Saturday

my favourite thing to eat at borough market

i ♥ the lampshades

and the floorboards on the walls.

red bus fish and chips

Did you have a good weekend?

Found #9

I've been functioning better as a morning person. I do find that natural light irritates me quite a bit at first.

Vintage fisher price camera via Etsy

tools leather tote via klein tools 

best friends 

Japanese Buttery Roll

the dough

finished dough

Make a round ball

place dough in a bowl until double in size (1-1.5 hrs at 26c )

shaping instructions

Done.

Flatten.

Make little balls then roll flat and form a triangle shape.

Roll the long shape flat with a rolling pin again

roll it around a frankfurter/hotdog

or not. leave it to rise, cover with clingfilm.

and now its done.

Recipe

Oven temperature for baking 180c.

Butter rolls

Ingredients 240g bread flour, 60g plain flour, 5g dry yeast, 24g sugar, 5g salt
1 egg yolk, 50g milk, 115g water
24g butter ( cut into cubes )

Mix all the dry ingredients together.
Add yolk, milk and water into the dry ingredients.
Mix by hand or machine with dough hook and mix for about 15 minutes until smooth.
Do the window pane test, here's the link
Add butter slowly while still mixing the dough until its well mixed and there are no traces of butter.
When that's done, place dough on a table sprinkled with flour to shape it into a ball.
Place dough into a bowl to rest it until it doubles in size.
When that happens, split dough into about 11-12 pieces and follow the instructions on pictures.

Enjoy!

Found #8

Via Daily Cute

Via Flickr 

Via Lifelovepaper

Happy 2011 everyone!

Happy New Year !

Mine started with a bang. My passport got misplaced by the post office. I got my bag ( along with my driver's licence, house keys, camera, lots of other things that are irreplaceble ) stolen. I'm sort of a person who brings everything out with me when i step out of my front door, just in case.

This is what i think happened, I was at a cafe with two friends, a homeless woman came to beg for money, i felt very sorry for her and gave her a pound, I took out my wallet from bag, moved it and the next time I looked it was gone. I was very very shocked, pissed and upset. I was told countless times not to give people money, i did not know the effects of it until recently. If being kind makes me a target, it's very sad what the world has become. I am after all from Singapore where it is still relatively safe. I guess i just took alot of that for granted.

On the positive note, I did retrieve my passport. So I'm should consider myself to be lucky!

This was christmas