postcards

Here are some of my favourite's from http://icanread.tumblr.com/

move with the food!

I've moved all my food related posts to my new blog:

http://greencilantro.blogspot.com/

This blog will now only feature my progress on those 101 goals ;)

memories..

Sunday night again - not my favourite time of the week as I prepare for another week of work and uni ;)

I took my guitar to a music store to get it re-stringed finally so I can start drumming again soon - I'm excited! It's gonna have a beautiful now sound when I pick it up! The store person said my guitar is in great health - pretty much in a brand new condition and I told him that it's actually over 20 years old! Then that got me thinking that 'wow I am getting old!'. I don't think I have ever said something like 'That was 20 years ago' until recently...

Heard this quote today by C.S. Lewis:

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

Just sorting through some pictures I took in Europe over 2 years ago tonight also.
I meant to put them up after my trip but never got to put aside some time to go through thousands of them. But now every once in a while, I would walk down the memory lane and take myself back to those pre-work days when I was brave and determined to backpack across Europe myself.

While I've taken albums of pics of beautiful monuments and landscape, I realised that I've pretty much forgotten where a lot of the pics were taken. I've lost the story associated each photo...it's sad!

Came across a bunch of meaningful ones tho. Thought I'd post 3 up.

This was at the south of Germany near Neuschwanstein (aka the Disney Castle) and Austria . I remember standing here in awe...thinking 'I am standing in Germany looking at the Austrian mountains'. Just then these geese in the pond came to view and I just thought it doesn't get any better than that.


This photo represents a typical 'service station break' for me in Europe. This was in Munich. Time to grab a snack and hot chocolate and scribble things in my journal. I've spent time in cafes planning my next country to visit and also people watching - observing how the locals interact with their family and friends and how they eat their food. I love cafe times.

This was taken in Luxembourg. I was not meant to come here because I was sick in Belgium. But this was one of the moments where I thought to myself, "it's either now or never...no regrets!" So eventually I pulled myself out of the hostel bed and took a train here...and it rained and RAINED. I had no umbrella and there was sooo much walking involved in this city that even my socks were completely soaked. I remember the squish squish sound I hear with each step. Also because of the bad weather, there were hardly anyone on the streets or at the tourist sights. It was like a deserted city on a cold grey misty day. I was so lonely and sick. This was the first day that I felt homesick.

Anyways, I'm off to bed!

and just when you think it couldn't get any worse...

Apparently today's the first day of Autumn! Sydney greeted this day appropriately I thought - grey, cloudy sky and showers throughout the day.

I woke up on this day with a sore throat and painful muscles all over and so decided it would be a good idea to work from home. Just after I sent out an email to my manager to say that I'd be working from home, I realised that I had forgotten to bring my battery/charger home so would only be able to work for a maximum of 2 hours....hehe ooops. Oh wells, I could just take the afternoon off and relax before I start the first day of uni later at night! ;)

Then I decided to bake a cake. I've been wanting to bake something called a 'crack pie' for a long time! No, it doesn't contain crack or any type of drugs, but it was so-called by David Chang and Christina Tosi (chefs of Momofuku in NYC) because it is highly addictive! In NYC, this cake sells at $44 a pie! I found the recipe on LA Times over the weekend and managed to buy all the ingredients required, so what better time to bake it than this Monday afternoon?!

There are 3 components to this cake and so it was definitely time consuming. I had to make some cookies first, then break those cookies into crumbs to make the pie base. Then there is the filling of the pie as well. It took me just over 2 hours to complete my pie in between watching Oprah (today was on failing marriages due to financial stress...as usual - communication is the key!).

My pie actually looked very pretty - prettier than the ones I see online ;) I went to my room to grab my camera and as I as about to take a picture of the beautiful gooey caramel-y cake, the battery died right then and there. So I got another camera and believe it or not, it died in the same fashion as the previous. And then I realised I left my charger in Taiwan over the December holiday too so re-charge is not an option... Although disappointed, the thought of eating the cake soon made up for it!

