Christmas Baking

Inspired by many food magazines with Christmas just round the corner, I've decided to bake Christmas cookies and give them away as treats.... Bought star cutters from House and caucous to make these custard christmas cookies,
above: Cookies on the baking tray.
Nova the bova in charge of putting caucous on the stars.

After the cookies were out of the oven, at first I wanted to use the Kikki.K paper bags. (the cute red bags) to give them out in, but I realised that though it was gorgeous it covered up the cookie so Dave and I went hunting for other stuff to put them in.
Cellophane bags, with gift tags and candy canes.. now that looks good.
Jars for the families.

Following Saturday, after christmas shopping Mr Broc and I made white chocolate with cranberries and pistachios.
I was preparing to lead P&W the next day so I left Mr Broc to his own devices. Just told him to follow the instructions in the magazine.

It was pretty easy, first you had to melt white chocolate buttons.
Mr Broc: Hey dear, is this a heat proof bowl??
Me: Urm.. I think I'll come out and help you..
After showing him where things were I went back into my room.
20mins later.. I came out
Me: *sniff* smells nice ..

Mr Broc: Hey dear is this normal??
Me: why is the white chocolate brown?!?!??!!
Mr Broc: still smells ok..
Me: you burnt it lah!
Mr Broc: can I still use it??
Me: of course not..

Good thing we had a 2nd pack of white chocolate buttons around.. This time I melted it
Mr Broc: how come yours look like that?!?!
Me: cos I didn't burn it..
Mr Broc: * grumble *

Well he managed to pull the rest of it off without anymore dramas..
Here is our beautiful result
We also filled a large jar of it for a friend's engagement.
Our hard work at the end of the night. The next thing I'm trying is a Christmas dinner, girls night on the 24th !

18th Month

Time flies.. the last I can remember I was still blogging about my 17th month with Dave..

Finally our one and half year anniversary and the end of the count-down from the day we booked to go watch Billy Elliot the musical at Capitol theatre.

Wanted to take Dave to eat at Mushashi, one of Farmer Chua's favourite japanese restaurants but it was packed out and since the show started at 7:30pm, we didn't have much time.

645pm: we found a seat at Milliore and settled for dolsot bibimbap and a teriyaki chicken, recommended by the waitress to arrive quickly. True to her word, food arrived in 5mins so we didn't have to gorge everything down.

Mr Broc and teriyaki chicken... He arrived late so couldn't blame me that we didn't get Musashi tonight.. oh well not that he would cos I'm the glutton in the relationship as you can see me with the yummy bibimbap!


We LOVED the show! though it was a bit to hard to understand the rough english accent they had to put on =) got A row seats cos I booked in August! love the giant dancing dresses and the boy who plays Billy simply amazing! pity no pictures inside . Gift exchange at home! Rose gold earrings (that's why he was late, frantically looking around Broadway to find me a gift) good taste as usual Mr broc.. the 2nd part of the gift was even better! He wrote me a funny bedtime story about a bunny called rabbit... talk about originality!! He learnt how to bind it together from the internet.. I couldn't stop laughing..v touched.

My turn: Got him this vintage hand-finished volkswagon model that he was staring at the Kirribilli markets, I think he already knew on Saturday cos when I disappeared with Angela a bit too long in the toilet he eyed the big paper bag we were carrying suspiciously.

Happy monthiversary Mr Broc!

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