I can’t believe the month of August is almost over. I guess time flies when you’re very very busy and consumed by work. It’s been a really busy work month but I know it’s going to be worse come September. Ah well.
We had a charity bakesale at our workplace last week, I brought in an orange chiffon cake which went down well. I think it was the sheer size of the giant cake that was most impressive than anything else.
I baked an extra more modest sized pandan chiffon cake for our own consumption. I used a different recipe using self raising flour instead of normal flour + bicarb soda this time and it turned out well.
Malaysian seafood curry with fish fillet and prawns. The leftover curry sauce was diluted into a curry noodle bowl during the weekend (^__^).
More roasted chicken during the weekend. This time Jason and Wendy came over to share. I think we won’t be roasting chickens for a while.
Grapefruit and orange Thai salad as a side. The original recipe (click here) calls for pomelo but since we didn’t have any I made do with grapefruit and orange and it worked really well. I love Thai salads and will be attempting a green papaya salad tomorrow, hope it works out.
Fabie, Jason and Wendy’s puppy toy poodle came to visit as well, he’s really cute and smart already knowing how to do tricks such as spin, roll over and go down.
My first Pho! These couple of years I’ve been trying more and more Vietnamese recipes and eating out a lot more at Vietnamese restaurants. R is a huge pho lover and pho is his must order at every Vietnamese restaurant, so I thought, why not try making pho at home? Turns out it’s not so difficult and my first attempt while not restaurant standard, was actually quite good and tasty.
It’s been a while since I’ve slow cooked beef. The tender oxtail and beef chucks in the minty fragrant broth was yummy for dinner.
Daffodil Day for Cancer Council was last Friday. I like daffodils because they’re so bright and cheery.
Speaking of bright yellow flowers, these little yellow flowers were picked from my garden. The rain seems to have stopped for a while, the sun has come out and wild flowers are shooting out everywhere.
Already the weather feels warmer and I was able to wear a dress without stockings for the first time yesterday. I guess Spring is in the air.
Thanks for the dinner. I love the salad and I’ll try to cook.
no problem tell me how it goes.
Nice flowers. Conversely, the weather is getting cooler here. Went running today in my usual outfit (sleeveless top and three quarter trousers) and froze! At least for the first 5 minutes or so anyway until the running got me hot, bothered and breathless haha.
very geng, still running, I even hate the idea of walking in the cold.