Friday, 28 February 2014
Sunday, 23 February 2014
Saturday, 8 February 2014
One Saturday night @ Cindy's
Certainly no slouch in the kitchen, Cindy laid out ten dishes excluding dessert for our sit down dinner for seven!
Cindy taking us through the dishes
The cook's lone curry leaf plant heralded the theme of last night's dinner
Beans cooked South Indian Style with a final sprinkling of shredded coconut for the final stir. Crispy and delicious.
Miranda's contribution, dry potatoes with Sri Lankan dried fish. And she is only 13, and takes after mummy Cindy. We can't wait to try some of her pastas ...
A robust style Urad Dhal.
Cauliflower with mustard seeds and crispy green chillies. Simple and fabulous.
Everyone's favourite. Cindy's ladies fingers served cold.
Tomato Raita to cut the heat.
Arul's contribution, a super more-ish mango curry made with Australian mangoes. As a little aside, it took him three days, and many driving trips to find suitable mangoes. Well worth it. We all loved it scooped over hot yoghurt rice.
Cindy's dry chicken.
Sri Lankan pork curry.
Huge prawns in a spicy red sauce.
Madhur Jaffrey's goat curry with potatoes seeped with flavour. The Travelling Spud's favourite dish. We think it was well worth her trek to Tekka.
Pistachio Cherry Tart for dessert. Yummy, indulgent and rich. It was the first time aside from pistachio halva that we have had such a dense and rich dessert made entirely of shelled pistachios (Cindy shelled each and every nut and ruined her nails in the process. Thank you!). We added to the richness with scoops of Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream while Miranda had hers with chocolate ice cream??!!
Ready, Set, Dine!
We were so happy ... undoubtedly because the wine had started to flow! Good company, good conversation, and the start of two new friendships. Cheers all.
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Quiet Sunday brunch with my bestie Nat at PS Cafe Petit, Singapore
Like all the PS projects, the latest located in the historic enclave of Tiong Bahru is no slouch in the interiors department.
The great space is also a wine bar and offers lots and lots of bottles for sale....great idea as we saw so many come in and pick up a bottle or three for later.
Bread, pastries and yummy pizzas...the PS pizzas are only available here and it is well worth the trek out.
Bottles everywhere you look with tasting notes! Quelle idea!
The live wall on the way to the loo. It not only looks good but also marks the back of this really cool takeway resto.
So, you order and pay at the counter and then take back this beeper which lights up when the order is ready.
Superb caffeine brew....must find out where the coffee is from...
Our orders: Spaghetti Bolognese which I think was excellent
Spudette and Nat's "Petit" Caesar served in a takeway container and eaten with plastic utensils. Tasty Caesar, of course its PS after all, but it was sooooo difficult to enjoy with the utensils and from the paper container!
Sexiest pizza box every seen!
Fennel Sausage Pizza, yummy especially with the side of chilli in chilli oil. Inspired but honestly it could have done with about 80% more sausage meat as many slices were sausage-less!
Artistic rendering of bread displayed in bell jars.
Specially taken shots for my Spudette who lives for dessert!
No need to order, though she was contemplating the Blueberry Sour Cream Muffin, and the Poppyseed Lemon Cake, the manager comped us as Spudette is a regular at PS starting from the original outlet at Paragon. Thank you Eric!
Nat spotted this new resto for me and yes, it features mainly potatoes! See menu below.... totally promising!
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