This is my Holy Bible (whoopsie, I must have made a Zorkian cringe somewhere out there). And tadaaaaaaa! The meal that beacons all the better meals to come. All thanks to Martha Day. Many years back, I had a baking book by Martha Day and most of my experiments turned out very well. Unfortunately I lost the book somehow along the way and it was really inconvenient. With divine intervention and some pixie dust, I found this one in Popular Bookshop one random day (also the same author). And even better, this book not only covers baking, it also covers everything from starters to soup to fish and game meat. Whoot. The instructions are easy although the ingredients are sometimes quite exotic. I mean, how much thyme or rosemary or pine nuts do we eat here in Singapore? Still, I am looking forward to trying more recipes. Cooking is very fun if you ask me.
Menu: Potato & Rocket Soup; Salmon & Parsley Penne Pasta
I am super proud of myself. Good lah, I am lucky I always have lab rats around to taste my experiments. This coming weekend, I am thinking of trying to make Thai green curry. Of course I won't be starting from scratch, haha I am gonna cheat (alittle). Seriously, there isn't an excuse to be a lousy cook in the modern world right? There are ready made pastes in the supermarkets already... How much more idiot-proof can it get?
Finally, some pictures of my last day out with Loverboy and his mummy. Yup, I am seriously overdue. Anyway very luckily, his business trip coincided with my schedule last month so we met up and decided to pray at Narita.
Yay, a huge zit on the forehead to start the day.
Mummy Loverboy is a nice, petite lady who laughs alot and repeats her stories at least 5 times. And she makes me look like Godzilla. Talking about heights, I am not kidding but even with my less petite colleagues, many Japanese who look at me for the first time will comment how 'HUGE' I am. Dude~ I ain't that huge. Maybe my limbs are too long so I appear huge...? I wish Yao Ming walks next to me more often. I want to be petite for once! With my Aldo heels, I think I'm about 180-182cm (so I stick to my Charles & Keith so I'll be about 175cm?).
Bahahahahaha many must be wondering if I am a female or male-turned-female. Plus my voice is super low, can! Well truthfully, I've never been mistaken as a guy before....until I go to Orchard Towers. THEN people give me a second looks and wonder.
Anyhow, this week's Mind And Body ran a short article about people with nickel allergy. I am beginning to wonder if I have that. I notice that when I wear costume jewelley, a spot on my neck/chest starts to get red and itch (where the pendant falls). So suay, my skin is so bloody sensitive. It makes me very high maintenance because I need alot of medicine (itch creams), tons of moisturisers and purer jewellery (so says Mind And Body, of which I have NO objection)
I told this to Loverboy.
Me: So, it means that I can only wear jewellery from Cartier or Bulgari. :D
Loverboy: May chan, dame deshou. (Meaning: Go fly kite.)
Haha.
4 comments:
hahaha, your bf is very funny. maybe if you cook more dishes for him, he might actually buy you some pure jewellery!
btw, i'm assuming he speaks english. can he speak a bit of mandarin?
- junny
Yes! His mandarin vocab is quite wide. He can say 'xie xie', 'gong xi fa cai' and 'aiyo!!'.
:D
yeah i have the same allergy man! so my mum inherited all my nickel jewellery! i'm like the litmus test for nickel. "ooh u say ur stuff's pure silver? test on me... and tada! u were lying!!!!!"
bf doesn't buy my excuse too though. he said... 'eh, just dun wear la'.
hahaha. tiffany's silver may be more 'affordable' than cartier n bvlgari though... ;)
I actually read that stainless steel is better than sterling silver because the nickel will never leak out...but LoverboyS should never know about this. Hehe.
Thank god there is always yellow gold cuz even white gold contains some nickel. But true lah, "don't wear lor" is the best prevention to allergies.
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