My 3rd attempt at Jellyhearts

On sunday I tried my hands at jellyhearts again. Everything came out PERFECT! No floaties. The 2nd attempt went quite bad, there were many floaties, more than the first time. Lucky I have enough nice looking ones to give to my cousin, Rachel... as I have made them specially for her. Elaine... don't get jealous here now.. hahahah. I will also make some for you when you are back.

After this 3rd try, I finally realised that making jellyhearts need loads of patience. You definitely cannot make them in a rush. After pouring the cheese and placing in the strawberries, I locked up the fridge doors to prevent my kids from opening them. As you know, kids have the habit of opening fridge doors just for the fun of it. With the doors closed for at least 2 hours, the cheese was able to harden up properly and therefore holding down the strawberries firmly. So when I pour in the jelly, the strawberries will not float up.

I have also managed to find square paper cups for the jellyhearts. Next will be to find either 1" or smaller heart-shaped cutter, to make smaller jellyhearts.

Prawn fishing

Bought my kids for prawn fishing on Saturday. We had great fun and everyone managed to fish a prawn or two. We spent about 2 hours and got 33 prawns. Well.... actually we only caught 7 prawns. This was what happend... after 2 hours, we retured our rods to the counter and pack the prawns into a plastic bag. Then a man came over to see our 'catch of the day' and asked how much time we have spent to catch the prawns. My hubby told him 2 hours. He replied saying, "2 hours and so little prawns, come let me get you some more". He just took our bag of prawns and walk all the way to the back of the ponds. At first we thought he was probably another customer, who has caught tons of prawns and was kind to give us some. Turned out he is the boss. He went to his storage area (where he kept all his supplies of prawns), took a net and scope a big bunch of prawns into our bag. We were lost for words with his generousity. Plus the 15 prawns that my hubby caught the day before, in total we had 48. The next day, we invited some friends over for steamboat. Yummy!