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He followed the recipes in Healthy Bread in 5 minutes a day and made this wholewheat multigrain bread. It is yummy and was well received by his family. But I prefer it to be a little more airy. The dough can be kept for 2 weeks depending on the type of bread you prefer (e.g 2 weeks is close to sour dough and 1 day is just whole wheat bread), when you want to eat a bread, you then let it sit in the air for 90 minutes, shape it the way you want it and pop it into the oven. The dough is also the basic dough where you can add ingredients you want, e.g raisins, dried tomato, nuts, bananas etc to make a whole variety of bread. I am so excited to eat homemade artisan bread which is healthy and without preservatives! Yay.

If you need the recipe and instruction, drop us a note.

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We head over to Alph and Phil new place on Saturday and gosh, I love the location of her place! Right smack in Holland Village, with various facilities and a MRT station right at her door step. The location cannot get any better! Even though their place is a tiny 3 bedroom flat, it is cozy enough for both of them and Mocha. Haha. It’s easy to clean up too!

I was amazed by how little belongings Alph has. I really need to de-clutter our home!

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At the back of her place, there is a nice “Zi Char” stall and clay pot rice which we packed for dinner! Awesome food! After dinner we walked to 2AM dessert bar and gosh, it is the most expensive dessert place ever. It is nice but definitely not worth $16 to $18 for that tiny portion of constructed dessert! Definitely overpriced! But their staff’s knowledge and service is amazing.

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Purple.

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Frozen Chocolate.

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Cheese Avalanche.

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Basil White Chocolate.

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We also tried their dessert wine which was carefully paired with one of the dessert. This Hungary dessert wine is yummy. All girls love dessert wine. Haha.

Will I ever go back to 2AM? No. I’ve tried it, it’s enough. There are many other dessert places which offer yummy and value treats!

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Other than FairPrice Finest, another awesome place to hang out at Scotts Square is Maison Kayser bakery! They are not only popular in France and Japan, their soft opening garnered a huge crowd too! One trick to ensure that their bread taste awesome is to eat it while it’s hot! Singapore’s humidity turns their bread into hard chewy bun really quickly!

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I tried their piping hot Croissant fresh out from the oven, it was heavenly! Love the crispy crust, soft and buttery inside! Gosh, I’m drooling already! I also tried their apple pie and even though it wasn’t hot from the oven, it was still good. Don’t be fooled by it’s name, it’s less like a pie, more like a Croissant filled with apple fillings. Yums! I brought home a Baguette for my dear husband (who is madly in love with bread) and I found it a little hard and chewy but he loves it! The baguette is so french!

It is a little pricey ranging from $2 to $5 each but it is worth every bite. Yums! Drool worthy factor? 5 out of 5! Haha.

Last weekend, my sister and my mum came over to my place for some cookie and cake making! The Christmas shortcake turns out yummy! It is almost like the Danish Cookies you buy from supermarkets! The fruit cake was burnt slightly and I could have do with more fruits!

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My mum and I!

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Our burnt cake and my sister burnt fingers!

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The texture and consistency were perfect! All thanks to the expensive mixer! But the flavor can do better!

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My sister looks like she is on some ad campaign, something like a “She can bake!” lifestyle program. Haha.

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Our pretty yummy cookies!

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We found the recipe from Straits Times and it is really easy! I shall not share the cake recipe until I can perfect it. Haha.

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We went to Tim’s church at Pasir Ris on Sunday and thereafter we had to drop Barley at the groomer at East Coast / Katong area. We decided to check out Zaffron Kitchen - a modern Indian restaurant opposite 112 Katong – and it was all good. Good food, love their interior decor and funny punchlines everywhere. HAHA. It’s a cool Indian restaurant with good food and ambience.

Good Food

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He loves their masala tea.

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Their food is good yes, but their portion is so little!

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I love their prata! It’s crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside! It’s damn good!

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We chatted with the restaurant service trainer and she gave us a complimentary thosai. It is the perfect thosai. The consistency and flavor. Hmm.

The total damage? Eighty over dollars for the four of us.

Cool Interior Decor

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Love those lamps! They reminded me of our hat lamps in my walk in wardrobe!

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Love these tiles.

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This place is pro-family too! You can bring your little ones there with your girlfriends!

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Cute.

Funny Punchlines

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One of those punchlines!

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My personal favorite! Devils wear prata! HAHA.

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He casually mentioned that we never tried roasting a whole chicken before, and after he said that I was spurred to take up the challenge!

I found a recipe in Epicurious which uses mainly lemon, honey and tarragon but because we do not have any tarragon, I simply follow the recipe without it!

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Here is the final product! He was amazed! That night he gave the best compliment to my new domesticated self! According to him, “Do you know what is the best compliment to a chef? Not only did her patrons ate it all up and claimed to love it, it is the fact that there are chill sauce and other condiments at the side, the patrons choose not to use it!” Haha! I agree! But I thought it can be a little juicier if I stopped the oven at the last 10 mins! Sorry, I’m a perfectionist!

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For the potato, it is nothing fancy. I simply sliced two russet potatoes, soaked it in salt water, greased the bakeware with butter, laid the potatoes, put some butter and pepper in between potatoes, laid more potatoes and covered it up with cheese and popped it into the oven! Haha. No recipe required.

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Yums! It feels like a home cooked Christmas meal already! If you want to know the recipe we followed from Epicurious, you can click for more!

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Another random post about Italy! I have so many random posts at the back of my head, it’s going to take months to clear! Haha.

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My personal favorite! We found this bakery in Milan!

This Italian pastry named “cornetto” in the Center and South of Italy and “brioche” in the North is a cousin of French Croissant! Unlike the French version which is crispy and buttery, Cornetto / Brioche is softer and comes with fillings! They dolled them up with fruits, nuts, cream, sugar and jam and filled them with puree, cream and chocolate! We have them at every breakfast in the hotels we stayed, you see them in cafes and bakeries and it’s everywhere! Yums!

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I’m blessed to marry a man who can cook and who can cook well! Homemade Pork Patty sandwich with egg! It was yummy and it is worthy of a blog post. HAH.

One of my favourite place in Sydney, their Fish Market. It is not a huge place, but it’s great if you can just pop by for lunch!

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Fresh and oh so yummy!

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Other than their fresh and raw items, they have a huge range of cooked yummy treats too!

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Other than a dozen oysters, these were what we ate at 10am (after breakfast!)

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If you love ice cream like I do, you may want to try the following recipe to make your own homemade ice cream! I pick it up at Udders’ workshop and thought it was really easy! You should bring your kids along or try it with your friends or family! Otherwise, try it yourself with the following steps and make your kids work for their own ice cream! Haha.

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Our company’s SRC organized a Ice cream workshop cum buffet event at Udders and what’s not to like to try making ice cream and eat all you want at a subsidized rate!

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We tried making chocolate ice cream (which you are to choose from Vanilla, Coconut or Chocolate ice cream!)
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