Tag: Homemade

Let It Snow – Window Clings

It’s December! Yay!! A season to be jolly and be crafty to celebrate Christmas. Making window decals with colorful snowflakes is an exquisite way of decorating your home.

For me a snowy Christmas is such an amazing feeling since most of my life I have lived in a tropical climate and snow during Christmas is SO MAGICAL!! In Singapore I don’t get to experience a snowy winter which makes it incomplete without a few flakes of snow. Custom made snowflakes from glitter glue is indeed fun anytime. It can be made into any shapes and designs you like and let it dry overnight. Get your kids into making these and hang them on windows and they will love it. They can be removed, re-positioned and reused for next year as well. So what are you waiting for?

Resting time : overnight or 24 hours

 

 

 

Supplies

Tulip dimentional fabric paint glitter / Tulip puffy fabric paint – Multicolour

Wax paper /  Storage plastic zip-lock bags

Printed template design of choice or ready made design from any magazine (template for print below):

Snowflake Template

 

Directions

1. Place a equal size wax paper over the template design A4 sheet and secure the ends with tiny tapes. You could also use zip-lock storage bags instead of wax paper or clear surfaces that are able to bend to peel them easily later.

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2. Give a light shake to get rid of any bubbles in the tube. Squeeze the paint and start tracing the snowflake making sure the lines are thick and touching without any gaps or bubbles.

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3. Once all are traced, simply let them sit overnight or for a day until they are completely dry. Drying time depends on the thickness of paint used so the time taken may vary.

If your making ornaments of shapes in round it might get a bit tricky to remove so make sure the paint is traced thick.

4. Carefully peel them away slowly starting from the edges. If the paint is thinner it gets slightly harder to peel tearing apart or might even loose shape.

Secure it with your hands and stick onto windows or flat surfaces. It also clings to flat wooden surfaces.

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Wow! I love the color.

Snowflake window cling

I also traced the Merry Christmas letters. It couldn’t fit in one page because if its size so I haven’t provided a copy here.

DIY window clings

They look so pretty with blue lights, a perfect atmosphere for Christmas.

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snowflake window clings

Happy holidays with your family and happy festive crafting ☺

 

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Homemade Pizza Recipe

Since the time I have learnt how to make a Pizza 🍕 at home, trust me! This recipe will make your jaw-dropping 😵😱 once you learn the technique of how its done. The pizza crust is soft and crisp on the edges. A great motivation to learn how to make homemade pizza with customized toppings.

Making a pizza dough from scratch seems a bit tricky for first timers but its encouraging and promotes opportunities to learn the art of cooking. One can prepare the dough at least one day ahead and freeze them.

 

Preparation time: 20 minutes + rising 1 hour

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes

Makes : 10 to 11-inch / 26 to 28-cm

Serves: 1-2

Appliance: Oven

 

Ingredients

For the dough

Bread Flour – 1 cup / 175 g

All-Purpose flour for dusting

Salt – 1/4 tsp

Water – 1/4 cup / 100 ml

Yeast – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1/2 tsp

Olive oil – 1 tbsp

Parchment paper of 12 cm

 

Toppings

Tomato sauce – 3 to 4 tbsp

Mozzarella cheese balls / Bocconcini cheese – 125 g

Chicken breasts – 200 g , pan-fried (if using prawns – less than 250 g shelled, raw)

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Capers – 7

Jalapeno (non-spicy) – 7

Shallots -2 , cut into round thin slices

Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce (medium) – 3 tbsp

Cherry tomato – 7, halved

Mini peppers / Bell pepper – few pieces, chopped

Olives – 3, pitted

Garlic paste – 1/2 tsp

 

Directions

Making the Dough:

1. In a cup with warm water dissolve sugar and yeast. Mix and let stand for 5 minutes at the kitchen counter or in a warm place until it turns frothy. Add Olive oil and mix.

Yeast mixture

2. In a bowl with bread flour and salt, make 2 wells and pour the yeast mixture. Stir in the flour using your hands to combine the dough. If its dry just add 3-4 tbsp more water till all the flour comes together.

Dust a work surface or large wooden cutting board with all-purpose flour and remove the dough. Knead the dough by rolling it forward and backward to push and pull using the heels of your hands. Do this for 5 minutes, it must be elastic and non-sticky.

Kneading

3. Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl of oil. Cover with double layered towel to proof for 45 minutes(*see notes). The dough will double in size.

4. Dust the work surface with all-purpose flour and remove the dough from the bowl. Give it a good punch to let any air out and work on it for 5 minutes (you can separate the extra dough at this point and freeze)

kneading 2

Place it in the greased bowl just as in step 3, covered with towel or cling film and proof or rise for another 15 minutes.

 

Roll out the dough:

5. Lightly dust the work surface/board with all-purpose flour, then roll it out using your hands or rolling-pin into a rough circle. When it gets unmanageable transfer to a parchment paper of 10-cm depending on the size of pizza.

Making Pizza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Roll the dough into 1/4 inch thick or less. Prick the pizza base all over with a fork.

roll the dough

Topping the Pizza:

7. Spoon few tablespoons of tomato sauce into the center of pizza and spread it throughout the base to the edges using the back of the spoon.

Then, top it with thin slices of cheese. Add other toppings of choice as mentioned above along with thin strips of chicken.

Pizza toppings | Mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce

 

8. Preheat oven to 200 degree Celsius (400 degree F) for 5 -10 minutes. Place the pizza on parchment paper carefully on the low rack. Bake on convection mode for 25 – 30 minutes or until the sides have turned slightly brown (*see notes).

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The first pizza I made was the Prawn Pizza with mozzarella cheese, some greens, capers, olives and peri-peri sauce. Delicious soft and crisp crust which I would recommend for all the seafood lovers.

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Notes:

*You can use all kinds of toppings for your pizza. But, it is best not to load it with too much of toppings otherwise the pizza base might get underdone.

* If you live in a colder climate, place the covered bowl in a larger bowl of warm water (not too hot) or near the heater. It might take a longer time to rise.

*I have used Bocconcini  cheese i.e mini mozzarella cheese in my chicken pizza, the size of an egg, hence one wouldn’t notice the cheese. My prawn pizza is topped with large mozzarella cheese balls which I would always prefer using.

*Chicken breasts can be pan-fried while waiting for the dough to rise.

* In case the temperature is too high reduce temperature to 175 degree Celsius (350 degree F) after 10 minutes.

*For more servings, double or triple the dough ingredients and portion the dough in Step 4 depending on the size of pizza. Wrap it with clingfirm and freeze for another day.

 

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