In the shape of a Chinese Junk. I had to rub my eyes to be sure it was not an illusion. How cute is that? Anyone knows where I can get something like that?
Sorry I couldn’t resist, especially since it’s the last day of Lunar New Year!
Hello everybody. *taps into microphone*. I am back and I have an important announcement to make.
Chinese New Year is not Chinese New Year without pineapple pastries. Warning. Never attempt Chinese New Year without pineapple pastries. Never! Never ever!!
Otherwise be prepared to face your own gastronomic perils!
And become the laughing stock of the neighbourhood!
And get outcast by relatives!!
Your great grand-children might be black-listed from Havard!!!
Ok I’m a nutcase. What I’m not kidding about though, is how simple to make and delicious these little buggers are.
Ingredients (makes 46 tarts/balls)
220g unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
2 egg yolks
375g plain flour
2 tbsp corn flour
50g icing sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg yolk for egg wash
About 530gm of cooked pineapple jam.
(either made from scratch or pre-made ones from the supermarket)
To make pineapple jam from scratch, peel and grate 2 ripe pineapples. Then squeeze gently to extract excess juice, but not till its as dry as the Sahara.
Add about 360gm of caster sugar and 5-6 cloves, and cook over low heat till sugar melts. The mixture should be wet and sticky, but with too much liquid. By then you should be exhausted. Put the jam in the fridge and make the tarts another day.
Your cup of tea if you’re a Denzel Washington or post-apocalyptic movie fan.
These days a wedding cake simply doesn’t, pardon the pun, cut it. You need an avalanche of incredibly cute cupcakes to start a wedding dinner on a (very) sweet note. Quite brilliant as I often complained of not getting a piece of the wedding cake.
More on me baby brother’s wedding later. Am still recuperating from all the feasting.
Am not an iPhone application whore but I app-solutely love this one. It takes lomo-like pictures which you can preview, and you can have it as an instant digital format, as opposed to not really knowing how the photo will turn out till it’s developed.
Having said that, nothing beats the real stuff. Not having the perfect picture is exactly what keeps the lo-fi enthusiast going!
That were not made by meself. I’ve always admired the patience of these cake decorators, and how intricate they can be. My cupcakes are always almost naked and undressed, partly because I’m not a big fan of coloring and sugar paste either.
Nevertheless these were a delightful sight to behold!
My first medium format toy camera! I will post up the pics once they are developed. Probably only 0.5% of them will turn out visible because I forgot about the film format and kept taking indoor shots. Bleah!
Then again I give thanks everyday that I can remember my own name, let alone nitty gritty stuff like film formats.
I can’t wait to see the pics! I can’t wait I can’t wait I can’t wait!!
Love,
Impatient Amateur
ps: did I mention I can’t wait to see the pics?
I hail from a little red dot on the South China Sea call Singapore (don’t bother taking out your world map, you probably wouldn’t find it anyway). Am an extroverted introvert and notorious for nothing and everything. I often suffer from logorrhea so please do not take what I say too seriously. In fact do not take what I say seriously at all. Life is too much of serious as it is.
This blog is about the little splices of my life with the D-man, our furries, family and crazy friends. I hope you’ll drop by often to say hi, because this website is blessed with magical powers that gives you 48 hours of good luck everytime you visit.
Ok not really but I’ll like to see you sometime anyway.
Love,
C-gal