The letter B Lapbook

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Angeline
Since we’re officially moving on the letter C, I thought it’s time to do up the letter B lapbook so that we can file the teaching materials up nicely and neatly. So here’s how the letter B lapbook looks like:

This is the cover of the file: I cut out the upper and lower case of the letter B from her art work. This is one way in which to make use of all those pieces of art that are clogging up the house… lol. I like using her art work to decorate stuff… I feel that it gives a special touch. 😀
Here’s what’s inside the file:

I couldn’t fit in the pictures and words into one envelope so I have two envelopes for the word-pic matching game cum collage. There’s also the bookmark which she painted which I’ve stored into a plastic holder which is stuck on the file. And there’s that penguin-button game I made for her, stuck onto the file using velcro so that it can be removed anytime if she wants to play with it.

The butterfly toilet paper roll craft obviously can’t fit into the lapbook so it’s still sitting on my TV console… 😀


And that’s all for the letter B! 🙂 Moving on!
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Teriyaki chicken… I finally got it right!

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Angeline


Yes, the title says it all. I finally got the teriyaki chicken the way I want it to taste on my second attempt. This time, I thrashed the previous recipe I used (since it didn’t yield desired results), and tried out this one instead and bingo! 😀 Cooking sake’s the key to the taste! lol…

Teriyaki chicken

Ingredients:
  • 3 chicken thighs (about 340g) – deboned, visible fats removed (you may wish to keep the skin on, but I didn’t today)
Poke the chicken meat then marinate it with:
  • 2T brown sugar
  • 1.5T light soy sauce
  • 2T cooking sake
  • 4T mirin

Method:
  1. Heat oil in a pan.
  2. Fry the marinated chicken thighs, reserve the marinade for later use. If you kept the skin on, fry the skin side of the chicken on medium heat till it’s brown. If you didn’t, just fry till the surface of the chicken is cooked (not reddish anymore).
  3. Flip over and continue frying the chicken on low heat.
  4. Pour the rest of the marinade into the pan and steam cook (cover the pan) till the chicken is thoroughly cooked through.
  5. Remove the cover and cook chicken on low heat till the sauce has thickened (there shouldn’t be a lot of sauce left).
  6. Slice the chicken if desired.
  7. Garnish and serve.

For toddler’s consumption:
  • Cut chicken into small pieces before serving.
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