V&A museum

Sundried tomato bread

So Mr Mo attempted to make some baguettes a couple of months ago and left the entire bag of flour and yeast at my place. That's been festering for abit and it was more than a little squeal of glee to find a sundried tomato and onion bread recipe in J's book.

First attempt at bread making (naans not counted!), it came out just a little too dense and probably needs more kneading but overall, a delightful surprise!!

Autumn days should be always like this

Borough Market

A lovely afternoon in autumn's sun, a light hearted stroll through London Bridge, a happy sampling of cheese in Neal's Dairy and yummy scotch eggs.

we contemplated buying a pumpkin to carve for Halloween but decided it'd be sight for us to trot back to the office carrying a pumpkin between us. We turned our attention to the platter of wild mushrooms instead.

Felicitations les deux!

Home

Sometimes it feels really good to be back home, in my old bedroom. The familiar smells, anecdotes of my childhood, the single bed and duvet from hall, the 'sleepwell' pillow from mom, and countless faded photos and trinkets of love's past, and my mom's incessand badgering...

Toute seule ce soir

Happy mid autumn festival!

So we had a pretty atypical mid-autumn festival last night. It was a windy evening in London and we gathered at Siong's place in Clapham for a night in and X Factor on TV.

It was a Chez Jas gastronomical delight - French onion soup with little morsels of toasted baguettes smothered in baked camembert. The baked camembert constituted some lovely minced garlic, a big glug of olive oil, maldon sea salt, pepper, rosemary and a generous sprinkle of parmasen cheese. Popped in the even for 20 minutes and out came some very lovely molton cheese spread.

The second course required some kitchen gymnastics as we tried to line up the fatty side of the pork chops along the pan for a little crackling before searing the main bits. Some onions, thyme, sage, apples and a bottle of cider later, it was bubbling merrily away in the oven. Not without setting off the smoke alarm about 10 times though!! The chops were served up with a lovely braised red cabbage which I absolutely adored!

The last course was courtesy of the blowtorch as I tried my hand at the creme brulee again. There was a little accident along the way when I set Siong's oven on grill by mistake, but no panicky.....saved by the nose. It's great to have a bunch of people who are happy sampling your wares, it gets a little boring cooking for one sometimes.

I didn't forget the mooncakes though, J kindly offered two little moonies that C brought back from HK this morning. Thanks muchness, the salted egg yolk in the lianrong invokes memories of certain very familiar flavours that makes me think fondly of home.

c'est bonne, la vie.

Photos of home

There is no better way to spend saturday mornings with Saturday Kitchen Live blaring away in the background, fresh laundry flapping lazily in the breeze, scrambled eggs with streaky bacon, strawberry yoghurt, and fresh coffee. Oh wait, there is a better way...! with Tauhway, softboiled eggs and kaya toast and kopi-si. hiyah. One makes do with what one has.