Good Tips to fight mosquitoes

My hubby sent me an email recently on how you can get rid of mosquitoes the cheap way. The answer is Listerine. According to the mail, just pour Listerine in a spray bottle and spray around the places that have mosquitoes.

Here's the comments from the mail:
"I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works - in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my family bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn't take much and it is a big bottle, too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of Bug-spray you buy that doesn't last 30 minutes. So, try this,please. It will last a couple of days. Don't spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house.Now these are Good repellant for Mosquitos!!!"

By the way, I also found out some DIY ways to get rid of insects like cockroach and fruit flies. This is what I did.

• To get rid of Cockroach - I bought lemon grass from the market and just throw one or two on those places that attract cockroach.
  
• To get rid of fruit flies - I take one lemon grass and grind it in a food processor then I cook it in about 3 cups of water and leave it to cool, after that I pour the mixture into a spray bottles and spray it on the fruits like banana that attracts fruit flies and it works! So try it, it such a cheap and earth friendly way to get rid of insects.

Pizzary Muffins

Baby FAN has been really really picky with her food these few days, she simply refuse to eat anything that is normal like rice, porridge, noodles and potatoes. She just wants to eat food that she can picks up with her fingers like biscuits and yogurt. So tried my hand at making some mini muffins for her to try, hope she likes it.

Pizzazzy Pizza Muffins
(adapted from Super Baby Food Book)

Ingredients & Directions

• 1 3/4 cups Flour (I combine 2 tbs of wheat germ, 2 tbs of formula milk powder and top up the rest with unbleached flour)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tbs fresh or dry oregano (as I only have the italian seasoning, I used that instead)
• 1 beaten egg
• 1/2 cup of homemade tomato sauce (I used 2 tbs of maggi tomato ketchup instead)
• 1 cup yogurt
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

1. Preheat oven to 200 del celsius.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and all the wet ingredients in another bowl.
3. Mix wet ingredients into dry.
4. Pour into greased muffin tins and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Mango Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake

It's my sis's birthday, so decided to try making a nice cake for her. But I thought a normal chocolate cake was quite boring since she could have bought it anywhere, so decided to trying making something unique and of my own creation and I came up with this Mango Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake. Of course, I don't just come out with the recipe without consulting the website. Found this Mango Cheesecake recipe from My-Cheesecake-Recipes.com and decided to give it a try and added some chocolate to make it more interesting. I frosted the cake with the chocolate butter frosting used in my previous Chocolate Birthday Cheesecake. Made an angel as my sis likes angel, but think it still look a little childish and not as elegant as I have wanted. Well, here's the finished product.

Mango Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake

Ingredients

Base

• 125g plain sweet biscuits
• 60g butter, melted

Filling

• 250g cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 fresh mango
• 200g tub mango yoghurt (I used normal plain yogurt as I can't find mango yogurt)

Chocolate Swirl

• 80g dark chocolate
  

Directions

For the base

1. Crush biscuits in a food processor or with the end of a rolling pin.
2. Add melted butter and stir well to combine.
   
3. Press into the base of a 20cm springform cake tin. Refrigerate until set.

For the Filling

1. Beat cream cheese until smooth.
   
2. Add sugar and beat well.
   
3. Add eggs and vanilla, again beating well.
   
4. Chop half of the mango in to small pieces and fold into cheese mixture together with the yogurt.
   
5. Reserved 1/3 of the mixture for the chocolate swirl. Pour the rest into the chilled base.

For the Chocolate Swirl

1. Melt chocolate and mix it into the reserved cheese mixture.
2. Pour mixture into a piping bag. Then pipe the chocolate mixture into the cheese filling using a circular motion. Then used a chocolate stick and swirl the chocolate mixture into the cheese mixture.
3. Bake the mixture at 180 degrees celsius for 20 to 25 minutes or until firm. Allow to cool in oven with door slightly ajar. Refrigerate when completely cool.