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Exploring and discovering new restaurants Dining and chilling out with my loved ones Baking and cooking over the weekends Sharing my love for food with others
Vanilla bean pods (one can never have enough) Valrhona Cocoa powder Valrhona chocolate Macarons from Laduree and Pierre Herme Madelines mold Pretty cake stands (I only have one and only one) YUZU from Japan! (They taste great in almost anything) A food tour to Italy and France Opportunity to study at Le Cordon Bleu |
Tuesday, December 05, 2006 [[Birthday brunch and dinner]] It was J's birthday yesterday. So I prepared brunch- traditional breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and baked tomato and pancakes. I love pancakes with maple syrup. The simplest kind. Got the recipe off Nigella Lawson's How to eat: The Pleasures and Principles of good food. I still have leftover batter so I made more pancakes for breakfast today. =)beams Went to Garibaldi for dinner since he likes italian food. We order to apetisers to share- the pan seared foie gras with apricot chutney and the baked eggplant with mozarella cheese and tomato sauce. The baked eggplant was good but it wasn't what I expected. This one was more like a lasagna! The foie gras was good as always. I ordered the beef tenderloin with potato cake with porcini mushrooms. I love porcini mushrooms. They are the most richly flavoured of its kind. The taste of it simply infuses the potatoes too. What a delight! I gobbled the potatoes too even though I usually don't eat potatoes. The beef tenderloin was tender and it was more raw than medium actually. But I enjoyed it very much- very juicy and succulent. J ordered the Braised Veal Shank with Saffron Risotto. I'm not a fan of veal shanks- just don't really like its texture. But the saffron risotto was really good. I've heard that its not easy to cook a good risotto but this one was really bursting of the rich saffron flavour- one of the world's most expensive spice. I was really very happy eating it. Initially, J and I wanted to order our usual boring dessert- either the tiramisu or the Chocolate lava cake(the one that I tried the last time). But we stole a sneak glance at the next table and got inspiration to order this new dessert. It looks really interesting and of course, really pretty! ah..I'm such a sucker for pretty food! The dessert we ordered was sicilian pastry stuffed with ricotta cheese, with a chocolate biscuit filled with pistachio cream(?), and the green strip was pistachio cream. On the extreme right, there was cocoa powder and turkish delight. Actually, this just taste really good but the both of us can't tell its ingredients. anyway, I've gotta go. Blog more later!
Pancakes (Makes 22 pancakes in a 3 inch pan) 2) Stop when the batter’s creamy, change to a whisk and then whisk in the melted butter. Leave the batter to stand for at least half an hour: overnight wouldn’t matter. The batter might thicken in the meantime, in which case, add milk to get the batter to the right thickish light-cream consistency. *** Baked eggplant with mozarella and tomato paste
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