mar 27th, 

If you know me well enough, you'd know that eating & baking are my absolute favourite things to do. I've recently be taught to make a mouthwatering orange chiffon cake, and am in love with it ! Not only is the texture so so velvetly smooth, the fluffiness of the cake itself makes it light & airy (so there is always space for more !) The cake was demolished within minutes the last time I made it, but until next time, I promise there will be a decent picture ! 

I've also been working on some butter X sable cookies lately (altered from Eugenie's Valentine Heart Cookies recipe, feel free to check it out) Anyways, I am a die hard matcha lover, and stumbled upon this fabulous recipe, and decided to make a matcha version of the original sable cookie, minus the food colouring. Taste testing with (S.^2) has become one of our rituals, we have turned into quite the food critics might I add. Anyways, for the first attempt, the overall cookie deserved a 7/10. Now to take notes on what to improve on: I thought the overall cookie was a bit too big. It was originally formed into a 2" x 2" dough, but because I didn't stiffen the dough, it melted rapidly in the oven, and spreaded out into an even bigger piece of cookie. S. thought the matcha flavouring was nice & rich, and there was absolutely no need for any excess food colouring. S. (the other one) thought the cookie texture & crispness was exactly to the butter / sable cookie point yet, guess it would have been better if I fully froze the dough next time. Anyways, I had some great & useful feedback with my first attempt. I just finished whipping up another batch - the rolled dough is in the freezer at the moment - and I will most likely bake & remember to post a picture of them when I have fully recovered from being sick ! Ta Ta for now <3

S.

mar 22nd,

Seems to have been over a month since my last post (wow, & sorry) ! This post, like the others, will be of fillers, and more fillers. Let's see, what have I been up to... It has definitely been a hectic month if I have got to say for myself. Paper writing, as you (all) know has been a standardized 'to do' item in my posts, but this month was crayyy (yes, I just used that word), because of visitors. As much as I love having people over at my place, the amount of visitors I had over was quite overwhelming. I'm actually surprised that I managed to not attempt to strangle any one *pats myself on the back* Anywho... having people over simply just meant eating out, I mean, its not a bad thing, but eating out every single meal for the whole week, is enough (or at least for the next few months). Aside from that, let's talk manners. Who stays at someone's house literally "making themselves feel at home" ?! Perhaps that is really an overstatement. When people tell you that, you gotta know its a friendly thing to say. What you DONT do is casually toss your belongings around the whole house, make people wash, and even lightly rinse every single dish you've used, and make others feel obliged to pay for your every meal. Of course, the cherry on top of that would have to be the inexistent "thank you" for everything others have done for you. So here is my 'note to self' based on this experience, and others from the past: people will never thank you for your deeds (it's nothing karma related, but an act of manners) so casually be the good man / woman you are, but don't be that pushover others want you to be, BE YOURSELF. 

S.