putting in effort

tonight was a spontaneous night. from dinner to airport, because seibu had a last-minute extended stopover in singapore. rushing in weiyang's car from boonlay across the country to changi; the moon was actually perfect.

haha then we were trying so hard to use up the voucher which seibu got for compensation for the delay.

sadly, i weighed 63.7kg at changi airport today.

resemblance

ugly.

milk tea ice cream

ice cream is becoming a permanent fixture in my freezer. this time it was milk tea ice cream.
this is an eggless ice cream, which is good, because i've started accumulating more and more egg whites again. i just steeped tea leaves in milk, thickened it with cornstarch, strained, chilled, and lightened it with cream. then churn it with the ice cream maker!
i particularly like this photo; it's so olden.

chocolate fiend

today's baking with jinquan was all about chocolate. it was a disaster initially though, because i had planned on making bread but we had no yeast! but dorie and chocolate saved the day.
both recipes were from baking: from my home to yours. one was the bittersweet brownies, the other was the chocolate cream tart. didn't get to taste the tart, but i ate quite a bit of the excess chocolate pastry cream. (yummy!)

be now

these are my contributions to 奶奶's birthday potluck, which just ended. the biscotti were relatively untouched primarily because it didn't fit in well to the dinner. (not appetiser, not finger food, not really dessert.) but the goma ice cream was excellent, except my sister still doesn't like black sesame.
the chocolate biscotti recipe comes from dorie greenspan. the dough was a lot stickier than she described, but other than that, not much problems, because sonya taught me to make biscotti before, so it went quite smoothly. they were chocolatey and crunchy.

i reduced the sugar amount from the original recipe by a lot, so this time it was a lot less sweet. i also re-adjusted the milk/cream ratio and it set into a very desirable texture for ice cream, which also didn't melt very quickly.

on a side note, melanie likes to run to me.

grateful

oddly, there was a fireworks display outside my window. i don't know if it was even legal. but it was coming out from a patch of foresty hill some distance away. bursts of colour, like an ORD party.

slated

i am hungry and all i had for dinner was hello panda and an orange muffin.

i am going to eat my way to losing weight.