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b and i are in hopeful and cheery anticpation of a little new addition to our family in may we are taking our first baby steps into parenthood and boy though the little one has not quite joined us in the real world yet b and i have gone through a series of ups and downs in the past 4 5 months but we believe that this new year will be a better year filled with god s goodness and mercy present from elder sis to baby these were bought before we knew baby s gender we were going for the muji look undoubtedly my daily activities and movements have been dictated by this little being i was down with wretched retching for the first few months which left me so sick and tired there was nothing much that i could do except read and sleep the sight of food turned me off most of the time which needless to say made it completely impossible to continue with this food blog it was so bad that i stopped purchasing my staple food magazines am i ever so glad that i have since parted with those times of outflowing and back with my voracious appetite so why didn t i come back to my blog sooner hmm the burgeoning tummy has made it much tougher than expected i ve tried photographing some cookies that i baked for christmas but nearly passed out with exhaustion from moving tables props etc aah i know it sounds like such an exaggeration and i don t deny that the truth is that it is a whole mix of inertia festive distractions and a change in focus for me somehow motherhood is looming all over my mind now and i can t seem to escape it b has been urging me to come back to photography and blogging and i have hesitated in agreeing to give it a shot so please be patient with me as i slowly gather myself together i hope i haven t lost it yet that s every artiste s greatest fear hahahah alright i hereby promise that i will do a post on the cookies that i baked for christmas in the meantime allow me to have my mozart break with baby i love feeling the kicks in my tummy one of the greater joys in pregnancy these i bought after knowing the baby s gender no prizes for making the right guess posted by erin at 1 03 pm 62 comments friday september 14 2012 perfect day with sticky date pudding my idea of a perfect day would be one that is cold and rainy i imagine myself in tartan pyjamas and comfy woolen socks waking up with messy bed hair with a cup of hot steaming tea i creep up to the attic nestle myself in a big old arm chair and bury my head in a good novel sounds idyllic extremely especially since i have no attic no big old arm chair and no tartan pyjamas two things i have though a good novel and strong aromatic earl grey tea i am currently reading the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver i am only a third through the book and it is a wonderful read so far everytime i read a good book i marvel at the author s writing and creativity i have no ambitions on being a writer but i do wish to possess good writing and story telling skills the ability to arouse emotions and capture interest through the use of words is such a gift i will be extremely contented the day i can write like jane austen this girl can dream what would make my perfect day even more perfect a delightful warming dessert to go with my tea now it would never have crossed my mind that i would be able to make sticky date pudding if not for a friend from secondary school i had the notion that it is a luscious and ridiculously complicated dessert which you can only order in restaurants or cafes contrary to what i thought it is relatively painless and easy to make a couple of weeks back my friend had a few of us over at her place we all brought our little contributions to the potluck but she bowled us over with her sticky date pudding she is very much a baker as i am a dreamer so do hop over to her blog to check out her bakes she pens the recipes down with so much detail that i would be an absolute clod if i failed at this simple cake i have to confess that i bungled at making the sauce mine turned out as butter scorched instead of butterscotch sauce i guess that makes me half a clod butterscorched or butterscotch it was a wonderfully heartwarming treat since the cake is served warm with a generous drizzling of sauce and usually topped with scoop of vanilla ice cream imagine cold day out of bed hair tartan pyjamas attic old arm chair good novel cup of hot tea and a warm decadent sticky date pudding served with ice cream utter bliss my perfect day vanilla ice cream with butterscotch sauce when i am too slothful to bake ice cream is a good enough to make my perfect day sticky date pudding recipe adapted from here cake 270g pitted dates i used king soloman deri dates 1 1 4 cup water 1 tsp bicarb soda 60g unsalted butter chopped 1 1 4 cup all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 4 teaspoon salt 100g brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence preheat oven to 180c 1 place dates and water in a pot bring to boil on high heat 2 add bicarb soda and unsalted