blueberry poppyseed muffins

ingredients:

6 tbs unsalted butter

3 cups plus 2 tbs all purpose flour

3 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 1/4 cups sugar

1 large egg

2 large egg yolks

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 cup milk

1 3/4 cups blueberries

3 tbs poppyseed

preheat oven to 190C

in a large bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter 

and sugar on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 mins.

add egg, egg yolks and vanilla extract mix util well combined, 

reduce speed to low

alternate adding sifted flour mixture and milk to mixer, 

beginning and ending with flour.

gently fold in berries and poppyseed by hand

bake until light golden about 45 mins for large 

muffins.

little pilot

 

a night out at olala

we went there with our friends last friday, i heard many good comments about this restaurant, finally we made a booking and tried it out before i had my orbical decompression surgery last weekend.  i'm glad that the surgery went very well and i'm now totally ok and resting at home, it's going to take about 2-3 weeks for recovery.  anyway, i just want to update a bit here. 

we started with some hot and tasty croissants!!!  they can be compared with the ones from joel robuchon! 

seafood platter was super

the spanish iberico ham was excellent, not salty even without melon

pan-fried foie fras was cooked to perfection, one of my favorite!

interesting combination of soups:  mushrooms, fish stock and vegetables soup...i like the mushroom soup the most

i totally forgot to take pictures of our main courses, we ordered duck confit, roast chicken, beef cheek etc.  lastly came the mango cake, it was definitely delicious.

an ordinary sunday

bubbles carnival

over the weekend we took the kids to ngong ping to participate the bubble carnival. we enjoyed the slower pace, the peaceful and possibly the best weather in a year.  how important it is to remember to embrace wherever or whatever we are.