Alive and Cooking

I'm back! *hachu* Did any of yas miss me? The weather has been ridiculously hot these few days, WAY TOO HOT that I feel sick just sitting in front of the fan that blows me constant hot air. Our unit is like a "hot stove" in the summer afternoons.

Today, we came home to this little hot stove after watching "The Hobbit" (which was awesome btw), then started to prepare all the ingredients needed for dinner tonight.

Mr. Choo, you should be thrilled and thankful to have me back in the kitchen =p

Simply affordable and delicious Braised Whole Chicken! What's left is the dipping sauce and a couple more dishes to lay my hands on.

Tick, tock, tick, tock... Yay, our glorious home cooked dinner for two is ready (♥♥,)

A cookie jar full of homemade Wombok / Nappa Cabbage Kimchi (a traditional fermented Korean dish) seasoned with daikon radish, spring onions, minced fresh ginger and garlic, Korean red pepper powder, fish sauce, and some sugar. It's slightly different from the recipe I followed last time. A lot tastier!!!

Dinner at Cucina by Toscanis Southbank a fair while ago. Apparently the restaurant was understaffed on a busy Saturday night. Service was slow like snail. We waited forever to place our order and the kitchen took ages to cook up something which led us to more and more disappointments.

Crusty Cobb with olive oil and balsamic vinegar - $6.90. Hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

I had a fettuccine with smoky bacon, fresh egg, shallots and paprika in cream Parmesan sauce - $18.50 and it was oh-so creamy and salty. It's a shame how most of the white sauce pasta I tasted so far were nothing much but salt overkill.

Their turn to taste.

Spaghetti with prawns, scallops, calamari, mussels, bugs, garlic, basil, roma tomato, soft herbs and lemon oil - $20. Again, an excessive saltiness has ruined this otherwise considerably pretty decent dish.

Penne with sauteed chicken, porcini mushrooms, baby spinach, tomato, garlic thyme and cream - $19. My opinion? Don't even bother wasting your precious time and money to dine here.