butter remove from heat and cool for around 10 min be careful the mixture will bubble up when soda is added make sure the pot has sufficient height 3 blend the mixture with a hand blender i used my food processor 4 add the eggs and vanilla essence and blend to combine short few pulses is sufficient 5 mix all flour and sugar in a separate bowl and ensure that sugar has no clumps 6 add the wet mixture into the dry mixture and fold in to combine pour into lined 8 in pan and bake for 55 to 60 minutes i tent it after 30 minutes to prevent a charred top if using muffin cups bake for 25 30 minutes i made half the above portion in a 15 inch pan and baked for 40 minutes butterscotch sauce 180g thickened cream 160g brown sugar 150g unsalted butter 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 2 teaspoon sea salt place all ingredients in a pot and bring to boil simmer at low heat for around 5 minutes constantly stirring the mixure until it thickens i scorched my sauce it turned out fairly dark so be careful here and put it over really low heat once cake is done cool for 10 minutes poke numerous holes in the cake and drench the sauce over cake this ensure that the dates become sticky with the caramel sauce drizzle more butterscotch for that additional buttery sweetness serve warmed with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream for best enjoyment the sauce can be refrigerated and stored for up to 2 weeks reheat before use puddings can be refrigerated for up to 3 days and warm before serving posted by erin at 6 34 pm 6 comments labels cake dessert sticky date pudding tuesday september 11 2012 my cycling find gorgeous enamel tiffin carrier in the recent months cycling has claimed the top spot in our activity list my hubby whom i shall refer to as b from here on and i have been traveling around the island on our bikes during the weekends and enjoying every moment of those rides except for the days when we over estimated our endurance levels those were times when we kicked ourselves for not getting foldable bicycles going around on two wheels has provided me with the opportunity to experience singapore anew that statement might sound somewhat exaggerated but it truly has we have more time to take in the sights sounds of the areas we are exploring somehow without the layer of tin enclosing us we get absorbed into the atmosphere and vibrance of the neighbourhood very quickly we visited joo chiat last weekend an area that still retains the quaint charm of old singapore i have a penchant for five foot ways and old shophouses and credit has to be given to sir stamford raffles for designing our streetscape as such the beauty of cycling much to the horror of b is the ease of dismount whenever i see something that catches my eye and what a great find i had at joo chiat we cycled past a row of shophouses and came by this shop bangku bangku located at 317 joo chiat road had to dismount no questions asked the shop sells interesting and pretty antique furniture and furnishings as well as leather accessories such as bags and pouches i couldn t leave the shop empty handed so the first visit saw me walking away with a leather saddle bag however a classic white and blue tiffin carrier caught my eye and i returned to bangku bangku the next day to purchase it i m not too sure if i will actually use it an impulse buy yep as much as i hate to admit it i think it is but i am a total nut for enamel and vintage pieces it doesn t help that b shares the same weakness too posted by erin at 11 45 pm 2 comments labels bangku bangku cycling enamel joo chiat retro furniture and furnishing vintage finds monday september 3 2012 a new beginning again little parting gifts for my teammates so i called it quits again am i proud of myself definitely not am i relieved yes very much so ever since i started work back in end february everything pretty much felt like a whirlwind most people would say that working 9am 6pm five days a week is normal but strangely i couldn t handle it i took part in this normalcy for 6 months but it didn t get any normal for me my being felt foreign i couldn t control my time couldn t govern my mind from whirring away with thought after thought worry after worry needless to say it did not take me long to decide to lose this job before i lose myself i was in an organisation with a great social mission i had good teammates that i got along fine with i think i have to admit that i was rather reclusive but there was just one piece that did not fit the puzzle the work wasn t right for me before you race up to me to give me a smack on my bottom or deliver a lecture on what a big bag of lazybones i am take the queue behind my dad my mum my grandma the list goes on what i will say to everyone is i am not lazy i am not a pampered brat nor have i decided not to work i am idealistic i am dreamy i am still searching when will my search end i do not know i know that it s time for me now to sit still again and watch the clouds roll by pick up my favourite things and remember what makes me