potato chikus

Yes. i thought they were potatoes n bot them home to make baked potatoes, (together with terriyaki salmon for lunch) but realised that the water used to boil the "potato" turned purplish with a slight Fe color. even waited till the "potato" was fully boiled n cut to realise that the flesh was purple too! got sooo horrified at the rotten potato i had bot home and threw it away immediately. but i left the remaining 3 in the kitchen.

a few days later, the remaining potatoes were gone. I asked mummy about the 3 gandangs i left on the kitchen ledge and she said "oh! u bot the ba chikus ahhhh?"


o_O

but i need to declare that the chikus i bot weren't packed in these styrofoam trays with cling wraps and with a labelled sticker! they were packed in a plastic bag with no label and were sitting in a sale basket. i just happened to walk past the basket and decided that a baked potato wld taste great with the salmon tt was alr in my cart.. mayb i shd mention tt i also saw some bananas in tt basket? so i shd hav guessed tt what i took was a fruit? bt who knows there exists sth tt looks like a potato??????

oo_O

and this leads me back to an old joke mjy partner created when we went grocery shopping for BBQ food some years back. We saw a tray of sweet potatoes and she excitedly shouted, "HEY!! potato also got orange color one leh!!"

the rest of us, " ^_^"" "

z_Z

what good lessons we learn from a supermarket trip :) the result - priceless :)

anyone knows what these are??

Strawberry Marshmellow Cake - 16 May

An attempt made after seeing a pretty pic on a fren's fren blog :)

the combination of strawberry and marshmellow jus sounded delectable! :) recipe was simple to follow too. we had to do it! :)

so we went to Fairprice at 830pm on a tuesday night to buy those ingredients :)

a trolley-load of junks. CASTER sugar! - the secret ingredient my swiss roll lacked (or so i think), the strawberriess and the marshmellows. and others..

the HUGEEE amount of whipped cream... sinful... heez
the 'raw' look...


mixing the jello...

and.....

TADAH!! Strawberry marshmellow cake!! :)

the slice tt went to mummy's tummy. The FIRST time she says "eh, not bad leh!" *beams*

could do better with moooore marshmellow :) and harder crust :) :) :) and we forgot to put strawberry on top of the crust..

someone says it looks like tomato soup. Does it?? I flipped the pic around and only saw STRAWBERRY leh... **ZzzZ*

** i am a happy woman today**

Random

Fire Drill

following the clients down the stairs to the assembly area. look at all the blue legss! :) haven had one in years!
reminisence of my own primary school fire drill where we assembled at the field..

amused with my own feet ;P

Swissroll Attempt I - 7 May

1st attempt - Chocolate flavour and coated with our favorite NUTELLA chocolate!! :)

but it turned out BAD. couldn roll. and look at its brownie look :(

Swissroll Attempt II - 13 May

whisked the egg for a full 5 min to get this pale and fluffy look. This time round, shd hav more rising agent..

Vanilla flavour..

*******Waiting anxiously *******

will it rise?

will it roll??

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TADAH!! it could ROLL!!!! and it did rise!!

end product. someone said it looks like a dissected caterpillar.. :) anw, din taste exactly like a swissroll.. n far different from the one i made 10 year ago in my home ec class.. :(

shall try again nex time! :)

TM Meetup - 9 May

our star was back this week. so we had a meetup over dinner. ;)

Fine architecture - 10 May

decided to walk around the client's compound after lunch n ventured out of the building n saw this! see the poles hanging by the sides of the building???

squinted a little to look at the name on the signboard....

"ZHEN JIU XUE HUI" - acupuncture club!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! what a great way to design the building!

New Dress - 11 May

was picked up and dropped off at Causeway for a good 30 min to collect the jacket. so i revisited the shop where i saw this pretty dress... made good of this 30 min n bought the dress!! YAY!! :)

Swiss rolls - 7 May 07

swissroll attempt over the monday mc day ;)

refused to sneek a nap in bed after the drowsy flu blue pills n stayed awake with the rolling and the measuring in the kitchen, after watching "the prince and me" - the fairytale show xian brot back home..

but, the swiss roll din rise :( no baking agents involved, but i was supposed to get the natural baking agent from whisking the eggs... prolly i folded in wrongly and caused all air bubbles within to burst :( :( no swiss rolls yesterday... no pics for blogging too :( :(

**drowsy... gonna zzz n try to make swiss rolls later again :)**

a date with the star tomo nite :) :) gotto end work earlyy!!

Muffins Part I, II

30 April

homed for the weekend. Pinky n I went to the library to borrow some baking books.

we found one tt earned our unanimous vote. :) :)

next up was a trip to the ntuc to gather the ingredients :) :)

then... it was PLAYDOUGH time!!! :)

the cups filled with choco mixture...looks ewky...

closer look...messy mess around the sides due to unskilful scooping... errr...raw materials

baking-in-process (semi-finished goods)

Finished good! the final stage!! :) the muffin!!! :)

hot n crispy from the oven n hand delivered to dearies!! :) are u a dearie of mine??

1 May - Labour Day Holiday

2nd attempt @ the muffins, keeping in mind the comments i have received for the 1st batch on sunday -- too moist, not sweet enuff.. care was taken to reduce the moisture this time round n not to spill the sugar over the weighing scale ;P...

the mixture was more gooey *thumbs up*

compare this to the 2nd pic, its not as fluidy anymore :) *excitedly* thinks it will be better than sunday's. we made X3 more of muffins, so it has to be better.. ;)

spot the special muffin? went to buy the rainbow toppings specially to decorate the muffins. but din turn out pretty..so those din make it out to the public...shall try choco rice as requested nex time round..

gave almost all away.. :)

and caught the 200 pound beauty in the noon... the girl's HOT!!!!! n pretty!!!! *faintz*

***what should i make this weekend??***