就這樣被你征服~

就這樣被你征服! 切斷了所有退路! 我的心情是堅固! 我的決定是糊塗!

Definitely had this song ringing in my ears as I attempted green tea macarons for a third time tonight! I must say, I'm loving that silpat!! This batch wasn't nearly as hideous as my last and I'm actually quite impressed with six (6) of them (yes, only six, but better than none! That means I got twelve good-looking shells!). My hopes were quite deflated when I was piping them dudes. They didn't give me a good feeling at all! But I decided I must go on so I piped all the shells, half on parchment and half on my new silpat and left them to form the "skin" while I chatted with a still-working 細V at 3:00am. Baked them in two different batches and OMG, the first batch was disappointing. At the end of it all, at 5:00am, I got myself six presentable ones. I'm somewhat pleased! I am definitely sick of green tea flavoured now (especially from eating all them maca-wrongs!) and will conquer another flavour like passion fruit or cassis next time! And did I say FEET?? LOL~~

I've got feet baby!

I Will Conquer You Yet!

A 25% off any one item coupon came in from Kitchen Stuff Plus yesterday so I had to go get something!! Perfect timing since I wanted to tackle macarons again so I splurged and got a silpat... and a nice looking 14"x18" baking sheet! Of course I paid for them separately so I got to use two coupons!! Hoot! Perfect macarons, here I come... I will 征服 you!!

夾死你呀!!

I don't remember playing in supermarket turnstiles much when I was a kid. Maybe I did but just don't remember. I'm sure I've never had my head stuck in between one for sure.

文生 and I was at 兆豐 yesterday and just as we approached the entrance, we saw three little girls happily playing in the turnstile; running in and crawling under the bar, just to circle in again, giggling the entire time. I'm guessing two of them were about 4ish and the other one was about 6 or 7. Parents were no where to be seen. They were all over the floor, filthy, yuck! Just as I was getting impatient, the older girl of the three climbed over the rod instead of crawling under (I'm guessing since she's older and bigger so she didn't want to crawl under) but the other two were too eager to take their turn to go around so she got her head trapped between the rotating gate and the rod. Now that she's stuck, panic slowly crept across her face. The other two girls were still pushing the gate, squishing her even more but luckily she was smart enough to push against them to save her neck. So at this point the two little girls realized their playmate is stuck and sat in silence as she tried to free herself in the small little gap that's left to keep her breathing. Seriously man, kids are flexible and all but they can shrink their heads too! So as she held back her tears from embarrassment and miraculously slipped through the what seem like only a 6 inch gap, the other girls starting laughing AT her!! So while a passerby 婆婆 looked on, I glared at one of the laughing girls and said, "笑咩呀, 笑?!?!" Now all three of them sat on the floor, speechless and terrified, and stared at me. I continued, "Now move out of the way so WE can move!!" They scurried under the turnstile and stood there almost in tears and as I passed through, I turned to glare at the trapped one and added, "玩咩呢, 玩?!?! 夾死你呀!!" 文生 was nice enough (and had the patience) to see if they were okay while I stormed into the supermarket, cursing their parents for not looking after their kids.

When 文生 caught up to me, he looked at me in disbelief and said, "You really freaked them out! 三唔識七你都鬧成咁!" Geez, I think they freaked themselves out! If the trapped girl didn't push against the younger ones, she would have suffocated! Pfffmmmmph! I still believe if I didn't yell at them they'd never learn.

Well, now I know I traumatized 文生...greeeeaaaat.....sigh....

No Feet?!?! NOOOOO!!

文生 had an appointment to meet up with Mr. Steamy-Hot-Shit-CGA VP-That-Does-TV-Interviews-and-Gives-Canada-Advice tonight and left me to EYT again so I called Steph and asked her over to make macarons. Since my first attempt was a semi-success, I thought this time it'd be a little better than "semi". I even made the 豆沙 (from scratch) this time to fill since I was pretty confident they'd turn out.

