Food for a lazy Sunday

Home-prepared prawn salad



Prawns tossed with sweet Thai chilli sauce



The other hidden ingredients


The salad leaves were tossed with red wine vinaigrette dressing.
The celery should not be there, as it dilutes the taste...probably better with a creamy dressing

Smoked salmon thin-crust pizza from Canadian Pizza


The salmon was salty...

Hawaiian thin-crust pizza



Moussaka



With eggplant (brinjal), minced lamb and lots of cheese...this was nice.

Saybons, French Food Factory

I hadn't known this take-out joint is so "famous", until I saw the newspaper cuttings pasted all over their counter. I'd recently read from a food blog about their nice soup and crepes.



That's a large sized cup of seafood bisque (price $4.90).



The SO thought it was curry...and actually, it did have a spicy taste.


The seafood bisque was good, with a good "body" and without the strong "fishy" taste, which I'd experienced at some supposedly good restaurant.

The mushroom and cheese savoury crepe (@ $4.50), one of their popular items.


They also have dessert crepes filled with bananas, chocolate, strawberries and peanuts, but not all in the same crepe.

The crepe wasn't as hot or soft, since I'd taken it home to eat, but it was very nice all the same. The SO likes it too.


I drank almost all the soup and ate about 40% of the crepe, but it was quite filling, and I didn't feel like I needed to eat more for dinner, except perhaps a fruit and drink. I think a soup plus focaccia bread (which they also sell) would make a nice lunch.

Stir-fry vegies & oden

Some new dishes which I've cooked/prepared recently (for the first time*).

For Monday's dinner - Stir-fried watercress*, with wolfberries


We always eat watercress cooked in soup in our family, and at the in-laws' home too, but now that the new, smaller breed of watercress is available, it isn't too old/fibrous, so can taste quite nice stir-fried.

Plus Japanese Oden*, a popular street food (I gathered)


The soup is too salty and which I don't think we should drink too much of, even though I'd added extra water.

Chilled Oden package - ready for boiling; enough for 2.5 pax




For Tuesday's dinner, I cooked the big bean sprouts*, with shimeji mushrooms and capsicum


This (soya?) bean sprouts is quite fibrous, and the "bean" part remained very crunchy/ slightly hard, even though the fibrous strips were already well-cooked till soft.

This is almost like the only fish we cook at home regularly - grilled salmon, with ground black pepper and lemon


In addition, we had the ready-to-eat fish toufu for dinner as well...so it was a very very full dinner! :P

Macarons

I wondered what all the fuss was about this relatively new dessert which I keep hearing gushing comments about, especially from bloggers who like to bake. I've not tasted it, though it sounds to me like yet another "high-class" fad thingy. What I do know, is that it's very difficult to bake them well, and they're made of egg white, icing sugar and perhaps, cream (for the filling).


Other than that cafe place at the basement of Raffles City, I found them at Bakerzin when I happened to go to Wisma Atria (which I haven't been to for a long time) to get my hp serviced.


I bought them in rose, lemon and some sort of vanilla-strawberry flavour. Each tiny biscuit costs $1.60, including GST, so all 3 miserable biscuits cost $4.80. Piangz...so expensive!



The surface looks hard, but once I take a small bite, the whole thing crackles like fragile wafer. The inside texture is very airy, made from whipped egg white and held together by the icing sugar.


The lemon one tastes artificial; there wasn't any taste of strawberry in the vanilla-strawberry one, and the rose-flavoured one tastes nice (because I happen to like rose syrup). One thing's for sure: all of them taste cloyingly SWEET! Send out the DIABETES ALERT!!

Luckily, I'm not into sweet things, so I don't think I will purposely buy them again. Haha!