Ding Kitchen - Wassup Dave ?

Potatoes potatoes potatoes..

2008-06-21T23:24:00.000-07:00

Again, hope Tiffy is feeling better and i think she should be quite done with Rome by now lol.

The last entry was about steak and man.. How can I leave out the classic potatoes that goes with ur steak hehe

Well of cos if u are weight concicious u can always have grill veggie instead of potatoes hehe
Ok let's see what I have done so far with my potatoes to go with steak. There are no hard rules but here are the options;

Roasted potatoes ; crunchy , to the bite

Mashed potatoes ; creamy , goes well if ur sauce is wholesome

Potatoe anna ( potatoe layer cake) ,

Sauteed potatoes; nutty,similar to. Roasted but takes slightly shorter time to do

Actually the list could go and go,but I doubt whomever is reading this actually wants to know the whole potatoe family so let's look at rough guide on 2 of the recommendations based on how easy or how long you wana stay in the kitchen while making them haha.

Roasted potatoes; 6-8mins to parboil, and another 30-40mins to roast in the oven
Skin them, parboil in salted boiling water for 6-8mins.
Drain them, cut into chunks, season with salt n pepper,drizzle with olive oil.
Put on a roasting tray, into an oven on abt 175-180deg for 35-40mins
Done!

Tips; always take a look at ur oven, ans learn to know its "temper", not all ovens give u perfect roasting based on reciepts, so stay around, look at the colour n make ur judgement call.

Mashed potatoes :15mins- skin them , cut into chunks, into boiling salted water for 10mins,
Test with fork to see doneness, once can go through easily means done.
Drain them, add sour cream, salt pepper to it n start mashing!
In short time u should end up with a creamy n delicious REAL mash you have ever tasted.

Rule no.1: never as in NEVER EVER buy those powdered mashed potatoes u find in supermarkets, those stuff are atriocious & might possibly be evil.. So stay away

Alriteee, I think that's quite alot of reading for 1entry, remember if ur sauce is very wholesome, go with mash, otherwise anyother is pretty fine. Till next time foodies!!!

p/s I dont really take pics of just potatoes so this shall be my 1st post without pics :)

The perfect steak sauce ?

2008-06-16T02:37:00.000-07:00

Tiffy was on MSN the other day and asked me how to make a good steak sauc, and I was like "haha finally I have a very good reason to update my blog since 6 mths ago LOL!"

Ok now back on track, let's talk about steak first, many ppl have certain flavour preference when it comes to their choice of food, just like say.. Pasta , some like it in tomato based sauce, some creamy, others maybe just in olive oil herbs.

So a steak sauce is just like how u prefer to eat ur steak, but the basic concept of a sauce is still there; remember always, a sauce is meant to compliment a dish by adding or enhancing the flavour, NEVER drown ur dish in a sauce ( like what those coffee shop western food store always do to their "steak")

So if ur goal is to make a steak dish , the options of sauce are plenty, there's diane sauce, pesto sauce, mushroom sauce, red wine ,marsala etc.
Since tiffy asked for a recommendation that would not mask too much of the steak itself, I would go with a red wine sauce.

Ok now HOW to make it,
Steak first
Season it with salt n pepper,herbs like rosemary parsley garlic etc. never add salt too early, always a few mintues even its about to go into the pan or grill, reason is if u add salt early, it will extract water or blood out of the steak, making it very wet n dry later on

Sear ur steak, remember, no colour, no flavour..so yeah..and yes i love the sound of it ..only nemo hates it..she likes to stand at the kitchen door and shake her head LOL.

After u pan fry ur steak to ur prefered doneness, let the meat rest in a foil for a few mintues, what this does protein will relax and the juice will "come back" evenly later when u eat it.
So u get a juicy n delicious steak later, anyway, if u eat well done steak.. Pardon me but I think you dunno how to eat steak LOL

Ok while the meat is resting, its time to work on the sauce, see those brown marks or stains in the pan after u take out ur steak? That's where a lot if the flavor is, so what u do now is add red wine into the pan.

This is call deglazing, be careful if there's lots of oil in pan,
Reduce the wine till at least 1/2 are gone, this pretty much cooks off the alcohol but retains the flavour. Add salt n pepper, beef stock or lemon zest if u like to it.

