A day in Bristol.

Overall, it was a good day despite the non-stop rain.

Borough Market

Took it from tommy's blog.

We went to Singapore Zoo and fed kangaroos.

Queenie works at the zoo and gave us free tickets for the zoo and night safari.

She had to come along to the night safari even she had been there 10 times.

We couldn't bear the thought of her missing all that fun.

The little kangaroo is telling me that he doesn't like living in captivity and that he wants to go back to australia.

Kangaroos were not only greedy but they had beautiful eyes.

I learnt that elephants were solitary animals who would get violent during the mating season.

Randall the Sealion was great, he performed alot of tricks that made everyone very happy,

I particularly liked the part where he acted like a seal. It was very smart!




the lone penguin trying to get a piece of action while Randall was performing.

Day to Day life of Albert Hastings.

by Kaylynn Deveney

saw this book at a corner bookstore in soho.

I'm strangely comforted by the images,

one day, when I'm old ( if i get to live that long )

there are still simple and mudane activities that I could still be happily doing.

On sundays

it is best to do nothing,

have no plans,

stare out of the window,

think about nothing

and clear your head.

Some of my favourite things - Part 2

Painter on Regent Street. (2007)

It was christmas time. The streets were busy, traffic was bad, cars were honking, but this painter was at peace. He paints as if there were no one else there, unperturbed by the chaos around.

Sleepyheads(2007)

We chanced upon a pair of sleepyheads on the bus from Nottinghill.

who are they?!

We tried to capture their faces and made alot of noise.

and when we did .

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they are still sleeping.

A Big Thank You!

Christmas present from Miss Kay!

Thank you, you are very sweet. :D

Happy New Year!

Some of my favorite things.

Days of the week socks from Tabio.

Christmas Keychain.

Custy Lemon Madeleines

Madeleines hail from Commercy, Northeastern France. According to the New American Oxford Dictionary,

Madeleines are named after a 19th century pastry cook, Madeleine Paulmier.

This recipe makes about 18 slightly crusty madeleines.

4 eggs, 200g caster sugar, 140g cake flour , 1 tsp baking powder, 110g butter ( melted and cooled ),

3g baking powder, 1 grated lemon zest. some icing sugar for dusting

1. Preheat oven at 175c
2. Grease madeleines pan with butter, fridge, dust flour and fridge again.
3. Beat egg and sugar til pale and creamy, sift flour and baking powder, slowly fold in flour in egg mixture, pour in melted butter ( make sure butter has been cooled to room temperature ), stir in lemon zest. Fridge batter for 10 minutes.
4. Spoon or pipe batter into madeleines pans, batter should have a slight holding consistency and should only be 3/4 full. bake for 15 minutes.
5. Depending on oven, check madeleines and remove from oven when madeleines are light golden brown on the sides.
6. Dust with icing sugar.

Malakof

Recipe

Ingredients

250g milk chocolate couverture
100g Cocoa butter/ ( or 50g butter, 50g chocolate couverture )
250 nougat paste/ praline paste ( OR nutella )
250 Flaked Almonds- toasted.
50g Pistachio

To finish
Tempered white chocolate.

Line and grease an 8 inch square tin.
Melt milk chocolate and cocoa butter in a bowl above a pan of simmering water. Keep temperature of melted chocolate below 50 degrees.
Add nougat paste/ praline paste or nutella with a large wooden spoon.
( avoid using a whisk if you can as it incorporates air and causes air bubbles to form)

Mix in flaked almonds and pistachio.

Pour into square tin and leave in fridge to set for 15 minutes.

When chocolate is just set, remove from fridge and spread a thin layer of white chocolate on the top. Leave in fridge for another 3 minutes.

Remove from fridge and cut into 1 inch squares.