Every thing looked good ... up until 5 minutes into the oven (well, let's skip the part about my aunt calling and yelling at me for asking Steph to come out on a rainy evening) when I peered in and noticed NO FEET!!! Well, in macaron words, no feet = fail. Well then again, crooked feet = fail and cracked shell = fail, hollow interior = fail, lumpy shell = fail, dried cookie = fail, soggy filling = fail and... well, the list goes on. No feet... I couldn't believe it. I got some crooked feet last time, even a few with nice feet! Just a somewhat hollow interior but you can't tell from looking at it anyway and this time... no feet! I'm disappointed!!!

People say rainy days are bad for macarons, like a hungry Tin-Lop... BAD. Not to mention I think the batter still needed a bit of mixing... and the almond meal was probably not fine enough... next time I think I should grind the sugar with the almonds and then sift (and try not to make almond butter again, LOL)... maybe invest in a nicer pan, or a silpat, or both... aiya... epic fail LOL~

See? They looked fine!! Smooth shiny shell, no peak...

Made 豆沙 from scratch too!! So creamy and smooth...

But why no feet?!?!? Nooooooo! and yes, they're a little burnt too...

At least the almond cookies tastes okay with the 豆沙. That would mean I can go ahead and make it again on a drier day and hope the shells turn out nicely enough to fill (and possibly give away).

Sigh... the quest continues...

Bamboo'd

Successfully replicated Guu's signature Bamboo drink tonight... kwakakakaka!

Now I can serve it at my housewarming partay~~ :P The quest is now on to get more lychee juice by Saturday as I can see how easily 細 V can get so drunk from it... heh heh heh...

Project Scrapping ver. 3.4 之 「文生牛一篇」

For 文生's birthday this year, I decided to do something different. Both of us knew we needed to get away for a little short vacation, so I decided to make the most out of our trip to Niagara Falls to see 蘇永康 and 許志安 and STAY THE NIGHT!! Spent 2 weeks looking for cheap decent hotel packages and came upon the conclusion that staying Saturday night was bad. So we both decided to stay Sunday night after the concert and take Monday off work (well, 文生 took the entire week off so I decided to take today off too).

Everything worked out wonderfully as we made a short cross-border shopping trip Sunday, had some junk food at Denny's and headed back to Fallsview just in time for the start of the concert. I must reiterate that casino concerts are pathetic, but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. We checked in to the Hilton right after (muahahahaha, the hotel was just across the street!!) and soaked in the jacuzzi bath, threw on a couple of facial masks and had a bit of long needed relaxation. Yaaaay, jacuzzi! I tried taking some night pics of the falls, but the damn windows were so dirty and after about 3 shots, they turned off the lights at the falls!! POOPIE!

The hotel package included a buffet breakfast for two in the morning so 文生 and I had some made-to-order omelettes, bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, waffles, french toast and fresh fruit before checking out and wandered the falls area for the afternoon. Unfortunate for the tourist industry but great for us, Niagara Falls was pretty dead on the Monday afternoon. After being all touristy and snapping up a few photographs of the forever running faucet, we walked over to Clifton Hills and had a Coke float! Well, 文生 had it, I looked at it in disgust, LOL! Dinner time rolled around so we walked all the way back to Fallsview and had dinner at Brasa, an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse. Good thing the hotel package covered us for $40, which helped a little. I wouldn't pay full price of $46.95 per person just because I'm not much of a meat eater anymore. I ended up having 3 rounds of roasted pineapple though! Mmmm, it was so juicy!!

Mui and Ronna was watching the Monday concert and we decided to wait for them and drive them home, so 文生 and I hung out at the casino for 2 hours putting in $5 at an electronic roulette machine and left 2 hours later with the same $5 and free parking for the trip. Free parking = WIN!

Today, I was singing happy birthday at 文生 all day while shopping for 太上文太's birthday present (ya, go figure). We ended up having dinner at Moxie's at Yorkdale. Kekeke, the server brought out the chocolate mousse, lit the candle and realized 文生 went to the washroom! I felt so bad for her as she waited around thinking he was going to come back soon, but yah, 文生 had to 爆石...

Happy Birthday 文生!!