When reduced till it can coat the back of ur spoon, that's pretty much about it.
Now ur meat is well rested, ur sauce is ready, add friends , wine , laughter and time to serve :)
so yeah, a simple n delicious red wine reduction sauce to go with ur steak dinner hehe
Here are various pics of steaks I did in the past 6mths LOL
Fillet mignon steak with dauphinoise potatoes

Rib Eye Steak with marsale sauce accompanied by dashes of hollandaise

yeahhh tats how i like my steak..medium rare. this is a garlic and parsley ribeye in teriyaki sauce.

maybe i have a fetish or something but pics like these makes me wana dive in and eat up tat MEAT!!! arghhhhhh lolol
OK thanks for reading if u bothered to read so far and maybe i shall talk about potatoes or grilling in my next entry.hehe
Cheers and stay hungry !! haha

Lamb chops french cut & Baileys cheesecake!

2007-10-29T22:29:00.000-07:00

I think this is going to be, or might going to be a new trend in my blog...which is starting a new entry with APOLOGIES LOL!!!

omg, so sorry to anyone that bothers to check out my blog, (dear frds..arghhh) i was too busy with my new stuff lately tat i forgot to update my blog at all...(wat a lazy excuse lol)

So here are some updates on wassup dave before i go into the food part :

I just got a new toy, the Apply iphone, manage to hack it with another genius GS call jeev haha. yes we did ourselves, didnt pay for any software, with all the help from online forum and stuff. Total number of Iphones bought and successfully hacked : 6 :) cost of each is 399 and yes for me, i am willing to do it for free for my frds if they ever got an iphone :)

Or even better, i might consider posting the exact instructions tat work here haha (oh well)

Other than tat, i have been playing alot games or game...most of the time Team Fortress 2 from the orange box on my laptop. If you are a 360 person, DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT buy the 360 version cos the online match is only 8 vs 8 ..(VERY BORING) its an awesome game, and yes its a FPS , if u are interested, check it out at here

ok , enuff of wassup with me, lets check out this week menu :) I did, Lamb chops marinated in wine,garlic and honey mint finished with balsamic reduction and also, i manage to learn and baked the japanese style fluffy and light cheese cake yayyy!! ok here they are :

i marinated the lamb chops for like 2 hrs in the food saver thingy i got from sydney so it works super fast as compared to conventional marinating haha and panfried it to the point when its got no blood but just slightly pink on the inside hehe, and yes mint and balsamic reduction taste pretty good on these. I actually got the inspiration of this dish from the hotel at Istanbul when i was there last month, taste pretty good actually but kinda expensive, so i decided to try to make it for a small party of 5-6 haha.

As for the cheese cake, i finally get the idea of beating the eggwhite till it stiffened idea (haha how blur can i be) and manage to bake this fluffy and cotton light Baileys cheesecake Japanese style , its very light and of cos less sinful than ur new york cheesecake etc, some ppl (nemo and me) love this kind while ppl like kenny prefered the more heavy duty ones hahaaha
alriteee, see ya next time and thanks for check my blog out man!!

Baked chicken in mustard butter !

2007-09-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

Haha, got some extra prosciutto ham left over so its a very nice way to finish it by wrapping it around, panfried it with some mustard butter in the chicken, then baked it in the oven hehe and the best way to serve this? with some "probably the best" mash in the world!! hahaha Kelvin knows this cos i taught him how to make it, so its probably not the best in the world already LOL.
here you go, Shunda and kenny was around the night so they had the chance to taste this :)

Pork CHOP in STROGNOFF sauce :)

2007-09-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

YO YO!i know , once again, i have been very lazy and didnt update my blog for ages, so what i have here are a salad and a main course that was made when my dad came over the other night hehe

Pork chop was marinated in salt and pepper and panfried and drizzled over with mushroom strognoff sauce, i dunno why but this sauce seems to work quite well with a lot of poultry haha.
If you have no idea wtf a strognoff sauce is, well it involves garlic, dijonese mustard,cream,white wine and of cos some salt and pepper..and yes the mushrooms! i used brown mushrooms, i remember Andy once bought me shitake mushrooms when i asked him to buy some shrooms and i was so pissed cos i dun really eat shitake hahahaha poor andy!

as for the salad, this time i decided to make something i enjoy..as in REALLY enjoy. If you have been reading my blog, you would know that ROCKET leaves and parma ham is like my bread and butter hahaha ( i know it wont happen cos these 2 items are really expensive!!!)
so here we go

Rocket leaves with parma ham in balsamic vingear, honey, dijon and extra virgin oil!! and to make things a little interesting, i added some feta cheese too woot!!!

