Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Of roasted chicken, quiche, potatos// sparkles.punk,crochet


Food preparation for the bf's BBQ dinner.

Roasted chicken the turkey style, one we have tried muchie before (;
But a pity this chicken we got from NTUC was too fatty and the dish turned out too oily ):

But nonetheless, we have fans of this dish (;


Spinach & cheese quiche
A little more salt to flavour the dish just perfected it (:


Tiny potatos seasoned with salt and stuffed with bacon

A really yummy and easy dish, perfect for gatherings (;


  Top. Hongkong. crochet shorts. Bugis. Gold punk clutch. TDJ
Vuittone cuff. TDJ. Ring. Forever 21


Sandals. Charles and keith sales 

:D


And look pa, i've got new dustcaps!

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Throwbacks


{Gorgeous Lulu frost from TDJ}

Throwback of saturday's dating outfit 2 weeks ago. Love that gold skull lasercut clutch, also available in store now


{Not-so-good everything with fries}



{Friday's supper date}

As my poor boy had to work late, yes on good old TGIF! but thankgawd there's always good food late at night (:


{Energy booster breakkie}

Lazy saturday energy booster meal before my ABT and kickboxing classes. To rid off the calories indulged from yesterday's dim sum supper


Stay home saturday dinner prepared by yours truly and le bf, followed by family bonding movie time of Ah boys to men 2

Menu:

1. Baked spinach and eggs
2. Baked chicken in turkey style ( with rosemary, nutmeg and parprika)
3. Baked potatos with bacon
4. Baked fish with pesto and sunflower seeds.

Noticed any similarity of all the dishes? Yea baby, its all baked! The perfect way to have a sumptous yet lazy meal ;p 

ALL into the oven!


{Handmade pretties}

Up in store.





{Fresh}

Some babies that came freshly into the store





{Coming up soon}

Some of the new jewels coming soon in store


{Thank you}

Cutting out thank you tags for my wonderful customers


{Unicorn}

Loving this unicorn ring that I imported to test the quality and design and was really satisfied with it. It was sold out to my regular customer before I could launch. Contemplating to bring more back (;

Thats all for the throwback post updates!(:

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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Bliss on a weekend morning



What is bliss on a weekend morning apart from glorious bacon, ham and cheese toasted sandwich?

Toast the bacon for 15mins first at 225 degrees. Slap on some magarine on a slice of whole meal bread, emmental cheese, ham , pre-baked bacon and pop it back to the oven for another 10mins or until cheese has melted.

and, now, reward your tummy!

Drools. what a simple sandwich for breakfast, finished with a glass of cold milk.

That was my bliss last sunday morning.

What's yours?

Sunday, February 17, 2013

The ultimate roasted potatoes set


Another one of those days that little tummy says it doesn't want rice for dinner.
And I spotted really pretty tiny potatoes at giant yesterday which beckoned to me to buy them home!

What else is better than roasted potatos? :p Totally can't forget how awesome the potatoes tasted in Europe, which kinda started my flame of love for roasted potatoes.


Aren't the brastagi baby potatos absolutely small and cute?!

nuff said.

Let's start with the modified recipe of the ultimate roasted potatos I found here

Retailing at $1.25 from giant. A good deal considering this portion is sufficient for 3 human's potato consumption

1. Scrub clean and hard the surface of the potatoes to ensure all dirt, mud and soil has been removed. Roasted potatoes taste better with the skin on. Besides, vitamin A resides on the skin of the potatos!(:



Some extra pork ball, hotdog and mushroom to whip up some pasta for the 2 hungry men at home who needs more carbs




2. Evenly coat the insides of the metal tin used for baking the potatos evenly with margarine and place them in the preheated oven of 200degrees for 5-10mins.

 Modified from the original recipe of using fats.


3. After washing the potatoes, put them in a pot of water that barely covers the potatoes, boil till the bubbles are roaring, before bringing them to a simmer for 2 minutes. Drain these little cute things and shake them in the sieve to fluff them up.

4. Coat them with a thin layer of flour( to increase crispyness when they are baked). I used potato flour at home since it was the only available flour I can find in the fridge.


5. After baking them for 15 mins on one side, take the potatoes out and give them a few gentle tosses. Add some minced garlic and all purpose herbs ( mine's from Mc Cormick) and put them back into the oven at 15 mins

6. After you are satisfied with the texture of the potatoes, add a pinch of salt and shake em well.

shake it baby, shake it


7. Eggs for sunny side up. Heat up the pan, add some butter, and crack in the egg.
8. Heat up some butter, throw in the sliced button mushrooms and saute them until golden brown. Sprinkle all-purpose herb powder for some herbish taste
9. Cut some slits on the sausages and pan-fry them using butter.

Pardon me on lack of photos of the others as they are quite easy, and my main focus is really on the ultimate roasted potatoes! 

*drools*


Dinner is served! 

yum yum tum tum.

