Monday, October 25, 2010
Here's a post on a week's worth of events!
On Saturday, 16 Oct 2010, my family went to the same cousins' house again for another birthday celebration. Dinner was okay, and I had some tapioca kueh for dessert! Some of my aunts were going gaga over a recipe book on homemade bread, and I admit that I was tempted to borrow the book from them! There was a recipe on chestnut bread which looked lovely...but taste wise, I don't know!
I was kinda bored after dinner, so I headed for the 2nd floor and started smsing some of my friends. I tried doing a mini version of the current syllabus' kata while seated on the sofa, and G came by & noticed that I looked bored! Luckily, the silly guy started talking about electric guitars and such...and apparently, I didn't know that quite a no. of them were under Je for a while, then didn't continue O.O!! Benedict and Raf used to learn but gave up for different reasons...the former didn't listen to music while the latter was simply too lazy to learn. G was convinced by a friend to learn since secondary school as they had wanted to form a band back then, but post secondary and the lack of contact with that friend of his made him reluctant to pick it up again. No idea where his amp went to( prolly covered in a layer of dust by now haha!) but I tried his electric guitar!! Omg super cool, esp when I tried some songs such as Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine", MCR's "Welcome to the black parade"...and Hot Chelle Rae's " Bleed", I think?
Below is a birthday cake of Benedict's!
The family..!
The evening ended well, though Je wasn't there at all...and I was quite surprised that I was able to click with G, since he gave me the impression that he's quite an arrogant cousin for the aura that he gives off most of the time. Perhaps that's his way of being "cool", and it helped that I managed to mirror his cool haha!
I wanted to make butternut squash bisque on a Monday, but couldn't find butternut squash from ntuc the day before, so I substituted with pumpkin! Above are most of the ingredients used...more potato was required, but for photography's sake, I didn't bother haha! I changed the onions to shallots =X And I didn't use the whipping cream.
Chives! Unfortunately, most of the bunch went to waste as my mom said that too much will bring back old injuries...furthermore, this bisque recipe required only 1.5 tbsp chives, but she bought a whole bunch =S
Pumpkin! 1st time dealing with a pumpkin! Seriously speaking, this was the 1st time that we actually bought raw pumpkin. Cut it up, washed & dried the seeds & tried toasting them. They popped all over in the toaster =S which gave my mom a scare at 1st
Messy! =X
I tried toasting them longer, and ended up with dark brown seeds =X
I tried the lighter coloured ones, but couldn't really appreciate the taste since I could barely bite, but I thought they were fine though.
Soup! Had to manually blend them to bits using a sieve as we tried transferring some to the blender but the liquid flowed out when the blades were moving even though it was kinda tight =S
The final result with chives! It was kinda salty...so I tried adding some milk and that greatly improved the taste!
Tues was spent on badminton. I played rather half-heartedly since I was kinda tired of playing doubles, and stoned for most of the game which resulted in a pathetically slow reaction. I think JM was quite fed up of that cos I noticed that he didn't direct the shuttlecock much to me, which left me to daydream further during the game lol! Then MN, ZR, YY and I went off to Justus' house, where YY and ZR grabbed an apple from the fridge...when they were done, all of us had a potong icecream from the fridge which Justus bought when it was his birthday, but we were too full back then to eat anymore! Dinner was fine though I regretted ordering noodles as the thickness needed more precise biting, and I can't bite =(
Went shopping on Weds on my own...and I noticed a trend about my solo shopping, which would be to head out fairly late, grab a mos shake, walk around the upper floors of ngee ann city while drinking & then off to kinokuniya!!
Even though I'm kinda annoyed that I couldn't find any nice clothes on weds, I managed to unearth this godsend book while pouring over the shelves! XD There were 2 macaron books, and I settled on this one since I compared the ingredients, pictures & instructions, and concluded that macaron shells pretty taste much of the same, apart from some recipes such as chocolate macs. This may be twice as expensive as the other book, but at least there's more recipes and there's no weird instructions such as having to toast the flour just before using!!!
