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Warm days
Everyday seems to be a little lesson in ambition. I would start the day strong, wanting to get plenty of things done and I would be all excited and motivated only to feel the energised momentum slowly creeping away. By … Continue reading
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Chitchat
The kitchen can be many things; a place for respite, creative invigoration, regular pragmatism or conversations. It takes a leisurely environment for emotional creatures to release, at least slightly, the firm grip we have on stories concealed from plain sight. Distractions, it seems, … Continue reading
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When sausages fail, there is always egg
We drag ourselves, dead-weight, through the weekday awaiting the potential of weekends. When weekends come by, we roll out of bed, walk into the kitchen, look at the jar of peanut butter (organic and frigging expensive, anyhow) and tell ourselves … Continue reading
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Cafe Epicurious
Brunch on Singapore’s National day — unhurried and calming, almost reassuring that there is still much appeal in slow food. Horrible banana bread (banana essence never tastes like real banana, deal with it) but a good gesture anyhow since it … Continue reading
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Lessons from the kitchen
There are as many banana bread recipes as there are self-proclaimed experts in banana bread-craft; way too many. Some like the banana bread moist and the crumbs soft, others would rather a more sturdy loaf with a crumblier topping. I … Continue reading
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The reason behind this obsession
I don’t do highbrow, because I never could afford to eat in posh little restaurants and I never really saw too much of a point in all that. I cannot talk lyrically about white truffle oil (I don’t see myself … Continue reading
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Burrata
The parcel looking thing is burrata cheese, not from Italy. The one above was from Paris. Think thick and velvety cream enveloped by a layer of delicate mozzarella. I don’t know who first though of wrapping cream inside a ball of cheese, but it is … Continue reading
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Breakfast at Patisserie Valerie
On go and lie to yourself, tell yourself you’d rather sleep-in then spend lovely mornings having breakfast or brunch (we’re not picky with terminology here). Go on, kid yourself. Mornings are perfect for nearly pointless conversations, topics that bare no significance. It is … Continue reading
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Mom said so.
So Belgium didn’t happen, unfortunately, but Canterbury did. Thank goodness Canterbury was charming in a old school kind of way. If it was a boring town, we might have thrown a waffle-deficient induced fit. Anyhow, we remember only the sanguine, not the dismissive. … Continue reading
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Dinner at Zizzi
Dinner over at Zizzi some nights back. One failed plan led to the rather spontaneous, and slightly insistent, decision to eat out. It was, after-all, a Wednesday. Not that Wednesdays are any special, but we had to justify ourselves. … Continue reading
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