August 2, 2015

Sunday Humour: On Line Dancing

Category: Entertainment

The origin of Pee Dance explained: 

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Source: Google Image

Now this couldn’t have been a clearer explanation! Although I would love to know of an explanation why women usually take forever to get out of the bathroom…

May your week be filled with dances of life that doesn’t include the pee-dance while waiting for the next available bathroom! 🙂

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August 1, 2015

100 Followers!

Category: Random

It’s been a slow ride, but as of yesterday, Grubbs ‘n Critters has officially hit the 100 WP followers mark; with Andrew, author of Great Thoughts being the latest and 100th follower of my blog! Whatever made you hit follow, thank you for you are the special blogger that sealed my 100!

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My current tally as of today stands at a nice number of 105 in total for my blog and 158 followers on Twitter. At this stage, I couldn’t be more grateful and thrilled at how far we have come along. To date, I have more than 13.7K views with 5.4K visitors and to me that is HUGE! So thank, thank you, thank you!

Mucho Gracias to all my followers and loyal readers. Thank you for being a part of Grubbs ‘n Critters for you have inspired me to continue writing and making me feel like a million dollars. And I can’t say “Thank You” enough.

This has been a small milestone for me and apart from Andrew, I also like to highlight a few other recent followers in the past week for you to check out:

The blogging community has been amazing and I do hope you’ll keep coming back. Nothing makes me happier than being able to read your comments and letting me know of your feedback (especially on gremlins on my site which I otherwise am not aware of). There is so much to learn!

Speaking of learning, I also learnt that some of my posts had got more than 100+ likes which I think is an insane numbers of likes. As you know, I am not able to track the “likers” as I get none of those free and convenient WordPress features because I’m self-hosted…so I have noooo clue who the “likers” are. I am inclined to assume that they could just be bots or “trigger-likers” as the page-view numbers were nothing to shout about.

Regardless, seeing a spike in likes always amuse me and these are some of my posts with crazy Likes numbers:

The last one was a little weird to me; I was effectively saying that I’m going off the radar for a while and I get “Likes”. Hmmmm. I think I’ll go with the idea that they (or the bots) like my photos, instead.

Otherwise, this has been a great journey and I hope to get many more followers along the way. Have I mentioned that there’ll be some award nominations coming up from my end? Look out for it as there’s a chance that I’ll be nominating YOU, so please do continue to be on my radar! And if you haven’t yet, come give me a nudge. 🙂

I’m baking to celebrate. The house is smelling like heaven. Here’s to all of you and once again.  You all make me feel like a kazillion** dollars! 

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Source: Google Image

** In the words of Barb Knowles.

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July 31, 2015

Fabulous Friday Flavour: Avocado Milkshake (Es Alpokat)

Es Alpokat or Jus Alpokat is a well-known, refreshing beverage found in Indonesia or most Indonesian Restaurants. It’s made with avocado as the main ingredient, is milkshake-like and sometimes, they are made with coffee.

It has always been my favourite authentic Indonesian beverage since I first discovered it in my youth when we traveled to Indonesia with my parents. I’ve also preferred it without coffee – a strange thing because I’m such a coffee addict.

Given a choice, I’d drink it everyday if I could. It’s made with super food and is pretty healthy for consumption. The kids love it too! Unfortunately,it’s not something we can do that often because at more than 2 USD per fruit, it would deem a little too expensive for an everyday consumption.

In that respect, I think that the Indonesians are lucky to have access to locally grown avocados that are not too expensive. Bummer that they aren’t they growing avocados here in Bangkok.

These days, it has been more of Silver Bullet’s specialty. He’s perfected the technique and using just the right amount of ingredients such that it isn’t too sweet, too thick or too thin. It’s too yummy not to share!

Avocado Milkshake (Es Alpokat)
Serves 2
A refreshing Indonesian-inspired beverage for any time of the day!
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Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
5 min
Total Time
10 min
Prep Time
5 min
Cook Time
5 min
Total Time
10 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 avocados
  2. 2-3 tbsp condensed milk
  3. 2-3 tbsp evaporated milk (you can also use fresh milk)
  4. 100 g palm sugar
  5. 100 ml water
  6. 1 glass of ice-cubes
  7. Some chocolate syrup
Instructions
  1. On medium heat, dissolve the palm sugar in the water. Slow boil for 5-10 minutes to reduce it to a syrup
  2. In a blender, combine avocados, condensed milk, evaporate milk and ice-cubes
  3. Add the palm sugar syrup and adjust to taste
  4. Blend them up all. You can add a little bit of water to get the desired thickness (consistency of a milkshake)
  5. Coat the inside of a glass with chocolate syrup by tilting the glass slightly and drip the chocolate syrup around the inside of the glass
  6. Pour the blended avocado shake into the glass
  7. Serve
Notes
  1. Top with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry for a more festive look.
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Whoever invented this is/was a genius. It’s a pretty heavy beverage but perfect for any occasion and can be consumed at any time of the day. In fact, just typing this recipe makes me crave for a glass of avocado milkshake – I want it right here, right now!

Enjoy!

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P.S:

Next week is our Monthly Mystery Munchies week with Gen of Eat, Play, Clove happening on 1st Friday of every month where we’ll be posting up our recipe(s) from several ingredients/theme which we both had agreed upon. The twist is we don’t know what the other person would be dishing up and we’ll be posting it up about the same time. My turn to come up with the challenge this time. Don’t forget to pop by! 🙂

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