The last bit of time.

This post is from 11 months ago, but I decided to post it anyway. This was hard work. Haha.

Now that I have a wee bit time on my hands, I wanted to finish the flour left in the kitchen. I still have some wholemeal flour, bread flour and top flour in the cupboard. After all, no one is going to bake anything for 6 months when I am gone. So I attempted making pizza again, this time with better ingredients. Heh heh.

Before baking

After baking! 

It was goooood. After calculating the cost, I realised that baking your own pizza is not thaaat cheap.

Cheese                  ~$8
Tomatoes              ~$0.50
Pineapples             ~$1.00
Ham                      ~$3.00
Onions                  ~$0.50
Flour                     ~$0.50    
                             ~$13.50

This is for 2 pizzas about the size of my chopping board. Hmmmm. But the satisfaction is beyond words.

I love making things from scratch.

What's baking in the oven?

I have been a little lagging in my crafting lately. No craft inspiration:( On the other hand, I have been baking. A lot. I use my oven 3 times a week! Hahaha. Must be due to the long baking hiatus of 2-3 years. 

Best bread I have baked so far. It is really pretty and it tastes so good! :)

Made my very own vegetable soup, which was good, but the pea smell never went away. 80/100 because of that. I will make this again, but not too soon.

The bread after my best bread. Much uglier, but still fluffy. Salty for some reason. I was so upset after this because my attempt to bake 2 batches of bread failed big time. :(

Made my own vegetarian lunch on a stay home day. glass noodles with mock abalone and celery, rose scented tea from indonesia and green bean soup, which was funky. :/

Made more buttercream.

This was a good meal. roasted pork, roasted duck and chicken with romaine lettuce and an apple and pickles and an egg. Eaten through the day because it was wayy too much for one meal. Hahaha.

Nutella bars?! The nutella became dry and the bars were hard like rocks. :( Kinda disappointed since it was my first time trying out a bar recipe. 

First try at pizza baking. FAILED. Because the cheese was not nice! I am so sad about it. Because I was had high hopes. :(

Really fluffy white bread! It was nice! Some are wrapped with sausages and what not.

When I first started working as the receptionist, I ate Korean food because I was alone.
They served me 6 side dishes and I had jajameun(spelling?!) for $11. I think it was worth it^^

Found a place in marina square which had semi buffet. Not bad!

 Some fish for me.

Ugly little sausage bread which was not bad!

Potato with spring onions and ham and cheese. OMG. This was good.

Had dinner at this place for Patricia's birthday. The service was not good, but I lovelovelove the kiwi juice. Good juice they have there.

Went to the Japanese place again with my mom. I think she liked it. :)

Went to brew werks?! I forgot the name, but the food was okay. Typical western food place where I ordered my normal sandwich. Because you can hardly go wrong with bread, cheese and ham. Unlike my parents who ordered chicken and shepherd's pie respectively and had difficulty finishing their food. Hahaha.

Honey oatmeal bread which did not rise properly. I kind of did it in a rush. Maybe that's why it tasted so bad and dense. :(

Went with lynette to the standing sushi bar! 25 slices of salmon for $15! Such a good deal. I had it with $2 sake and we had ice cream after that. I like eating with lynette. Hahaha. We have really similar tastes for food. We order the same thing half the time. Hahahaha. Actually, anything with salmon works for us.

Whole meal tortilla that tasted just like tortilla. Hahaha. 

For all the good food that I have been enjoying, I now need to lose the weight I gained. T.T 

I have one week of holidays left. Let's endeavour to lose 2kg this week. :( 

belly too happy.

My belly has really been too happy lately! I ate a lot of food at home and baked quite a few times! I have started to love baking at home again.

First, in the beginning of June, I made tortillas. So simple, I will definitely make them again when I need them in the future. I forgot which recipe I used!

When I went to Chinatown with Fion and Josephine, we had Lerk Thai. I ate my Phad Thai as usual, but I did not really like it. I do not think I will patronize them again. I do not like their version of Thai food:/

I made whipped buttercream and peanut butter cream cheese. The former is better than the latter in my honest opinion. The whip cream makes a lot of difference in the texture of the buttercream. It is so much creamier, even I liked it. Note: I do not like creams in general!

This bread with the two spreads is really super delicious! Nomnom!

Making tortillas resulted in me eating a lot of it. It tasted good with some chicken, pickles and minced meat potato. Nomnom! I drank Indonesia rose/black tea. I love it! It is not very strong, but the slight rose scent is so good. I do not fancy rose tea by itself, but this is good!

Sour green apple with buttercream is good!

Pasta with indulgent milo dinosaur! I like mine with plain milk and tons of milo powder on top!

Then, I baked bread. This was my first try. It taste edible, but not tasty as all! Best eaten toasted with buttercream. I made it with this recipe.

On the trip to K.L, we bought a dozen of Krispy Kreme back. This is the bomb! Caramel cookie flavour, as shown above, is the best flavour for caramel lovers like me! It is like Oats(the cereal) on top. Really really the best!

