And so do I! Today was ultimate piggy day (: Together, Jingwen and I must have consumed enough calories today to feed Africa. But I must say I'm awfully pleased with how the food turned out! It was seriously, fabulous. You know the unspoken rule: "Thou shalt always praise the food that was cooked by yourself whether it was yummy or lou-ya-pok", but this time I'm being perfectly truthful. It was yummy yummy yummy.
Lasagna
Our meat sauce which turned out great considering that we butchered the recipe and dolloped random things in random amounts into the sauce.
The beginning stages of our bechamel sauce! As you can see it was most dreadful and lumpy and looking completely inedible, and we were beginning to lose hope, when ...
... one final drop of milk suddenly transformed it into a lovely smooth creamy paste! It reminded me of titration during Chemistry pracs when one last drop of reagent turns the manganate solution from colourless to pink or whatever it was. (Evidently all things academia-related have been chucked from my brain.)
Layering the lasagna. Meat, pasta, bechamel, mozzarella, meat, cheddar (something like that lah), repeat a million times, and top with a thick layer of cheddar and mozzarella.
Droool.
The final product was so fabulously good that I ate and ate until I was bursting at the seams and then ate some more anyway. Well worth the 3 plus hours that we toiled over this for! And, I have been crowned the "Lasagna Queen" of the family so I shall be making a hugeass lasagna for the family soon.
Chocolate Cream Cheese Marble Brownies
A peek into the food processor - blended cream cheese and other ingredients.
The chocolate brownie mixture. Drip drip! (Strangely watery for brownies I think.)
Marbled! So delightfully prettyyyy (:
We had leftovers, so we made them into little brownie cupcakes. Jingwen has marvellous decorating skills. Haha!
They rose and rose and burst through their skins in the oven, and we puzzled long and hard over what was making them rise. (No self-raising flour, no yeast ... )
And once they came out of the oven, they sank! Pity ):
Peering at our handiwork (:
Cute crackly brownie cupcakes.
JE: Jingwen & Evelyn! (:
The brownie chunks (: These troublesome brownies actually took us about SIX hours to perfect, hahaha, but that's a long story. I cannot bring myself to taste any more (so jerlat already!) but chocolate + cream cheese is an awesome combination, and everyone in the family seems to adore them, so yay.
And to Jingwen: My tummy loves you and so do I! :D