Spent about 1 lovely hour there...it's always nice to be surrounded by books & magazines XD Both books used the french meringue method, so please wish me good luck when I do try to make them, because after piping the meringue onto the covered tray, I'd have to wait for another 2-6 hours for the crust to form before putting into the oven to bake!!! This crust forming depends on humidity...the less humid, the faster it will form...and most unfortunately, I'm in S'pore, so with a little bit of luck, perhaps I'd be able to complete everything in 2 days...and I hope that I'm exaggerating, cos it's no joke putting so much time into something only to find out that they may fail. I think I mentioned before about liking how elegant they look, apart from being delish and pretty! Will persevere in making them anyway haha. Yummeh! Wonder how do our local patissiers make this...think I should do some research on drying them faster XD
Ninja-do class was cool! Did the kata, and am still trying to move with grace & style, but still far from it =X The irritating haze made training less rigorous though. MN joined us for the 1st time for dinner, and she sat in between ZR and I while poking him lots. Went home and had supper!
The evening ended well, though Je wasn't there at all...and I was quite surprised that I was able to click with G, since he gave me the impression that he's quite an arrogant cousin for the aura that he gives off most of the time. Perhaps that's his way of being "cool", and it helped that I managed to mirror his cool haha!
I wanted to make butternut squash bisque on a Monday, but couldn't find butternut squash from ntuc the day before, so I substituted with pumpkin! Above are most of the ingredients used...more potato was required, but for photography's sake, I didn't bother haha! I changed the onions to shallots =X And I didn't use the whipping cream.
Chives! Unfortunately, most of the bunch went to waste as my mom said that too much will bring back old injuries...furthermore, this bisque recipe required only 1.5 tbsp chives, but she bought a whole bunch =S
Pumpkin! 1st time dealing with a pumpkin! Seriously speaking, this was the 1st time that we actually bought raw pumpkin. Cut it up, washed & dried the seeds & tried toasting them. They popped all over in the toaster =S which gave my mom a scare at 1st
Messy! =X
I tried toasting them longer, and ended up with dark brown seeds =X
I tried the lighter coloured ones, but couldn't really appreciate the taste since I could barely bite, but I thought they were fine though.
Soup! Had to manually blend them to bits using a sieve as we tried transferring some to the blender but the liquid flowed out when the blades were moving even though it was kinda tight =S
The final result with chives! It was kinda salty...so I tried adding some milk and that greatly improved the taste!Tues was spent on badminton. I played rather half-heartedly since I was kinda tired of playing doubles, and stoned for most of the game which resulted in a pathetically slow reaction. I think JM was quite fed up of that cos I noticed that he didn't direct the shuttlecock much to me, which left me to daydream further during the game lol! Then MN, ZR, YY and I went off to Justus' house, where YY and ZR grabbed an apple from the fridge...when they were done, all of us had a potong icecream from the fridge which Justus bought when it was his birthday, but we were too full back then to eat anymore! Dinner was fine though I regretted ordering noodles as the thickness needed more precise biting, and I can't bite =(
Went shopping on Weds on my own...and I noticed a trend about my solo shopping, which would be to head out fairly late, grab a mos shake, walk around the upper floors of ngee ann city while drinking & then off to kinokuniya!!
Even though I'm kinda annoyed that I couldn't find any nice clothes on weds, I managed to unearth this godsend book while pouring over the shelves! XD There were 2 macaron books, and I settled on this one since I compared the ingredients, pictures & instructions, and concluded that macaron shells pretty taste much of the same, apart from some recipes such as chocolate macs. This may be twice as expensive as the other book, but at least there's more recipes and there's no weird instructions such as having to toast the flour just before using!!!
Spent about 1 lovely hour there...it's always nice to be surrounded by books & magazines XD Both books used the french meringue method, so please wish me good luck when I do try to make them, because after piping the meringue onto the covered tray, I'd have to wait for another 2-6 hours for the crust to form before putting into the oven to bake!!! This crust forming depends on humidity...the less humid, the faster it will form...and most unfortunately, I'm in S'pore, so with a little bit of luck, perhaps I'd be able to complete everything in 2 days...and I hope that I'm exaggerating, cos it's no joke putting so much time into something only to find out that they may fail. I think I mentioned before about liking how elegant they look, apart from being delish and pretty! Will persevere in making them anyway haha. Yummeh! Wonder how do our local patissiers make this...think I should do some research on drying them faster XDNinja-do class was cool! Did the kata, and am still trying to move with grace & style, but still far from it =X The irritating haze made training less rigorous though. MN joined us for the 1st time for dinner, and she sat in between ZR and I while poking him lots. Went home and had supper!
Aww you're so cute!!
