Christmas Dinner.....

Had an unconventional christmas dinner last year... finally am blogging about it... haha!! I went to Elcerdo... after many ppl telling me bout this place, I finally managed to gather the right amount of ppl to go piggy eating with me...

First up... mini sausages wrapped in bacon served with saurkraut!! Nice!!! This is the yummiest sausages I have tasted... :D (dun mind the picture, flash was too bright!!)

Next up was my ribs... really tasty.. a bit mongolian-like but it would taste much better if there was more meat on it... hehe!!

Now, for the star of the nite!! My suckling piglet!!! it was cut traditionally with a plate which Ai Li so graciously did!! and it was time to tuck in some tasty, crispy piglet!!! OOohhlala!! the skin was so crispy...the meat was tasty... the only complain I had was how much fat was between the two.. but oh well.. it was still a tasty piggy...

We then had seafood paella which to my disappointment really didnt live up to my expectations... No thumbs up for this...:(
After the paella we were still a tad hungry so we ordered additional spicy pork sausages with bacon again.. haha!! this one is also so so yummy... Think anything porkish is good here... haha!!

Finally came deserts... we had the werner's special and some other special.. they were quite interesting desserts... wouldnt say good not bad though but nice enough to finish the meal...
Time to go home with our tummies nicely filled... It was a great christmas dinner this year... Coz for the rare occasions... my entire family including my brother in law was back... Nice!!! :D

I am feeling soooo Bleh!!

Am sitting in my classroom now attending the lectures on Global Marketing... I am so not into it right now... How can a lecturer just go on and on and on.... It took him 2 hours just to run through 16 slides... Aaarrgh!!! I am just so so so not into this class right now... feeling very Bleh!

And guess what?!! He kept on saying we did badly in our Assignment 1... but then he didnt want to tell us exactly.. except for this one girl who is with him right now discussing over her score..and he allowed her to explain and he actually conceded a few points... That is just being biased... It is just not fair... Probably he just put a big Zero when he saw my name on my assignment... Think he doesnt like me... Oh well.....

It seems that this time round... No HD for aichin... :( I swear it is by no fault of mine....

Tak Halal!!!

That was what my colleague mentioned to me when he saw the christmas card... coz within it is my trademark logo... a piggy backside.. had it since I was in highschool... hehe!!

How it got developed? Well, I have always wanted it to be a pig.. but due to my limited artistic skills... I could never for the life of me draw a pig... so I decided, a piggy's backside with a curly tail would do the job nicely.. so it got stuck til now.. It's still cute to me.. so It's here to stay... :)
If you see anything with this logo, you would definitely know it is handmade with plenty of TLC in it from me to you... :D

CHRISTMAS IS COMING....

Tis the season to be jolly.... fa la la la la, la la la la...

Tis is also the season of giving... I just love christmas!!! It's my favourite time of the year... It is just so festive... the malls are all decorated.. everything is lit brightly... then there's present!! :) It's all just really really nice..

As usual, it is the time of the year for me to play Santarina... :)
First up!!! Isuzu Malaysia...

Every year everyone in the office gets a little something from me... First year it was candy canes, Second year it was bell shaped chocolates in an origami box so this year I had something new up my sleeves... First.. cards...

This idea just popped to mind... It just looks like a jagged pattern when u close the card.. but when u open it up it becomes a christmas tree... :D

Next up..! The gift itself... :D Cupcakes!!! yeah... the trial lots I did before... this time round it is the mass production... Chocolate, Lemon and marble cupcakes all topped with chocolate and sprinkled with christmas trees and wreaths... :)
Now that we are all done... time to pack!!! Whoa!! I didnt expect to have so many boxes.. haha!!!
Well, cross you fingers hard and wish... a box might be coming your way!! :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

HO! HO! HO! HO!

Birthday Cake...

Once again I was in the baking mode last weekend... It was Uncle's birthday so I decided to bake a cake... Never tried this one before but I must say I did turn out pretty good... the recipe was called Jelly Mouse Cake... sounds simple enough right? It actually consist of 4 parts of preparation... the cake, the mouse, the fruit and jelly setting and the icing around the cake...
It actually took me a day and a half to complete it.... ya..the half was to make the icing so as to ensure the cake looked presentable... :)

Here is the end results....

Closer view....
Because of the height of the cake which apparently is taller than the average cake, it refuse to fit in the box which I bought... so in the end... the box had to be made as well....
The full works... nice huh?

Well, Happy Birthday Uncle!! Hope you like the cake!! :)

Happy Anniversary!!!

Happy 35th Anniversary

Mum & Dad!!!

It's has been a long journey... :) But oh so worth it with 3 precious girls like us rite? hehe!!

Baking escapades... Cupcakes....

It was another one of those baking weekends... hehe!! This time round, I was having a trial sessions on christmas cupcakes... Wondering which to make and give out...

I made butter cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and lemon cupcakes... The lemons were my favourite.. sweet with a hint of tangy-ness... yum yum...

The butter cupcake batter...

Ooohhh.. fresh out of the oven... These cupcakes are perfect for the eating.. too high for the frosting though... so need to reduce for next batch...

The chocolate cupcake batter.... (less this time...)

Aaah... just the right height for my topping.... :)

The final outcome... Cupcakes with buttercream frostings.....
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache....

The winner of my session is the lemon cupcakes with chocolate ganache topping... Yum Yum... watch out for it... :D What's your pick?