made me laugh SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard today! ok ok i admit my hokkien is like that big piece of excrement after you've had the spiciest plate of belacan sotong but it was worth it to see the ABC dripping down Genius's face! Genius, this is a public apology to you okay! i am VERYVERYVERY sorry i whacked you so hard that the ABC splashed on your face!
but seriously. you are one of the very few people who would just laugh it off. and i thank you for that :D
seee...that's why we can be friends till today, right or not? hehehe
so the question now is, do you pick the green dress cause it suits you? lol.
bleh. no sleep tonight eh.
help!
i need a new template for my blog. something that has a lighter, almost white background (clouds absolutely necessary) and with not so much margin space at the sides like the present one has.
how come blogger provides such a smaall space for editing text and all that? when i put in my photos, it takes up all the editing space then i can't refer to the photo when i am blogging. am i blogging the wrong way? do i need to put it all into word first then copy paste? and the adding photos is suchh a hassle...i can only add 5 at a time and i have to keep going back to my external folder anytime i click Browse. why don't they have a feature like facebook does?
how confusing :S
i want i want i wantt.....sengboi kay! :D :D :D
how come blogger provides such a smaall space for editing text and all that? when i put in my photos, it takes up all the editing space then i can't refer to the photo when i am blogging. am i blogging the wrong way? do i need to put it all into word first then copy paste? and the adding photos is suchh a hassle...i can only add 5 at a time and i have to keep going back to my external folder anytime i click Browse. why don't they have a feature like facebook does?
how confusing :S
i want i want i wantt.....sengboi kay! :D :D :D
hmm
this is what he just told me.
對你的感情 始終 未 變.
my reaction? honestly?
when i read it i was waiting for one. up till now which is about 5 minutes or more. the general feeling is of huh-ness. like i said a hundred times. i really DON'T KNOW.
but i know one thing. i am happy now. :)
對你的感情 始終 未 變.
my reaction? honestly?
when i read it i was waiting for one. up till now which is about 5 minutes or more. the general feeling is of huh-ness. like i said a hundred times. i really DON'T KNOW.
but i know one thing. i am happy now. :)
Donna Hay's Lemon Puddings (blur-pic-heavy and irritatedness-heavy :P)
so the Old Man has gone fishing and very nicely taken the car with him, which has rendered me immobile and lifeless. i decided to finally try making what i had always thought to be"fail-proof" lemon puddings.
(typing while watching Spirits of Love on Astro ch 301, and no subtitles again~!! argh)
i first came upon this recipe in one of my cooking guru, Donna Hay's books, i think it was 'off the shelf'. it's crazy-easy to make, just dump all the ingredients in a blender, pour and bake. this time though, i didn't have any paper muffin cups so i decided to make a Marie-biscuit crust, like a cheesecake crust.
so i improvised and used a plastic strainer to sieve the blended biscuits into a bowl as i didn't have (read:lazy to look for:D). it worked pretty well, the result was like fine sand. so far so good right? :D
i did NOT remember this recipe needing absolutely COPIOUS amounts of butter however. the concept is to mix the blended biscuits with butter to create a crumbly dough, which you can then press into a crust.
i think i added about 7 heaping tablespoons of Golden Churn butter, which is the best you can get really, and suddenly realised that i was running out of butter and the puddings itself required at least 90g! so i switched to this instead:
i was using 2 bowls and mixing like mad and it took me freaking AGES to come up with the consistency i wanted. i finally realised my mistake was in melting the butter, i think you get a better result with softened butter, and you don't even have to use as much as i did! ah, well, it's been more than a year, i'm rusty what can i say :D
so the whole idea was to make mini shells by pressing the dough into the bottom and the sides of the individual cups in the muffin pan. the whole process was DAMN messy, crumbs everywhere.
i highly appreciate the work of food bloggers who photograph every single step they make now, unless they have someone helping them to take the photos, it's no easy task! you're so eager to move on to the next step but you have to stop, wash your hands, get the camera ready with the correct focus and lighting and angle and evrything! as you can tell i got fed up halfway and simply snapped away :D
a close-up of the shell, it took me like half an hour or more to make these. i started by pressing the bottom first but found it was much easier to start with the sides.
put about 2 teaspoons of the dough in the cup (remember to butter it first) and make a small hole in the middle so the dough is about evenly divided all around. then press it up against the sides with the back of the teaspoon, using your index finger to pat the tops straight. any excess will just fall into the middle.
then add another level teaspoon of dough for the base and pat flat with your finger (which of course has been appropriately Dettol-ed beforehand ;)) use the spoon to smooth out the sides.
see. told you i was messy! oven was preheated to 180C, and this went in for about 5 minutes. MISTAKE! will tell you why later.
now for the filling. 7 ingredients which you just measure out and blend! 90g of softened butter, but of course i only had about 2 tablespoons of that left and had to compensate for the rest with the Olive Grove spread.
