It's my third consecutive weekend baking and I must say my Red Velvet cupcakes were pretty successful! :D I baked a little too much but I am gonna bring them to work and share them with people and also tell them that it's my birthday (hence the cupcake). Hahahahaha.
Good to have that mid-week Deepavali holiday, had a very good dim sum buffet at Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant. I also went for hot yoga on Saturday. I've seriously never perspired so much before! My clothes were completely soaked by the end of the session!
Lazy to load pictures and it's time for bed anyway. Happy Halloween all! :D
Today's culinary conquest - Bailey's Irish Cream cupcakes!
Yeah, my frosting skills are kinda #fail.
At least what came out of the oven was decent and highly edible, smelled good, not rock hard, not overly chewy, not kueh like. I attribute it to the fact that I used an electric mixer to mix the batter. I'm still not sure about the texture coz muffins and cupcakes are starting to taste increasingly alike to me. But if I do say so myself, my cupcakes taste pretty good! Finally a baking success!!! *confetti*
I'm eyeing my next recipe now. Red Velvet cupcakes!!! The steps look pretty similar to what I did today, but I need to make me some buttermilk.
Visited Ann Siang Hill for the first time and tucked away in a corner is PS Cafe. Portions were big and it was also pretty pricey (thanks Ichee for the very early birthday treat! :)). But still, it's a relatively nice place to chill and sample some desserts. Oh and how can I forget the AWESOME truffle fries. They smelled heavenly!
We demolished that entire mountain, it was that good.
And after that extremely filling lunch I visited this Taiwanese porridge called 海京楼 for dinner. I used to dislike eating Taiwanese porridge. You know, the watery kind that is basically softened rice grains swimming in water. Somehow along the way I think my taste buds grew old along with me. Now I don't mind it so much, as long as the accompanying side dishes are yummy.
MONDAYS! RAWRRRRRRRRRR!!! At least there's a PH this week. I have unfinished minutes to write. Not looking forward.
Yeah, my frosting skills are kinda #fail.
At least what came out of the oven was decent and highly edible, smelled good, not rock hard, not overly chewy, not kueh like. I attribute it to the fact that I used an electric mixer to mix the batter. I'm still not sure about the texture coz muffins and cupcakes are starting to taste increasingly alike to me. But if I do say so myself, my cupcakes taste pretty good! Finally a baking success!!! *confetti*
I'm eyeing my next recipe now. Red Velvet cupcakes!!! The steps look pretty similar to what I did today, but I need to make me some buttermilk.
Visited Ann Siang Hill for the first time and tucked away in a corner is PS Cafe. Portions were big and it was also pretty pricey (thanks Ichee for the very early birthday treat! :)). But still, it's a relatively nice place to chill and sample some desserts. Oh and how can I forget the AWESOME truffle fries. They smelled heavenly!
We demolished that entire mountain, it was that good.
And after that extremely filling lunch I visited this Taiwanese porridge called 海京楼 for dinner. I used to dislike eating Taiwanese porridge. You know, the watery kind that is basically softened rice grains swimming in water. Somehow along the way I think my taste buds grew old along with me. Now I don't mind it so much, as long as the accompanying side dishes are yummy.
MONDAYS! RAWRRRRRRRRRR!!! At least there's a PH this week. I have unfinished minutes to write. Not looking forward.
Oh man waxing can cause pimples to grow! :x Yikes.
Googled and this is what I found:
"Be careful because the red bumps seen after waxing are due to follicular inflammation. When a hair is pulled out from its follicular opening before it's time (from waxing or plucking) this is shocking to the follicle and it becomes slightly swollen and inflamed.
This usually calms down by itself but in some unlucky few, this can result in little whiteheads (aka pimples). These whiteheads are formed when the normal bacteria on the skin (Staph aureus) go down into these inflamed follicular openings and cause tiny little infections."
GARHHHHHHHH :(
Googled and this is what I found:
"Be careful because the red bumps seen after waxing are due to follicular inflammation. When a hair is pulled out from its follicular opening before it's time (from waxing or plucking) this is shocking to the follicle and it becomes slightly swollen and inflamed.
This usually calms down by itself but in some unlucky few, this can result in little whiteheads (aka pimples). These whiteheads are formed when the normal bacteria on the skin (Staph aureus) go down into these inflamed follicular openings and cause tiny little infections."
