Nicquee's Nook – Page 71

It’s Shopping Time!

Summer is here and it means there is a long break from school. We are spared of the extra effort in waking up every morning to prepare our kids to school. As a mom, I do look forward to times like this. Even though the hubby will still be going to work in the morning, but adults are easier to handle than little ones who wishes they could sleep more.

Aside from extended morning hours sleep, going shopping will be one thing I am going to do with my shopping buddy. We have seen a grindmaster sale notice online and I wonder if they have it at the mall nearest to us. Not just that but we have to shop for other kitchen wares, bedroom accessories that are on sale now!
Oh how I just love summer!

Two Down, Ten To Go

Hello, March! Hello, Summer!

I do not want to believe it but it is here and no one can stop it. Two months have passed and we are now at the end of the first quarter of 2013!

This month will surely be busy for us. Final exams, graduation and then vacation! Woohoo! I must start planning the girls’ summer activities! Hopefully this year, we will be able to enroll Max to a swimming class and Alex, maybe she will be back to her ballet class. Alex is actually bugging me already and is even telling me to enroll her already.

The writing mojo is still somewhere and I am praying that this month, my blogging year will finally start the way I imagined it to be.

To remind myself, I leave you with this memorable photo. 🙂

Where Should I Put My Baking Pan Inside the Oven?

Today I learned something new.

The hubby gifted me with a Kyowa 35L Electric Oven last Christmas. Grabe almost a year na ang oven namin at di ko pa xa napo-post dito!!!! Anyway, we have used the oven many times already, mostly for baking. We have tried cooking American ribs in it a few weeks ago and it was a huge success!!

Anyway. So today, I learned that what I have been doing is wrong. You see, every time I bake, cupcakes, cookies, cakes, brownies, I always put my baking pan on the black pan that came along with my oven. I put it on the middle section yes, but when I bake cupcakes, the cupcake pan does not fit well on the black pan. Gets? Lagpas yung cupcake pan sa black pan so yung cupcakes near the oven window, sort of elevated sila. Instead of using that black pan (dipping pan), you should use the wire rack. Baking pans on the wire rack on the middle section of the oven, that is how it should look like. The black pan is typically used to catch drippings when you use your oven to roast something.

Well, at least I know now and I have time to correct my wrong practice. 🙂