happy and centred some of my favourite things i heart my stamp set i heart my ball of twine i heart my box of penguin postcards a couple of months ago after a hiatus of not taking photos and neglecting this dear blog i picked up a couple of food magazines my eyes welled up when i saw the gorgeous food photos idealistic dreamy still searching posted by erin at 6 29 pm 23 comments thursday august 9 2012 happy birthday singapore this is home truly though there are days i grouse i can t imagine living anywhere else happy 47th singapore may the reds and whites fly on posted by erin at 10 48 pm 17 comments tuesday july 3 2012 weekend breakfast the family s latest craze i didn t make any plans for a big cook out during the past weekend and decided to photograph my very simple breakfast of french toasts just for practice i am starting to get a kick out of inserting text into my pictures so yes the intent is there to spend the next couple of weeks brushing up my photoshop skills note the word intent i mentioned to all that i will show our latest family craze so here it is presenting my dear travelling buddy that has taken me to places faster than my little feet can for the past two weeks after we had the taste of the parisian bike riding lifestyle we couldn t resist getting bicycles when we came home at this juncture i have to give due credit to paris velib bicycle network such a brilliant concept it made travelling within paris such fun and such a breeze this is technically the first vehicle which i officially own and yes like every first time vehicle owner i am very proud of her she s pretty smooth and makes travelling sweet presenting drumroll petite bianco posted by erin at 11 24 pm 5 comments sunday june 24 2012 back to basics ultimate victoria sandwich sponge alright it s back to basics for me i ve never tried baking a full sized sponge cake before it was a now or never moment for me and i am over the moon especially after stacking the top layer of cake over the bottom i m thinking of the birthday cakes baby shower cakes that i can bake in future i think we should celebrate every occasion with a cake ok the imagination is running wild here i know i ve been very tardy with my posts these couple of months and i m absolutely appalled by my own lack of discipline ah the laziness and distractions that quietly crept into my life just to let you in a little my hubby and i each made a decadent acquisition recently and they have both been our main occupation or pre occupation this whole week i shall introduce you to our dear petit bianco mocha grande in my next post have to take decent pictures of them in the meantime try your hand at this classic sponge cake ultimate victoria sandwich sponge adapted from jamie magazine this classic cake is of course named after queen victoria the only monarch to reign longer than the current queen it s relatively easy to make but does have a few quirks you need to get as much air into it as possible and be mindful of its sensitivity to variations in heat know your oven well and invest in an oven thermometer serves 14 i think it serves 8 12 225g unsalted butter cubed and softened plus extra to grease 225g white caster sugar i reduced to 200g i think i could have reduced it a bit more 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 eggs beaten 225 self raising flour sifted 1 tsp baking powder 1 4 tsp salt a splash of milk directions preheat the oven to 180 c grease and line the bases of 2 round 20cm sandwich tins cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until pale and fluffy mix in the vanilla extract gradually mix the beaten eggs into the creamed butter and sugar don t worry if your mixture curdles mine did fold in the flour baking powder and salt with a large metal spoon until just incorporated don t overmix stir in a splash of milk to loosen the batter then evenly divid it between the 2 cake tins bake the cakes in the oven for 22 25 mins until golden and cooked through to test insert a skewer into the middle of the cake it s ready when the skewer comes out clean leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely once completely cool sandwich with your choice of filling or your own favourite jam is the traditional choice for a victoria sponge whipped cream is optional posted by erin at 10 49 pm 1 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom home about erinnish my kitchen ventures photography tasty blogs i follow contact latest posts my top 3 best coffee beans for french press brewing 2026 03 31 food safety sensor technology restaurant 2025 12 03 titos vodka cocktail recipe collection 2025 12 03 cold meal prep ideas summer 2025 12 01 the role of edible bird nests in chinese traditions 2025 08 25 popular posts what is bird s nest soup creamy mushroom pasta butter cookies for chinese new year dark chocolate and raspberry brownie tarts donna hay s classic brownies william sonoma s new orleans style beignets chocolate meringues with raspberries and caramel sauce 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