Comfort Food.

What a Saturday!

Went to see Andy Warhol's and the Titanic exhibition with Suhaila yesterday...

'Andrew Warhola (6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was 
an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker. He was a leading figure in the visual art 
movement known as Pop Art and was renowned for using mass production of popular 
culture such as advertising, comic books, and brand products, as the basis of his art.' (from MBS)
He was a guy who is fascinated with simple things. Enjoyed the exhibition! (:


Next up is the Titanic exhibition!

This exhibition is really worth the money. Pretty long walk inside the museum itself.
Anyway, through this exhibition, I got a better understanding of the Titanic, and I could find myself walking through the Titanic...the different parts of it. And have seen a lot of the artifacts that were found in/outside of the Titanic itself. It was really cool. But kind of sad that people have lost their lives because of some people's decisions. Sigh.

Anyway, so after the exhibition, we went home...and on the way home, I saw TWG! And was drawn in to TWG by their macarons. Hehe. So bought a box of 6 to bring home to try! (:
TWG's macarons are basically different physically from Bakerzin, Jewels Artisan Chocolate and Canele's one. TWG's macarons are much bigger.
As I bite into the macarons, it's very different from the ones I ate all the places above.
Let's talk about the shell first. I was a bit disappointed with the Earl Grey and Chocolate one because I didn't get the chewy feeling as I eat it. But the Napoleon Tea & Caramel one was alright. It was quite chewy. But the shells of the macarons are matte not shiny. And the shells are not crunchy.
But I love their fillings. It was the first time I've eaten macarons with fillings that are gel like. Or thick. Not those cupcake kind of filling, those melt in the mouth filling.
And the thing I love the most about their macarons are their not so sweet! And it's super cool how every one of their macarons are tea infused macarons. Really cool.
If you were to ask me if I would buy their macarons again, it would be a 70% chance I would purchase TWG's macarons again.
Now, let the pictures do the talking!

SMILE! (:

Really glad my parents loved the dinner I cook for them yesterday and today! (:

I'm been wanting to cook Aglio Olio for a long long time...but I just couldn't get it right.

My spaghetti tastes like spaghetti (duhh~)...as in there's like this flour smell. Just couldn't get rid of it.

And it's like a bit dry and bland in short.

But this time round, I succeeded! My spaghetti is just nice, not so hard or soft, and it's really sweet, cos I added prawns in it.

So I came up with this conclusion/formula/solution?

To cook Aglio Olio, ALWAYS add salt into the water before you cook your spaghetti in it.

Next, DON'T wait till your EXTRA VIRGIN olive oil (EVOO) to heat up before you add your garlic. Add your garlic and evoo together...so that the smell of the garlic is infused into the oil.

Lastly, use EVOO instead of OO.

And I always have this problem. For baking I will always use recipes and make sure I've got the measurements right. But for cooking, I just won't follow recipes. Maybe I will...but I'll add what I think is enough. As in I won't follow the recipe's measurements. But thank God my Aglio Olio finally turned out well! (:

Prawn Aglio Olio

Fish Cake wanton

Tomato Soup

Haha, my mum was like telling me how much she loves the prawns. I followed the western way of cooking the prawns actually...adding just salt and pepper. The prawny smell was gone, and I could actually taste the sweetness and freshness of the prawns. (but a lil' tooooooo sweet for me!)

For the fish cake wanton, I sort of copied and modified it from the auntie selling chinese noodles in my sceondary school.

I always love to eat fried wanton. Especially those super simple wanton. Like just wanton with prawn paste. I love to eat simple food. Plain porridge. Plain noodle. Plain Chee Cheong Fun. Plain kuehs without all the fillings. Haha, You can say I'm weird. =P

So back to the wanton. When I first came upon this $0.50 fried fish cake wanton, I couldn't help but think of it all day long. No matter where I am, this $0.50 fried wanton is filling my whole mind. So I decided that one day, instead of buying the $0.50 fried fish cake wanton which is not really worth it because it's wanton skin and a PIECE of fish cake. So I went to Fairprice and bought one pack of wanton skin and fish cake.

To make it worth a bite, I diced the fish cake and added a whole lot of it into the wanton skin and fried it. Haha. Shiok ttm man! (:

So next up, tomato soup. Another story. Haha. When I first came upon this soup, I said "Mine-strone" soup. Haha. But I was wrong. Later then I know it's called "Mi-ne-stro-ne" soup.

Yeaps, because I like minestrone soup, I decided to make tomato soup instead of minestrone soup. My tomato soup is way much simpler then minestrone soup.

I just added 5 tomatoes and one big onion to a lil' bit of water. Don't know how much. Oops! I don't measure, like I have told ya. Though it tastes a bit bland at first, but as I cooked it longer, it taste just nice, but a lil' bit sourish. (duhh, it's tomato, what do you expect.) =x

Okays, so that's abt it!

A bit long-winded today! =x

Byes~

Looking Foward...!

Looking forward to Good Friday which is this coming Friday! (:
I can't wait to bake macarons...AGAIN!
Mistakes from the previous batch of macarons:
Not enough colouring, a lil' brown, left it in the oven for a lil' too long...
So this time round, I hope I can bake macarons for the TGIF party!
I'm so inspired by Kevin & Amanda when I saw their posts on macarons! (:

Here's one picture to show you guys!

Isn't it tempting???