Quotes on Cooking

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." ~ Harriet van Horne

"When baking, follow instructions. When cooking, go by your own taste." ~ Laiko Bahrs

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." ~ Virginia Woolf

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Nomnomnom.

Christmas 2010 was decidedly quiet, but then, it all started kicking in AFTER that. Our New Year's was relatively ho-hum and pretty much under the radar, because, before and after seemed to be chock-full of blowout drinking and parties!!


Anyways, KennethTheOng got married to WifeWW and so they had a mini gathering at their house. Seeing as many people did not make it that night, there was so much leftover food, that I helped them with the storage and of course, became an a la minute Garde Manger cook. 


Item 1:
Garlic Bread --> became Crostini, either with tomato salsa or hummous.


Item 2:
The inexpertly grilled lamb slices --> became a stew, with tons of caramelised onions, some carrots and of course, Guinness with a little help from the supplied brown sauce.


Of course, sheperd's pie remained as sheperd's pie.


And so I made some mixed salad with a mandarin orange vinaigrette, linguini with pesto and roast chicken while Uncle David contributed his famous legend of Mutton Curry and unfortunately, his super-marinaded chicken wings didn't make it to the table from Klang that night.


Well, I gathered some stuff to put into the chicken for roasting, and so, it did look like a pretty picture. Was too busy to take pics of the rest. 







Had a great time, with the limited Centenary edition, 12yr old Johnny Walker Black, Chivas, Jim Beam, tons of wine & beers. NOMS!

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