BANGERS n MASH!!

2007-08-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

Thats it man, i had enuff of the stupid powder form of mash potatoes and decided to make my own mash, which i call it.."the best mash in the world" , u cook potatoes, mash them with butter and some sour scream..salt n pepper and some basil ...ooo yeah..tats some real mash man, so , to match that, I decided to make what i was always wanted to eat..bangers and mash!

I got some sausage (swiss cheese and pork, beef, and chicken/mushroom) and grill them with some sourkraut, and of cos i made some onion brown gravy to go with the mash...yum yum

Ding kitchen invited Kenny and Andy over for this dish, :) cheers!

Alaska Salmon steak in bourin cream sauce!

2007-08-12T09:13:00.000-07:00

woot! back to back posting !! haha i think Lyn had too much chicken recently that when i offered her a choice of fish or chicken, she took the latter without much thought, so.. the i remember the last time i did a fish dish, it was a snapper fillet..

so this time i decided to go for some Salmon steak in cream boursin sauce, (Boursin is kind of soft cheese with garlic and herb infused) so it taste pretty cook, and yes, those are tiger prawns sauteed and added to the sauce with some rocket leaves and ground oregano for tat extra flavour hehe) and damn....the mash is really dumb cos neither me nor lyn could finish it after eating the salmon and prawn LOL

Enjoy the pic(since u cant enjoy the food hehe)

Roman chicken!

2007-08-12T09:06:00.000-07:00

Arghh been playing too much company of heroes tat i didnt update the blog lol. Alrite..so here come some updates of Ding kitchen!
This is more of a chicken in a pan dish lol, very easy to make, and yes it is cooked in a braised style, (panfried and simmer in wine sauce for a while before it hits the table)

What you see is chicken thigh, in plum tomato and white wine sauce, with some capers as well as olives.(damn! i love olives..hehe) it goes pretty well with potatoes but i think i wont cook so much mash next time as it is rather filling.

Who got the privilege of tasting this? well its GRIMLOQ -yanxian! lol cos he came over for dinner. Hehe, but he did the best BBQ gathering i ever been to by getting someone to do all the grilling LOL..and yes..he called the poor girl his minion .....WTF lolol till next time guys!

The 15min pizza

2007-07-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

It always seemed to troublesome to cook some stuff or ANYThing at all when u are hungry at night..so what we end up with are usually cup noodles and stuff haha However its possible to cook a simple but still good tasting pizza in just 15min!! all u need is a oven (DUHZ...)

Alright, i know this is the 2nd time i am talking abt pizza and yes, i still prefer them to be crispy instead of the pizzahut pan pizza thingy so for the base..the closest u can get and very crispy are the.. TORTILLAs!!! here is a pic of wat i used
what u are lookin at is the wild rocket (i know some ppl hate these, but i love it lol, tortilla wraps- u get them easily at supermarkets, buffalo mozzarella (drained and to be tore into portions later, sundried tomote paste and yes...parma ham, i manage to buy them in slices from the deli at the basement of Paragon instead of those tat come with 10 slices in a sealed package. And of cos some extra v olive oil) and after baking in the oven for like 10min ..

u get...
, and the best part is u can actually just roll in and eat it and dun really have to cut cos its very crispy haha. till next time ppl!

Tirrraaamisu by LynTang!

2007-07-17T23:26:00.000-07:00

omg, i cant believe i am so damn lazy tat i didnt update my blog for almost a month! LoL ok this time, i aint going to show u something i cooked but rather...something my darling Lyn did..Tiramisu Nemo Style! lol

its the 3rd or 4th time she made it, actually she made it cos i told some of my taiwanese stewardess frds are coming over..but she fell sick so the party was cancelled, and i only get to eat it the next day hehe

things tat i like abt this homemade version is tat it isnt as sweet as wat u normally get outside, although still as sinfullBUT HEY...all desserts are ok! haha so live with it LoL.

Nicely whipped layers of mascarpone cream cheese with sponge fingers soaked in coffee n kaluha(coffee liquer) yeah..just a simple nice serving and its heavenly.

anyone tat is interested in how to make this..do post it in comments and i can let Ms Nemo Tang tell u how the magic is done hehe..ciao!

