Pineapple tarts

I love pinapple tarts very much. It is delicious yet expensive. So I decided to make my own pineapple tarts.

I went to Sunshine to get all the ingredients needed like the wheat flour, corn flour, custard powder, and pineapple.

The pineapple jam was prepared yesterday. My mum helped me in preparing the pineapple and squeezing out the juice. Then we cooked the pinapple in a pot, added some brown sugar to sweeten it. We also used one cinnamon stick and one anise to flavour the pineapple. I used the brown sugar instead of the caster sugar because I don't want the jam to be too sweet.

I followed one of the recipes to prepare the pastry. However, it is really difficult to form the smooth dough. Finally, I managed to get something out with the help of my mum. Yeah... my mum is the best cook ever! Hats off to you mum!

Here are some pictures of my first ever pineapple tarts. The first picture shows the tarts made at the very beginning. They looked a bit ugly huh?!!

After practising on working with the cookies mould, here is what I got.

The cookies or the pastry is kind of dry. You can see the crack on each of the tarts. I guess I shouldn't have used corn flour since it absorbed water from the dough. Hmm... I think I need to keep practising until I get the right recipe.

Oscar is recovering well

Oscar has been undergoing a series of treatments since his first visit to Dr Gill's vet in late Jan. I decided to change the vet because I was too upset with the irresponsibility of Dr Yxxx!

Frankly speaking, I'm impressed by Gill's medical facilities they have for dogs and cats. They (doctors and assistants) care for dogs and cats just as the owner does and wanted the pets to live a long and happy life.

Oscar was diagnozed with the urine infection and overweight. His weight (6.25kg) was equivalent to the weight of a pug. To control Oscar's weight and the urine composition, we change his diet by feeding him feline prescription diet (maintenance) by Hills Science Plan. He has also been given with lots of tablets to help improving the urine composition.

Oscar is now fully recovered from the urine infection. However, there is still a minor blood cell in his kidney that we need to take an extra precaution of. Most likely we will have Oscar to go for the blood test. Anyway, I wish that he will pass this week's urine test so that he can get rid of taking the tablet soon.

Here is Oscar's picture taken last night. It is a Skype video snapshot so the picture is blurry.

He looks fat, isn't he? But he managed to lose some weight (the current weight is about 5.5kg) after taking the new diet.

Another blurry picture from me...