Happy Mother's Day @ Desire

Starting off with what my parents have for lunch, the Mother's Day special set at $50++ per pax,
each set consisted of the starter, the soup, the appetizer, the main course, the dessert and the coffee/tea. The starter was bread with butter, which I forgot to take photo of. There was a choice between olive bread and onion bread. My mother was quite funny, thinking the butter was cheese (that was what the rest of us thought so too :p) and tried a small piece, only to realize it was butter. The bread was served hot and the butter melted nicely into the bread.

The soup was some mango and chilli soup which I cannot remember the name and did not have a chance to try, but anyway, my parents liked the dish.

The appetizer was with some cheese, which my younger sister commented, tasting like the cream sauce in spaghetti.

The cod fishes in their sets were delectable, with crispy crusts, sweet scents of fish and a tantalizing taste. Both my mom and dad enjoyed very much.

Their desserts were ice cream with some tarts with chocolate inside. My mother noticed some gold powder on the tart.

The coffee in the picture was mine, my mother took tea and my dad took coffee. Since they looked about the same, I shall just put in one photo. The coffee has an aftertaste of almond in my opinion.



My appetizer, followed by my main course, my younger sister's main course and my elder sister's main course.

My appetizer was tuna and avocado. I thought was canned tuna, but it came as sashimi sort, a bit shocked? Nevertheless, the fish tasted soft, no fishy smell and gave a salty and creamy combination with the dressing and avocado.

My main course was cheese ravioli, which the cheese sauce tasted sweet but the smell was just too overpowering. All the while I eating the dish, I was thinking of my dessert :p. As for my sisters, they had chicken roulade and grilled ribeye respectively as shown in the pictures.



The desserts for my sisters and myself. My sisters ordered the same dessert 'banana flambe' and I ordered coffee tiramisu. They said theirs tasted superb. I liked tiramisu and the standard of this tiramisu was still acceptable, even though not the most impressionable one I have tasted. The crusts at the side tasted a bit like kinder brueno in my opinion.

Overall, the service was great and the food, depending on the tastes and what you ordered, most tasted quite nice. I shall end off with "Happy Mother's Day."

Salmon fish [by Guest Writer dskw]

06 May 08

We went out in the morning for breakfast and to purchase the ingredients needed to cook the above dish. Unfortunately (or fortunately for her), she bought some stuff which were not on our original shopping list.

Back at her house, she started cooking, only to incite some unwanted interest from her mum. What ensued was a war of words. I, of course, remained oblivious to the verbal abuse raging in the kitchen, preferring instead to focus my attention on her cat and hamster.

The dishes looked nice as usual. She cooked the salmon with some spices and ginger and stuff, while her mum rustled up a soup with vegetables and carrots in it. Salmon cooked in any form is welcome, and I believe all of us relished having our lunch together.

More hamster with cat pics

Dishes which I made

Tada... The first 2 photos featured a dessert known as 神仙甜品 which I made from a recipe book, together with the last photo, the golden purses. The chocolate pudding was created out of my cravings for more desserts. Initially I planned to make coffee pudding as well, but the chocolate pudding did not turn out well in the beginning, hence I gave up on the idea. I have no idea that pudding took so long to solidify. I thought something went wrong with my cooking or the gelatin powder, hence I 静观其变。 It turned out to be quite nice luckily.

Nice dessert with 1g of fat only

The new product which I saw in Women's weekly magazine has only 1 gram of fat and 56 calories per stick, how can I resist? Slurp! Cheers to Magnolia Yoghurt Petite! :D

When they are together...

The hamster must have been very exhausted after bathing. When I put it on the cat, it fell asleep again. The cat was very curious initially, leaning close to smell the hamster, then I said no to it and the cat turned its head away from the hamster. The cat changed its position later probably due to a stiff leg from the hamster's weight?



I carried the hamster and repositioned it on my cat's abdomen. It continued sleeping. The hamster woke up after some stroking and started to walk around. Upon seeing the toy banana, the hamster bit the banana, causing the cat to become curious towards the toy banana.



The cat smelled the toy banana to determine whether it was edible and hamster fell to the side. After the hamster scrambled to the toy banana and bit it again, the cat wanted to reconfirmed the banana was not edible.

My sister's hamster

My cat 2

Salad

I made salad with my mom and my dad. My mom cooked and peeled the prawns, while my dad cut the mangoes, and I did the rest.
The salad consisted of chicken shreds, potato cubes, cucumber slices, egg, prawns, mango slices and dressing. The dressing was a choice between mayonnaise and thousand island or both.

The chicken soup was created in order not to waste the water used to blanch the chicken meat. The chicken meat was put into the water that had been boiled with dates and wolfberries with a pinch of salt and continue to boiled until... erm... until... I was happy. It tasted quite nice, a side product while trying to create the salad.

Takeaway from Old Airport Road

Too much food again...
My dad and I went to Old Airport Road hawker centre to 打包 dinner for my family. He was tearing the coupons and asked me to go ahead and buy food for myself and my 2 sisters. I confirmed with him that he will only buy for himself and my mom before I left.

I went around and bought 老夫子char kway teow, Kallang wanton mee and when I was buying famous Old Airport Road 豪煎, my dad appeared with 2 super duper huge bags of food and asked me not to buy too much... I stared in shocked, but firmly told him I still have 727 cakerie's durian desserts to buy.

At home, we ended up not being able to finish what we bought, especially the 五香米粉 that my dad bought. There were so many bean curd inside which I would normally have eaten but just cannot enter into my mouth due to the partial consumption of the 4 items I bought. What a waste of food. Anyway, my mom was commenting that the food my dad bought was not nice after eating what I bought. :D The power of doing homework before buying...

Dining at 食堂 (しゅくどう)

Family and I went to dine at Shokudou, a unique place which functions almost like a food court. I find the food tasted not bad but it is slightly pricey. The macha float which I bought as shown in the picture cost $4.80 and the ice shavings were too coarse. The crab omelette tasted slightly better than that of pasir malam but cost $5.80 if I remembered correctly. It will not be a place which I will think of a re-visit.