the needed fix

Yay us!

We finally got the broken window fixed!

Dropped by at a local workshop to have it done by Warren here in less than 10 minutes.

Job well done indeed when you're working under professional supervision like this.

Had an entertaining 10 minutes of wait with this little bugger here.

That is one macho looking dog, wouldn't you agree?

Kinda like a superhero dog.

UNDERDOG!

Girls of Bardon Glutton

WHEN WILL IT EVER END?!

Yes, it's yet another post on the feeding frenzy that happens behind our kitchen doors.

Soon, we might have to consider changing our blog name to - Girls of Glutton.

Sigh.

Winter, why art thou cruel?

Mmm...yummy but cruel.

Enjoy!

Caramel Chocolate Panna Cotta

This Italian dessert has gots to be one of the simplest things in life. There's only 3-4 basic essential ingredients, and the rest are up to you to add in for flavour. How easy is that?!

What You Need:

• 2 1/4 tsp unflavored gelatin
• 250ml heavy cream
• 100g white sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• cocoa powder
• chocolate (melted)

What You Need to Do:

• pour gelatine into 1/4 bowl of water, leave it to soak for 5 minutes
• heat cream and vanilla extract in saucepan, do not boil!
• for caramel making purposes, heat sugar in pan til it browns into thick caramel texture. (otherwise, you can just heat sugar and cream together)
• pour warm cream into caramel, stir constantly to avoide caramel from hardening
• add melted chocolate and cocoa (mixed with 2 tsp water)
• add gelatine and stir until completely dissolved
• pour into separate ramekins/mould
• leave to room temperature, then store in fridge until gelatine has set
• SERVE!

We didn't have proper ramekin dishes to use, so ordinary small bowls will do instead.

Leave to set, then flip bowl over onto serving plate to get that bouncy dome shape. Serve with evaporated milk, or fruit compote, or fresh berries, etc etc.

VOILA~

sin city

the feeding continues...

Homemade Dark Cocoa Brownie

with a side of fresh whipped cream

...Mmm...

confessions of a shoe-paholic

Question: What do you get when you let three girls live together?

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Answer: A WHOLE LOTTA SHOES!

Not good.

Not good.

If we keep up at this rate, we might hafta rent an extra room just for storage!

Oh well.

Us girls, we can never have too many shoes now, can we?

Might need to get rid of a few pairs if we're gonna need more room. Ahem.

Chuck 'em, or keep 'em?

And the

MOST STYLISH, MOST BEST-EST, MOST COMFY

pair of the lot!

TEE HEE HEE!

This is not even including the other half of Miss Elsie's collection.

Don't even get us started on slepars/slippers/sandals/thongs.

the nyum nyum diary

Yet another sinful night of food abuse in Bardon.

Enjoy.

Strawberry Banana Cake

Things to put in

3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 cup vanilla sugar/regular sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
grated zest of one lemon
2 bananas (mashed)
1 cup of chopped fresh strawberries

Other 'optional' things

(highly recommended...nyehehehe!)

5 spoons Malibu Coconut Rum
3 spoons strawberry jam
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 cup cooking chocolate (melted)

What To Do

• Preheat oven to 175°C.
• Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
• In a separate bowl, stir the eggs and the oil. Add the bananas, strawberries, jam and lemon zest.
• Add to the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Pour into square baking tin until 3/4 full.
• Drip melted chocolate on top, form circular swirls with a chopstick.
• Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Cool in a wire rack and frost with icing sugar.

The usual suspects

the real criminal

Heh Heh Heh

Puan puan, pastikan aduan digaul sampai sebati...

Drip dollops of melted choc...

...to make swirly designs on top.

Pop into the oven,

aaaaaannnnnddd...

VOILA!