Chocolate cream/dream. This is not my favourite. I do not like it! It is like....custard inside. >.< Not for me.

Chocolate glazed donuts is good.

Korean food for dinner one night. Egg drop soup, instant ramen and a variety of kimchi and other pickles. I do not touch those. Only the marinated squid(which is raw) is to my liking.

  Second attempt at bread baking with this recipe!

Pretty doughs!

Grow, my babies, grow!

Looks much better, doesn't it? Compared to the first attempt?

 LOOK AT THE PRETTY INSIDES! It is so extraordinarily soft and so good! The day I baked it, we almost finished a loaf. The sad part is, like all baguettes, it was not as soft the next day. It tasted like regular day-after french breads. :(

Still tasted very nice with fried sunny side down and ham with pickles. I devoured the rest of the bread and too many eggs the next few days after.

Or with pickles and fish and toasted bread!

Food from the canopy at Bishan Park! It is really nice even though I do not fancy the fish roe on top. >.< Smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and salmon roe if I remembered the name right....

 Third and most recent attempt at baking bread! WHOLEMEAL BREAD! Baked with the Tangzhong method and this recipe, I have to say this was exhausting! Not because I used a lot of energy, but because it was so heartbreaking when I could not knead the dough enough to pass the windowpane test. After 45 minutes to one hour of kneading with my Kenwood machine, I gave up and decided to try my luck.

When homemade bread tastes like store-bought bread, I feel awesome. This is freaking wholemeal bread which tastes super good! OMG. I am feeling super awesome! <3

Okay, off to Chinatown I go for the second time in three days to get my friend's 21st birthday present! ^^

Food, Glorious Food!

So, I have been lying at home these two weeks. All my nasty unhealthy cravings gone. But a human still has to eat right? I have been making my own food, falling ill, looking for jobs(in vain) and crafting. This post is all about food though. Me being me, lazy as I am shan't even bother to edit the colours this time round. HAHA. Bad lighting and all.

Gelato from the ice-cream shop in school. Green tea and teddy bear flavour. Haha. I always have faith in blue coloured ice-cream. Maybe because the colour is so icky (in my personal opinion, because blue is a appetite suppressant), they tend to compensate with better taste. It is like toffee flavour. Nomnom. 

Soup spoon! This was in Bugis! After we went for an interview together. My beloved tomato and basil soup. Haha. Qing Lin did not finished her share. She is totally not a western food lover. 

Right after our first paper which ended at 1900. We went to Pique-Nique and oh boy, was the portion large. I was not feeling entirely well that day, but this is good stuff! My friends went on to eat dessert. I was still struggling to finish my food!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL/ EXAMS. Lamb something something from Salt and tapas bar or something at Raffles city! I loved this and once again, Qing Lin felt it was not worth it! Haha, I feel bad for her, but I tried to warn her! This was where we paid $8++ for sparkling water. HAHA, reminded me of Germany 2010 <3 I miss those days. The sourdough, though not very sour, was good. I like it!

Okay. Home quarantine AKA no social life starts here.

Corn and Chicken soup with cold baked potato with cream cheese and ham and pickles!

It was a veggie day so I drank Corn and Mushroom soup, and ate baked potato with cream cheese and pickles and papaya pickles. I ate a quarter of papaya after that. I was trying to make my skin better!

Yay! A change! Soba noodles with boiled cauliflower and frozen strawberry yoghurt. Oh, a half boiled egg to go with the leftover sobe sauce. Nom. I loved this meal!

Corn and Chicken soup with  a quarter of a cauliflower inside! It was good! I added a dollop of cream cheese in!

The next day, I fell ill, but I also felt like baking, so I made lemon chiffon cakes using this recipe! OMG, this recipe is the bomb! Or maybe it was the top flour. But nevertheless, it tasted so nice to me that I made a second batch. I am biased because I like chiffon cakes. Haha.

First batch, half the portion and unfortunately, the more successful batch. Hai!

Look at how soft it was! I  barely squished it!

LOOK AT THE TEXTURE! Okay, it tasted like lemon chiffon, eggy, fluffy but I think I will prefer pandan chiffon better. Maybe because I use cupcake cups instead of the cake pan, I felt that the cupcakes tend to float up! There empty spaces in the cup itself. Hmmmm.

Okay, lastly, today's lunch.

Corn and Chicken soup (AGAIN) with green apples and italian tuna from Korea. I found the tuna a little too salty, but, it tasted weirdly good with the tangy green apples. Haha, I have so many cans of corn and chicken campbell soup because I had a craving for it and it was on discount. I think it is time to move away from it thought. Cream based soups are not the healthiest food on Earth. Oh, neither is canned tuna. Haha.

Okay, that's all I wanted to say.

Rebecca :)

My grandma came out of surgery in pain but okay! Doctor says she has a little bit of high blood pressure right now but I will keep praying for her:)  奶奶 加油!