i apologise for the lack of updates lately. if i'm not out with my friends having fun, i'm either at home making random desserts (like Agar-Agar Chendol which i will blog about soon) or busy organising my room. school is like starting tomorrow and my whole room is still in a mess. and worse yet, i havent finalise my wadrobe!!!
damn, naomi's gonna be frumpy tmr working those jimmy choos at SIM. *snap snap*
lovesyabitch
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
reflections and resolutions.
the new year represents a journey.
a journey into a better year or worse, well, nobody knows. if some say that life is governed by fate, then we have nothing else left but hope. so i hope 2009 will be even better than 2008. where today is better than yesterday, where tomorrow isn't a day of lamenting regrets of yesterday, and, where we learn to appreciate everyday.
a journey into a better year or worse, well, nobody knows. if some say that life is governed by fate, then we have nothing else left but hope. so i hope 2009 will be even better than 2008. where today is better than yesterday, where tomorrow isn't a day of lamenting regrets of yesterday, and, where we learn to appreciate everyday.
To All Readers of www.ALI-JOE.blogspot.com,
Wishing You Health & Happiness for 2009!
xoxo - Ali Joe
Wishing You Health & Happiness for 2009!
xoxo - Ali Joe
Monday, 29 December 2008
Thursday, 25 December 2008
Merry Christmas!
since its christmas, i felt like doing something special. well, baking isnt exactly special because i do it every other day at home but i dont usually blog about my cooking or baking much anymore because of the sheer lazyness to take photos of what i do in the kitchen. but since i'm feeling extra festive, i shall let you in on what i baked on christmas eve.
i made Gingerbreadmen.
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of ginger powder
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
1 egg
1/2 cup of sugar
3 tbsp of butter
1 tsp of vanilla essence
*chocolate chips, silver sugar pellets and white icing for decoration.
Directions
mix everything in bowl until it becomes a cookie dough and roll it out until around 5mm thickness. use a gingerbreadman cookie cutter(u can get it at cake shops) and cut out gingerbreadman shapes. arrange them nicely on baking tray that you have brushed with butter beforehand. make sure to space out the gingerbreadmen on the baking tray as they will expand when baked. i had some excess dough so i decided to make small circles (you'll find out why later).
it will look something like this.
next, time to decorate your gingerbreadmen with eyes and buttons.
before you begin on the decoration, set your oven to 180 degrees celcius.
now, i used chocolate chips as the eyes and silver sugar pellets as the buttons. if you cant find any silver sugar pellets, you can substiture them with mini m&ms.
as soon as you're done with decorating the gingerbreadmen, insert it into your preheat oven and bake it for 10mins.
after 10mins, open up the oven and use a satay stick to poke a gingerbreadman. if the stick comes out easily with no residue of dough sticking to it, its done. if not, leave it in for another 2-3mins.
remove it from the oven and let it cool for like 5 mins.
after 5 mins make sure you remove it from the baking tray and place it somewhere ventilated to further cool. if you continue to leave it on the baking tray, condensation will occur and make your cookie soggy. you could place it on a cooling rack. it looks something like those wire gauze you use for barbeques.
next use some white icing to further decorate the gingerbreadman. you can buy these icing from supermarket or if you wanna make it yourselves its damn easy. put 2 tablespoon of icing sugar in a bowl and gradually add water by the teasepoons and mix it until it looks like toothpaste texture. and thats how you make icing!
decorate the gingerbreadman with the icing. make sure the gingerbreadman is already cooled when u do this. then leave it for a while for the icing to harden.
oh remembered i made the small circles with my extra dough. well i decided to make a gingerbread family.
the Gingerbreads got married and had 3 kids!!
LOL!!
To all readers of www.ali-joe.blogspot.com,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
xoxo - ALI JOE
i made Gingerbreadmen.
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of ginger powder
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
1 egg
1/2 cup of sugar
3 tbsp of butter
1 tsp of vanilla essence
*chocolate chips, silver sugar pellets and white icing for decoration.
