Valentine's Day 2011

Dan decided to cook up a storm to ‘surprise’ me on Valentine’s Day. I felt so blessed to come home to a beautifully cooked meal. Two Valentine’s ago, Dan prepared a memorable 7-course banquet before popping the ‘big’ question. Since then I have been teasing him about cooking another banquet meal. Well, my wish came true. So, here it is:

Sour dough with lemon infused olive oil and bush spice dukkah

Thai fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce

Rare beef salad with lime chilli dressing and crunchy noodles

Singapore chilli prawns

Chicken kiev with potato gratin

Sticky date pudding hearts with butterscotch sauce, double chocolate icecream and double whipped cream

A wonderful meal and another year of memories....

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Baby Shower Cupcakes

This is one of my recent creations for a friend’s baby shower. Since the mum-to-be did not reveal the gender of the baby, we had to use ‘neutral’ colours. Therefore, the conventional pink for girls and blue for boys were crossed out.

There were two types of decorations:
a) Baby in pram

b) Baby under the blanket

The only problem was that the milk chocolate buttons I used was too dark for Asian baby skin tone. I should’ve used white chocolate buttons instead. Well, have to remember that for next time.
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