while you and your child have fun times preparing meals in a safe, convenient and adventurous way! More photos can click here to view.

The Philips Viva Collection Blender with the Duravita Tritan jar (HR2157/91) is available at a retail price of RM376 at the Philips Brand Store in Publika Shopping Gallery and Wangsa Walk Mall, both in Kuala Lumpur, and in Sutera Mall, Johor Bahru; at the Philips Experience Store in Menara Axis, Petaling Jaya; at retail partners and distributor stores nationwide, and online via the Philips Online Shop at http://www.shop.philips.com.my/.

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[1] Malaysian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents

http://nutrition.moh.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/penerbitan/buku/MDG_Children_adolescent_2014.pdf

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A Magical Ramadan Buffet At Funtasia Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya!

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya welcomes Ramadan 2018 with an attractive display and offerings for breakfasting of fast street-style the Malaysian way during the holy month. The hotel invites guests to rejoice the joy of Ramadan with your family, friends and colleagues at the fun, hip and chic, family-friendly setting of Funtasia.

Located in the thriving town of Bandar Baru Bangi, Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya it is just 30 minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur city centre and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport via major highways. Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Cheras and Kajang are just a mere 15 to 20 minutes drive.

Funtasia is a buffet concept restaurant that serves up tempting local cuisine, delightful western dishes as well as other dedicated action stalls where its chefs perform gastronomical stunts right before the diners’ eyes – providing patrons a journey that promises to excite their palate, delight their senses and transport them to a culinary wonderland.

Funtasia decided to combine the current craze of street food cuisines with five-star dining comfort. Talented chefs have come up with over 200 choices of street-style and restayrant dishes ranging from appetizing starters on its 12ft tall Ferris Wheel to whole rosted lamb, Malaysian satay and Mongolian BBQ. A creative Ferris Wheel idea to serve appetizers and welcome guests. An Instagram-photo worthy post too for the family and diners.

Expect a magical culinary experience at Funtasia! Jom Iftar Buffet dining is RM90nett per adult and RM45nett for children (4-12 years old) with minimum 24hour prior reservations and pre-payment. Regular walk in buffet price is RM120nett per adult and RM60 per children (4-12 years old).

Diners can also enjoy other local and western favourites such as its famous pan-fried gyoza, nasi goreng fried by a robo-wok, sup tulang and sup kambing (oxtail soup and mutton soup) and deep-fried desserts. The 1-minute ikan masin fried rice by a robo-wok was yummy to eat.

The mushroom soup was full with mushroom savory. The carbonara spaghetti also cheesy and yummy! MR was finished two bowls of mushroom soups and a plate of carbonara spaghetti.

The homemade Beef Pepperoni Pizza by in-house Chef was fresh and delicious with its crispy pizza crust.

Not forgetting the delightful sweet endings with ice kacang and cendol, live kuih ketayap in the making and homemade gelato with daily changing flavours. Mouse mommy and MR love the gelato chocolate and tiramisu, it tastes smooth, chocolatier and less sweet. A healthy and yummy choice of desserts!

Hotel Bangi-Putrajaya and Funtasia also continue to support its “Care for Hunger” campaign by contributing RM3.50 for every adult dining the Jom Iftar Buffet throughout the Ramadan month. The hotel targets to contribute a minimum of RM25,000 on its 10^th year partnership anniversary with Islamic Relief Malaysia this year.

Islamic Relief Malaysia will also be opening its booth during Ramadan located on Level 1. Funtasia kitchen, Harmoni kitchen, pastry kitchen, banquet kitchen is halal certified by JAKIM. Parking is free for all guests and surau facility is located on level 2 of the hotel.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

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Mini Unicorn Cake Making In Action At Young Chefs Academy IPC!

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Mouse mommy and MR were attending Young Chefs Academy cooking school to learn how to make a Mini Unicorn Cake.

Before we start the cooking class, Chef Izza aka Chef Pizza has shares with us some kitchen rules to make sure all of us are keeping hygiene with handwashing and make sure our table was clean and clear. A good practice before we start our cooking class.

First of all, we got to make a vanilla cupcake. Chef Pizza has provided us the ingredients with 1.5 cup flour, 1.5 tablespoon baking powder, 0.5 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 0.5 tablespoon vanilla essence and 0.5 cup milk.

Chef Pizza also take this opportunity to teach the children correct names of the cookware such as cake pans, cake piping, cake cream icing spatula and so on.

MR has taken up the Junior Chef role to mix the flour with baking powder together using a fork and put aside.

In another medium bowl, add butter and sugar together. MR was using a baking spatula to mix it together until fluffy and the mixture turns slightly pale yellow. After that, add in the eggs and vanilla essence and beat together until it is fully incorporated.

MR was provided a bowl of flour and asked mouse mommy whether should he pour all of half? “Yes, you are right, pour half of the flour first into the butter and mix. After that, you can pour another half of the balance flour to mix it up together.” Mouse mommy answered.

MR was focused and listened to the instruction of the Chef and doing a great job! Mouse mommy was happy that MR was able to use the correct cooking terminology as in half, full, all, scoop, mix up and so on while cooking in action. A little surprise for mouse mommy!

After the flour mixing done, then pour in the milk and mix. MR was continuing using the baking spatula until batter is smooth and fully evenly mixed.

He was scoop out the batter and out into a cupcake paper. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, once baked, remove from oven and let it cool.

Coating the cake with topping cream was quite challenging! Mouse mommy helps in this with putting the topping cream along the cake, use cream icing spatula to coat the whole cake evenly.

Decoration time! Chef Pizza showed us how to make our own unicorn horn and ears. MR was excited to make his own big and small unicorn horns. He was rolled the white fondant into snake shape and twist it together and tight it up with a satay stick with minimum help from mouse mommy. Kudos MR!

The unicorn ears required some skills. MR got to make it into triangle shape and form the unicorn’s ears.

Finally, MR was decorating his unicorn cake with piped the coloured cream – orange, blue and pink on the side to create a unicorn mane as his wish.

Hooray! Mini Unicorn cake and Unicorn cupcake were done by Junior Chef MR! More photos can click here to view | Album 1 | YouTube.

Ops! Junior Chef MR was too tempting of his creation and wanted to eat his unicorn cupcake on the spot! Mom, let’s keep the big one home to share with daddy and baby MH. Ok, deal, my sweetie boy!