This week is all about decorating the cupcakes with different stuff and how to make cupcakes from scratch.  Enjoy! i hope you bake some too and share it online with us.

The girls didn’t introduced the beef masala to me – i just happened to see it and thought I should give it a try.  After all, you all know how much I craved for food from home right.  And I’m happy to say that they were pretty good and tasted like Indian curry, eaten with Jasmine rice – they were excellent.

The beef masala comes in a box – that you an microwave to heat up – it is not frozen and takes about 5 minute.  You have to cook your own rice or noodles – to accompany the beef masala.  Although the picture shows with rice – there is no rice in them.  It does serves 3 portion – but of course, you will have to cook your own side dish to make it a meal.

The cost of the box of beef masala is about $9 –  a wee bit expensive in my opinion – but beggars can’t be choosers right?  so yup – I’ve already eaten a few boxes of them – they are quite addictive.   I prefer them with rice than noodles – but you may feel differently.  So if you are in Canada – I’m sure you will have an M & M’s nearby – do try some.

Spring is here – and it’s time that I get started on my spring cleaning and since this is our almost 7 yrs in our house – we have to give our carpet a good cleaning/shampooing too. We don’t have a specialized carpet cleaning company here – unlike those I found online  called  carpet cleaning raleigh nc – so we just might have to hire a friend to help us with the shampooing.   I was checking out on the prices offered too – for comparison in case I do find one here – and they were quite reasonable as well.  At $150 – you can get all 4 rooms – the hallway and stair cleaned  – told yer the prices are awesome.  They also do sofa, love seats and area rugs as well – pretty wide range of services.  Now that I have the prices for one professional carpet cleaning company – I can make comparison – for future reference.  What about you?  do you do spring cleaning?  do you just pack up stuff and store away ?  or give your home an overall – in the cleaning department?

That’s a lot of food for $5 right?  Yes ! I had this on Monday and till today – I’m still not done yet!  it’s a lot of food !! from the Zhu’s @ the New Century Restaurant downtown.  I finished the veggies first and then the rice went – but the cantonese pork was a lot! but it was good – just can’t eat too much meat – hahahha!  Love the Zhu’s they are such wonderful people!  there are really some good people in this town – but there are some well, lets just say – crazier than I – muahahah!!

Easter chocolates are a huge thing here in Canada – as you can see – this year the Easter chocolates comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes.  From the traditional rabbits and eggs to football and Hello Kitties.   We buy a few things for the kids but always wait till Easter is over before we really buy chocolates because they usually go for half the price.

Cute right? but chocolate is just chocolate to us adults but the kids well – the would love it.  Lucky for us – chloe never demands for chocolate or treats.

I planned to get some of this unique boxes of chocolates for some of chloe’s good friends.

There are some eateries that you can go again and again – without feeling tired of the food because they have such a wide range to choose from – from their menu and Peg’s family restaurant at downtown Yarmouth is one of them.  A few weeks ago, I tried their italian sausage with pasta – and it did not disappoint.  I was expecting a whole sausage – but the cut up sausages weren’t bad at all.  In fact I do like the bite size sausage better.  The pasta was sun dried tomato pasta and look at the broccoli - they were really freshed and cooked just right – not limpy.

Of course it came with a soup first and I had coffee, chloe had her usual fish and chips and PB had his chicken cordon bleu.  I’m the only one who is determined to eat everything in the menu.  But thus far – all their food has been pretty good.   The service was great – and we went there just in time before the crowd came in.   There were several tables that Sunday – but the waitress came back often to check if we needed anything else – which was definitely a nice touch.   The pasta was about $12.95 – pretty good price for so much food – and coffee was really cheap too.  So if you are in downtown Yarmouth, Nova Scotia – head over to Peg’s family restaurant – that serves good food at a decent price.

And some sweets for the weekend – for those who wants to be Domestic Diva for the weekend.  Enjoy!  have a good one – everyone!

Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals Season 2 Ep 8 is all about Trapani-Style Rigatoni  - check it out yourself – and have a great weekend everyone – I hope you liked my April’s Fool joke.

hehehe ! did I get you !!

Friends, Family, Fans and all those who visits my blog on a daily basis  - I have good news to share with you all.  A few months ago, I was approached by For The Love Of Good Food with regards to this blog.  As you all know, this blog enjoys many visitors from all over the world.  On a daily basis – about 100, 000 people visit this blog and the pages viewed are about 5 times as much as the visitors.  So the good people at For The Love Of Good Food – approached me – to buy over this blog – to be its affiliate.  Therefore, I will only be writing for For The Love Of Good Food from now on but in the months to come – you will be seeing some changes of course – and there will only be food to recommend the food from Dubai.   I will be flying to Dubai soon – expenses all paid and flying first class too.   I hope you are happy for me – therefore, I have to say that all cooking shows posted here – will be at a halt.  I know that you all will be wondering how much – the buy over is – lets just say – enough to pay for Chloe’s college in the future.  As for now – I am taking a short break – till i arrive in Dubai next week.  Please come visit my new blog, new design (they hired a web designer to work with me) and all new and a new team for this blog.  Thank you for your support – I hope you continue to visit this blog and all about Dubai’s cuisine.

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