June ....Oh June

June had never been this slow for me. I can't wait for it to end. It dragged and dragged ... but yet there is soo much to do. So little time... but somehow it just never ends. I suppose cos May ends with such a bang!! We had a BBQ to celebrate my birthday and our wedding anniversary. We were too busy to even bother taking pictures. Mil and family decided that it'll be a good time to organize a BBQ.... with 15kg of chix wings.

I've seen lots and lots of chix before. But that's when we cook for weddings, like 1000 pax. But 15kg chix wings defrosting on my kitchen floor. I was overwhelmed! But guess what??!!! It weasn't enough. Mil went down to the nearby supermarket to buy 4kg more. Of course we didn't only serve chix. The menu were as follows:

• Chix Wings ala Thai (Iused my Kua Curry Recipe)



• Chix Wings ala Percik (I used my Ayam Percik Recipe)



• Merguez [spicy Mediterranean Sausages that I read about in recipe books, saw it at Mustafa, jumpped for joy and bought a few bags!!]



• Baked potatoes with Corned Beef [2nd bro in law's idea - YUMMMY!!!]



• Hotdogs



• Mil fried up two HUGE tubs of rice and noodles.



• Choc Fondue [errmm.. apparently the kids didn't care much for the choc fondue... they took the marshmallows and grilled em' on the fire... and had a gooey feast!!]



• Garden salad [people didn't seem to pay much attention to them... I wonder what happened to the salad in the end....]

AND About 3 family size tents, for sleeping in of course. We stayed over after the guests left. 3rd Bro and Lala came. I was soo glad!!! The rest of the guests are F's family and friends. J & A's kids played ball on the large patch of green that we had. Their youngest one can run REALLY fast. He took something out of my hand and ran and ran ... and altho I have longer legs, I couldn't catch up!!

Sleeping by the beach. It rained in the middle of the night.... 3rd bro in law's GF zipped the windows of the tent shut. I would have probably sleep thru even if the tent flew away... then again the tent won't fly if I am in it. It's called gravity pull... :-P

In June I managed to squeezed in a number of activities. There was the belated birthday dinner courtesy of NL, KT and JW. Thank you babes!!! The yacht ride.... spending the evening like the Rich MFs that we served. An experimental Preztel, a walk thru the old Sembawang Park and alas, the month comes to an END! And comes July and I am on another FIVE days leave!!! Happy days are here again!!

Coincidentally I got an order of Egg Mayo, and Cucumber sandwiches for tomorrow. Let's have a pictoral run thru of the events....

The chix wings for the BBQ

The Yacht Ride

A walk down memory lane at Sembawang Park. It is still the same!!!

I remembered having a BBQ Party for my 18th Birthday there. My childhood friend, good old crazy punk rock NA decided that we should have one, eventho all my Poly pals ditched me on my birthday to go JB for seafood, or something. I recalled feeling weird for being ditched... rather than disappointed. So I call NA and he dragged out an old satay pit, gathered all BBQ-able food from his mom's freezer, dumped it into a red pail and off we went on his scooter. LOL!! And we managed to dragged a few others staying nearby to drop by to finish all the food. And we stayed till abt 2am, which is unheard of in my parents' books. They busted my mini BBQ party and dragged me home. NA refused to dropped by my house after that, afraid that my dad will strangle him!! I think I still have the pictures someplace. And from then on, each time I think of Smbwg Park, I remembered my 18th Birthday Party.

I thot the eggs looked beautiful... I'm boiling them for the egg mago sandwich tmrw.

Oh, I alomost forgot! I promised Sis the Pretzel Recipe.

Heheh... I got it from here.

Which brings us to a silly story....

I tried the recipe once. It turned out well... edible, not picture worthy tho.

I told mum about it... describing it like the Aunt Annie's pretzel that mum loves to eat. So i promised her that I will make a batch when I next drop by for a visit. I doubled the yeast... water, etc... I doubled the flour 2 3/4 Cups X 2 = 3 1/4 cups.

I waited and waited and wondered why the dough is sooo gooey still. It was just IMPOSSIBLE to roll. Then I realised that the flour shoukd have been 5 1/4cups... not 3. F came up with the idea of frying the dough instead. Which I did...

And after, glazed it with syrup. Yummy!!! There was still a strong yeast smell... but otherwise it was our tea time snack for two days. Mum got a tupperware full of them too.
And then I realised that the recipe of such combination seems very familiar.... and indeed it is!! It is the Moroccan Donut recipe that I read abt in the Cooking Moroccan book that I borrowed from the library.

2tsp active yeast
1/2tsp sugar
375g all purpose flour
oil for deep frying
caster sugar to serve
Ground cinnamon to serve (optional)

Ain't it ammazing!!