i feel so blessed and grateful. Blessed with a warm and inviting family and also grateful for the little things people did.
Especially to DouDou. ♥
It was really sweet and nice of you to made me and my friends some cuppycakes, thanks love, i truely appreciate it. Bottom of my heart.
xoxo, Genevieve
Done with Disseration - CHECKED
then a short short 1 week break well spent.
7th May 2012 - Commence of Hectic Life and new friends :)
Last Thursday was Granny's birthday. I call her MAMA instead, im supposed to call her popo but then my mum's the only girl and im the only child and the rest of my cousin calls her mama and i feel so weird calling her popo so i decided to call her mama instead.
*breathe...* ok got it?
She doesn't like cakes like chocolate or cream laden ones. So i sourced the internet and many blogpost and cracked my head to decide on one cake.
FINALLY...
I decide on..
Yup this little baby! It may look huge here but it isnt! [RECIPE BELOW}
We had a simple dinner of many da-bao's food.
Interupted them while they are eating :P
After Dinner...
Hello!! Cake celebration, presented by sparstic face Gene!
Sing a short small song :D See i told you the cake is tiny.
The cousins, missing some.
The 1 level up generation.
Ok Blow Le Cake!
Then cut them!
Here's the promised recipe that i adapted from The Little Teochew but i tweaked it a little to my liking. I don't have a 6" tin nor a bamboo steamer, so i lined and baked mine into a 5.5" tin and poured the remaining into small cupcake moulds and topped 1 ontop of the cake as a deco.
TLT's one actually looks like a huat kueh, i had no luck on the huat part, so i had to innovate.
Verdict:
You know the time where you were endlessly searching for the moistiest banana muffin recipe. You search endlessly on the web, tried out recipe and some didn't turn out what it claims to be.
They turn out rock hard, too dense, too sweet, tasteless. Been there, done that....
NOW! i finally found one, and im sticking on to this recipe, it really yields very moist, fluffy banana muffin full of flavour! No essense and stuff, and its naturally sweetened with just the really "rotten" banana. I lessen the sugar amount and added more banana to achieve this.
I belived muffins using oil is what really makes muffin really nice :D Most importantly don't over beat.. doing there = GG!
I swear, the smell is just sooooo... ahhh.... im feeling hungry thinking of the smell right now... damn.....
I dumped in a lot of banana, which i think its what made it soooo yummy! and banana-ish.
Prolly add a few mini chocolate chip next time :D
INSTAGRAM VERSION!
Sorry, i just wanna add it in.... opps?
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The baking aftermath.....
LOVE SILICON LINER TO THE MAX!
I! Admit im hooked on Instagram. Im a total addict!!! So here's the April Challenge.
(Credit: http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/search/label/photo%20challenge)
Have fun!
A Double Date, yup with my cousins! Heard about Hatched a couple of times on FB, on FoodBlog's (which makes my stomach growl) and via friends recommendations.
Located inside this old building! Which we nearly walk pass LOL!
The really cute catalog!!! All the Eggs got GAP TEETH one. haha!
Make reservation because its kinda packed and we waited about 15-30mins for a seat and we had to seat outside. YUP. so didn't get to see the interior of it.
First came the drinks that we ordered first, Dou wanted to try the coffee here, so we got the usual long black :P and Viv and Sherman order Cappuccino. Our coffee turned sour pretty quickly... but its not bad just not as flavourful haha for us mostly..
Love this photo!
Pretty Ladies! Addicting to DrawSomething, so yeah... ipadu!
Labbit Pepper Shaker and Eggy Salt Shaker. Labbit is Kel :)
So Give you KISS! -iseeajealouskelvinccj-
FINALLY FOOD!!!!!
Kel ordered this Ultraman looking dishs call Bird's Nest. Ok luh, Potato undercooked, so hard to bite. Aubergines and Zucchini is the sourish kinds. Sending OngSherman into shiver shock. Eggs are ok, 1 of the the yolk is not wobbly anymore thou. Can't really taste the pesto sauce thou, i thought it was wilted spinach initially LOL.
