Orange Capsicum

I was attracted by this beautiful orange colour capsicum in the supermarket the other day. Actually i only wanted to get 2 capsicum for my pizza but ended up with 4, because of the colours and my photo taking.

Forget about Royce, we have Jas! - 自制香槟巧克力

I was craving for Royce chocolate last night and really really want to eat nothing but chocolate. So i decided to try making them. And huala! Here's my Jas Chocolate! Yummy!!! It's good enough for me!

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Jas Champagne Chocolate Truffle

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Ingredients:

- 180g Dark Chocolate

- 40g White Chocolate

- 100g Whipping cream

- 3 Tbs champagne of your choice

- Cocoa powder for coating

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Method

1) Bring the whipping cream to boil. Remove from heat.

2) Add in the chocolates and stir till well blended.

3) Add in the champagne and stir till well mixed.

4) Refrigerate till harden. At least one hour. (however if you have chocolate mould pour direct to chocolate mould instead.)

5) Use two teaspoons to shape and drop into cocoa powder. Refrigerate for 1 hour before consumption.

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Note: 1) Must work fast or the truffle will be soften very quickly. Alternatively, put the chocolate over ice bath while shaping.

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My comfort food - the King of Fruits 榴莲

I was so depressed after cooking the unsuccessful "To impress in laws lunch". I wanted to get some good durians to comfort myself. As i chance upon a blog recently talking about how delicious this "Cat Mountain Durian" (direct translation from 猫山王榴莲) is, i decided to give it a try. We went to the durian shop 717 at Highland Centre looking for this 猫山王榴莲, but bought the "XO durian instead. Because the boss said that the season for 猫山王榴莲 was over, the stock now is not so good so advice us to buy XO durian instead. Since he is the expert in durian, so we take his words for it and bought the XO durian instead. Anyway its cheaper than the 猫山王榴莲, so why not. (猫山王榴莲 cost $20/kg and the XO is $12/kg). As it was "New arrival" (as in the lorry just came to deliver the durians) so the seller asked us to take more, as they are "fresh". Thinking that i am durian lover, my "loving husband" agreed almost immediately and we took four! But that was too many durians to finish, because that was only the two of us eating. Anyway, we bought four, which cost us $65.

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Even though i love to eat durian, but i don't eat them often. Therefore i don't really know the difference between each type of durian. I only know a few types, which are XO, D24 and some D... but i do not know how to differentiate them or how different they taste. But at least what we bought were considered nice, because the seller were able to give us what we want - our favourite "Bitter sweet" durian! We only managed to finish 1 and a half durian last night, still have a few more to go...

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** Just realised that they even have a durian trading blog.

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** Just to update, we tried to finish the "left over" durian last night, than we realised that most of them do not have meat inbetween anymore. So not sure if it's because XO "breed" is like that. So from the pictures above, what you see is what you get. Nothing more from it.

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Olive oil from Turkey - 来自土耳其的橄榄油

I bought this bottle of Olive oil when i was on holiday in Turkey. It has been more than a year and i had totally forgot about it until i was packing my pantry the other day. I bought it because this oil was extracted via the traditional method and also because of the packing. So it's like a souvenir too. Will try it soon!

Yellow Zucchini - 黄色西葫芦

I was attracted to this fruit because of the vibrant colour. As we are always told that we should eat food from a variety of colours so i bought it without hesitation. As the stall owner said this can be used to stir fry, so i added this Yellow zucchini to my original intended dish, Stir fried bean sprout with beancurd. The dish turn out to be very good! The zucchini actually taste almost like the normal zucchini, but i think it's sweeter. But than again, i had never eaten fried zucchini before, so it could be all fried zucchini are sweeter.

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Wanted to know more about this fruit so i search on the net and i found out that these yellow zucchinis are also known as "Yellow Summer Squash". Both normal zucchini and yellow zucchini belongs to the same family which is the "Summer Squash" fruits. The name "summer squash" refers to the inability to store these squashes for long periods of time (until winter), unlike winter squashes (eg the butternut squash). They are best consumed within 3 days.

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How to select? Just choose those that are small and firm and free of bruises or blemishes. The skin is edible too, so no need to removed.

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