: : New digital camera : :

One of the ideas in the works this year would be a new digital camera. Getting frustrated with the quality of the SONY DSC-F77. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not the food pics that is bothering me but rather the other pictures that I take i.e. scenery, people, objects. Just that not having any optical zoom is really the pits.

Options are :

Canon Powershot G5 : Steve’s Digicam

Small, compact. Loads of features.

Canon Digital Rebel : Photoxel, Steve’s Digicam

Big! And lens are separate. Wonder how much will that costs?

Sony DSC F828 : Photoxel, Steve’s Digicam

Whoa! Big alrite! But can use CF card with it. Hmm…

Maybe will get it some time this year. Don’t know when though. We’ll see. Anyway, gotta get my camera looked at before the warranty expires in March. Something wrong with the flash. Argh!!

: : Stew : :

So it was porridge day for me. Granny made a huge tub of rice porridge that was to be eaten by yours truly. Urgh! Oh well. I don’t have it all the time so it wasn’t *TOO* bad.

To go with the porridge, she made pork stew whereby she added in some potatoes for taste as well. She cut the pork into medium-sized strips and fryinng it until it browns. Then she added in the potatoe as well as soy sauce, water and sugar to taste. Of course, salt and pepper was added into it as well. She would sometimes substitute the pork with chicken breast meat.

Suffice to say that for dinner and lunch, I finished about half of what you see there.

: : Valentine Day Poll : :

Right. CNY is over and it’s time to take down the CNY poll. Here are the results from 107 ppl :

What is your favourite Chinese New Year treat?

Pineapple Tarts : 22.4%

Yee Sang : 15.0%

Pork Leg Stew : 3.7%

Braised Duck in Soy Sauce : 8.4%

Salted Vegetable Soup : 8.4%

Stir-Fry Leeks : 0.9%

Love Letters : 12.1%

Layer Cake : 8.4%

Bak Poh / BBQ Pork Slices : 10.3%

Mandarin Oranges : 10.3%

Hmm…there is something about pineapple tarts, no?

Anyway, here is another poll but this time in conjuction with Valentine’s Day this weekend :





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Now, be honest!

: : Valentine Day Poll : :

Right. CNY is over and it’s time to take down the CNY poll. Here are the results from 107 ppl :

What is your favourite Chinese New Year treat?

Pineapple Tarts : 22.4%

Yee Sang : 15.0%

Pork Leg Stew : 3.7%

Braised Duck in Soy Sauce : 8.4%

Salted Vegetable Soup : 8.4%

Stir-Fry Leeks : 0.9%

Love Letters : 12.1%

Layer Cake : 8.4%

Bak Poh / BBQ Pork Slices : 10.3%

Mandarin Oranges : 10.3%

Hmm…there is something about pineapple tarts, no?

Anyway, here is another poll but this time in conjuction with Valentine’s Day this weekend :





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Now, be honest!

: : Is my blog Burning? : :

Guess Alberto is busy at the moment so thought I’d compile some of the soup links here :

potato and horseradish cream soup with smoked trout and toasted almonds by Alberto himself

Khao Soi from Chez Pim (yes, in hokkien it sounds vulgar but it’s suppose to be Thai)

pasta & fagioli from Carlo at My Latest Supper

tomyam soup by the kitchenslave a.k.a. toru

spiced spinach soup by maki

trashy potato by jackie (now this looks like an awesome and kewl dish)

roasted chestnut soup by Josh (now we know what to do with leftover chestnuts from Christmas)

Well, those were the links that I saw, not to mention drool over.