Parquish

champagne. -Duval Leroy.

Ok, so yesterday was National Day. Nothing much really happened, except that 64% of the nation was swathed in either red, white or red and white. I wasn't one of them, so it's ok. However, things did happen. Like.... My family and I baked? (For the second time in my whole entire confounded life! Surprise surprise...) It was really bondifying, except for the part where my family only consisted of my sister and I. With some occasional appearances by my mum during washing up time. My dad just locked himself up in the room studying the bible. As usual.
So anyway, we baked M&M cookies and Mud cookies. The M&M cookies were lovely, but the mud one was well, er....just plain muddy. There was burnt chocolate in them. How do you even melt chocolate anyway? Maybe the melting only works for choco bars, and not choco chips. -mine. "Melt the morsels in the oven for about 1 minute, stirring every 30 seconds" That's what the recipe said. I should've guessed that the person/recipe was unreliable. Who even uses the word "morsels" in recipes??? It sounds way too outlandish.
So yep, the chocolate was burnt and in it went into the batter. Then since we couldn't find any (pure) milk chocolate at home, we had to use mocha flavored ones. Ewwwwwwwwww. So yes, in it went into the batter too. Mix,mix,mix, bake bake bake, EW. The cookies looked like the guy from Fantastic 4, you know, the one who has cracked orangey skin and stuff? Yea, except that it was brown. *shudder* Oh well, I guess that's just what you get from an entirely unreliable recipe. "The next time your kid throws a tantrum, throw these cookies into his milk and see him finish the milk, all the way to the very last drop!" If I were the kid, I would much rather set my face on fire than to drink that junk.
So anyway, yes. Then went to uncle's coffee-shop to have dinner. Stars of the meal: My dead ah ma's huang jiang ji and salmon sashimi!! -Not very fresh though. Texture=frozen and rough. Not good. But I am sated. Then the whole coffee-ship and family watched the NDP parade on tv, sis and I pledged. :)
Yup, then went home and ate so many cookies that my poop today was full of undigested M&Ms. Joking. Exchanged mud cookies for a bottle of champagne with my aunt , it was lovely. ;)
Alright then, I shall be off to finish some more cookies. Help, anybody? (only applies to mud cookies.)

posted by parquish @ 3:41 PM