Lousy dinner in a cool area
Decided to check out Food For Thought @ Queen St just now for nice dinner after long draining day at work - unfortunately went so late that the kitchen was no longer open to take orders. Ended up walking opposite the road to Olio Dome (yeah, so nostalgic and secondary-sch-ish), where we ordered some mediocre pasta and a barley chicken gourmet pie with pastry-top. The gourmet pie turned out to be just pastry with chicken soup and smelled and tasted really chickeny... Though I know nuts about cooking, I suppose it must be because the chicken was not fresh. I've never had anything so chickeny for a long long time 'cos chicken is generally odourless, no matter how it's cooked.
Anyways... after a unsatisfying dinner, decided to try my luck at Food For Thought again. I've had really yummy red velvet cake at their Bugis branch, and it made me want to relive that again after disappointing dinner. Alas, they ran out of red velvet cake and only had black velvet cake... Sadly it was really not as nice as the red one + cake portion was quite dry and hard (though that didn't quite stop a greedy me from finishing the whole cake lah). I'm sure i can make better cake if i put my heart to it! According to google sources, black velvet cake is supposed to be really chocolatey but the one I just had was not at all chocolatey... So sad I was cheated of my money throughout the night. Hmph.
4 more days of clear-work-all-day workdays. Sob.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
A rare, happening Saturday...
Yesterday was J's bachelorette party-- meticulously planned and executed by C. "Wild" day out was divided into 4 segments - Julie & Julia cooking class at Coriander Leaf in the morning, spa/pedi/mani pampering session at Aramsa, interesting dancing class in late afternoon, followed by chill-out DVD session at Jing's new place at night. Was extremely exhausted by the end of the day, but it was good fun :) Ok lah, this morning I still woke up feeling alright and planted the baby pumpkin plant I bought abt a month ago heh. I never knew those compacted squarish-looking dirt expanded to a potful of soil upon contact with water! It's like those vacuum-packed pillows that swell to 3, 4 times their size when opened...
Here's some pics from the French-cooking class. To be more accurate, it was a sit-and-watch-then-eat class. The food was delicious on the whole, but some dishes were overly salty. Though I'm now equipped with a set of really fancy recipes, not sure when I'd ever get down to making such dishes... Nonetheless, I picked up a few tips -- like I can totally make lobster bisque with prawns and nobody can tell the difference; and that the key ingredients in French cooking are wine, a lot of butter; and salt!
Really yummy & fresh nicoise salad
Yesterday was J's bachelorette party-- meticulously planned and executed by C. "Wild" day out was divided into 4 segments - Julie & Julia cooking class at Coriander Leaf in the morning, spa/pedi/mani pampering session at Aramsa, interesting dancing class in late afternoon, followed by chill-out DVD session at Jing's new place at night. Was extremely exhausted by the end of the day, but it was good fun :) Ok lah, this morning I still woke up feeling alright and planted the baby pumpkin plant I bought abt a month ago heh. I never knew those compacted squarish-looking dirt expanded to a potful of soil upon contact with water! It's like those vacuum-packed pillows that swell to 3, 4 times their size when opened...
Here's some pics from the French-cooking class. To be more accurate, it was a sit-and-watch-then-eat class. The food was delicious on the whole, but some dishes were overly salty. Though I'm now equipped with a set of really fancy recipes, not sure when I'd ever get down to making such dishes... Nonetheless, I picked up a few tips -- like I can totally make lobster bisque with prawns and nobody can tell the difference; and that the key ingredients in French cooking are wine, a lot of butter; and salt!
Really yummy & fresh nicoise salad
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