D has had persistent fever the entire week; and it was only this morning at CGH that the doc diagnosed him as having caught pneumonia. We were quite fearful it was dengue and have been pretty vicious in eradicating the mozzies in the house (as the symptoms looked like dengue to a layman) but thankfully it wasn't. Nonetheless pneumonia is pretty bad too and he keeps coughing non-stop. It was quite baffling too where he caught it from.
To fulfill my duties as the caretaker, I finally inaugurated our rice cooker today - not to cook rice but to cook porridge! Attempted to replicate the sweet potato taiwanese porridge by dumping some sweet potato into the rice cooker too. Though I only got hold of yellow and not the orange kind of sweet potato the porridge still turned out quite decent; and I realised that it's actually quite simple to cook porridge with the rice cooker. So quite happy with our purchase; except that the metal portion where all the steam rises up to isn't detachable for washing! Eeks, so we have to wipe conscientiously with damp cloth each time... :(
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Japanese desserts-weekend
Baking and trying out new recipes is my current obsession and passion (But given my 3-min hotness character, I wonder how long this phase will last though). I have succumbed to this "weak spot" the past few weekends and ended up spending a good few hrs each time whipping up something new. Sometimes the experiments succeed, sometimes they fail. Often my bad whisking skills and layman equipment causes sugared egg mixture/ egg white to splatter onto my kitchen cabinets (which requires wiping afterwards). And a few fingers are getting slightly rougher washing all the baking equipment :( But so far.. the motivation remains. I suppose taking nice food pics thereafter gives me a kick too; and keeps me going.
This Sat - I resolved to make tiramisu again, so as not to waste the mascarpone cheese (which expires Mon) that has been sitting in the fridge. I decided to have a Jap theme, and thus attempted a black sesame recipe too. They both turned out quite decent; but there are still some issues an amateur like me can't quite figure out yet.
Baking and trying out new recipes is my current obsession and passion (But given my 3-min hotness character, I wonder how long this phase will last though). I have succumbed to this "weak spot" the past few weekends and ended up spending a good few hrs each time whipping up something new. Sometimes the experiments succeed, sometimes they fail. Often my bad whisking skills and layman equipment causes sugared egg mixture/ egg white to splatter onto my kitchen cabinets (which requires wiping afterwards). And a few fingers are getting slightly rougher washing all the baking equipment :( But so far.. the motivation remains. I suppose taking nice food pics thereafter gives me a kick too; and keeps me going.
This Sat - I resolved to make tiramisu again, so as not to waste the mascarpone cheese (which expires Mon) that has been sitting in the fridge. I decided to have a Jap theme, and thus attempted a black sesame recipe too. They both turned out quite decent; but there are still some issues an amateur like me can't quite figure out yet.
I also had a surprise find at our neighbourhood NTUC. They suddenly stocked fresh apricots and these were really fresh and sweet! I couldn't resist taking a shot of these yummy fruits :)
And there goes another weekend of baking... But since I will be bond-free in 2 days' time and jobless in about 3 weeks' time I shall have lotsa free time to make more stuff soon! :P
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