Chicken and Mushroom Ragout Crepe - $14
Enjoy a creamy mixture of chicken and mushroom wrapped in crepe.
Didn't managed to add it in the picture :P My Bad.
Its pretty alright, crepe's a little on the dry side. Mushroom almost non-existence, creamy and mushroom not bad, like putting campbell mushroom chicken soup inside. Im easily satisfied so ok... :)
Gua Demostrate how to eat your VEGGIE! MUST EAT OK! Healthy...
Viv's Order. Sunnies on a Pig.
First time i see bacon so thick, then i read the description and its THICK SLAB of bacon. Its not the fatty kind, so its pretty alright :D
Love the brushes that i downloaded recently, so cute!!! The mash potato are homemade so its pretty chunky, not exactly the real kinda mash, but at least it isn't powder kind.
Sherman's Order, cause he heard receive good reviews about this dish, BUT apparently it wasn't that good. The 2 eggs are nicely poached except they are not round and nicely placed so like lobsided one. haha!
You can order 1 or 2 on English Muffins. Sherman ordered 2, in which he finished.
Ooozy-Woozy... woahhh!!!
Lovely Couple with their brunch!!!
DOU! With his ultraman looking dish.
THEN TO DEMPSEY TO EXPLORE!!!!!
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then it rained... then we drove to Daily Scoop @ Holland V
GONE!
Does anyone likes Kiwi? Boy i do!! I love the sweet-sour relationship of this little hairy fruit packed full of anti-oxident!
I felt like baking today, and i have been doing chocolate cupcakes. So i thought, why not find one perfectly vanilla-ish cupcake and do it!
Good Ol' Vanilla Cupcakes
(Yields 9 regular cupcakes)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
(Optional: Add in 1tbsp of chocolate chip or raisin or nuts)
(Notes: Feel free to double the recipe to yield about 18 cupcakes)
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Will i make these again?
Yes, of course, its so light and fluffy!
Let them eat cupcakes!
♥
i added some shaved dark chocolate on top for decoration sake.
Im ready for this March Challenge! Was bloghopping around with my multiple tabs and found that by Fat Mum Slim.
Me thinks this is pretty interesting :) So im gonna try it, and see if i manage to last 30 days :P
Then i read her post of tips in Instagram, there she came up with an awesome CHEAT SHEET!
(Taken from: http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/2012/02/instagram-cheat-sheet.html)
Im recently addicted to Instagram to the max! So now the MARCH CHALLENGE is to take a picture each day based on the theme set by Fat Mum Slim and post it up and adding #marchphotoaday and/or #photoaday in the comment :D
Im so excited for it!
Follow me on Instagram @ GenevieveP and if you are up for it, join the challenge too!
Finally! I took part in this Giveaway and was the lucky first winner, hehe :)
Idk if i posted about this before thou, but im happy posting it again cause i finally got my free vouchers!
Weird thing is that i emailed them that i haven't received my vouchers yet, and a nice lady(Nicole) replied me that she mailed it out on the 27th January (Friday) stated in her email, but then it only arrives now, so initially i was pretty sad that the mail prolly got lost somehow... and i even emailed her that i think it's lost today. HAHA!
Then when dad pass me the letter, i saw Singpost only stamped the date as 23 Feb 2012. Omg... took so long for Singpost to send over... but that i don't care already, as long as i got the vouchers! Me and Dou can go do our favourite couple thingy, to watch movie :D FREE!
Thanks Nicole and TuxSeeDo. :)
Earlier today, i had lunch at Northpoint's Manhattan with Jasmine. Aiming for the 11-12pm lunch offer. $7.90 set meals!
Really happy with my grilled dory fish, she had Baked Fish and we shared it cause we don't know which of the 2 to try so we ordered 1 each :)
And i ended up drinking Coke Light, i don't drink carbonated or sweetened drinks, but this one got offer, and since no Pepsi. So drink lo :P
Gonna meet Min and Fu soon :))
After im done baking my cranberry oatmeal cookies, i took some out for them to try. Dad was really nice to drop me at Holland :D Thanks!
Im meeting Ilah and Preena today at Holland V. by the time i reach there, i was hungry... so after meeting up with ilah, we went to Provence Bakery & Cafe where i was enticed by the above.
