Weekend of food (:

The past weekend was an awesome one. Went back to Southampton to spend some time with the boy. Made lots of nice yummy food to make up for the dull, bland food I had during the week of Anaesthetic placement in the Isle of Wight.

Also had a lovely time starting and finishing a Singapore drama series called The Oath about doctors with the boy. Gosh, talk about drama marathon. The ending of the series was a bit sad though :( Anyways, here are the pics of the food we had over the weekend.

Dinner: Mint Lamb meatballs penne pasta with garlic bread and belleverde broccoli.

Breakfast: Ham on garlic bread with hard boiled egg.

Also baked two loaves of Chocolate Raspberry banana bread/cake to munch on while watching the series. Gave the other loaf to the boy to bring to placements.

My tummy has had a happy weekend (:

Now back to a week of GP placements and tasteless repetitive meals everyday!

xoxo, elvyna.

Healthy Eating.

Been trying to eat healthy since a couple of days ago, knowing that I'll be binging on as much Malaysian food as I can when I get home next weekend. So here's a picture collection of what I've been eating the past couple of days. I realized I love styling and taking pictures of food ALOT. LOL. :P

Day 1: Fruit Platter -a mixture of blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, apple, oranges, and plums.

Day 2 : Vegetable mix - Tenderstem broccoli,sautéed mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.

Day 3: Fruit and vegetables mix - Strawberries, blueberries, oranges, tenderstem broccoli, cherry tomatoes.

Day 4 : Bananas and Vanilla Soy Milk.

Cheating in between : Japanese cheesecake (:

Adding matcha powder and strawbies on top to make it look prettier. Tastes better on its own though.

Well, that's all I have so far. Just a week more before I go back so excited I can't wait. So happy report submission is done now I've only got the presentation to do :/

xoxo, elvyna.

Chocolate craving.

It's that time of the month again and this time I'm craving for chocolate, so I decided to bake myself a brownie to satisfy that craving! It's a recipe from Donna Hay, which has the awesome-st iPad cooking/baking app I've ever had.

A mixture of dark and milk chocolate.
Because you can never have too much butter, according to Julia Child (:
Favourite mixer at work (:
Extra chopped up chocolate mixed with the final batter to increase chocolatey-ness (:
Transfer time.
Baked and ready to be indulged in. With a bit of frozen yoghurt or vanilla ice cream on the side, it's the perfect end to my Saturday (:

xoxo, elvyna.

Chocolate Chip Cinammon Cookies.

First bake of the year! (: Decided to make cookies because I ran out of my usual Rich Tea and Digestives McVities biscuits. And also cos I have an empty cookie jar container! Hehe. I don't usually bake cookies (cos it's so tedious and takes such a long time with so many rounds of baking), but the picture of the cookies in the book is so mouth-watering I had to (:

Anyways, this is also the first recipe I'm trying out from the Chocolate Bible by Le Cordon Bleu which I bought just before Christmas last year. So excited to try out recipes from the book, everything looks so heavenly!

Yummy!

xoxo, elvyna.

Vanilla cupcakes with chocolate ganache filling.

Made 40+ cupcakes for a charity bake sale for Ophthalmology Society. The most cupcakes I've ever baked and iced alone. Was a tiring process especially since I wanted to make it more special by filling each cupcake with milk chocolate ganache I made. In the end though, it all paid off (:Workstation. Bowls from L-R: Milk chocolate ganache, yellow icing, pink icing, cut insides of the cupcake (:

Iced cupcakes (:



xoxo, elvyna.

More food!

Absolutely DELICIOUS chocolate chip cookies baked by a friend who came to visit from Malaysia. It doesn't help that he gave me a whole Tupperware filled with these yummy cookies and they're sitting right next to my laptop as I type this, beckoning me to have more :P

I had to take a picture of the cookie. Look at how its filled with chocolate chip cookies and omg, the texture is amazing! Not too hard, not too soft, just right. Now if only I could bake cookies like these :/

So cookie-baking isn't my forte, but I made some Tiramisu last night! It's sitting in the fridge now (it needs to set overnight for the flavours to fully fuse) so by tonight, I'll be able to try it (: I miss Tiramisu from Alexis back home. Hopefully one day I'll be adventurous enough to attempt making that.
Oh, I added Baileys to my Tiramisu (:

xoxo, elvyna.

Brown Sugar Bacon Scones

Rolling out dough to make scones.
Ready to go into the oven! See the bacon bits peeking out? (:
LOVE! (:
Baked!
With eggs fried by the boy and toast! (:
Breakfast for three! (:

xoxo, elvyna.

Halloween.

Digestive biscuits in the food processor to make the base of the cheesecake (:
Spiderweb cheesecake!




Pumpkin carving (:
Mummy cupcakes!

xoxo, elvyna.

Brownie cookie with peanut butter frosting (:

Downloaded the most AMAZING app on my iPad the other day. It's called Donna Hay magazine. It is such an amazing app and all the pictures + recipes in there are just begging for me to try it. It was tough picking which one to try first but I chose the brownie cookie with peanut butter frosting as it seemed like a dessert which wouldn't be too heavy after a meal. Also, there was a house party at my place where my housemate cooked the yummiest bak kut teh ever so I decided to make some of these to let my friends try it out.

And boy oh boy, I got some pretty good feedback! Will definitely be trying out other recipes from this app again (:

Step by step instructions on the app. Super convenient. Look at my hummingbird bakery recipe book sitting by itself so lonely at the side after I abandoned it for the iPad :P

LOVE melting DARK chocolate (:

Not really a cookie, but not really a brownie either. The best of both worlds, i suppose.
Whipped up some peanut butter frosting.
Sandwiched and ready for om-nom-nom-ing! (: (:

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2 pots of super duper yummy bak kut teh made by the housemate. I had 3 bowls of soup *burp-rubs tummy* :D

Taboo after dinner! We were so noisy and bad at it it was hilarious!

Group shot at the sofa which everyone seems to like :/
Chunky making an appearance at the party.

xoxo, elvyna.