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Misc.

The Jamie Oliver’s Fever.

Ever since I’ve successfuly baked a brownies with the recipe from Jamie Oliver’s website, I’ve been looking for more recipes that might suit me there. My main concern was certainly the difficulty level. lol. When I came across this roasted chicken breast with cherry tomatoes and asparagus, I said to myself, OK I’ll try this.

I wanted to cook this for darl so he could bring to work but his working hours this week just couldn’t fit into my schedule. And tonight since I was alone at home, I’ve decided to make myself this dish, with a bowl of rice to go with.

Preparing the dish.

I skipped the white wine and instead I added a little bit of rice wine, simply because I didn’t have any white wine in hand. But the rice wine certainly didn’t make any difference to the taste. :D

About 25 minutes later.

I would say it’s tasty and yummy. The only thing is that I’m not used to the taste and smell of rosemary. It’s just not a commonly used herb in Chinese cooking. Oh and I skipped the balsamic vinegar too. I’m really from a traditional Chinese family. :D

But for a dish that is simple, easy, and healthy, I think this is one of the good ones.

P/S: I wonder why Jamie’s rosemary can still look so green after the roasting. Mine turned into dark brown. Hmm… :/

Pre-birthday Celebration.

So today is the day, as according to my plan, a pre-birthday celebration for darl. There were slight changes on the schedule, whereby darl got himself off from work. We ran a few errands in the afternoon and by the time I finished resting and so, it was already 5pm. OK time to work on the brownies!

The brownies was really easy to make. I just gathered everything on the table and started mixing this and that, and that and this… :P  One thing that I MUST have when I cook is a kitchen scale. I’m really not the agak-agak type, and I have to admit that I have the obsession of making sure that everything is being measured correctly. >.<

Mixing the flour, castor sugar, baking powder and cocoa powder.

Melting the butter and baking chocolate.

Mixing in the flour, with eggs.

Testing, testing… It smelled sooooooo good at this time!

Tha-da! :)

Although I haven’t tasted it when I’m writing – darl insisted to let it cold first – but I really think this recipe is worth trying. Plus it’s so easy, just mix and stir and pour and bake! If you are interested, go to Jamie Oliver’s website and look for Bloomin’ Brilliant Brownies. Enjoy! ;)

And in the meantime, I hope my lamb will turn out well tomorrow. I actually don’t know how to pan-fry… >.<

UPDATES: The brownies tasted AWESOME!!!