I remember a few years back, on the day my German Shepherd dog, Magnum passed away. He was lying in the bathroom of my sister's apartment, hardly breathing. This was the day I met Catherine Ceci, she is an animal communicator from Texas. She happened to be in Hong Kong because she was having a workshop over there. Magnum passed away very peacefully. Catherine told me he was very happy and his leg was not hurting anymore, even though we had never told her. I believed she could really communicate to animals, but this didn't help me to cope with my lost at all. I was very sad, I felt that I hadn't love him the best I could. I cried for three days, then on the third night I remembered Catherine was holding me to comfort me on the day Magnum passed away, she told me to read the section "Coping with Losses: In Memory of PSA" in her website (http://1spirit.com/spiritofhorses/psa.html). It is a very touching story about the life of a dog. My tears just could not stop, but once I finished reading the poem at the end of the story, my heart was full of joy for my dear Magnum, I was relieved. I believed that he was on his journey to another path in his life and his love would be with me forever.

Today I am in the cake making mood! I want to make a simple, but elegant cake. Since I bought a small basket of strawberries yesterday and I have some fresh whipping cream in my fridge, I decided to make a strawberry cake. The only difference between the traditional strawberry cake and mine, is that I use condensed milk in the whipping cream instead of icing sugar. The condensed milk can truly bring out the fragrant of the strawberries, it makes a huge difference in taste.

Time flies! Today is my son Kevin's five month old birthday and I made a Chestnut Cream Cake for him ( to be honest it's actually for his Mommy and Daddy!). Kevin is just not quite big enough to enjoy the cake yet. This particular cake is very popular in Hong Kong and it's not that hard to make at all. I didn't use fresh chestnuts but instead I used cooked chestnuts in bottles. I blended the cooked chestnuts in the blender with some milk and icing sugar to make a paste. I also made a chiffon cake base and added some whipped cream, that's all! Put everything together and voilà, a very simple chestnut cake.