Brother totally loves the roasted potatoes. He says my platter looks good enough to be served for $18. I think it's kinda over-priced. He's too kind :D I'll give him sibling discount. $15 will do :p

But he says the potatoes are done better than some of those outside. YAYYS.
Not bad for a first timer of the recipe. But also, the recipe was easy to follow, though I modified some of it and was struggling with cooking the pasta, and ensuring that everything is well heated to be served at the same time.

*pats my own shoulder*

Good job!


Summary of the ultimate roasted potatoes set

Ingredients:

-Tiny potatoes
-Sausage
-Mushroom
-Egg
-Minced garlic-Mc Cormick (optional)
-All-purpose herb-McCormick (optional)
-Flour 

1. Scrub clean and hard the surface of the potatoes to ensure all dirt, mud and soil has been removed. Roasted potatoes taste better with the skin on. Besides, vitamin A resides on the skin of the potatos!(:

2. Evenly coat the insides of the metal tin used for baking the potatos evenly with margarine and place them in the preheated oven of 200degrees for 5-10mins.

3. After washing the potatoes, put them in a pot of water that barely covers the potatoes, boil till the bubbles are roaring, before bringing them to a simmer for 2 minutes. Drain these little cute things and shake them in the sieve to fluff them up.

4. Coat them with a thin layer of flour( to increase crispyness when they are baked). I used potato flour at home since it was the only available flour I can find in the fridge.

5. After baking them for 15 mins on one side, take the potatoes out and give them a few gentle tosses. Add some minced garlic and all purpose herbs ( mine's from Mc Cormick) and put them back into the oven at 15 mins

6. After you are satisfied with the texture of the potatoes, add a pinch of salt and shake em well.

shake it baby, shake it

7. Eggs for sunny side up. Heat up the pan, add some butter, and crack in the egg.

8. Heat up some butter, throw in the sliced button mushrooms and saute them until golden brown. Sprinkle all-purpose herb powder for some herbish taste

9. Cut some slits on the sausages and pan-fry them using butter.

time to TUCK IN!




Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas!


It's the festive season again and belated celebration for J's birthday!
Lunch at this new place,Hifumi at Plaza Sing's new extension was quite bad. booo. a waste of calories.

They had free flow of appetisers included in the main course but honestly, not worth the extra calories. I ordered the paper wrapped chicken done in japanese style but it wasn't fantastic. In fact I don't like the concoction of spices. Shall not waste blog space to upload the photo


One of the best gifts of walking as part time is to have met these 2 girls <3

hehe.

outfit: fluffed up lace top. fareast. jeggings. cotton on. moustache watch. bkk. red lippie. maybeline. heels. fareast



Fooling in the toilet and camwhoring is what we do best :D


Calories at Nana's green tea cafe for green tea ice cream was sooooo worth it. Located one floor (level 3) below the restaurant we dined for lunch. This recommendation was suggested by the girls which was just featured in Sunday Times for the dessert and off we went.

They had Kanten jelly, corn flakes, delicious awesome matcha ice cream, whipped cream drizzled with matcha sauce ( which we scooped out a hefty portion to save on the calories), and minced red beans. love it.

We are so coming back again (:

 68 Orchard Road #03-80/82 Plaza Singapura




A bracelet I customised with J using Bible locket which can be opened, and diamontee ball and grey swarovski pearl to keep the design simple and classic. Finished with my new find: diamontee magnetic clasp

Happy birthday my dear(:



Hehe my new loot today. From Diva's sales (:
An attempt to dissuade J from piercing her ear ( the top part), resulted in me getting seduced by this shi
ny pretty. 






Spices, and bacon and turkey for Christmas dinner


Simple christmas dinner at home. Cos my king wants to eat turkey





Today's christmas dinner prepared by yours truly and le chef bf.

1. Ham with pineapple and tomatos (bought)
2. Self-marinated turkey
3. Potato salad ( with egg, celery and bacon)
4. Orange and butter seared sutchi fish fillet
5. Moscato


Santa and Santarinas!


Camwhore :D


Agnes B navy lunch bag from brother for Christmas. hehe
Thankfully this year's one was better than last year :D
looks like if he gets the same thing for me as his gf, it should be safe :p







Peeking at his present


Ted Baker belt in reversible shades of black and brown


My masked prince charming (:


Santas!(:


The silly gnome and masked rider


The  happy king and his present



Happy H with her xmas present. hehe.


Designed this with gold plated double butterfly, ivory bird charm, czech glass flower, swarovski pearls and glass teardrop


Bedsheet from H (:
In prints of cute sewing machine


I hope the king is happy today!

Today's convo:

me: dad, have you bathed?
dad: not yet. can bath le ah? food ready liao ah?
*dad smiles in glee*
me: wah dad, why u so happy today
dad: eh! you know how many 10 years I have to wait for today leh!

*translated from english to chinese*

hehehe <3 so cute