What do you do when the family is sick of steamboats?
We go to TODAI (located in Marina Bay Sands)! My entire family (plus grandma etc) headed down to the international buffet spread last night for an early reunion dinner. The food was amazing!
More pictures of the gang after the jump!
I’m no brilliant chef, but I’ve been wanting to cook more this year.
Coincidentally, the husband and I have been watching a Hong Kong drama series (Bottled Passion/ 我的如意狼君) together, and the female protagonist runs a soya sauce factory and is a great cook! Ever so often, she’ll whip up her special soya sauce dishes and leave us reallyyyhungry.
Here is Tung Pun Sin (the main lead) eating the dishes that the main female lead prepares for him! Everything is steeped in soya sauce!
Anyway, the hubby and I were craving for soya sauce chicken after watching the series – so I prepared it for the season finale. Harhar. It turned out pretty well!
Z and I invited the family over for Sunday Brunch today and we had a blast!
We didn’t take pictures of all the food (scrambled eggs x breakfast ham x di’s banana cake x waffles x coffee x yoghurt x fruitsandmorefruits) because we gobbled them up so so quickly. But boy, did we have fun!
I am not a baker.
But to celebrate a special friend’s baby shower, Di and I decided to commemorate the important day with homemade cake!
We decided to make Red Velvet Cake because it’s a cake commonly used to mark special occasions (like birthdays and weddings).
We used Pioneer Woman’s recipe here which seemed easy enough & decided to prepare the frosting in the morning while baking the cake at night.
I also prepared some pretty flags to go!
I’m going to try Paula Deen’s Red Velvet Cupcakes recipe the next time I bake red velvet. The recipe calls for vegetable oil instead of shortening/butter – and it’s said to make the cake moist & yummy! The professionals also suggest using a handheld mixer instead of a standing mixer to prevent it from ‘overbeating’.
You can find the recipe after the jump!
