Farmer's market @ Loewen gardens,

Disclaimer: Pictures from very long ago

75 Loewen Road
Singapore 248844
(Held every 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, check schedule on their website here)

Many weekends ago, made my way down to Loewen cluster @ dempsey for the weekend farmer's market. (Proved to be a lot better than the attempt to explore the Thieves market, and more jacked up prices too) They had gourmet food products, vegetable produce and even ice popsicles; but for the selection of quaint food variety, vibrant colours and cute Caucasian kids running around, it was worth the stay.
Started by the owner of the The Pantry Cookery school (talk about fairy cupcakes), it's only a small venture so don't expect a food fair kind of scale. We had fun sampling food/sauces, but you really need an acquired taste to sink them into your tastebuds (the love for food routine in me still going on strong) but they had awesome stores (for the lack of a better word) like Wild honey and Masterchefz.
I also edited some of the pictures because the tentage shelter masked many of them in a green tinge, so pardon if some picture look strange. (Some from the Holga film camera)

Tacos - 3 bucks

Paella: Spanish seafood dish 5 bucks

Lovin' the alfresco but it was too hot

Gallivanted around the dempsey cluster, and found creepy old buildings at the back door of the market.
While it was intriguing, the scorching weather made it in extremely uncomfortable ☹

Took a break from the sun and settled for some air-conditioning and art appreciation @ The Contemporary Art museum nearby, I kid you not.

Hopefully not me in 10 years

Beauty emporium @ Dempsey, unfortunately they demolished the wooden swing!

I've quite a bunch of photo adventures not too long ago (albeit a bit pointless to post them at such an outdated time) so will upload them soon ☺
Plus, a cupcake baking adventure with felicia 2 days back which I have pretty pictures of ♥
Going out for lunch and ice cream soon, till later ciao!

Breakfast, interrupted

I cannot resist putting this up here, a treasure amongst my Facebook newsfeed spread - been watching rewinds of it a couple of times. (Shot by a Phantom Flex HS)

It's amazing how they mechanized so well, iiiinspiring.

It's barely evening and I've eaten breakfast around the clock, lazy morning @ Coffee bean with garlic bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam and my trusty ole Mac for company while waiting for my friend.

And as I'm typing, I'm devouring tart cherries, vanilla country yoghurt (best yoghurt eevvveerrrr) and an impromptu ham sandwich I just whipped out.

BSS | Breakfast Interrupted from Bruton Stroube Studios on Vimeo.

Company last night was goood, came back really late though (Mumsie wasn't too pleased) and my feet hurts from my heels.
I'm also slightly groggy from the lack of sleep but it feels like I'm stuck in the limbo between battling to stay awake to carry on with the day and wanting to hit the sheets.

Oh and another thing, cream cheese and Mac trackpads do not go together.
Apologies for such a scattered post, may you collect my thoughts and piece them well.

"It's Hallmark's holiday, not mine"

The day of renewed promises for the next 365 days - this year's was the usual no-frills celebrations. "It's a Hallmark holiday, not mine" I quote my mum. But still, it's a day to be thankful for the other 364 days in the year for her when we sometimes take them for granted ☺ 

We settled with Cafe mosaic (@ Carlton hotel) for the Mother's Day lunch (we don't do this every year) after many frantic days of last minute bookings for my family. Good spread, they gave free cupcakes and freebies for the mothers, so now we have a couple of 1-for-1 hi-tea @ the gravity bar ♥ (Any good reviews?) The cupcakes were pretty smooshed up by then because of the humid weather and our haphazard handling - aesthetically and tastebuds appeasing nonetheless.

Was quite fun catching up with life after exams (last week) and getting used to my nephew's new trademark smile that even got the hotel staff giggling.

My cheeky nephew

From the balloon sculptor

Blessed afternoon spent @ Far East flora and sniffing out good plant deals with my mum and rushing back home for a dip in the (icy as usual) pool before heading out for a night of FRIENDS and relaxing in the east.

It's amazing how serene a flora can be, even on such a baked hot day, the fertilizer filled air and the occasional fly springing up on you.

God creations and His endowed gardening skills are an awe ☺ 

P.S. Still very tempted to move over to Tumblr but migrating all my old posts is certainly very painful

Summer bakin' in the oven,

Baked (or in a safer expression, attempted) a batch of mini chocolate lava cakes - the simpler version of it, that is.

Didn't had the appropriate baking tin for it so made do with whatever I had in hand; tasted quite good even though it didn't really looked very aesthetically pleasing (didn't use the folding technique to get rid of the air bubbles, hence the holey appearance, oh the memories of Home economics)

Used a recipe but the proportion of the ingredients were dubious so I tweaked a bit:
Photos taken by Canon Ixus digital

1/2 cup of butter

1/2 cup icing sugar

6 tablespoons of flour

2 eggs (yolk included)

90% dark cocoa chocolate

1 teaspoon Vanilla essence

Paper muffin cups (optional, didn't use them)

1/2 cup of butter

1/2 cup icing sugar

6 tablespoons of flour

2 eggs (yolk included)

Didn't use the paper muffin cups in the end, too flimsy

90% dark cocoa chocolate

The middle chocolate was supposed to be runny though, but I used the muffin pan instead of the bigger baking tin for it so it was pretty much expected.

It turned out pretty soft and nice with cake texture gradually increasing towards the outer corners.

Can't quite describe it in words so I think I'm exaggerating a bit; taste best warm.

My friend baked them too, and he kept it in the fridge. Makes good brownies in that way he says! Kept mine in an airtight container and lasts for about 4 days max.

Floating glasses and sand beneath our feet,

Missing this ♥ Where are all of you!!

Off to collect my SLR film camera from Paya Lebar Post office before attempting to Ice skate, dinner and (near) midnight Pirates of the Carribean thanks to Felicia's great deal, can't wait to see the PRU gang once again, despite knowing I'm gonna be seeing them pretty much the whole week☺