Foodagraphy. By Chelle.: February 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009

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It's been a lovely period of bentos for sis and me...and now, it's the last work weekday before I am due to fly off for Brisbane. I've managed to finally upload the last two months' worth of bentos for this post. (:

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Finishing up used bits.

Everyone likes to start their day differently. My sister likes to start it off with some focaccia bread. I, on the other hand, am perfectly fine with eating cold cereal for breakfast. Not to say that I don't like focaccia, I do, just that I cannot eat it for consecutive days without getting a bit tired of the same fare.

Sister made me bake lots of foccacia so that she can eat roughly twice the portion she eat if eating store-bought foccacia. The store-bought loaf is roughly equivalent to four servings. One portion of the recipe yields two loaves. She made me do two portions. We had four loaves of bread in the house. In the end, she didn't even manage to finish all before the bread went moldy. Sigh. Sis, ah, Sis.

I made fruit tarts the other day just because I realised I havn't had the opportunity to make them in Singapore yet. To play safe, I reused the recipe I made the other time round, just makin additions to the dough by adding chopped pistachios. The taste was somewhat similar to the first time I made (sans nuts). But nuts seem to be a healthier addition so, I'll add them again next time, just that I'll chop them up finely cos this time round, there were a few chunks of pistachio visible in the dough...

As usual, my refrigerator was chock full of fruits. In addition to the grapes and mandarins we already have in stock, I got some blueberries and raspberries (a treat, considering their price!) as what is a tart without berries?

I love fruits. Especially berries. The reason being because they are expensive. As it is hard to obtain these fruits cheaply, whenever I actually get to eat them, I actually feel happy. Laugh at me if you must, but I get a cheap thrill just biting into a raspberry. It tastes especially sweeter somehow. ;)

It was a chore to segment mandarins. It didn't help that the mandarins used for the fruit tarts were of the mini variety. Big fingers need not apply.

I made six medium sized tarts and decorated them with a single fruit for each. The mandarin tart as you can see, consists of my hard work (segmenting...) so of cos, who best to eat it then yours truely. (:

I had a gathering with my girls two days ago. I had a pack of cream cheese left, and my sister had reminded me to use up whatever ingredients I've bought before head back to Brisbane, so what to do, but some sort of cheese cake? So, I decided to make something to bring along to share with the girls.

Again, I reused the recipe for the cheesecake pops I made a few months back. It helps that the portions are pretty small, so it's safe to pop one, or two of these small morsels without feeling overwhelmed by the cheesy-ness if compared to a whole slice of cheesecake.

I had bought a medium bag of pistachios some time bag, and just got around to using it just only. So it features alot in the goodies I'm making recently. Here, I melted chocolate, coat the chilled cheesepops with chocolate and chopped pistachios. It struck me halfway through coating that some people might not like nuts, and I only had a few sticks left - explains the few non-nuts sticks.

I made creme brulee today. Will be talking about it with pictures in the next post. Together with the macarons that I am going to make (on Tuesday hopefully!), in an effort to clear the bits and pieces of baking ingredients in the pantry...

Saturday, February 07, 2009

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I had lunch with my sister last weekend at:

My vegetables lasagna.

Her shepherd's pie and pea soup.

Our shared HUMONGOUS chocolate cake. We didn't finish it, leaving about 1/3 of it left on the plate. And we are both chocoholics... It really is very huge, and rich to say the least.

Timbre at Substation with Wenda, Cheryl and Adeline. Goodfellas were playing that night. They were much improved compared to the last time I heard them playing. We stayed till the last set...which means lots of drinks (and snacks) to keep us occupied. ;)

Thursday, February 05, 2009

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It's in the midst of Chinese New Year now. I was too busy (*ahem*) these days to upload pictures and blog. As CNY spans a whole 15 days, and today being 初十一, I still have the chance now to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2009! (:

Decorations around the house...just look at all the red madness. tsk tsk. Daddy was a bit over the top with all the red drapes and lantern balls (I was mortified but he explained that it's the only time of the year he gets to do this...). On the other hand, I wasn't too upset with the over-abundance of new year goodies laid out on the table...hehe. We have yet to finish all of them even till today. hmmms. Anyone care to come over to help yourself to the food? lol.

团圆饭 2009.

Just look at those HUGE abalones. We each had one! Yay. haha. And Daddy and I polished off the bottle of ice wine after dinner between us two. Not that it was a very big bottle to begin with...