Directions
mix everything in bowl until it becomes a cookie dough and roll it out until around 5mm thickness. use a gingerbreadman cookie cutter(u can get it at cake shops) and cut out gingerbreadman shapes. arrange them nicely on baking tray that you have brushed with butter beforehand. make sure to space out the gingerbreadmen on the baking tray as they will expand when baked. i had some excess dough so i decided to make small circles (you'll find out why later).
it will look something like this.
next, time to decorate your gingerbreadmen with eyes and buttons.
before you begin on the decoration, set your oven to 180 degrees celcius.
now, i used chocolate chips as the eyes and silver sugar pellets as the buttons. if you cant find any silver sugar pellets, you can substiture them with mini m&ms.
as soon as you're done with decorating the gingerbreadmen, insert it into your preheat oven and bake it for 10mins.
after 10mins, open up the oven and use a satay stick to poke a gingerbreadman. if the stick comes out easily with no residue of dough sticking to it, its done. if not, leave it in for another 2-3mins.
remove it from the oven and let it cool for like 5 mins.
after 5 mins make sure you remove it from the baking tray and place it somewhere ventilated to further cool. if you continue to leave it on the baking tray, condensation will occur and make your cookie soggy. you could place it on a cooling rack. it looks something like those wire gauze you use for barbeques.
next use some white icing to further decorate the gingerbreadman. you can buy these icing from supermarket or if you wanna make it yourselves its damn easy. put 2 tablespoon of icing sugar in a bowl and gradually add water by the teasepoons and mix it until it looks like toothpaste texture. and thats how you make icing!
decorate the gingerbreadman with the icing. make sure the gingerbreadman is already cooled when u do this. then leave it for a while for the icing to harden.
oh remembered i made the small circles with my extra dough. well i decided to make a gingerbread family.
the Gingerbreads got married and had 3 kids!!
LOL!!
To all readers of www.ali-joe.blogspot.com,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
xoxo - ALI JOE
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Posted Polaroids
The Tea Party.
photos and narration are in the works. post coming to you soon so look out for it!!
Monday, 22 December 2008
something old, something new.
while most Singaporeans makes a shopping pilgrimage to orchard road every weekend, i prefer to do mine on weekdays. i'm not exactly the type who enjoys the hustle and bustle of elbowing crowds just to check out the sale at Topman. to me, shopping is a leisure not a necessity. i enjoy threading from store to store looking for quirky items to add to my collection. style should never be deprived of individualism.
a place that i feel exudes a quirky charm is kampong glam. its is filled with eclectic trinkets that never seems to bore me. with arab street and haji lane being part of kampong glam, it is definitely a great chillout spot to leisure your afternoon away.
this time around i brought maddie along as i was looking for some fabrics. along the way, we settled at this quaint cafe alocated along haji lane for some root beer float.
i cant remember what this cafe was called but the setting was really nice and the owner was such a sweet lady.
like i said, kampong glam has a diverse mix of the old and new. so the theme for my photos in this post is 'something old, something new'. as you can see the pictures above has been edited to look like an old photograph. and the next set is suppose to exude a futuristic look.
this was taken at the cafe. we were seated at the table which was along the road and maddie happened to have these 3D glasses with her. how random.
ciao.
a place that i feel exudes a quirky charm is kampong glam. its is filled with eclectic trinkets that never seems to bore me. with arab street and haji lane being part of kampong glam, it is definitely a great chillout spot to leisure your afternoon away.
this time around i brought maddie along as i was looking for some fabrics. along the way, we settled at this quaint cafe alocated along haji lane for some root beer float.
i cant remember what this cafe was called but the setting was really nice and the owner was such a sweet lady.
like i said, kampong glam has a diverse mix of the old and new. so the theme for my photos in this post is 'something old, something new'. as you can see the pictures above has been edited to look like an old photograph. and the next set is suppose to exude a futuristic look.
this was taken at the cafe. we were seated at the table which was along the road and maddie happened to have these 3D glasses with her. how random.
ciao.
Sunday, 21 December 2008
santa baby
in tandem with christmas being around the corner, i have decided to make this blog FESTIVE!!
ho ho ho!
ho ho ho!
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