According to the recipe, I am supposed to chill the cake in the fridge for an hour before consuming. So into the fridge it went! Because we went grocery shopping yesterday, the fridge is as full as it can be. The only area with space is the top of the fridge with all the cans and bottles- probably not the most stable place anything. But I made sure that there were enough evenly spaced cans to support my pie. Yeah, you know where this is going right?! An hour later, I was rushing to prepare a quick dinner (because I had to leave home at 4pm in order to get to class on time) and when I opened my fridge door for the 2nd time, the whole pie came flying out (in what seems like slow motion)...it did graceful turn and then thump...face down! It took my brain a good 5 sec to register what had happened, and that the million little pieces of crumbs on the ground are what I had spent hours making in the morning. Why did I put the pie on the top shelf of the fridge?!?!?! Who is stupid enough to do that?! I couldn't believe something I had waited so long to taste is now a gooey mess on my kitchen floor. I took out a spoon, sat on the kitchen floor, and began to eat off the floor. I know, I AM disgusting but at that time I was too heartbroken to care (btw, just the top layer of course..hehe). I was saddened even more when I remembered that I couldn't even take a photo of the cake on the ground!

After I cleaned up, I was already running late for uni. On the way to the station, it started to pour heavily and I had forgotten my umbrella! I was almost completely drenched...Oh well, almost at the station anyways! Just then, I heard the train coming so I ran as fast as I could. At the ticket gate place, I looked into my bag frantically looking for my ticket - then it occured to me that I had left my weekly ticket in another bag at home. So I decided to buy a return ticket for today because I couldn't bother going home to get it. Waited for ages in line, and when it finally go to my turn, the station guy told me that they don't accept credit cards for ticket under $25...I had no money at all except a credit card because I had left my wallet at work since last Friday. I wasn't going to spend $25 on my ticket to uni, so I had no choice but to go home. Arghh. Already late - I was going to meeting Ying near Hyde Park to go to class together. After I grabbed my ticket and umbrella from home (it stopped raining as soon as I got my umbrella) I made my way to station again - heard the oncoming train and again ran towards the station. I missed my train by 2 seconds! Had to wait for another 10 minutes for the next train. At that moment, I think my flu worsened and I was starting to develop a fever!

Finally the train arrived. I sat down and felt jigging the first day of class already. At the next station, this guy with the worst ever B.O decided to sit next to me. It made my headache worse and I had to swallow a few panadols to calm myself down (not that panadol is a stabilizer or anything). He got off at the same station as me and I felt like he was following me because I could smell him long after I got off the train.

So I had to buy a bus pass to get to UNSW. I found a newsagent at Central station and thankfully they accept credit cards! However, after I swiped my credit card - the receipt sheet which I am supposed to sign didn't come out of the machine. The sales person banged that little black box on the top, from the side - thinking it'd fix the issue. I wasn't surprised by then because I knew whatever could go wrong...would go wrong! After what seems like a long time, they reversed the amount on my card and found another black machine which works to continue with the transaction. Yay...went smoothly this time!

I then successfully got on to a bus which took me to UNSW. By then it was way past 5pm (which is when the class starts) and was raining cats and dogs again. I had asked Ying to meet me in class instead and also asked her to send me the venue of the class. I got to the Red Centre (felt all nostalgic there because I had spent a lot of time in the Red Centre during my undergrad years). Found the room number that Ying sent me....the class has already started and the room was so dark that I could only see shadows of students. I saw an empty seat on the first row and sat there - the lecturer saw me coming in late and was so nice as she came and gave me a pile of course outline and papers etc. I looked at the words on the top of the pile.."Cardiovascular Diabetology"... Ummmmmmmm. I thought I had enrolled in Intro to Probability and Stochastic Processes. Maybe these postgrad courses are really advanced I thought. Or these are future projects/assignments.

I looked around and couldn't see Ying. But it was so dark anyways so I figured she must be behind me somewhere. As the lecture progressed, I was getting more and more confused. The lecturer talked of Clinical Trials and lots of biological terms. I flipped through the notes again and realised I was sitting in the wrong class. I didn't want to leave just like that because I was sitting right in front of the lecturer and she was so nice and all. How discouraging would it be for her if I just left in the middle of her talk?! I continued sitting there...until I gathered enough courage to make a run for the exit of the room!

