you know you are bored when...

blondies!

Moving back to London after summer in Singapore was fun. That's right. No more crappy cramped places to move into, no more shared rooms and no more of the joke of kitchen I had last year. Everything this year just seems 10000000 times better then the 2 previous years, I just can't help but feel happy even just sitting on the floor (yes, I can now sit on my floor without worrying about that unknown suspicious looking stain).

And so with my welfare and well-being exponentially increased, and with school being rather blah at the moment I just feel like baking yesterday. My exploits in the kitchen have been rather varied, from baking cakes, cookies to Chinese dinners. And even though I have a presentation due next week on top of two of essays due in the next 3 weeks, I'm successfully pretending that I'll get through everything.

So, you know you are bored when you bake a banana walnut loaf cake, 2 hummingbird cakes, chocolate chip cookies, dinner twice a week (elaborate ones), fry up doughnuts and yogurt cake (in 4 variations) over two weeks. The yogurt cake is my new favourite cake - as can be seen from my various attempts at creating a different flavour: blueberry, orange poppyseed, lemon poppyseed and lemon-raspberry. The amazing thing about this is that it tastes incredibly healthy and the yogurt through some miraculous chemical way induces the most wonderful velvety texture of the cake. I live with 3 boys this year, and all of them unanimously vote for the blueberry one, just coz of the crazy explosions of blue within the cake. yumm. I only manage to take a photo of the lemon poppyseed cake as I either forgot to take pictures, or I brought them out and they were gone. :D
















lemon poppyseed yogurt cake
















Chocolate Chunk Butter Cookies
















Banana Walnut (Molasses) Loaf





















"Kung Po" Chicken


I can cook Chinese Food! My first attempt at the "kung po" chicken served in almost every chinese restaurant in its glorious variations, and apart from the taste, which wasn't quite the same, it was still 90% there. the same fiery kick, the same tender chicken meat (although my regular 'zi char' stall doesn't use tender meat. damn) and the delish gravy. Now, i dare you to eat all the dried chili. That's my dad's favourite part of the dish. Seeing him eat it with relish once made me thought it was really cool to eat that (i was young), and it was HOT HOT HOT. but of course, pride comes at any age, and I pretended with whatever acting skills I had that it was alright. Silly me, and duh, i never made the same mistake again.

so here's too, boring lazy afternoons, and lazy evenings, and to more yogurt cake! yay!