It was Chad’s birthday on Wednesday, and she brought in a box of goodies from Jean Claude Patisserie for the team to share. The delicious anticipation created by the sight of this box was immense! Chad said I could take photos of the goodies within before the hungry hoards (well, not exactly hoards!) arrived. That’s […]
I had a very nice birthday. Thank you to everyone who emailed or left lovely birthday wishes in the comments. That was so sweet of you all! :) I started my day at the usual early hour, fed the cats, exercised and then ripped open a little package that had been sitting in my study […]
VR left for Sydney on Monday. She’ll be back with us in two and a half weeks’ time for about a week, and then she’ll be leaving for good (well, until the next trip to Australia). It was her birthday on Tuesday, and since she would be in Sydney by then Jac and I made […]
For birthday dessert Jac requested tiramisu. She didn’t want a birthday cake. I made the tiramisu using a recipe from my Home Food cook book. Note to self: save up and buy a decent mixer! I couldn’t believe how long it took to hand beat the egg yolks with the caster sugar until the sugar […]
It’s Jac’s birthday today! We started the celebrations with dinner at her mum’s last night. Jac requested her favourite meal of cold meat and salad (she requested cold meat and salad last year too!), and so that’s exactly what we had, after starting on an assortment of cheeses with rice crackers: Jac’s mum went to [&he…
I forgot to tell you about Savannah’s party birthday cake. It was made by her other grandmother (not the one who made the crunchy noodle salad), who is a very talented cake maker/decorator. I should’ve taken a photo of the complete assembly of fairies (there must’ve been ten or so fairies, arranged in a ring […]
As the salads were being tossed, I sneaked off to take photos of the barbie. Here are the beef chipolatas. The blob of goop at the back is satay sauce, which we had on… …these chicken kebabs. We also had grilled chicken breasts too. I usually don’t enjoy chicken breasts (I always choose thighs, if […]
[Chronologically, this post and Parts 2 and 3 should also come before the Monday post] On Sunday, we celebrated Jac’s niece Savannah’s 8th birthday. In the afternoon, Savannah and her school friends went on a limo party, with Jac as chaperone. We’d never heard of a limo party before this – basically, the girls got […]
Ange made the birthday cake for Dad using a special fruit cake recipe designed for diabetics. Dad wasn’t into the whole candles on birthday cake thing, but we did sing Happy Birthday. Mum brought along some cupcakes for those who might not like the diabetic fruit cake (but I think people who ate cupcakes also […]
EDIT, 26/09/2006: Mum emailed me the names of the dishes we ate at my dad’s birthday lunch. 1. *Salt and pepper prawns 2. *Roast duck 3. Keong choong tai wong kai (ginger spring onion steamed chicken) 4. *Whole deep fried cod in sauce 5. Teik pan tow foo (teik pan = steel dish = sizzling) […]