Outside the class, I called Ying. WHERE ARE YOU!?!? She said she was in a faculty member's office trying to find the room as well (the room number she was given was wrong). I eventually met up with her and the girl who was helping her had to leave as it was way past her working hours. So we proceeded to find another office within the building to find a faculty member to help. We found this post grad girl in her office and she allowed us to use my computer to find the room. There were no information whatsoever on the faculty websites. So because there are 5 levels in the Red Centre building, we went level to level, searching through every single room. Most of them were empty. We then went through other surrounding buildings...Old Main Building, Robert Webster etc etc. By then I was wet - not sure if it was rain or me sweating, and feeling like I was running a marathon. We were at least 1 hr late for class already at that stage. Went back to Red Centre, found this nice postgrad person who said he's been working at the maths faculty for over 8 years and was pretty sure the room printed on the outline is the one that we've searched for (which is empty). He let us use his machine again and tried to help. We sat in his office for a while trying to figure out what to do. He then got more help from his colleagues and so we were all getting pretty confused at that stage. A

By then I had giving up going to class. But we thought we'd give it one last try. I saw this other office with someone inside and asked that dude for help. He pointed me to the office of the faculty head. Now, the faculty head was also very confused. Someone suggested to him that he call the lecturer of our course on her mobile phone. He was reluctant but eventually he had to. To my amazement, she picked up the phone and they chatted for a while. Then he hanged up and said "She decided to move the class to start next week! You would've known if you had checked the BlackBoard".

Long story short, BlackBoard is a new site used in UNSW for lecturers to post updates about their courses (I didn't know this site existed until today!). I had no access to that site because I wasn't enrolled properly (although when I emailed the course administrator last week, she assured me that I was properly enrolled).

So yeah, I had no idea that lecturers can just postpone week 1 to start on 'week 2'. Since when do things like that happen?! Also found out there is a midsession exam in 3 weeks time and also an assignment due by then as well...eeeek.

Made my way back home to Chatswood after what felt like a wasted journey to afar and went to dinner with Ying. A hot soup must be called for after a day like this. As I started to warm up at the restaurant and watched the rain splatter on the pavement, I began to chuckle at my 'misfortune' throughout the day...it feels surreal as if I am playing a role in a movie (probably because I was feverish too). It had been an eventful day to say the least...My patience was tested for sure - a roll in the eye when someone in front of me was talking so slowly, a groan when I missed my train, or a thought like "you don't know what I've been through today to be talking to me like this"... I may have gotten more ill than this morning and may have wasted some effort in my cake making and class finding - but I am sitting here, sheltered and warm at the end of the day (or on the first day of Autumn)- slurping on my hot soup while chatting with a friend. While I don't know whether tomorrow or the day after would be like today (I hope not!) I know that I am far more blessed than I deserve, that's what I know for sure.

IMDB Top 50

Rank	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	9.1	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	474,111
2.	9.1	The Godfather (1972)	382,871
3.	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	225,789
4.	8.9	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)	143,645
5.	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	385,567
6.	8.8	Schindler's List (1993)	255,335
7.	8.8	12 Angry Men (1957)	105,268
8.	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	196,722
9.	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)	259,486
10.	8.8	The Dark Knight (2008)	422,452
11.	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)	337,818
12.	8.8	Star Wars (1977)	303,041
13.	8.7	Casablanca (1942)	157,486
14.	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	211,355
15.	8.7	Shichinin no samurai (1954)	89,921
16.	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	351,122
17.	8.7	Cidade de Deus (2002)	151,911
18.	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	228,774
19.	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)	362,973
20.	8.7	Rear Window (1954)	110,308
21.	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)	249,807
22.	8.7	Psycho (1960)	132,882
23.	8.7	C'era una volta il West (1968)	67,252
24.	8.6	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	227,150
25.	8.6	The Matrix (1999)	354,349
26.	8.6	Se7en (1995)	255,986
27.	8.6	Memento (2000)	250,373
28.	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	305,096
29.	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	95,634
30.	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	147,251
31.	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	50,102
32.	8.6	North by Northwest (1959)	86,894
33.	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)	130,806
34.	8.6	Léon (1994)	182,776
35.	8.6	Apocalypse Now (1979)	162,263
36.	8.5	American Beauty (1999)	273,872
37.	8.5	American History X (1998)	206,242
38.	8.5	Forrest Gump (1994)	275,412
39.	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)	143,249
40.	8.5	Vertigo (1958)	85,103
41.	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	74,612
42.	8.5	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	219,587
43.	8.5	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)	167,009
44.	8.5	WALL·E (2008)	161,389
45.	8.5	Alien (1979)	167,420
46.	8.5	Avatar (2009)	178,680
47.	8.5	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	252,203
48.	8.5	A Clockwork Orange (1971)	179,952
49.	8.5	The Shining (1980)	163,905
50.	8.4	Paths of Glory (1957)	41,353

