Nonya Achar - 阿妈的最棒！

Looks can be deceiving... these are Achar contained in Adams... lol. This is what you can do with the dozens of bottles after buying dozens of Adams Peanut butter and eat dozens of them

This is seriously like the BEST Achar I ever came across man... made by my grandmother, even at a age of 70+, she is still whipping up nice Nonya dishes... :)

Nicely spiced, sweetness of the pineapples, coolness of the cucumber, crunchy cabbages, carrots shreds, topped with sesame seeds!

Not For Sale!

My Christmas Dinner - away from the hustle and bustle

Town was so crowded! but I spent my Xmas in the comfort of my own house... whipping up some simple dishes and indulge in a lot of cakes which I haven't had for quite a while... cake taste damn good when you have not eaten them for quite some time!

Triple Cheese Pizza, Chicken Vegetable Soup, Water Biscuit, Mussels, Smoked Salmon, Assorted Dips, Beef Ribeye, Strawberries, Salami, Ham, Bacon...

Wolf Blass Shiraz 2003

After almost 2 hours...

Triple Cheese Pizza topped with Ham, Salami and Turkey Bacon

Chicken Bradwurst with Cheese - This is huge! Actually, one of this thing in my gut already fills me up 80% already...

Chicken + Beef Stew - This was nice! Beef chunks, macaroni, mussels, assorted veg

Cold Dish Black Pepper Mussels with tabasco

Cracker with smoked salmon and assorted dips - This is my favorite! I fnished every single bit of the dip even when the smoked salmon has ran out! However, I really don't know what is in the dips... My guess is that some has tuna in it, and some with prawn or crab roes...

My favourite dip - I think this is some seafood dip... there's a strong hint of prawn...

A balance meal ends with some sweet strawberries and some sinful whip cream simply for aesthetic purpose. lol

and cheers for a better New Year

Fruit Cake from Food Barn - The cake is not those super dense (but still quite dense) kind of fruit cake whereby lots of molases is used, hence this fruit cake taste less sweet (but still generally sweeter than most cakes). Topped with fruits and Pecans soaked richly in rum, giving the cake a wonderful aroma of rum and fruits...

Browniessss - to be heated in a microwave and served with....

Ben & Jerry new flavour! Cake Batter! Do not expect any chunks in this as you normally would in BnJ ice cream. This new flavor has no chunks at all, but just a very rich and smooth butter-like batter ice cream with swirls of chocolate fudge.

Matcha Swiss Roll from Rive Gauche - This is my favorite cake from the whole series of cakes bought there. It is very light and fluffy, yet the hint of Matcha is just nice... very "xiang", give a very therapeutical effect, very zen... lol. The black black thing is see in the center of the roll, that's Azuki beans, adds another dimension of sweetness to the cake.

Guanaja - I like this too, for it has a bitter sweet to it. The bottom layer is crispy biscuit with layers of chocolate sponges in between. This is supposed to be a hot favourite.

Mango Cake - Refreshing sweet mango slices at the top and bottom, with layers of mango mouss and mango crunch. Everything is really just mango, but mangoes made in different way.

Mont Blanc - The star of this cake is the chestnuts. It has French and Japanese chestnuts in between the layers of sponges soaked with brandy. The top layer of beautiful strokes of cream is chestnut cream.

*burp*

hope everyone had a merry xmas and next a good new year ahead!

Post Exam Steamboat

Exams are actually already over long time ago... but we finally have the common time to meet up for our post exam trauma steamboat gathering. Steamboat dinner for 5!

Tiak snipping away the Hotdogs

as well as the fishcake and Tofu... JJ wanted the fishcake, so we forced him to finish all 3 slabs by himself... haha. and Tiak wanted 4 tubes of Tofu... a bit too much for just 5 person la...

Cuttlefish balls and Prawn Balls

Golden Mushrooms - 4 packets of it... I think we very kiasu la... everything also buy a lot... in the end we have a lot of leftovers...

Crabsticks and Hot Dogs

Cabbage!

Eggs!

Chicken Stock Cubes for the Soupbase

Chicken fillets

Tau Poks

Baby Carrots and Corn

Beef Shabu Shabu - This is like the best stuff! We should have bought more!


There were also Prawns, Fish fillets, Button Mushrooms and Pork Shabu shabu...

Special Chilli Sauce for Seafood

Thai chilli Sauce for meat

Preparation of the soup...

We dumped the prawn head back into the soup to add more flavours to the soup...

Beef Shabu Shabu done medium rare...

Towards the end... The Essence of the steamboat...

We had 3 helpings in total... lol. 6pm we started eating our first serving until 8pm... we were so full by then. So we watch TV until 9pm, had our 2nd serving. Watched TV again until 10pm, then our last serving. Very fullllll... But it was nice... maybe we will have a annual gathering for steamboat in the future!

Sunday Lunch - Toast Day

Inspired by Bread Talk "Rise and Shine" - but darn, my egg doesn;t shine on me, but its still as nice la... with twice the amount of ham and cheese as compared to Breadtalk! Dig a hole, crack and egg inside the hole, toast it, add cheese and ham! and that is it! oh.. n sprinkle with some coarse black pepper!

My own Hawaiian Pizza - ham cheese pasta sauce and pineapples!

Substitute the ham with Tuna - and you get tuna pizza!

My Birthday Birdday Burpday Cake - Peanut Butter Fudge Cake

There's a birdie on my cake!

hmm... buy from where one huh...? Birdshop?

grrr... not buy one!!! Its home-baked!

Wahh... I smell Peanut Butter...OMG...

Its Peanut Butter Fudge Cake!!!

My Goodness... Droolzzz...
Its sinful u noe? But i like it very very veryyyyy much! =D

(For those who dunno foodiegymmie, he loves peanut butter!)

One candle to celebrate my 1 yr old of existence.

Dense moist cake topped with Peanut Butter Fudge, sprinkled with crushed nuts on the sides. Layered with more fudge inside. Dark and white chocolate balls with almond inside. This is a Calorie Bomb man... but its worth it!

I LOVE IT!

This is a post-dated post, the cake is all in my tummy now! hoho.

Healthy Snack - Kichererbse Tonno with Bacon Bits

I am blogging from my office now... chinese call it "",eating snake which means "loafing", Internship is so darn boring... good thing is I get to try many yummy food during lunch time... ABC market, alexandra market, Seah Im, Harborfront, Vivocity, Telok Blangah Market, Ikea, Anchor Point, maybe someday NUS! Can you guess which company i am working at now??? :)

I came up with this simple dish one day when I was kind of bored....

Kichererbse is Chickpeas, and Tonno is Tuna in German. High in Protein and low in fats, yet it is quite delicious. The chickpeas and tuna is soft, but the bacon bits add some crunchiness to it and strong meaty taste to it.

Tuna (in brine) provides about 25or protein, 1g of fats (per 100g serving)

Bacon Bits - 3g of protein , 1.5g of fats (one tbsp serving)

Chickpeas - 12g Protein, 3g fats, 55g Carbs (One Cup)

just mix them up, and here, you have a nice healthy snack!

Home Made Durian Puffs

I was shopping in Suntec when suddenly the durian crave strikes me! I keep thinking of durians and its so damn distracting larh... so i went to carrefour to buy durians! loL. i just have to eat some real durians! I was contemplating hard whether or not i should waste my calories on them... after circling and thinking and circling and thinking around carrefour for some time... Bought 4 boxes, ate almost 2 boxes... and im totally satisfied! haha

The leftovers were made into durian puffs!

Fyi - I love durians! but durians is one of the few fruits that contains quite a significant amount of fats! but also protein.