Coq Au Vin and Mango milli-feuille!

2007-06-15T06:26:00.000-07:00

wooot! i know i wasnt much of a chicken person and more of red meat guy but its good to explore some chicken dish so for today, i decided to go ahead with a very classic 1970s dish

the Coq Au Vin - pronounced as "koq aw van" is a chicken stew cooked with onions, garlic, thyme, and mushrooms and simmered over low heat with red wine.

i used Pinot Noir this time, might wana consider chosing other variety of red cos its quite an xpensive choice for cooking LOL, but the taste was quite awesome. I think this dish is perfect if there are like 4-6 person coming over for dinner hehe

Also, i manage to make my 1st successful mash potatoes hehe, very soft and creamy, definately will try making it again if i grill sausage next time hehe.(BANGERS & mash...sluuurrrp!)

For dessert, i made this Small rectangular pastries made of crisp layers of puff pastry and pastry cream. The word mille-feuille means a thousand leaves. LOL wtf french class?! haha nah, cos i dunno how to describe this term in english so yeah , and for fillings, i used this icecream mango i bought at cold storage hehe just nice for the 2 of us. :)
but i failed very badly at the chocolate drizzling part LOL
lesson learnt : use a bigger spoon for drizzle LOL so it wont look so bad...arghhh
till next time, oh man,.tomolo SNY for JCL...for melb..2 meal service....arghhhhhhhh

Tiger prawn Linguine with scallops!!

2007-06-13T09:00:00.000-07:00

I ate pasta mania with lyn and cherlyn yersterday at bugis and seriously i think they really serve wtf.com pasta...so i decided to make some myself..well tat wasnt the actual plan , Andy was planning to make risotto but fail cos he couldnt get the ingred at carrefour HAHAHAHA dude, tats noobish man, mistake number 1, dun ever ever go there if u thinking of cooking some western kind of dish, carrefour is like market full of stuff tat you dun really need LOL, but yeah, He manage to redeem his mistake by getting the tiger prawns and scallops i was thinking of cooking, Andy also decided to noobish by buying shitake mushrooms...which the clear instructions given was to get some brown cap cos i was thinking of making mushroom soup ..LOL

I took a pic of the mushroom and cream soup, cooked with olive oil , red onions and of cos stock and cream, verdict? i hate it cos i cant take shitake. but they kinda of like it. i dunno, gotta hear some comments from lyn and Andy abt the soup.

Lets move on to the pasta ! This dish is cooked with the Linguine done aglio olio style = which is garlic, olive oil, basil and a bit of chill, (chilli goes quite well with seafood) , prawn and scallops are panfried with garlic and the special sauce i used for tat extra punch is a stock of the prawn, white wine, onions, rosemary,zest of lemon ,carrots, salt, pepper and chicken stock cooked over low heat for like 1hr till its reduced to this thick sauce with all the flavour sealed in..drizzle these on top of ur pasta with the seafood, and VIOLA! ---the below pic.,. hehe

Bagel for breakfast!!

2007-06-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

oops been a few days since i last had an entry , tats cos there wasnt much interesting stuff tat i was up to haha, well at least i made this bagel for lyn on them morning i came back from DAC (jedi flt LOL)

grilled back bacon (less fat) + cheese and an egg!! i wish i had some rocket leaves left as tat would taste awesome with the bacon but yeah, heres something to tempt ur tastebuds in the morning!

cheers (jc99= boringggggggg)

Scallops n pizza on the menu!

2007-06-03T23:10:00.000-07:00

Yeah so i was thinking on my way back frm osaka tat I wana try making my own pizza, as in from scratch, mixing the flour, yeast salt etc and kneading it ..

And so I did, Lyn asked me to do the mixing and kneading outside the house so i wont make a mess..so poor thing huh, have to be banished outside to make dough LoL.

Anyway, manage to get it done with not so much of a mess, but the 1kg flour got me 3 pizza base abt 3 12inch pizza..lol

So lets see wat is on the menu tonight before i go for Shrek 3 movie..

Pan fried Scallops with sauted spinach(yes i love this veggie) with port sauce, and Parma Ham pizza with rocket leafs n a drizzle of olive oil..

The red colour port sauce is made from onions, olive oil , chicken stock cooked in Port till its almost left a little so all the flavour and sweetness is sealed in..yummy, goes quite well with seafood with its sweet taste.