Goal #9: Watch all the movies on the IMBD top 50 [0/50]

I wish I hadn't made this goal without looking at what the top 50's were!

The moves highlighted in red above are the ones I've seen already. Which means I've only seen 15 out of 50. I was so sure I would've seen at least half of the top 50's so thought this goal should be fairly easy...

Can I say that I'm not really looking forward to those un-highlighted movies?! They seem like pretty heavy stuff...I don't mind the Godfathers (according to one of my favourite movies - You've Got Mail - the Godfather is 'the answer to any question') but movies like say #30 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? How did that make it to the top 30?!

up close

One of my goals in my earlier post was to 'love up close, not from a distance'. I think I should explain this because a few friends who knew about my goals seem to have misunderstood the meaning. ;)

I've been reminded about this goal from the recent news headlines of the devastating earthquakes in Haiti, resulting in countless casualties. Whenever I see or hear similar events happening around the world, my heart would go out to victims such as the kids who were buried deep under next to their dead parents and all those starving Haitians fighting for food and water. In those moments in which I am uncovering the shocking details of the aftermath of the disasters, I would feel an overwhelming sense of compassion. But...as always, I leave it at that. I would feel as if my 'compassion' for the unfortunate is enough and then feel satisfied in the assurance that I am a compassionate and loving person who is not out of touch with the rest of the world. A moment later on, I would carry on my daily routines and become occupied with my list of to-do's again, with the news at the back of my mind...and eventually out of my mind, just like the newspaper headlines.

It is hard to love up close. Honestly I've always preferred to love from a distance in comfort. Getting too close means I would have to sacrifice something. Getting too close means it costs me something of value. Then it makes me wonder about what real love is. It is not about being comfortable and feeling warm and safe. Maybe it is about getting close enough with the willingness to sacrifice. It is definitely not comfortable.

I can think of a few opportunities for me to 'love up close' this year. Will definitely be a challenge as I'm sure it will be harder when I am confronted with it. Maybe I will write about it another day.

101 goals in 1001 days

I'm having a terrible day today. I got to stop identifying myself with my work. Any setbacks and failures that I have at work, sometimes it gets to me and affects my mood even outside of work. I am not defined by what I do, why am I still feeling anxious over what happened today?!

I came home and went straight to the fridge and had Maggie Beer's Burnt fig jam, honeycomb and caramel ice-cream, Grain Waves, and watercrackers dipped in yoghurt cheese. Healthy dinner huh....no wonder I'm breaking out on my forehead.

Then I played the piano...it always helps when I'm feeling blue.

I am ready to go to bed now and perhaps read a few pages of Pride and Prejudice.

I thought I'd get this list ready before I sign-off...

