Potato croquettes!

These would have tasted better with a little more seasoning! Really need to improve on salting- I find that I either undersalt, or oversalt =_=; I added ground beef to the croquettes, and next time I'd like to try fish croquettes, and cheese croquettes. Hmmm cheese croquette.

They were simple to make, and I think I can make a big batch on Sundays, freeze them, and fry them as needed. I have a feeling these are going to be a popular fixture in my lunchbox! Speaking of lunchbox, I bought two from Daiso recently! That, along with some bento accessories (cute dividers, cute little forks, cute tinfoil... you get the idea).

Recipe of sorts:

Boil potatoes, mash, add fried ground beef and onions, don't forget to season, shape into patties, dunk into egg and then breadcrumbs, and fry to perfection.

Many many firsts!

I'm feeling queasy right now. Here's what I ate today (mad mix? too much? you think?):

• Mee Siam for brunch
• Epok-epok sayur (vegetable puffs?) for tea
• Potato salad
• Second serving of Mee Siam
• Butter-kaya toast, half-boiled eggs & teh peng from Wang Jiao for supper

ANNNNNNNNNND, today was a day of many firsts!

1. I did laundry for the first time everrrrrrrrrr*
2. I 'folded' epok-epoks for the first time
3. I wiped the ceiling fans for the first time*

*The sister says pointedly to mum after asking if it's my first time, "See, I told you it's her first time." Okay okay so I'm really talented at avoiding work. But I'm also very talented at cooking!

Or so I'd like to think/become ;)

First rice pudding.

My rice pudding is in the oven, and in about 15 minutes I am to "insert spoon at edge of pudding and stir from the bottom". Oh, okay. Am I the only one who finds this piece of instruction... bizarre? I don't... quite... understand...

I know what I'm supposed to do, though.

And later at night- potato salad for lunch tomorrow.

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just had to say, SUPERDUPERAWESOME rice pudding YUM YUM!

First wedding of the year.

It's not often that I attend a wedding, and today I did just that. Before leaving home my mum gave me a green packet, to give to the brides' mother(yes, brides'... sisters sharing a wedding day). I never used to notice these things- when to give the green packet, what to say to the brides' parents, acceptable topics of conversation while eating...

The wedding, it was truly one of a kind! There was an inflatable castle to keep the kids occupied, an ice-cream motorbike giving away free flow of ice cream, and the dais and overall decor was just... BEAUTIFUL! Pity my camera's not working.

In between mouthfuls of nasi briyani and ayam masak merah, my dad actually asked what kind of wedding I want. Alamak... I'm not prepared for that kind of conversation...yet!

But I don't mind an inflatable castle at my wedding, that will surely keep the kids occupied!

How I popped my baking cherry

Why, with Sarah of course!

...and Sarina

TADA!
Molten chocolate babycakes, from Nigella's How to be a Domestic Goddess