So yummy, i was enticed by all the different wonderful smell inside the bakery that i didn't know what i wanted. UNTIL... this uncle took the last 2 pieces of this mini pizza which look soooo damnnn nice! I was so sad that i couldn't find it and wanted to settle for some sandwhich instead. Luckily Ilah nudged me to ask the lady and she went to the back and ta-bao this fresh from the oven-piping hot pizza for me! By hot i meant it's really hot! The cheese are oozing inside.
OMFG, i was in heaven when i took a bite of that..
Imagine a freshly toasted sesame base that is fluffy with loads of cheese, under which is tomatos and the sauce with herbs.. Ahh~~
I love it! Im craving for it now as im typing it.. damn... and it's $2.20 for that which is totally-absolutely worth it! Ilah got herself a coffee-cinnamon bun which is so yummy too!.
I remembered the first time i was there was when Dou finished his interview at MOE HQ then he brought me there, he said that was a famous bakery then we bought a whole loads of bread there. and of course left a whole loads of money there too.. HAHA!
Here's the place if you wanna go there:
Holland Village Shop
17A Lorong Liput Holland Village
Singapore 277731
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We later met up with Preena and headed to Cold Rock Ice Creamery for some ice-cream indulgence!
Watching them churn out sinful ice-creams!
I didn't opt for the mix cause i was really quite full from that Pizza..Suppose to left half for Dou but i ended up finishing up everything... Guilty..
So i ordered a kiddies cup instead, and subsequently ate away Prees and Ila's waffle.. SHIT.
Their waffles are relatively thiner than those i had at other ice cream parlour. Prees one is melting away quicker than ilah's one i don't know why.
After this picture, there's a little boy and his sister that came and mannn they were adorable max!
He's actually sitting with his sis, behind Preena and some how his hands were like trying to touch her chair, so we turn around talking to him. He said his name is Tiyo or Tyo, idk but im taking it as Tiyo :D, he's 3 years old and he comes from Norway. Then slowly he came around here to sit with us, so adorable!
That's when we ask him to smile.. hehe!
That's Anna, his older sister and he's 5 and a half. I was impress that she actually said "and a half", i seldom see kids say that? Or because i don't usually hang around kids as my cousins has all grown!
Playing my ipad. Their mom said it's their heaven now as their dad don't always let them play. LOLS!. Kids these days are really lucky man, when we are this age we are playing 5stones and hopscotch. May some of them don't know what is 5 stones and hopscotch now.
5 Stones are not taking 5 stones to throw one another, its these:
and hopscotch:
Then they got bored pretty quickly, but too bad my ipad doesn't have much games.. loads of recipes apps? yes.
Last picture before they left! Such adorable kids!
We headed for ThaiExpress for dinner :)
We had a hard time deciding what to order, everything on the menu looks yummy.. So in the end the 3 of us settled for:
This is seriously so frigging yummy! It's spicy, but the kway teow is so QQ and the chicken are marinated so nicely in basil leaves!
We can't stop feasting on this, and gulping water at the same time.
Then we ordered an Otah. Thai Seafood Otah, and they are really generous on their seafood. Inside you can find sotong, prawns and fish! Otah's really smooth and we all loved it!
Ilah ordered this green curry with chicken meat and steamed rice. It's my first time eating green curry and i pretty like it, it's sweet and has coconut smell. Really nice, but according to the expert-ilah, she said it wasn't really meant to be like that, so idk how is the proper green curry suppose to taste like leh?
Inside the curry has loads of lean chicken meat, eggplants, potato and other herb leaves inside.
This heartful dinner cost us total $33.78. Yeah must emphasis on the .78cents cause i initially thought it was .70cents. haha! Worth it with awesome company!
Then i went to Watson and bought my Maybelline Eye/Lips Makeup Remover, Maybelline Mousse BB Cream and some Loreal Eye Vibrating Cream for 90cents. POWER!
ALL FOR 90CENTS! :P
Omg while googling for these images, i saw that there isn't much good reviews on the Maybelline BB Mousse Cream. HOW? Shit...