Start Date: 15th October 2009

1. Complete 100 pushups by the end of this year
2. Go for power-walks at lunch once a week for 2 months
3. Cancel gym membership
4. Get blood test and maintain cholesterol level <>
5. Maintain weight under 50kg
6. Read Pride and Prejudice
7. Learn to play 2 classic pieces on Piano
8. Learn to play 2 tunes on the guitar
9. Watch all the movies on the IMBD top 50 [0/50]
10. Try 20 new recipe from my cookbooks/magazines
11. Share my food with neighbours or friends
12. Join a book club (or start up one)
13. Join a paint/art class and sketch something that I can hang up on the wall
14. Read at least 20 books a year [0/20]
15. Maintain average budget of $120/week (not during holidays)
16. Look into investment
17. Sponsor a child (World Vision)
18. Read a book on personal finance
19. Keep track of my spending by recording them in a notepad over 2 months
20. Apply for Masters degree (part-time)
21. Find a casual position to work during weekends (cafe, bookstore)
22. Get to know someone at work well enough to ask them “What is your view on tattoos?”
23. Have a general idea about where I am headed in terms of IT?
24. Update resume/CV
25. Contact an old friend
26. Make 3 new friends
27. Send X’mas cards to 10 people I have no been in touch with this year
28. Love up-close, not from a distance
29. Always fold my clothes back into drawer after work (for 2 months straight)
30. Start a diary/journal (blog?)
31. Plan a trip to a country I’ve never been to (or continent)
32. Drive somewhere by myself and be able to park properly
33. No T.V for a month (use that time for people e.g. emails)
34. Get my ears pierced (under consideration)
35. Buy something for mum/dad on Mother’s Day/Father’s Day
36. Understand Jazz and go to a jazz bar
37. Play a game of chess
38. Arrange a games night with friends (Scrabble, Cranium etc)
39. Bake someone I love a cake
40. Decorate my room with X’mas lights
41. Perm my hair
42. Plant daisies in a pot
43. Finish knitting my scarf
44. Get braces on my lower teeth (if recommended by dentist)
45. Get a manicure
46. Sell my uni textbooks
47. Complete city to surf (or similar marathon)
48. Moisturise my body every night for 1 month
49. Improve flexibility (ability to touch ground with hand)
50. Sort out travel photos and create a photo book
51. Go to a ladies high tea
52. Learn basic Japanese
53. Spend a day at the zoo
54. Take a self defense class
55. Buy flowers for someone special
56. Wear glasses more often (2/month for 6 months) -- or get lasik
57. Drink only water for a week
58. Write a letter to future hubby/child
59. Watch a TV series from start to finish (gilmore girls, west wings etc)
60. Eat 2 things I've never eaten before
61. Donate $10 to charity for each item on this list I do not complete
62. Host a dinner party
63. Read Catch 22
64. Go ice-skating
65. Make successful batch of maracons
66. Take a least a photo a day for 1 month
67. Light a candle and turn on the music
68. Go fruit picking
69. Solve a rubiks cube
70. Play golf

That's all I have for now. Will update the last 30 later

Good night :)

Food update June/July

Another long absence. I wish I have a good excuse, like I was planning a great escape out of my pinstriped prison, or I am starting an exciting new project which takes up all my time...

But no, I'm still the same old...yep, still doing the whole 9-5 and took on more work recently by doing Children's Ministry at BSF.

However, there's always time for doing what I love - cooking and baking. When I'm in the kitchen, the time flies and I'm concentrating and anticipating, and I hear not a sound in the background...

Okay, here are some food pics :)

1) Cookie time! I've been snacking on way too much packet biscuits at work these days. Now that we're on Level 25, the food/drink staff usually get to our floor last (usually at 11am or just before lunch!!!). Since I sit near the kitchen, as soon as I hear their trolley I make my way there for my daily snack session. But those cookies aren't that great. Not so bad when I dip them into my tea though!

Anyways, so I tried baking almond and double-choc cookies at home yesterday...

These are crunchy, chewy and not too sweet :) Perfect! I took them to work today as well!

2) Macarons...

This is bad photo, I know. I ate all of the other ones before the next morning when this lone flat macaron was sitting in the kitchen bench. This is inspired by Masterchef - the pressure test episode where they had to make macarons and panna cotta by Adriano Zumbo!

This is a jasmine rice flavoured macaron...tastes good. Takes wayy to long to make though. I'm not a great fan of macarons - they're a bit too sweet for my likings.

3) This is also inspired by Adriano Zumbo's croquembouche challenge :)

But this is just a plain puff pastry with strawberry cream filling. I love it! It's so easy to make and tastes just like Beard Papa's! I didn't have time to make custard filling so chose strawberries instead! Yummmmm.

Cooking is always fun when you have your friends rooting for you out there ;-)

4) Okay, this is also another Masterchef dish...I had no idea until now, how influenced I am by that show! This is lemon and date scone, with cream + berry preserves...

Easy peasy to make, and tastes great just outta the oven! Goes lovely with a pot of tea...hehe.