GARHHHHHHHH :(
So! I took the plunge and went for the Brazillian wax earlier than planned. Was pretty much an impromptu thing coz they happened to have a slot available when I swung by the outlet.
That's how life swings. Gotta go with the flow!
My first experience of having people poke around at my privates and having hot wax dribbled and smeared there?
I would say it wasn't as horrifying an experience as I imagined. (I imagined myself grabbing someone's hair, writhing in pain and screaming my head off but nah, it wasn't so dramatic. We can thank TV for such imagery.)
I was pretty calm, cool and collected if I would say so myself. Heh. :D
On a my pain threshold of 1 to 10 (and I do think I have a pretty high pain threshold), I would say the entire experience rates around a 6.5 to 8. Depending on the area. Some areas stung more than others, of course. However I was rather disappointed with the service at Strip (Basement 1), because I expected that an established waxing chain to be more personable in their service instead of being so clinical.
The hairlessness does take a while to get used to - it feels rather um, naked and empty. HAHA. I am still undecided if I would like to be in a semi-permanent state of hairlessness, but I did buy another coupon deal for $18, so...
Well that's one thing off my bucket list! :D
It was a highly productive Saturday indeed. Other than getting myself waxed, finally visiting H&M and and impromptu meeting with some of the Gassers after what seemed like a long extended period of non meetups, I also woke up early enough to do some baking! :D Yes! The domestic goddess is in da' house yo!
This time round I decided to try the Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Muffins recipe that Mad suggested. It looked non-threatening enough to achieve in a few hours.
A noob baker is still a noob baker, because my muffins turned out to be rock hard. The post-mortem suggested that I mixed the batter too thoroughly and caused it to become too dense. Never mind, lesson learned!
Those disgusting yellow bits of stuff floating in that mixture is butter. The recipe called for melted butter but I threw the entire glob in without melting it. Had to fish it out to melt it but the damage was done!
Looks are deceiving. You can throw my muffins at someone and perhaps cause them bodily harm.
That's how life swings. Gotta go with the flow!
My first experience of having people poke around at my privates and having hot wax dribbled and smeared there?
I would say it wasn't as horrifying an experience as I imagined. (I imagined myself grabbing someone's hair, writhing in pain and screaming my head off but nah, it wasn't so dramatic. We can thank TV for such imagery.)
I was pretty calm, cool and collected if I would say so myself. Heh. :D
On a my pain threshold of 1 to 10 (and I do think I have a pretty high pain threshold), I would say the entire experience rates around a 6.5 to 8. Depending on the area. Some areas stung more than others, of course. However I was rather disappointed with the service at Strip (Basement 1), because I expected that an established waxing chain to be more personable in their service instead of being so clinical.
The hairlessness does take a while to get used to - it feels rather um, naked and empty. HAHA. I am still undecided if I would like to be in a semi-permanent state of hairlessness, but I did buy another coupon deal for $18, so...
Well that's one thing off my bucket list! :D
It was a highly productive Saturday indeed. Other than getting myself waxed, finally visiting H&M and and impromptu meeting with some of the Gassers after what seemed like a long extended period of non meetups, I also woke up early enough to do some baking! :D Yes! The domestic goddess is in da' house yo!
This time round I decided to try the Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Muffins recipe that Mad suggested. It looked non-threatening enough to achieve in a few hours.
A noob baker is still a noob baker, because my muffins turned out to be rock hard. The post-mortem suggested that I mixed the batter too thoroughly and caused it to become too dense. Never mind, lesson learned!
Those disgusting yellow bits of stuff floating in that mixture is butter. The recipe called for melted butter but I threw the entire glob in without melting it. Had to fish it out to melt it but the damage was done!
Looks are deceiving. You can throw my muffins at someone and perhaps cause them bodily harm.
I decided to do a random crazy thing. It just planted itself in my head mysteriously and the more I think of it, the more I think I should do it!
My random crazy plan is to get a Brazilian wax on my birthday! Eh heh heh heh heh. :D
I'll probably take leave and instead of spending it bumming around at home like what I did last year, I should go and try something outrageous!
Starting the year on a clean slate and all that you know? Eh heh heh heh heh heh. :D
My random crazy plan is to get a Brazilian wax on my birthday! Eh heh heh heh heh. :D
I'll probably take leave and instead of spending it bumming around at home like what I did last year, I should go and try something outrageous!