As for the pizza, i am pretty happy but not totally cos after all its my 1st pizza, it does taste great but I realised if i baked the pbase 1st rather than putting all in at once, it would turn out much better. I tried it again the next day and it turn out crispy, and delicious :)

But the parma ham and rocket leaf...omg..its like the best combo ever, i used to like pepperoni but ithink this is just plain awesome haha. I hate pizza hut thick pan pizza, so this kind of home made thin and crispy version hits the spot man.

Enjoy!( sorry for the dark pic of the scallop cos it wasnt taken in the kitchen but in the dining when it was on dim lighting..haha)

@ the top of Osaka

2007-06-01T03:24:00.000-07:00

HEP5 is where i was planning to go today so i did, pretty straight forward, just a few subway stations away. Quite a big, but not mega or huge , smaller than what i was expecting kinda mall, with a ferris wheel and a amusement park inside. Chanced upon this dark Gothic curry restaurant and saw this hilarious sign outside, haha "Wearing dresses not suitable for our shop" LOLOL 1st time i ever seen a curry restaurant that requires u to be in so call proper wear. Dun you wish the subway in sg got variety such as these..? haha. so here is what the HEP5 looks like from outside

and yeah i have to try tat ferris wheel since i am already , besides it only cost 500yen.

Apparently i'm like the only guy tat actually bought a ticket..and the young chap offered to take a pic of me standing at the entrance , and it cost money to buy, i am sure anyone of u tat went to tourist attractions came across such stuff too..and NO i didnt buy it of cos...so damn ugly of me standing at the game..makes no sense to me at all. So i use my canon and snap away inside the gondola hehe

it took like 20over mins i think for whole experience, get to see Osaka at quite a height..lol but for 500yen , yeah its kinda worth it to try..ONCE.
Singapore is also building one of this and its already fully booked even before completion lolwtfman, must be the love birds and couples tats trying to propose there. come on man, cant u guys like think of something better and less expected? LOL

There is also this Gyoza Stadium foodcourt thingy nearby to HEP5 that i found, its like a lvl in the Namco Arcade building with all the stalls using Gyoza..prepared slightly different frm each other..Gyoza btw is pan fried dumplings, TAKE NOTE ITS PAN FRIED...NOT DEEP FRIED..some food court stalls in sg do tat. I hate those so much...
Anyway, i decided to try a stall selling beef Gyoza, since i seldom get to see beef variations, kinda X, cost 500 for just 3..wtf . taste wise, i think beef isnt the best ingred for gyoza, maybe cos the taste was quite mashy for me, i dunno. I still prefer pork as fillings anytime.

Went back to the hotel and asked if there are any place in Osaka tat is like Akihabara of Tokyo and she told is just "around the corner". So i walked and WTFMAN.com its like almost 40mins of walking!!! around the corner MY arse, by the time i reach this "Den Den Town" its like almost dinner time LOL

Nothing much to see if u already been to Tokyo, nothing new but the price is so much higher here..so no, although was very tempted to buy the Super Mario dude but decided to have a simple dinner and TAKE a SUBWAY back..LOL.

Alriteee with all these covered in my 1st ever 4day Osaka pattern instead of the 3 day version, i think tats pretty much it and i shall sign out here with a pic of a handwashing machine parked right outside a Ramen joint..lol nicee

Eating out in Osaka..drooool

2007-05-31T05:26:00.000-07:00

Just touched down like 8 am in the morning here in osaka, which is like 7am in sg, and i decided not to sleep 1st and went out to Namba to check out my nespresso boutique instead..not sure why i did that since i already ordered my capsules online..(must be the lack of sleep i think) and so yeah before tat, i have to check out tat noodle joint William (my team LS) was telling me the other time i was here..so here it is..and wtf..u have to Q..

