cooking is my newfound love.
i figured, since i love to eat and i've plenty of time to spare these days, why not? ;) of course prawning the other day with jon in a simple dress-down affair to celebrate my birthday also provided a further boost.
we caught (only) five prawns in three hours (boohoo but not too bad for beginners i say) and on the way back in the car i was excitedly thinking of what to do with the prawns now resting snugly in the plastic bag at the backseat.
without a doubt really, i had to cook butter garlic prawns since i love both butter and garlic. so i went onto google to search for some recipies, bought the necessary ingredients and got down to business.
it was simple, really. there were a variety of recipies online but i picked the gist and did my own. the basic ingredients were butter, garlic, parsley and lemon juice but parsley was unavailable in the few grocery marts i went to so i had to make do without it. oh and of course i had to buy more prawns since cooking just five prawns would be quite pathetic ;)
ready to serve!i put extra butter so it could be used as a dip for bread and ah, i think my first attempt at butter garlic prawns went pretty well if i could say so myself! i let my family and jon had some and the comments were pretty positive (of course i hope they weren't just trying to make me feel good about myself lol).
i'm now lemming to try out other recipies and cook other food and stuff my loved ones with some homecooked food cooked with TLC hahaha.
the guys and i went over to dom's house to make pancakes from the mix we received from a friendly local when we were visiting Hillsong church in sydney.
jon and justin mixing water with the mix.
the guys fooling around.
i placed the mixing bowl a tad too close the fire :x
i was trying to be funny.
the end product. okay i know it doesn't really look great here, but it tasted okay and we had fun while at it. heh.random picture of chilli crab and mantous from my birthday celebration dinner with my family:
it was damn good can? :D even right now my sis and i are salivating at the thought of the crabs... oh and there were complimentary fruits from the coffeeshop after dinner too, not bad.some pictures from kelvin's 10.10.10 wedding:
helped out as a jiemei early in the morning preparing the items for the groom's gatecrash.
after the tea ceremony and all, we adjourned to Hotel Royal to prepare for the night's event, but not before taking a much-needed nap lol.
the groom and the bride :)
jon and his twin brother on stage entertaing the crowd with their lame jokes (what's new lol).
it was pretty fun to be the emcee for the night, i gotta say. i wouldn't mind being an emcee again, i can only get better, yes? any friends getting married soon can ask me to be your emcee ok hahaha
my family was invited too, a table group shot to end off the night! it was pretty fun to be involved in a wedding for an entire day, now that i've got more experience, i can only be a better help for my friends' weddings in time to come hehe. saw this on Postsecret and it really resonates with me (well, minus the Ph.D part of course).
i guess this is my motto and my mantra right now, or rather has been all along. i'm in my 20s, i'm only young once and i wanna enjoy the simple pleasures of life and be young and crazy before i regret!
