These pictures were taken fairly early in Spring (note the leafless trees, and bare flowerbeds). Look at how blue the sky was in the first picture. It was my kind of a perfect spring day – cool but sunny, with a cloudless blue sky. We don’t get many clear, sunny days like this over here, […]
Alex and His Easter Stickers
Alex received lots of cool Easter stickers from Grammy and Grandpa, and he decided to use them all in one go. He further decorated the paper by drawing lines around the stickers (as requested by Mommy). :)
Landscape Collage
This is yet another simple project from Art Projects for Kids blog. The only difficulty was trying to find yellowed paperbacks that we don’t want anymore. :)
Birch Trees
This project idea is from one of my favorite blogs – Art Projects for Kids. I think the most challenging part of the project for Alex was trying to tear each piece of the masking tape in half (the tape kept sticking onto itself). I ended up holding one end of the tape as he […]
Lego Creator – Cargo Copter
The Cargo Copter is a recent addition to Alex’s Lego Creator collection. All of us thought that this toy is absolutely cool. The helicopter has rotors that really spin as well as a Power Functions winch, which at a push of a button will raise the cargo platform! I can’t believe how far Lego has […]
Alex Helping to Make Green Tea Ice Cream
We were making Green Tea Ice Cream a couple of weeks ago and below are pictures of Alex adding sugar to the egg yolks and whisking them together to get the mixture ready for tempering. We still can’t convince him to try the food he helps make but he loves making them. Someday, maybe he’ll […]
Microwave Sweet N Spicy Walnuts
I ate my first spiced nuts a few years back. They tasted mildly salty and a little spicy and I thought they were pretty bland for spiced nuts and did not care much for them. A couple of years later, I sampled a local grocery store’s Spiced Walnuts and I was hooked. The nuts were […]
Green Tea Ice Cream
We have a favorite Japanese restaurant that we used to frequent (before Alex came along) that serves the most wonderful, delicious green tea ice cream we had ever tasted. I’ve always thought about trying to recreate the flavor (especially since we cannot find any similar ones from store-bought brands) but have never gotten around to […]
Temaki (Hand Roll) Sushi
Of all the types of sushi, I decided to make hand roll sushi because it seems simpler compared to the rest and also, it doesn’t require a bamboo rolling mat (which I don’t have). :) We used the following ingredients for our sushi: Nori (roasted seaweed) sheets, cut in half lengthwise Sushi rice Wasabi Mayonnaise […]