Hummingbird cake.

Recipe

Pre and post gym breakfast.

Love having a cupcaker best friend who has her annual sabbatical in Austin. Breakfast #1 this morning was a new Sugadeaux flavour experiment and post-pump breakfast #2, whilst playing with brand spanking new Wacom tablet which made the experience all the more delectable, was crunchy salty sweet Prezel m&m's. Packet says one serve is 17 units, but they say that this contains less than 2% of the recommended daily nutrient intake. Does this mean i need 850 m&m's for a decent daily diet? Please advise.

Poh pancake fail.

I don't claim to be a Masterchef but i do pride myself on making my dishes look like the pic in the recipe. Hell, I won't even attempt to use recipes without visual accompaniments as a) there's no real challenge and b) if it tastes like poo, you can't say "Oh well, it tasted like balls but at least it looked the picture". 

A year after Poh smacked together her Chicken Rendang with Coconut Lace Pancakes i thought i'd give it a crack. The chicken was OK. Significantly better on the 2nd day as one would expect with a curry but my cross-hatch autistic excuse for a pancake just did not work. I can't even liken it to anything. Well, maybe play-dough. Tasted and looked similar, one might say. Granted we didn't have the milk carton (we use 2 liter plastic bottles) but we devised a very clever substitute using one of those Chinese takeaway rice containers (like the ones that were found to be used in those string of public transport terrorist attacks in London) with a very small pouring hole in the side, which by laws of physics, should've worked perfectly, alas, we failed.

Thankfully we had foresight enough not to invite cronies round for dinner and embarrass ourselves, and instead gobbled down our mess while watching Walter cook up a perfect batch of Crystal Meth in one of the last Breaking Bad's for season 3.

"Something like a phenominan..."

pronounced /reɪˈnoʊz/, us dict: rā·nōz′

I hate the cold.

When my fingers get like this i have to:

• Put them near by butt
• Put them near someone else's butt

• Cup my left boob to bring back the circulation.

Happy birthday Ollie!

Super delicious Sour Cream and Banana Cake for Ollie's 3rd birthday. Delightful composition using mini M&Ms, Coles Bananas and Maltesers. Don's technique of throwing handfuls of the mini M&Ms at the cake and hoping they'd stick bothered me and the kitchen floor somewhat.

What the hell is 'Vegetable Spaghetti'?

Separating the delicates.

Don forgot about the cans in the freezer.

Sunday brunch.

As per usual, we were running ridiculously late so brunch ended up being at 2pm. No biggie. Even Lior didn't complain once he sunk his teeth into it. Nana's ancient maple syrup made the baked beans and once again, Master Chef's poached eggs technique was spot on. My favorite olive chili sourdough baguette from Prahran market topped off the gourmet-mess. Man we eat well.