a little bit of sunshine

By far my most successful venture into baking in... 2 years? Ever since I entered university, all my baking product ended up either 1. Not rising (even when I follow the recipe and add the exact amount of baking powder and soda that the recipes call for)  2. Or it's outsides get burnt but it's inside are unbaked >.< In other words, pretty inedible. Mom has been craving for red velvet cake for almost a week and she's been pestering me to buy the cake whenever I run across them outside. But as luck have it, there are no red velvet cakes to be found. So I decided to matters into my own hands and bake the cake for my mom! (See mummy, don't you ever say I only bake cakes for my boyfriend. I baked this one for you hehe) This cake also marks the VERY FIRST TIME I'm using food colouring. Since forever, I balk at the idea of using artificial colouring for cakes. And before yesterday (before I properly researched about the cake), I naively thought t...

I'm gonna talk about FOOD again! My favourite blogging topic muahahaha. I have other passions too but there are all pretty... Scientific? Haha they will bore you to death. So yea, food is the best topic to blog about =) Especially here in Malaysia food connects us all. I've only met a person who doesn't enjoy eating (WHY!?). She is weird (You know who you are haha) First, a HUGE cup of coffee to awaken your senses. My daddy always order a kopi O whenever possible. I think he fancies himself as a Kopi O connoisseur haha =3 But I keep my distance from coffee. Coffee makes me jittery and anxious. Even drinking tea makes my heart go on overdrive grr. Mummy has been wanting to visit SOULed OUT since awhile ago but we just didn't get around to visiting the place, until today. SOULed OUT has two branches but we went to the one in Sri Hartamas. Took us quite some time (and a lot of help from iPhone's Maps application) but we manage to find the place. The location ...

Achoo! If my blog is a place, then I would be sneezing my head off by now. God knows how long this blog been's abandoned (well, just check back my history and you'll find out actually). It's not to say I don't want to blog anymore. It's more like... a really bad combination of laziness, lack of things and inspiration to blog and... Well, mainly laziness la =P But I will *TRY* to revive my blog. Let's see how long this will last though >.< So the blog post I shall try to revive my blog is a post about... SANDWICH! But reviving a blog needs much more than a topic to talk about and that is... PHOTOS! A blog cannot be a good blog without amazing photos =3 Sometimes when a blog post gets to long winded and you start to run your finger across the scroll button, the only thing that will actually catch back the attention of your readers is through PRETTY PHOTOS. But... I don't really have photos of presentable sandwich so... This blog post s...

Because, what's a good trip without good food? And personally, the main reason we (I?) went to Melaka is to... makan! However, I'm lazy to blog again. So here is a bunch of pictures with short captions just to waste your time. Nadeje Mille Crepe! Cheese flavour is the best ;) Melaka cendol. With loads of gula melaka. Riceballs that looks like fishball. Awesomeness =D 'Bak Zam Gai' to go with the riceballs. Last but not least, Melaka's unique SATAY CELUP! Like 'lok lok'. I think 'Lok lok' is better but this is still good =D

a beautiful and cool month, full of rain and clouds in the overcast skies. My appetite come and go, but when it does come, it's unsatisfiable. Like that day, I was craving for something savoury. I had lots for lunch but yet, my stomach feels oddly empty =( So I did the thing that I can only do at home: dig through the food cabinet and fridge. And I end up making egg salad, and threw every possible thing I can get my hands on it.  4 eggs (Soft boiled!). Olives. Mayo. Italian herbs. And other stuff that I forgot. Served on oven-toasted bread =D  Bought cake from De Pastry Chef last week. I tried German Cheesecake. Nothing much to say. It's so-so.

Just, More pot pies. A lemon cheesecake (a really flat one though) Some pasta for the family =) Nothing better to do hence the mini food fest.

