Since I have some free time tonight while the boy has gone for water polo and L4D, I figured I'd just do some easy blogging and post some foody pictures :)
Parents invited some friends over for dinner, so I helped Mum with some of the preparations.
Home made chawamushi before it goes into the steamer!
Chopping the star shaped carrots :)
Japanese Cold Spinach
Shabu Shabu
Parents & their friends in the Tatami dining room.
One weekend we had a world renown dim sum chef in my kitchen teaching us how to cook :) Some e-articles about him at the World Gourmet Summit and the E Travel Blackboard websites.
Right so we started off making dumplings (we ended up making like four different kinds of dumplings!)
Shrimp Dumplings with Hua Tiao Jiu in Steamed Eggs & Crabmeat and then Dumplings with Sze Chuan Sour & Spicy Sauce
Making Ginger Paste for Chicken Rice
More dumplings!
Deep frying the silken tofu.
Scooping out the top and then stuffing the filling into it before putting it into the steamer. This turned out to be super duper yummy btw.
Right. Fresh Frogs which eventually became frog legs! Kind of gross watching the process of deskinning and chopping!
Seasoning the Fish Head --> Fish Head Dish which I personally do not eat.
Process of cooking the different types of prawns. We had: salted egg yolk prawns, wasabi prawns, drunken prawns and pak chiok har! My pictures do not do them justice!
My favourite avocado dessert in the making & some duck dish which they said was very good, but I do not eat duck.
Right. I'm super duper lazy to put up any more pictures so I shall do the rest another day.
Right and a recap of the past few days for my future self to remember what my days were once filled with:
- The boyfriend brought me down to The Corporate Office today to enquire about my UK visa extension, we had lunch at Chili's again, came home and took a nap together before dinner.
- Lunch at La Nonna HV yesterday and we thought both the service as well as the quality of the food cannot compare to the other branch at all. Dinner was just as unsatisfying because we tried buying fish from NTUC instead of the usual butcher/gourmet place that we go to and it was absolutely vile. It was like eating plastic, I kid you not, pretty much everyone didn't touch our dinners. Went to Adam Road to take away Olua. Wanted our fave dessert but the stall was closed already so we went to Island Creamery for some takeaway.
- Sunday lunch with D's family at Pow Sing (my first time, and surprisingly good!) and then home for Top Gear before heading out to spend some time with my godbrother.
- Saturday we cooked for D's family and then watched Top Gear. Supper with Bong & Pam at TCC. Reminiscent of when I used to live in Orchard and the boy&I would frequent that place at least twice or thrice a week.
And finally, just some random thoughts before I log off:
- Was feeling kind of blue & moody today, but have convinced myself that I am being silly and should not kick up a fuss
- Had a heart warming talk with a dear friend with whom things have been difficult lately, and am glad we finally did have a talk (if you can call it that) because I do actually miss him and want things to be like they used to be. Actually kind of teared (fine, cried) while I was talking to him because its been ages; it's been something I've been trying to push to the back of my mind and not deal with; and I guess I was already feeling blue before that. But am happier now :)
- AM CURRENTLY OBSESSED WITH TOP GEAR. I know it's completely uncharacteristic of me, but I swear it's so much more than a car show! I love love love love it!
- The replay song of the night on my playlist is: MLTR's "A complicated heart"
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