regale

i am in a happy mood.

first, random photos from last sunday's bake with weijie.
this is my table laid out with all the stuff we used for the two cookies we made for outfield. i really love using the gold medal flour. think i'm going to be a complete convert to that.
a cute stack of sandy brown sugar. someday i want to try making a sand castle, like the sentosa competition kind.
the betty crocker oatmeal cookies, studded with white chocolate. bleah, i don't like the white chocolate, but if i don't use it it won't go away. incidentally, weijie used two of these cookies and managed to exchange for a free egg tart from the auntie at the egg tart shop >.< the double whammy chocolate pudding from ages ago was still not finished, so i decided to put it into a glass cup, top it with (manually) whipped cream and cocoa. so pretty, like a foaming glass of beer!
this is the meringue that i made weijie manually whip up. i think some things are better done by machine. the meringue took a long time to reach firm peaks, but after a while still softened back to a sticky sludge.
this is the cream biscuit, from another betty crocker recipe, beautifully designed by weijie with a chocolate heart.

anyhow, the cookies didn't last outfield. the cream biscuits became soft, and the oatmeal cookies crumbled up. nevertheless, there was much much food that we brought outfield (because it's the last, or rather, their last). so this outfield was ATEC; i shot enemies, got dripped, and looked at stars using the night vision thingy.

yesterday was a rainy day, and we were all rushing around settling stores. somehow, doing so makes it feel so final, like i've finished what i was tasked to do from the day i went to 41SAR.

today was the class picnic at botanic gardens, so last night i made a batch of wholemeal almond raisin biscotti.
managed to make the dough in record time. i didn't know how much butter i had at home, so i chose to make this; there's no butter involved. and i'm still on my way to finish using sonya's wholemeal flour. just whisked the eggs with vanilla, and stirred in the rest of the ingredients.
biscotti! they turned softer by today morning, partly because i left them in the open overnight to cool. and today was a gloomy and cold morning. luckily it was just nice at the botanic gardens. there was no sun, and very little rain. we sat in the middle of a big field eating good food and having pleasant conversations, bree-style. there were two swan in the lake nearby and i took many photos of them. beejuan had a polaroid camera which is way cool, albeit way retro.

have you heard a swan song? i think it just sounds like grunting.