Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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Pumpkin Chocolate Almond Wholewheat Bread


1. 55g Olands wholewheat flour (25% of total flour weight)
2. 165g wheat flour
3. 1 tsp baking soda
4. 2 tsp cinnamon powder
5. 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
6. 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
7. A dash of salt
8. 2 eggs 
9. 30g sugar
10. 50g brown sugar (total 80g sugar 36% of total flour weight)
11. 340g pumpkin puree
12. 120g vegetable oil (I use sesame oil) (54% of total flour weight)
13. 30g orange juice
14. 50g chocolate chips
15. A handful of almonds unchopped 

Pumpkin Puree:

1. 1/2 Hokkaido or Crown Prince pumpkin seeds removed
2. 8 dried dates pitted
3. 30g skimmed fresh milk

Directions:

Pumpkin Puree:

1. Bake 1/2 pumpkin at 170 degree C for 30 minutes or until soft.
2. Add 30g fresh milk, 8 pitted date and blend in a food processor until creamy and set aside to cool down.

Pumpkin Bread:

1. In a mixing bowl, add 55g Olands wholewheat flour, 165g flour, 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder, 1/2 teaspoon cardamon powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, a dash of salt and mix well.

2. In another mixing bowl, add 2 eggs, 30g sugar and 50g brown sugar and mix well. Add 340g pumpkin puree, 120g vegetable oil and 30g orange juice and mix well.

3. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix well.

4. Gently fold in the chocolate chips and almonds.

5. Grease a bread pan with oil on all side and the bottom.

6. Pour the bread mixture into the bread pan.

7. Bake at 175 degree C for an hour, checking for doneness by inserting a tooth pick after it has been baking for 55 mins. If the tooth pick comes out clean, it means the bread is done. Take it out of the oven.

8. Let the bread cool down first before cutting and serving.

Additional Information:

I am trying to find out what can I make with my pumpkin puree and found this wonderful recipe!!!

I used Crown Prince pumpkin to make the pumpkin puree. I reduced the sugar from 250g to 80g (37% of total flour weight). I substituted the original recipe plain flour with 25% of Olands wholewheat flour. I reduce the chocolate chips from 120g to 50g and used dark chocolate chips. I added almonds. I use neutral sesame oil for this batch and it turned out great. I omitted ginger powder and clove powder as I didn't have them. Daddy FECS and C really liked it. We made this for Halloween tomorrow. We don't celebrate Halloween, but will be having family fun time instead.

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Saturday, 30 October 2021

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How to Deal with Halloween as Christians?

 

This year our Little FECS and our Baby FECS chose to make a pumpkin house instead of a smiley face pumpkin.

As the evening winded down, our lonely pumpkin house grew more and more surrounded and a little too busy 🤣

Baby FECS added the rose petals bed.

Daddy FECS added the windmill - his love and pride ❤️ 

The only prop missing perhaps was Cinderella and the horse to turn it into a pumpkin carriage 😂 Well, maybe next year… for now Cinderella can make do with the yellow school bus added by our Little FECS 😁

We wanted to honor God and don’t want to celebrate scary things. So this is just our way of going against the cultural norm and still making it a little fun for our kids 😊

May the warmth, love, joy and peace of God fill your home today 🙂

Here are some of my posts on how we deal with Halloween:














Wednesday, 28 October 2020

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Alternative Ideas for Halloween


Halloween is round the corner. Call me rigid, but I have bravely resisted celebrating Halloween all these years, thereby going against contemporary cultural norms and holding on to our principle that we don’t want to glorify ghosts and devils, no matter how innocent, fun and cute they are made to look. 

But it’s an excellent opportunity to teach Baby FECS (4Y5M11D) the beauty of the human body parts and skeleton. Thanks to a friend for this idea😃

Baby FECS then lie on it to see if she fits the size of the skeleton. We also tried to place the word for the respective body parts on the skeleton drawing.













Saturday, 26 October 2013

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Halloween


Halloween is everywhere. It is hard to avoid it. But can we celebrate it in a wholesome way? We are thankful to find this book which provide a Christian perspective to the celebration of Halloween that is wholesome, cheerful, edifying and encouraging. It tells how God is like the farmer, and we are like the pumpkins, chosen by Him, our cores are made clean by Him and given His light. May this Halloween filled your lives with the light of God's love. 


20.10.2013 (4Y7M15D) - Carving out a cheerful Jacl-O-Lantern together with Daddy.

Daddy drawing out the face and...

carving out the "head"...





Removing hte pulp together...

Here is the finished Jack-O-Lantern, looking happy and cute :-)

The happy glow glowing in the dark :-)


This book is available from Amazon:



References:
http://godandpoliticsuk.org/2013/10/09/halloween-harmless-or-harmful/

http://www.thebettermom.com/blog/2015/10/17/being-a-light-on-a-dark-night

Updates 14 October 2014

19 October 2014









Updates: 11 October 2015



Updates 28 October 2015:

Our Little FECS was so proud to show me the pumpkin that he carved all by himself without any help, when he got home from the Scouts today.

Our Little FECS with his model Scout friend, B, that we all love :-)




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