Starting the year on a clean slate and all that you know? Eh heh heh heh heh heh. :D
Ah-hah! Oh-hoh! I have found my next culinary conquest!
Bailey's Irish Cream Cupcakes!!!
Also another recipe here.
Now I know what to do with that bottle of Bailey's sitting in the fridge! (Yes, leftover from Ade's hen night in May.)
Bailey's Irish Cream Cupcakes!!!
Also another recipe here.
Now I know what to do with that bottle of Bailey's sitting in the fridge! (Yes, leftover from Ade's hen night in May.)
I've been staying at home pretty much almost every weekend for the past month or so, and while I initially felt like I shouldn't be wasting my time at home and should be out gallivanting somewhere, staying at home isn't that bad after all. The biggest benefit is that I get to save money!
This weekend, I decided to try my hand at baking muffins!
I'm not much of a baker but I do cut out the occasional recipe from The Sunday Times. Saw this recipe for Corn & Cheese Muffins and decided to give it a try. Plus, it's not like I had any other exciting plans lined up.
The recipe called for chives but my mom couldn't find any. And instead of smoked cheese that came in blocks, she bought cheese slices.
Preparing ingredients
The gooey mixture
Off to the oven they go!
This was what the end product looked like... a little diseased-looking but that's because of the burnt cheese.
The recipe made 2.5 batches of mini-muffins! Looks a little chao tah huh.
The muffins turned out to be too chewy instead of being dense and cake-ish like a muffin should be. I'm guessing I put in too much cheese? Probably would have to increase the proportion of corn so that the sweetness of corn stands out more.
I had no lunch today and didn't want to eat instant noodles, and there was no more Prego sauce for the normal tomato base pasta, so I googled for an aglio olio recipe! It's supposedly one of the easiest pasta dishes to cook. And yes I think it's quite easy, coming from a kitchen idiot like me!
Tossed in some leftover corn from the muffin making. Corn is awesome coz it's naturally sweet.
I don't like garlic so I tried not to put in too much. It smelled good (thanks to the basil and black pepper) but could do with a little bit more salt.
I would say this was quite a productive weekend coz I also finally got around to sticking my ticket stubs and other random collectibles into this photo album that I bought in early 2010! Finally sorted out the stuff and receipts from when I visited China almost 1.5 years ago.
All the ticket stubs in their new home! I didn't even realize we visited so many gardens.
And also a little trip down memory lane... box full of letters especially from Sec School days. And I used to write letters to my sister too even though we were staying in the same house LOL!
Surfing for more baking recipes online and I think I want to try cupcakes next! Red velvet! :D
This weekend, I decided to try my hand at baking muffins!
I'm not much of a baker but I do cut out the occasional recipe from The Sunday Times. Saw this recipe for Corn & Cheese Muffins and decided to give it a try. Plus, it's not like I had any other exciting plans lined up.
The recipe called for chives but my mom couldn't find any. And instead of smoked cheese that came in blocks, she bought cheese slices.
Preparing ingredients
The gooey mixture
Off to the oven they go!
This was what the end product looked like... a little diseased-looking but that's because of the burnt cheese.
The recipe made 2.5 batches of mini-muffins! Looks a little chao tah huh.
The muffins turned out to be too chewy instead of being dense and cake-ish like a muffin should be. I'm guessing I put in too much cheese? Probably would have to increase the proportion of corn so that the sweetness of corn stands out more.
I had no lunch today and didn't want to eat instant noodles, and there was no more Prego sauce for the normal tomato base pasta, so I googled for an aglio olio recipe! It's supposedly one of the easiest pasta dishes to cook. And yes I think it's quite easy, coming from a kitchen idiot like me!
Tossed in some leftover corn from the muffin making. Corn is awesome coz it's naturally sweet.
I don't like garlic so I tried not to put in too much. It smelled good (thanks to the basil and black pepper) but could do with a little bit more salt.
I would say this was quite a productive weekend coz I also finally got around to sticking my ticket stubs and other random collectibles into this photo album that I bought in early 2010! Finally sorted out the stuff and receipts from when I visited China almost 1.5 years ago.
All the ticket stubs in their new home! I didn't even realize we visited so many gardens.
And also a little trip down memory lane... box full of letters especially from Sec School days. And I used to write letters to my sister too even though we were staying in the same house LOL!
Surfing for more baking recipes online and I think I want to try cupcakes next! Red velvet! :D
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