a lil bit o sydney

Welcome to the Sydney Fish Market

The place was packed with people!

Fresh GIGANTIC tuna

Lobsters!

Cold seafood platter for you?

Fresh oyesters!

The rainbow trouts don't look very colorful

Mouth watering seafood

The most delicious lobsters ever!


OH NOW ME IS HUNGRY!

I'm a cinnamon roll!

Cinnamon Roll

Okay maybe I'm not a cinnamon roll :)

Have been occupying my weekends with baking and trying out new things to cook and bake. I've always wanted to try my hands on baking pastries and have been putting this cinnamon roll recipe in my 'to-bake' list for quite a while now. So last weekend, I finally decided to bake these sweet babies. Verdict? Absolutely YUMMY! The recipe calls for a glaze for the rolls but I skipped that part. I'm sure with the glaze, the rolls will taste heavenly because everything with cheese in it, no doubt, yummers!

The recipe isn't very difficult to make, it's just the waiting time. All in all, about 3.5 hours of resting time for the dough to "poof". The wait however, was pretty worth it.

After the 3.5 hours wait, right before entering the oven.

I think one crucial point while making these babies is the kneading / mixing part. Kneading the dough till it's really soft and smooth (which takes a bit of effort if you're not using a mixer). Paying attention to this step will result in soft and fluffy rolls. The house just smelt so good while these were in the oven.

Jamie, Felina and Melinda, I'm posting up this recipe for you girls. Do give it a try and let me know how yours turned out :)

it didn't reach the 'O'

I've not been doodling or painting for a while now, should probably start doing that again. :) The painting below was a gift to a friend when she moved in to her new place. I really like that painting. 

Oh great, now my hands are itching to paint! Need to get more stretched canvas!

Acrylic on canvas

Ink on paper

muffins to share

And so I LOVE baking. Decided to bake some goodies for my colleagues. A friend (thank you Lat, I *heart* u!) shared a recipe for this absolutely simple and delicious and moist chocolate chip muffins and I've made this recipe three times already and every single time the muffins turned out yummy! Left overnight, they taste even better!

Brought the muffins to the office, and everyone was like "Oooh! Chocolate muffins! And the cups are so pretty!" Got the muffin cups from City Bakers in Kota Damansara.

I think it's a nice gesture to share baked goodies with friends and family. It sure does brightens a person's day.

So go bake something and share them with your family and friends! :)

nature is the art of God

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
- Martin Luther

I really love BIG trees. Walking under them is just so.. stress-relieving. Reminds me of one of my favorite books, The Magic Faraway Tree. I'd like to believe that all BIG HUGE trees are magical. Now wouldn't that be nice? :)

Murray's Brewery, Australia

The Domain, Sydney, Australia

The Domain, Sydney, Australia