Lucky the ramen noodles tat was served after the long wait was worth it, although the bbq pork slice was very smooth, it wasnt really my cup of tea due to the high amount of fats u can see there, i have tried smoother char siew in Tokyo b4 and it doesnt have so much fat on it, LOL . Not tat its a bad thing, but i guess its a little too much for me, the soup however was A PLUS..i think its some rib stock wtih roasted garlic and little chilli stuff, really tasty..

and while i was messing with stuff on the table, i cant help it but realised this cute stone or maybe clay crafted turtles on the table, which upon further examination revealed itself to be some sauce and garnish container ..haha gotta take a pic of this , kinda cool ..to me at least
i kinda realised its a realllly realllly really BAD idea to go Namba when u havent slept for like 20over hrs cos i was seriously dragging myself, i even forgot to go to my favourite takashimaya food court in the basement !!! but I did manage to buy my nesspresso limited edition..and got a bad toothache near my wisdom tooth, it better not be my wisdom tooth being funny but everytime i drink coffee, the pain comes quite bad..better make an appointment with DR JERRRYY LIAN. and yeah, to let whomever tat never been to Namba walking street in Osaka, here is a visual of how its like, ONLY...U have to multiply tat pic like 8 over times of wat u see, tat is amount of small shops and restaurants they got, so yeah..BAD idea to go there if u're like "no hidden agenda, just window shopping" when u dun have enuff sleep like me.LOL
Dragged myself back to Miyako sheraton hotel to catch some sleep before going to tat katsu store tat i ate with Dora the other time to try out some new dish, (er...although its a pork cutlet joint, they basically served it with different kind of variety, like with radish, or with just egg and sauce etc)I ordered the radish version, cost me 660, wasnt tat bad, but guess i will go for some soupy stuff or even tempura tomorrow. Does it taste good?..seriously..i really havent tasted ANYTHING tat is like bad in Japan..YET. and hopefully i dun cos its not cheap here hahahaha
Gotta check this huge mall with a ferris wheel tomorrow, called HEP5..wtf sounds like some STD name..its actually Hankyu Entertainment Plaza 5 LOL. see ya!

Nespresso invade Dave Kitchen!

2007-05-30T19:14:00.000-07:00

I have been craving for this new gadget for like 4mths plus? ever since i get to know abt it, the latest technology of extracting the prefect espresso..cup after cup...and with ease..i was tempted to get those 2000 over commerical kind of machine but gave cos basically..NO ONE FREAKING drinks coffee but myself!!! so to save the trouble of all those cleaning and stuff...

NESPRESSO latest machine The cube (which actually won a red dot design award) arrives in Daves Kitchen 27MAY 2007!! simple and elegant to use, just open the handle bar, pop in ur 12 premium blends of coffee capsules and press...voila!!! the perfect espreso....with the GPPHMMM factor ( whichever way u spell it but u get the idea) the only catch is the capsules are costly, it came up to be abt 76sg cents per cup...but hey..tats OK man!! the fucking burnt coffee u get in kopi diam cost 90cents~!!!!

ok here is wat it looks like in my kitchen,
and the 12 premium blends..

ok i know this is beginning to sound like some advertisments but i still good things comes to those tat share....check out www.nespresso.com if u wana know the technology behind it and the blends if u are a coffee drinker but dun wan the mess...As for me i gotta order each of this capsules and taste them more to figure out which is my type haha,Later man!

Super easy teriyaki wings n grilled prawns

2007-05-30T19:03:00.000-07:00

OK 1st of all, this aint the latest stuff tat is cooking in my kitchen but yeah, old stuff doesnt mean its bad stuff right? so lets share the goodness

This is like the easily and most straight forward stuff u can ever cook up if u have frds coming over to crash or just wana have some finger food.

Marinated wings with teriyaki sauce for like 3 hrs or more and baked them for like 10min on each sde @ 200deg. sprinkle some parsley for colour and taste..sweetness

For the garlic prawns, u need to mash up some garlic and butter spread and stuff the gooodness in the middle of each prawn, (slice them in the middle pls DUHZ...) and grill!! same as the chicken, add some pepper and optional some salt but not too much cos the butter is already salted hehe

MY FIRST LATTTE ARTTTT!!!

2007-05-30T18:47:00.000-07:00

Wooooooooot!!! i finally did it !! Been practising this stunt for months on my lousy krups machine, and it is almost impossible as the steam and esspresso extraction really sucks big time..but apparently when i get my hands on this Australian Milk "Dairy Farmers"(dun ask me how i got it..hehe)

I realised i got some really silky and textured stuff going on tat kinda looks like microfoam...for those tat doesnt know wtf i am ranting abt, Microfoam is basically what u can get with those commerical coffee machines and frothing ur milk till all u get is a silky, creamy textured foam,
Unfortunately, if u are a coffee drinker in sg, it is almost impossible to see ANY barista in sg producing tat, i guess they dun really care cos all i see is young part timers as baristas...i bet they dun even know wtf is microfoam although they have the equipment in front of them tat is capable of producing it..sighhh wat a shame indeed..