5) I've been eyeing this Villeroy & Boche cup for like a year! Finally received it as a present earlier this year and its been sitting on my bookshelf gathering dust, until one cold wintery afternoon when I was craving for a thick hot chocolate drink....

This is Nigella's receipt....which is rather rich and creamy. I love the addition of a cinnamon stick.

My work bench...

More cookies...

Some food updates after a long absence

Hello dear void...

I'm sick today and like any other sick days I am just bored out of my wits bedridden and unable to do anything. I think I have been stuck in my apartment for 5 days straight now, talk about being quarantined like a swine flu patient! Actually perhaps not completely quarantined as my sister has been breathing and eating along side with me all these times...and she does not seem to display any signs of flu like symptoms!

One does have a lot of time to ponder about life when sick with burning fever. With my ice-pack on my forehead, I thought about what I want to do for the next half of the year, and for a split second even came up with ideas on what to email my bosses for not ever returning to work. I imagine I must have smiled with that thought in mind... But now that I'm much more awake and less feverish, I am back to reality :p I know that 'In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps'...how true is that?! No matter what I plan for myself, at the end of the day, He is in control of everything. 

Anyways, so I haven't been doing a great deal of cooking because I've been eating out heaps! I hope to eventually  get into cooking again after I recover and things settle down....

Here are some pics...

We had a lot of pumpkin and sweet potato so we made them into mash and added flour to make into a dough.... then Jen and I had a competition to see who can make the best use of the dough... I made mine into pasta!

Voila, my chicken and basil with pumpkin/sweet potato pasta! (it needs a better name!)

Jen made pan-fried pumpkin/sweet potato gnocchi with oozing cheese inside...

Jen's poo shaped gnocchi ;)

It was dad's birthday and I wanted to make him lemon tarts! I used Pierre Herme's recipe for the lemon curd and Dorie Greenspan's recipe for the tart base, so what could go wrong?!

Plain lemon tarte without raspberries! Of everything I've ever made, this lemon tart is probably the most time consuming one... It is quite difficult to get the lemon curd right and I stood in the kitchen for hours getting it to cook to the right temperature and not a degree over!

But it's so worth it...The nicest lemon tart I've tried :P

I love Saturday morning - the only day in the week in which I can have proper breakfast. I love to make this Ricotta Hotcakes...light and fluffy with a hint of ricotta...yumm.

This is Coffee Creme Caramel....I love this and have made it at least 5 times! It tastes better than it looks... :) It's from Tessa Kiros' 'Piri Piri Starfish'.

I think this is blueberry buttermilk pancake from Neil Perry's 'Good food' or something. It turned out a disappointment actually. 

Last not least, banana cake from Nigella's How to be a domestic Goddess!

Mango, Yogurt and Raspberry Gelee

While typing the title of this entry, I contemplated on a word to use to replace 'Jelly' or 'Jell-o'. I don't think I could use a word like 'Jell-o' to describe this dessert because it reminds me of those supermarket gelatine powder I loved eating growing up, full of sugar and artifical colourings (my favourite was the bright green lime flavoured ones). I thought by using the French version of the word Jelly, it might make it sound more desirable and exotic?!

Anyways, there is a story associated with this dessert. It involved me spending a few precious lunch breaks walking to every single Coles in the CBD on my heels (painful!). I was determined not to stop until I find Davis Gelatine powder, which is the only unflavoured gelatine you can find these days... I had to give up eventually because they simply don't stock these anymore in supermarkets. One ordinary Sunday arvo, I was visiting a friend in a hospital near Kogarah and walked past this small Chinese grocery store. I went in hoping to find some bok-choi and came out with Davis Gelatine powder instead. Amazing (considering it's made in NZ)!

Anyways, there is nothing I like more than to use my food processor to blend things together. I find it relaxing to see everything being made into a smooth paste and  you can control the colour by adding more or less of something. It's all very artistic I'd say! So for this gelee I used fresh fruit (mango and raspberry) pureed by the food processor and Jalna's organic yogurt and honey. I also used a bit of the 'nudie' drinks from Coles. It turned out to be a great combination. 

How I wish my daily fruit intake are always in this form...