.... ARE AWESOME. But my family have got to stop buying these babies. RM7.90 for 100grams. It's not that cheap is it? =( Good food is never cheap... Except Pasar Malam food and some hawker food. And homecooked food. But you know what is annoying? My family is separated into two groups when it comes to Famous Amos: Chocolate Chip and Pecan eaters and No Nut eaters. I'm a Pecan eater and I always have to look spend extra time looking into the cookie bag to look for those with pecans. Why can't we all just be pecan lovers? =( Just bought this yesterday and me and my sis (No Nut eater) are halfway through the packet already.  Munch munch. They are even better with cold milk ;) Hmm. Been feeling weird lately =/

Last Tuesday me, my brother and sister went to KLCC's Petrosains. I've been wanting to go there since forever and since it's my brother's holiday and I cannot stand him facing the PS2/computer everyday playing F1/Club Penguin/Plant vs. Zombie/Facebook games, I decided to bring him there. Petrosains' facilities are way better than The National Science Centre's and much more interesting. There are so many things I would love to try but sadly, because it's the school holidays now, the place is packed. Doesn't help that school authorities decides to organise school trip to the place during the holidays. 'Add salt on already salted thing' XD KLCC =) Photos taken in Petrosains are too horrible to be posted up. And yesterday I finally made pot pie! We made chicken mushroom pot pie and it was awesome! Simple and yummy... I didn't have enough and my mom wanted to try some so I made more today ;) Made using fresh button mushroom, onion, chicke...

What I had for dinner tonight: Lady's Fingers. Okra. Whatever you call them. Very yummy when cooked with dried shrimps (just like in the photo) or with sambal belacan. I like how the red chilli flakes add a little more dimension to this photo =) But the real star of this post are the burgers we made at home today. Chicken burger. Bread. Cheese. Mayonnaise. Cucumber. Coleslaw. Chicken patty. Tomato. Chili sauce. Cabbage. Bread. In case you don't know what am I talking about, it's the arrangement of the contents of my burger XD The chicken patty doesn't look appetising. My brother even thought it was uncooked and didn't finish his burger. I finished my burger but truthfully, the patty wasn't nice. I forgot what brand of chicken patty my mom bought but it is not Ramley. No my burger is not placed upside down. Neither is the photo rotated. I melted the cheese on the wrong piece of burger bread and tada! A odd looking... Horned burger. ...

I used to despise green tea. Not green tea the drink itself but rather, stuff that are made flavoured with green tea. Green tea ice cream, green tea cake, green tea whatever there is. The colour doesn't look appetising at all. Dark green... It reminds us of vegetables and truth be told, who likes the taste of chlorophyll? It's so... grassy. But one day while out on a shopping trip with my family, we decided to eat ice cream. I wasn't in the mood for rich flavoured ice cream like chocolate, nor was I in the mood for ice cream I've eaten before. In short, I was in an adventurous mood so... I tried green tea ice cream! Source: Google Image The first green tea ice cream I tried was from some gelato shop. At first, the chlorophyll smell was overwhelming but the more I eat, the more I enjoy the surprisingly refreshing combination of green tea, the coldness and creaminess. Haha I'm bad at describing how food (or anything for that matter) feels and taste like. Just try...

I've taken to taking photos on my dad's iPhone recently because it actually take pretty decent photos. Sure DSLR let's you take better photo but let's face it, it's so unconvenient to carry it around all the time. I actually get backaches when I carry it around for hours during family trips where I'm the designated photographer. So yea, I actually get fed up with all the trouble I have to go through to lug my DSLR all around =( So now I just settle with something that I can carry around. Or rather, my dad carries around him all the time, his phone. So why not make use of it? =D Since I came home for the looooooo ooooo ng holidays, I've been out pretty often with my family for brunch/lunches/dinner where I can't help but take photos of yummy pictures =D The first week I came back, we went to eat at Purple Cane Restaurant at it's original branch at the Chinese Assembly Hall. I've always enjoyed eating there since I was a kid and I haven't...