So what is u get microfoam? hmm if u get a good froth as tat , with the addition of a well extracted esspresso...what u will taste in ur mouth is just...heavenly...so sweet and creamy and the latte or flat white u got will go down so smooth , u will NEVER...cough i mean NEVER look at normal lattes the same way ever again..i swear

ok now to prove tat i nearly got what i was practising..here is a pic!! Heart shape latte art!Lottssa love !!

amsterdam with tiffany = heineken gogo

2007-05-30T18:29:00.000-07:00

Ok this is actually some pics taken quite some time ago when i got to do a flt with tiffany..damn hilarious, we basically start our " tour" of amsterdam with beer and end it with more beer for the next 10 over hrs..LOL and yeahhh the Heineken Brewery experience, seriously if u ever tasted their Heineken Extra Cold...beer will never be same again..

Salute!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the new DJ TIFFY!!!!, i am pretty sure she doesnt really know wtf she is doing though, LoL
the console u see there is actually "playable" i n way u can press buttons and control the lights and play some dj beats and stuff..kinda like those toys tat suppose to teach kids how to use a computer hahahah NOOOBISH.

i got some more pics on the tulips tour but personally think its kinda of boring...so i guess i wont be posting those up (unless dad or someone wana see it haha)

alriteeee enuff of my travelling stuff, later mang!

Fish and bacon = heaven

2007-05-30T05:12:00.000-07:00

Was watching lifestyle food channel in sydney the other night and suddenly got this urge to cook up some fish when i got back to sg, so here it goes; Manage to get snapper fillet instead of other white fish steak, wasnt really looking for cod as i prefer to pan fry cod with just the basics, (salt pepper, balsamic parsley and yes olive oil..) the menu i thought of goes like : panfried snapper fillet, top with bacon with sauted spinach ( VERY YUMMMY) and roasted potatoes. Sauce of choice : mango/ginger sauce for tat sweet and fruit punch..(RIGHt ON!) preparation was quite simple , just tat u need 2 frying pans if u wana sauted ur spinach and pan fry ur fish at the same time , which also means more stuff to wash later on..(damn...) the mango sauce is more work cos i gotta slice the mango (pretty big) and some ginger, and blend in everything with dijon mustard and some chicken stock,. This sauce should go pretty well with the potatoes and i guess from the feedback i got from my best frd Andy and wife Lyn, it does seemed like a good idea hehe.

here is Andy looking pretty happy abt wat he is going to have for dinner.hehe
and here is my darling with me striking a pose,..hmmm wat is tat empty plate doing there...

That empty plate u see there is bascially a finished dish of baked potatoe with prosciutto ham (seems like i keep using this expensive ham huh,..lol wat to do man, it taste so good compared to bacon...)

This is what it looks like when cut open, layers of thinly sliced potatoes with goat cheese in between..sllluuurrrp!
and of cos topped with the prosciutto ham , so what u get in the end is a soft textured kinda pie with the taste of cheese and ham to give the extra flavouring. I asked dear if she likes it and yeah, THUMBS Up!

wooot!!! Later man

First POST!

2007-05-30T05:06:00.001-07:00

alrite!! manage to get this thingy working and so here i am , 1st blog, and 1st post..like the youtube video FIRST..if u even bother to search wat tat is haha
going to fly to osaka later in the evening ..abt 3hrs from now , damn i love japan, food is good, girls looks good, and everything is just screaming "BUY ME" arghhh i remember i bought my nintendo wii controller in Tokyo b4 i even bought my wii console haha
ok enuff ranting abt my boring schedule, lets talk abt wat this blog is abt;

FOOD

and oh yeah u better respect tat man cos today, this afternoon, i manage to cook the most authentic Carbonara ever..no added cream nonsense or stuff, and no using of bacon, instead, i used parma ham or proscuitto ham, parmesan cheese and some salt /pepper for taste of cos and not forgetting ...the egg with parsley (flat parsley)

and i used linguine i got from marks and spencer..not sure why i got it there but usually the ones i buy from cold storage "Barilla" doesnt have linguine and somehow i was having craving for aglio oilo linguine so yeah..

here is a pic i took

and since this is a first for me, i will post up the other stuff tat i manage to cook up in my humble hdb kitchen hehe, opps time to meet my darling for dinner!