Gourmet Sleuth has a great conversion tool that allows you to convert any kind of food to various measurements. i couldn't be bothered with weighing out the butter so i used this to figure out how many tablespoons of butter i would need.
the recipe also called for 1 and 1/2 cups of caster sugar but i only put in a little more than 1 cup because Western people eat like diabetes doesn't exist in this world. besides, it was all the sugar that was left in the box :D
so i had a moment of panic when i was on my second to last lemon and i realised the cup was only this full! and i only had this left!
as expected it barely helped and i took the other discarded lemons in the sink and squeezed them to hell with my hands. i finally managed to get this:
oh well. good enough. NEXT!
so the whole thing got blended quite a bit and ended up in this delightful frothy mass. don't worry if it's too liquid-y, the flour and baking powder will help to solidify it.
as usual there was a lot , which is a good thing as i will bake some more fresh ones for Diehard when he comes over, and i can get to change the ingredients a bit too maybe.
the DAMN oven bell wasn't loud enough for me to hear, or perhaps i was too kanchiong over my lemon juice but it came out looking like this! i don't think it looks as bad in the photo as it did in real life, it was seriously leaning towards chocolate man. after i took it out, i realised i would have to bake it again with the filling for 20 minutes at least. i think it would be better for me to chill it then bake together with the filling next time. sigh. nevermind. moving on!
yes yes. i'm a messy baker. i will never be hired in Taka. again, don't freak if you think it's too watery, it's pudding, not cake!
in the over for 20-25 minutes at 180C....
and puffing up at the 20th minute! i didn't want to make the same mistake so i sat outside for the last 5 minutes listening to songs on my phone. of course i had to go come up with some brilliant idea of turning on the grill to 'brown' the tops of my puddings. and of course it went overboard and produced this:
oh kill me. i hate cooking at home. i'm not used to the kitchen. the oven sucks.
excuses excuses :D
close-up of the nicest-looking (read: unburnt) one :D
er...right?
seeee....told you they would firm up. i only took off the sides for this only only, the rest i left on. cause yeah, i was too lazy ok!
verdict? not lemon-y enough for me, probably cause of the lack of lemon juice and also that the lemons themselves had been in the fridge for ages! also REAL butter would have been better, and i think i added a bit too much flour and not enough sugar. well, i'm the only one to have had them so far, so we will see what other people say. but the first time i made them in Koko's house, everyone liked them! and my family is very picky.
better luck next time!
Odette Chocolate biscuit (or, i really have nothing else to blog about)
this morning my family went to the Teochew Cemetary where my paternal grandpa and great-grandma are. call me morbid but i like going there, it's a beautiful, peaceful place. i would like to post photos but it might be 'pantang' or something, so you'll just have to take my word for it ;)
after the Teochew Cemetary we went to my mother's place, cause my youngest aunt hadn't seen the finished grave yet. hmm, just typing that word makes me feel weird, i still feel that words like that are not associated with my mother :P anyway i saw a family at the end visiting what appeared like a new grave. one of them, a young girl not more than 20 years, just stood at then end the whole time, not moving, just looking. i wish i could have gone over to her and put my arm around her, just to let her know she wasn't alone in what she was feeling. but this is Asia, and i didn't :P
we went to have breakfast after that and had to split up cause Expert Food Court at 4 & 1/2 mile was PACKED completely. so the rest of us went to Lau Tee Fang kopitiam instead, and i got some o-cho mee (black vinegar noodles). yumminess! since i've been back from Bangkok, i've taken to eating cut chili with my food, something i never used to do at all. my kakak says it will help to 'heat' my body up and enable me to withstand the cold better. it remains to be seen, but i don't think it's working for her! everytime i turn on the a/c she starts complaining like mad, and her belacan is the one-drop-will-make-your-world-spin kind!
Old Man came in as i was facebooking (i'm such an addict, i have it set as my homepage :S), put this on my table, proclaimed it as very nice and left. he's so weird sometimes. it was all broken inside so i carefully rearranged it for the photo lol. he came back from Korea recently and brought a WHOLE LOAD of stuff with him. lots of Korean biscuity things given by colleagues and LOTS of dried squid. wow. korean dried squid is no kidding good stuff man. another post about it if i ever get around to it :D
anyway, it was just okaayyy in my opinion. the biscuit was crunchy and caramel-ish, and there was a THIN chocolate filling in the middle, with obvious emphasis on thin (not that i should be complaining, Ms. 56!!!) it's made by the famous Korean company, Lotte.
