Currywurst

Finally ate the bratwurst today! 😂

To think that I was craving for this so badly 3 months ago in September. Delayed going down to buy the items in October. Finally only eating this in December. I guess the craving wasn’t that strong.

Thai food

Everytime I see Thai food, so inspired to want to cook. I have Marion Grasby’s and mama Noi’s cookbooks. If I’m lazy and want to minimise cleaning I also have Thermomix Thai Symphonies cookbook to refer to recipes. 

我讲这么多 but ….. how to cook for only 3. Che-che don’t eat

We can go to the Thai restaurant opposite us today coz che-che went out with her friend/s

Why? Why? Why?

I think I should unfollow some Instagram accounts 😅🥲

This keeps popping up food. And I can really taste the food. I miss Joyfull. Can I just make a 7 day trip to Japan?  😂

New routine?

Suddenly felt so energetic (siao!) and decided to start cooking dinner at mid day. Only 3 dishes, okay lah I’m not starving my family (or maybe I am). 

Cooked mapo tofu, stir fry chicken and steam egg and then cleaned up the kitchen. 

It I will reheat dinner and Thermomix when it’s nearing dinner time. Hmm…. Maybe next time I should be doing this. Kinda reminds me of CB where I started cooking dinner after finishing my lunch

🎄Das zweite projekt - part 2 of acting busy

Preparing gebrannte mandeln for her colleagues as Christmas gifts using Thermomix. I’m already feeling my energy draining but I have to stick on to plan coz I bought the almonds last week, didn’t want to keep any at home. 

This is so easy to make as gifts, I thought next time I can use haselnüsse and pinienkerne. I forgot hubby bought some from Russia if not I would tried some and see how it turned out. 

Using this same recipe but made slight adjustments.

Pics of gebrannte mandeln from website

Tell me why wouldn’t I miss Christmas Markets? Everything is just so pretty. The girls’ first Christmas market experience in Sapporo. 

In Germany. Everything on sale is just so pretty

German christmas cookies or otherwise known as lebkuchen

 

Okay back to what I’m was supposed to blog. 

8th Nov (Sat)

Started work at 3.38pm

Caramelising can be quite tricky especially for an impatient me, aunty hates to stand infront of the stove, kitchen hot, our Citygas real power I may end up burning the sugar. 

This needs constant stirring too.

@ 4.10pm - put the glossy almonds into baking tray. A simple and good snack is almost ready

Really must emphasise that cleaning Ms Thermie Is extremely easy. After the pre-cleaning Ms Thermie is often very clean, I don’t need much effort to clean again with a sponge. 

In the meantime, @ 5.13pm weighing to see how much I should put in each bag that is also easy for heat sealing the bags. 50g looks like a decent size. 

The almonds look really good. Ownself praise ownself 😂. I will stick to this recipe coz it’s not that sweet, but would more cinnamon powder makes it more oomph? 

Weighing, packing, sealing with German Christmas carols. 🤣 kindda have that vorfreude. Ahhhh…I really want to fly to Germany now! 

I thought I would get maybe 9 packets from the 400g almonds, instead I got 11 packs. I’m still short of 3 packs for her colleagues so will need to make more the next day. 

@ 6.33pm - My kacang puteh packed in a nicer bag. If only I could pack like how they pack in the christmas markets with traditional papiertuute resembling the schultuute, the paper kacang puteh style (unlikely so as I’m not that gangho to prepare things a day before and help pack in the morning she was giving them out)

@ 9.17pm - I have to admit that this wasn’t the original plan how I’d like to pack these almonds.

I wanted to prepare something like this coz I always like to make things move nice (pics taken from lil’ one’s 2012 birthday party favor bags). As you can see this is going to take me a very long time. I need to start measuring everything again as the template is somewhere in the hard disk now, a lot of adjustments here and there to make sure alignment is correct, print samples and try. If it looks ok, then I’ll print out in the 280gsm hard papers.

score the fold neatly. Assemble and have to make sure the staples are above the sealed part. 

But this is nice. I always like how the final favor bags looks. Over the years friends kept asking me which small business did this. Haha! It’s done by me. I take that as a compliment.

A lot of work right? So in order to save my own sanity I just did the stickers. @ 9.55pm - All done for today. Time to cook instant noodles for self. I haven’t had my dinner yet! 🤭 And threw che-che’s bedsheet in for wash. See lah! I never give instructions for help, nobody help me at all. Tired! 

Back into room at 10.37pm after hanging up her bedsheet and now need to prepare tags for the baking thank you gifts 

9th Nov (Sun) 

Back from lunch and a trip to NTUC, started work the moment I stepped into the house. 

Recipe : accidentally poured too much of sugar. Wanted to continue using the reduced 200g brown sugar but hand coordination was 😆 and poured 211g. Oops!

@ 2.40pm Miss Thermie is working hard

Almonds in

开工

A reminder for self. This is the setting I used

cooling down

Packing starts at 5.11pm. I don’t cook on weekends soso that’s one job less in need to do. Otherwise I have no idea how I am going to cope.

Lovely!

Ready for packing all 3 items for distribution the next day. 

Poulet

Poulet was opened in 2012 but we only stepped into one outlet 11 years later. The only time we can eat in Poulet is when che-che is not with us 😂. The first time we had Poulet was in 2023 when che-che was in the US. After she returned, she refuses to go there for our weekend meal. 每次都要顺充那个大小姐也太过分咯! The food is nice. The French onion soup and mushroom soup is delicious. 

Today coz she was meeting V for lunch, the 3 of us chose to have that for our lunch.  I didn’t order any soup today, left it to hubby to select the dishes which is often the same. 

(1) chicken carbonara    (2) whole chicken with mushroom cream sauce + 2 sides 

Everytime I step into Poulet, I keep telling myself I need to cook my French onion soup, mushroom soup and mushroom sauce. Usually it’s just talk but no action which I’m superbly good in 🤣. 

Japanese cooking II

16th Sep

Missed posting this. Haiyah! Everytime have bits and pieces of pics in my phone. So I end up needing to post them in here before deleting them

One out of the dunno how many dishes I cooked that day. I must have either removed the pics from the phone or I didn’t take any 😬

There’s a QR code behind the packet that linked to this website CLICK HERE

 

From this website, I found more ways to cook using this premix. So interesting. I want to go back to Japan and buy more premixes. 

6th Oct (Mon)

Need some jipun inspiration

Using this recipe

I grinded the panko into finer pieces

with the kushikatsu sauce che-che bought on her solo trip

It’s yummy if you eat it once it’s out from the fryer

Cooked Japanese style. Dumped chicken, veg (the Japanese frozen pack), mushrooms into the pan and fry. Want meat got meat, flip the dish and want veggie got veggie. Haha! Simple and good. On other days maybe I’d be able to clean up the kitchen faster, today was slower coz I deep fried earlier on. 

27th Oct (Mon) 

1 of the 4 dishes cooked for dinner. The rests were chinese cooking. Oh! I cooked chawanmushi too. 

My unappetising teriyaki fish coz spring onion and sesame seeds will be pushed aside so I save my energy, no need nice presentation. Anyway feed my family who cares!

31st Oct (Fri) 

Katsu curry