Sweet & fattening (but nice)

Some sweet, dessert stuff that we've been eating recently... oh dear, all within the last 1.5 weeks!


For breakfast, whole meal scones (from Four/Five Loaves ?) and banana walnut bread from Sleek Espresso Bar (SEB)


Close up - it was ok, but I had thought it's like banana cake, but it was not.


Free cake of my choice from SEB, after I've bought xx no. of espresso coffees and got the required no. of "chops". I chose my favourite ang moh carrot cake.


The thing is, the 2 gals who used to work there were generous with their "chops", and I probably got more "chops" than the number of espresso coffees that I'd bought. Too bad they'd left for greener pastures.


Some home-baked desserts from Spud's mom:


Cheese Tart

I forgot why I'd drop by at their home, and they offered the tarts to me. I took just one tart, enough for both of us to share. It was very creamy, with a tinge of lemon zest and very nice, actually.

Ahh, maybe I went to return the food containers from the last round of free food, and inadvertently came back with more free food! What a good deal~! :P


Ahh....this one came last Sunday at supper time... apple crumble!

Usually, anything with fruit, I will eat it right away, even though it's so close to bedtime. The SO had already brushed his teeth very early (to avoid eating), so he had his the next morning.


It was fabulous...and so very pro; better than those bought outside.


I left this on the kitchen table and the SO thought I bought it from some store.


It's a butter cake from Spud's mom, given to me just tonight, so I've yet to try. I'm sure she'd used lots of butter... so sinful. >_<"

Anyway, I'd better remember that my cat-sitting duty starts tomorrow. :P

Coffee Break

Coffee from JCO Donut & Coffee


I must have bought either an Americano or a latte and to my pleasant surprise, the staff gave me a small donut foc, to go with my coffee.



This is not raw sugar, but really brown sugar powder! It didn't interfere with the taste of coffee though, and I do like the understated but stylish packaging.



Local egg & kaya-butter toast set at a new small joint at SMU.


I happened to walk aimlessly to that area, not sure of what to have and when I saw they have soft-boiled egg... well, that settles it! :)

It was too light, so I went to pack a veggie subway for an afternoon snack. I'm still not sure why I got a discount for the sandwich. Did they think I was a SMU staff (I wasn't wearing any tag) or .... a student?!? :-O

Coffee with a friend at Espresso Bar, at Sim Lim Square


The sinful moussey, dark chocolate & banana cake was her idea!


Nice... and the prices are slightly cheaper than most coffee joints. Hope they stay around.

Food Presents

From the Spuddies this week - Buns, focaccia bread and chicken curry


Yet to try them...they're now sitting in the fridge.

Sometime in April, we also received some sweet cinnamon rolls from them...



...which we had for breakfast with some other items which I had already bought from the bakeries.



My favourite...



We also got some nice light, cream-filled biscuits from Tokyo, courtesy of KSN.


The packaging is so pretty, and even the cream filling comes in a sort of artistic pattern. I have a photo of that in my hp, which I will upload later.

Update 27 May 2008 - photo of Japanese biscuits:

Gift of Life

To raise funds for the China Sichuan's quake victims, BreadTalk (local bakery chain) came up with these sad-looking panda buns for sale. Each costs $2 and it seems all proceeds will be donated to the cause.



The bread tasted buttery and fragrant, and there is sweet red bean paste filling inside.


Nice to eat. Eat and help a cause at the same time... why not?