Special

red riding hood in paris, originally uploaded by Ms_evinrude.

It's a special day today!

I'm Alive!

Yup! Well and kicking! I've been neglecting my blog for quite some time, although I seriously wonder if anybody besides MH realised. Saying sorry for that is so overrated, am I right? I've been cooking and baking bits here and there, fiddled with perfectly fine recipes and gotten disastrous results, etc. Thing is I really want to bake and cook more and photograph even more, but my sister's been waking up way past my "shooting studio's" premium sunlight-receiving hours. Plus it's monsoon season and I don't seem to be able to get my camera on my tripod (I must be stupid). So it gets a bit depressing to photograph when light conditions are poor.

Apple and Cranberry Cake

Okay, so excuses aside. I have a recipe to share! Bea's recipe, to be exact. Apple and cranberry cake. Really easy and quick. I'm not going to post it here because I didn't make drastic changes to it: decreasing the sugar a little and tossing in some fresh cranberries with the dried ones. And you so should visit her site if you haven't done so before! I think I might add more fresh cranberries next time or just use it solely because I like the sourish juices it lends to the whole cake. I also sprinkled some cinnamon and sugar on top before baking so it would neutralise the sour cranberries a little.

The photos below have got nothing really to do with this post, but I thought I'll just show you that I've truly been cooking and baking recently. Hehe.

Cold Cha-soba

This is my idea of comfort food! The cha-soba didn't really taste of matcha or any cha for that matter, but I love it! It's like instant noodles but much tastier! I topped off with some shredded Japanese cucumber and a simple omelette. I added chili flakes for an extra seasoning and it was really refreshing.

Orange Yoghurt Cake

A total baking disaster! I fiddled with a recipe I had from my one and only dessert recipe book and ended with a very dense cake. Like kueh. It tasted fine, just had a weird texture. Must not mess with recipes again.

I actually have something that I've planned to come up with tomorrow, but, somehow my plans were foiled. So I hope to be able to get it up by the start of next week because school starts then. Tata!

Paris!

Here are some photos I promised! Wishing all a Merry Merry twelve days of Christmas! (I'm just saying it because I'm late for an actual Christmas greeting)

Touch Down!

And yes I'm back! Almost 2 days ago to be exact. But well, it's the festive period and parties and gatherings are all coming up so it might be a while more till I have time to post. But I'll get some pictures of my trip up soon! I promise!

Short and Sweet

And so this post shall be. Alright, maybe not so much of sweet, but short at least.

After an extra long hiatus, ugly biscuits and forgetting my blog's birthday, I'm going to leave you guys (and my blog) once again as I take a long awaited trip! So, I'll be setting off tomorrow on a tour to Europe with my family. We'll be visiting Paris, Pisa, Rome, Venice, Lucerne, Innsbruck and Brussels, to name a few. I'm excited about the weather, the shopping, the scenery, the food, the souvenirs, basically everything!

I'll be gone for 16 days so I'll be in time for Christmas. Which will kick start another busy festive period with all the present-making, baking and Christmas shopping and partying. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a post or two before the end of the year!

Till then, have a happy December!