ARGH~!!! had a tissue that i put aside cause i only used a small part to wipe my mouth with and the whole thing suddenly became infested with ants mann. i have a serious ant problem. anyone got any good suggestions?
what shall i do now? death note or heroes or nanny mcphee?
after the Teochew Cemetary we went to my mother's place, cause my youngest aunt hadn't seen the finished grave yet. hmm, just typing that word makes me feel weird, i still feel that words like that are not associated with my mother :P anyway i saw a family at the end visiting what appeared like a new grave. one of them, a young girl not more than 20 years, just stood at then end the whole time, not moving, just looking. i wish i could have gone over to her and put my arm around her, just to let her know she wasn't alone in what she was feeling. but this is Asia, and i didn't :P
we went to have breakfast after that and had to split up cause Expert Food Court at 4 & 1/2 mile was PACKED completely. so the rest of us went to Lau Tee Fang kopitiam instead, and i got some o-cho mee (black vinegar noodles). yumminess! since i've been back from Bangkok, i've taken to eating cut chili with my food, something i never used to do at all. my kakak says it will help to 'heat' my body up and enable me to withstand the cold better. it remains to be seen, but i don't think it's working for her! everytime i turn on the a/c she starts complaining like mad, and her belacan is the one-drop-will-make-your-world-spin kind!
Old Man came in as i was facebooking (i'm such an addict, i have it set as my homepage :S), put this on my table, proclaimed it as very nice and left. he's so weird sometimes. it was all broken inside so i carefully rearranged it for the photo lol. he came back from Korea recently and brought a WHOLE LOAD of stuff with him. lots of Korean biscuity things given by colleagues and LOTS of dried squid. wow. korean dried squid is no kidding good stuff man. another post about it if i ever get around to it :D
anyway, it was just okaayyy in my opinion. the biscuit was crunchy and caramel-ish, and there was a THIN chocolate filling in the middle, with obvious emphasis on thin (not that i should be complaining, Ms. 56!!!) it's made by the famous Korean company, Lotte.
ARGH~!!! had a tissue that i put aside cause i only used a small part to wipe my mouth with and the whole thing suddenly became infested with ants mann. i have a serious ant problem. anyone got any good suggestions?
what shall i do now? death note or heroes or nanny mcphee?
bored.
bored. bored. bored.
actually i have things to do. clean up my room. sort out my clothes. get contacts for schools and advertisers.
but i just want to have fun!
hang out with people. do random stuff. talk about nothing on the phone for ages.
wander around looking for new places to eat which i can't really do anymore because...56!!!! :O
i disappear for a few weeks and suddenly my life has come to another one of its stalemates.
you better not forget me next time! or i will do THIS to you!! :Þ
actually i have things to do. clean up my room. sort out my clothes. get contacts for schools and advertisers.
but i just want to have fun!
hang out with people. do random stuff. talk about nothing on the phone for ages.
wander around looking for new places to eat which i can't really do anymore because...56!!!! :O
i disappear for a few weeks and suddenly my life has come to another one of its stalemates.
you better not forget me next time! or i will do THIS to you!! :Þ
disappointments
lost sunglasses. scratches on the floor. earrings left on the carpet.
somehow, i can never please you. somehow, i always seem to end up disappointing you. i thought that at the age of 23, i'd have learnt to deal with it by now.
but you still make me feel like i want to kill myself everytime you get mad at me. no kidding.
i will never get it right.
sorry, Old Man.
somehow, i can never please you. somehow, i always seem to end up disappointing you. i thought that at the age of 23, i'd have learnt to deal with it by now.
but you still make me feel like i want to kill myself everytime you get mad at me. no kidding.
i will never get it right.
sorry, Old Man.
big hearts are easy targets
sometimes, you don't know how much you disappoint me. but it's okay. after so many years, i wouldn't let small things get in the way. just, sometimes, try to think of me, ok? :P
when it rains, it just freakin' pours
AGAIN!!!!!
i feel so sorry for my poor beautiful baby. she serves me well and is my only companion when i need to release some stress. she listens to my terrible singing and she sets me free from my seemingly endless stream of drama.
i didn't do this to her by the way! was parked nicely OFF the tarmac in front of Koko's gate when all of a sudden this guy just reverses into me. he somehow looks familiar. like that person that Genius and i had to deal with in Saberkas.
off to get Diehard in my wretched but still lovely baby. sigh.
i feel so sorry for my poor beautiful baby. she serves me well and is my only companion when i need to release some stress. she listens to my terrible singing and she sets me free from my seemingly endless stream of drama.
i didn't do this to her by the way! was parked nicely OFF the tarmac in front of Koko's gate when all of a sudden this guy just reverses into me. he somehow looks familiar. like that person that Genius and i had to deal with in Saberkas.
off to get Diehard in my wretched but still lovely baby. sigh.
