13 posts tagged “love”
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Acts of service. That's not a surprise to me. Like today, hubb brought the baby out for walks while I had time to catch up some sleep. I feel loved. :)
Read the article I clipped from asisone. But... correction. The restaurant is beside a pond, not a lake. Being a small country, not many people could differentiate between a pond and a lake. :[
The food wasn't great, but the view is as good as you can get in a concrete city-country. It's a nice place for chill out. It will be even better if I am partial to wine and I can enjoy their wine collection, which is quite a nice size.
Bliss Restaurant @ Punggol Park
Punggol Park, Hougang Avenue 8
Tel: 6280-3389
3pm to midnight (Sunday to Thursday), 3pm-2am (Friday and Saturday)
 clipped from wineanddine.asiaone.com.sg
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Everything's swell today. You can ignore my next para for a straight account of the day.
We had an early start, went to IMM for brunch, shopped at one of our favourite place for your most useful and useless stuff and where everything is S$2, Daiso and then Giant hypermart. When we reached home, we were absolutely famished and so we started preparing for dinner. I put part of our dinner into the oven for some slow love cooking, we popped over to my in-law's place for a quick visit. Poor MIL had sprained her back while carrying some heavy stuff. :( After a quick but delish dinner, we went for car viewing at friend's company. Last leg of the day we were at Kovan mall for a stroll!
What a day. But the dinner! Oh! It was so great! Hubb rated 9.5 out of 10. It was my greatest cooking accomplishment. *pats stomach Our dinner menu was Blue cheese striploin steak with sauteed mushroom and with scallion baked potato. The first two are recipes courtesy from Vanessa. :D These dishes are going to be repeated. We enjoyed the food so much and hubb rated the food tonight a whopping 9.5/10!!!! (repeating the stated here) :D I am such a happy camper today. (Again, I must reiterate my feeling)
I shall replicate the recipes here, having making slight modification to them. One thing about my cooking style, I replace ingredients with similar ingredients that I have, and I always add more of the seasonings that we like. E.g. black pepper and garlic.
Blue cheese striploin steak
Ingredients:
2 pieces of striploin steak (about 400 gm in all)
1 tspn cracked black pepper (we like black pepper)
1/2 cup dry red wine
1/3 cup home made blue cheese dressing
Olive oil
Method:
1. Marinade the steaks in red wine, black pepper and olive oil
2. Leave this in the fridge marinating for at least 2 hours. (I left it for 5 hours)
3. Drain the marinade, add the blue cheese dressing and marinade for another 2 hours
4. Heat the pan, add olive oil
5. On hight heat, sear the steaks on both sides
6. Reduce the heat and cook each side for 5 minutes (this is for a medium rare steak)
7. Serve after allowing the steaks to rest for 10 minutes
Blue cheese dressing
Ingredients:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 up blue cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup. sour cream
Salt to taste
Method:
1. Use a mixer and blend the ingredients till it become a smooth paste
Sauteed Mushroom
Ingredients:
6-8 white buttom mushoom, thinly sliced
1 tspn cracked pepper
3 tbspn rum
For oil, I use the the remain oil/juices from the steak
Method:
1. Add the sliced mushroom.
2. Add the cracked pepper
3. Stir on medium heat for 2-3 minutes.
4. Add the rum, and allow this to reduce (abt 5 mins)
5. Serve on top of the steak
Scallion baked potato
Ingredients
3 medium size potato, thinly sliced
1 big onion, thinly sliced
1 tbspn garlic
2/3 cup sour cream
2/3 cup chicken stock
shredded cheddar cheese
Olive oil
Method:
1. Heat up the pan and add oil
2. Add in onion, stir fry for 2 mins
3. Add garlic, stir fry till onion turned soft
4. Using a shallow baking dish, lay half of the potato (Tip: use the smaller pieces of the potato)
5. Add the onion and garlic mixture in, then follow by the rest of the potato
6. Mix chicken stock and sour cream together and pour over the potato
7. Sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on top
8. Cover the baking with aluminium foil (to prevent cheese from burning)
9. Bake in medium heat for 45 mins
10. Remove foil and bake in high heat till cheese turns brown and/or the bake becomes moist and not wet (abt 10 mins)
It's agonising not to sleep when you want to, and especially during the week and you got work next day. I fussed, wailed, basically acted like a baby to my hubb about not being able to sleep. He just fell asleep within 2 mins! Worthless. :P But he was sweet. He made both of us breakfast. Fried sausage with onion and egg. I love him so! I think it's the coffee in my system which I had taken a 2nd cuppa in the
late afternoon. It's weird that my body reacts to caffeine in this way now, coz in my prev job I could drink cups and still feel sleepy. What did I do? I got up, cooked some noodles, watched channel 69 *snigger* for some p0rn, food smut that is. Then I finally managed to sleep at 4am, missed my ride and arrived at work extremely late. What a morning, and I am barely functioning.
My hubb has given me an early Xmas present last night. A HP iPAQ 6960! Woooo!
Today marks first anniversary of our customary wedding! Hubb had made special arrangements for my new job and our anniversary. We no longer celebrate our monthly anniversary, but just about any other major milestone in our relationship. Since we are not quite sure which wedding anni. to pick (the customary one feel more appropriate as we started living together just before it). It has been a while since we had any celebration anyway.
Last Sunday, he gave me an ang pao for good luck at work. It's a Chinese thing to give ang pao during Chinese New Year, though and yet apparently this is a cantonese custom for a new beginning of a job. Then on Monday, he gave me a dinner treat at Ma Maison and bought me clothes! I feel loved and fortunate that my hubb dotes on me. Then yesterday, he brought me out for dinner again at Melt, Oriental hotel. The food was good, unfortunately I think I had a too many oysters. My stomach still doesn't feel so good.
Other than the dinners, I had lunch, tea and dinner with other friends throughout the week. No wonder I am not slimming down! :O
I have been missing for the past few days, because things were hectic around the house. I was doing cleaning, packing for our cruise and attending interview. Our first cruise had happened this Wednesday to Friday. Yeay! Just before the cruise, I received a call on a job offer. How awesome is this news! Plus our cruise trip is free, I just need to pay for room upgrade and taxes. Thank God for these blessings.
Almost all the photos from the cruise trip
My Amazon delivery has arrived, and my hubb love his belated birthday presents. :) He knew about the House M.D DVD sets, but little did he know that he has another surprise. I made him hunt for his surprise present on our DVD rack. He think its so cute! On top of that, I bought him another set of DVD on Friday. So altogether he has received a dinner treat, cruise trip, not one, not two, not three, but four set of DVDs from me. Well, it's nothing compare to the present he gave for my birthday, which is a trip in Bali. :)
