Leftovers

I know what you're thinking. What is this madness? If it's food then well, it's hardly appetizing? Hazarding some guesses? It's the leftovers from a BBQ with my girl friends. vietnamese purple sweet potatoes and regular russet gold potatoes. Instead of dumping it, which would be a big waste, I decided to peel them up and make a potato salad out of them! And this was what i got!

Baby food? Well, maybe. But it tastes absolutely divine. Just a dash of black pepper, a pinch of salt and just 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise to a mix of 8 small purple and regular potatoes. A nice summer salad it makes! :) Try it yourself.

girlfriends

chocolate ice cream with banana fritter (original)

they have an option for it to be served original or breaded. and it costs $7.50 bef tax and between 3-6pm, they have this on offer with their signature mint ice tea for $6++. it was GOOD! :)

signature mint ice tea

I don't think it was expensive if you made an order for a dessert as the one above but. we ordered another one which was ice cream with strawberry ice-cream and that. was a waste of stomach space and money. they were frozen pancakes and it was topped with one strawberry or maybe two at most, sliced into miserable pieces, served with random strawberry ice cream. the lousy tasting kind of course.

Then, there was a one for one offer on the pizza that they refused to accord to us because it was 5.55pm and you need time to make the pizza and it would've exceeded 6pm by the time it arrives so i'm sorry you cannot enjoy the offer. How does that reasoning make sense? It states 3-6pm and does not state a last order timing. And while I was pondering on the feasibility of their excuse, there they were stuffing their faces with another customer's wrong order of a pizza in plain sight. Well done LENAS. Very lousy customer service.

So we headed elsewhere for dinner. We took a stroll to raffles city and ended up at the newly renovated basement and had a nice comforting bowl of Clam Chowder! :) at The Soup Spoon. *yum

regular clam chowder. *ahhh. :)

rainy days

none of my adventures are coming to pass. rain's ruined yet another day of plans to cycle. c'est impossible. so off we went to swensens at marina square. and if you thought that brought a lil sunshine to my life... you're horribly wrong. :(

bbq chicken

5 cubes of potato, 3 peas, some random carrots, half a tough old bird

and if you thought i could share my companion's lunch? well, she did no better with fried fish with apricot mayo. a bizzare sauce. sigh. dinner at zhou's was better. hing hwa lor mee. comfort food. <3 and dessert of course!

nooooo i can't! and i betcha you can't either :)

scented candles

ikea last night. i thought i'd blog about it. without photos. since everyone's got a try of their meatballs. (i hope you have?) it's not fantastic but the deal on Tuesdays makes it, well, instinctive. $4 for 10 meatballs. :) all the way till July 2010! and i got my lovely berry scented Tindra Mys candles!

off for another food escapade now. i'm thinking dim sum. dian dao wo kai xin! i wonder if my food companion's receiving my telepathic food signals...

just because i'm trawling my photo files.

bintan getaway

back from a long hiatus. photos can do the talking.
lunch at bintan idol

you'll never guess. this was mee goreng.

eating local. tahu goreng.

kung po chicken.

sour. can't decide if mee goreng or this was of a stranger taste.

dinner at 3DSR- which DSR was supposed to be the acronym for degrees. hmm.

appetizers. caramelized onion and sweet buns.

cream of capsicum. pretty sure it was pumpkin :)

spring chicken with fries

salmon with garlic fried rice

seafood temptation

mixed grill. lamb/sirloinsteak/fish/baked potato

everything was sorely overpriced and well, sore. just eating to fill them hungry tummies. but my girls made it all good. loving the weekend away. :)

simple bliss

just for YOUR birthday. not even wild elephants could've dragged me out from school after a supplementary class/ lvl meeting day for dinner. :)

TCC at Velocity

shrooms bite

while the ragout was definitely out of bounds in a low sodium diet, it did well to whet our appetites. :)

halibut pasta

HAppily without any BUTS

there was a generous smattering of onions and garlic but strangely, that was buried in the pasta and did nothing to overcome the fishy taste of the halibut-which was tender to the bite and could've been more appetizing had its fishy taste been done away with. the sauce was rich. and the parmesan shavings did well to impart some saltiness to it. made me a happy girl indeed.

bulgogi beef and mushroom

 

tender slices of beef with a version of bulgogi seasoning that was unfamiliar to my taste buds but nonetheless lip-smackingly tasty. :) '...for muscle building...' the description read. i'd gladly build muscles with these kinds of proteins/carbs :)

 

 

toofie and peppermint tea

 

no better way to ease the richness of the cream pasta and to watch the world go by on a lazy evening than with a serving of peppermint tea.

 

It was simple bliss indeed.