Home Cooked Food

Finally I get my long overdue pictures to post here. Really should get a camera that works, or a phone with a good camera. This looks damn good. And comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, and I can photoblog too! Woohoo! But I don’t think it’ll come cheap, not in the next few months at least. But a girl can dream…

Saturday 22 July 06

Watched Nacho Libre. Funny show, but it wasn’t as fantastic as School of Rock. Cos let’s face it, Jack Black obviously won’t look as fetching as Brandon Routh in spandex, though I must say that it’s quite a good coincidence that both costumes feature the red and blue combi. I loved the campy soundtrack though, cute and fitted the outrageous Spanish/Mexican accents to a T. But will I recommend it as must-see? Not really. Wait for the (pirated) DVD. Cos there’s no superb special effects in this one that you MUST catch it in a cinema anyway. Next show I wanna catch: the Lake House. Haven’t seen a romantic/tear-jerker since Just Like Heaven. And I must say the house really looks very nice.

After movie we went grocery shopping. Bought frozen cod fish in NTUC, a bargain at less than half price of what you’ll get in the wet markets. Then it was some chocolates, baguette from Delifrance. I went to have a look at the newly revamped Bistro and it’s menu. Madness! A sandwich costs almost 10 bucks now! I might as well top up abit more and go eat real western food at Café Cartel or something.

Why the cod? Well we were preparing dinner at tj’s home since his parents weren’t around. So the menu of the day consisted of:

Cream of Mushroom

Campbell’s Select Cream of Mushroom with Roasted Garlic, diluted with milk. Fresh white button mushrooms were added to give it the mushroom kick.

Bruschetta on Toasted Baguette

Cubed tomatoes tossed with lightly sautéed garlic, olive oil and Italian herbs. Served on Toasted Baguette

Lightly fried zucchini and capsicum

Pan-fried cod fish steak with honey mustard sauce

We had help with this one, but doesn’t make it less tasty as you can tell from the pics. YUM!

Sunday 23 July 06

Celebrated Daddy’s b’day at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Toa Payoh. Their menu is the older version, less extensive as the outlet in Suntec or Holland V. I also felt that the food wasn’t tt up to standard, but who can really go wrong with Xiao Long Bao right? All in all a great dinner. Happy birthday in advance daddy! (His b’day isn’t until Friday)