This is the best lot. Not only is it made using homemade pineapple jam, the flour and butter proportion is more accurate than our earlier batch. I couldn't believe it, we actually used 8 pineapples to make the jam and over 1kg of flour for 219 tarts but I must admit we had a generous serving of pineapple jam per tart. Our factory line (Ken and myself) worked non stop for 4 to 5 hours to produce this lot (excluding time taken to make the jam which my dad helped to grate). Now my index fingers are sore! No more making pineapple tarts for me for the year! Time for FEASTING. :P
Cooking the grated pineapple to make jam |
Pineapple jam balls |
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Buttery dough |
Hard Work! |
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Working as fast as I can |
Generous heap of pineapple jam |
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Spot the odd one |
All done at long last |
Pineapple tart factory line Officially CLOSED for the year!
Today's count: 219 pineapple tarts!
To date's count: 329 pineapple tarts!
We decided to get our hands dirty today. After church we made pineapple tarts but we took the easy way out and used ready made pineapple jam. Needless to say ready made pineapple jam is no where comparable to home made jam. Finally Ken is convince to sweat it out and grate and squeeze the pineapple for me to make the jam! Yeah!!
In the later part of the afternoon we headed to Serangoon Gardens for Roti John and had table tennis session with my cousin. Yeap you must be wondering why we are full of energy today ;P
Home econs paid off! Rubbing in method |
Kneading the dough |
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Our first lot out of the oven! |
Yes it does taste as good as it looks! |
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100% Hand made!! |
Ken got creative with left over dough |
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Piglet for the Year of the Pig |
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Table tennis session!
Warm up! |
Getting friendly Bebe! |
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Bebe feeling really comfortable |
Oh btw, orders for pineapple tarts are FULL :P
Today's count: 110 pineapple tarts!
Saturdays has always been the laziest day of the week for us, more so when in Singapore. As usual we did nothing much except work our tummies (the unhealthy way). For lunch we had Katong Laksa and for dinner we met some friends at East Coast Lagoon. We had a huge and hearty meal - Salted Vegetable Duck Soup, Sambal Kang Kong, BBQ Sting ray and, Sweet and sour pork chops!!
I forgot about taking pictures of the food we had today as I am trying to change the perception of our blog (HAHA ... as if). Anyway it was a good Saturday especially catching up with our friends!
Our first breakfast in Singapore and of course in a hawker center at New Upper Changi Road. Ken had his kopi-o while I have my teh-c. We were greedy and had mee rubus and fried carrot cake. We were so happy as breakfast was not only good but it cost us about A$5.00 which is cheap! Yes for all those food!
Teh-C and Kopi-O (Tea with Carnation Milk and Black Coffee) |
Fried Carrot Cake! My favourite! |
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Mee Rubus (Malay noodles) |
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Durain. Yes Ken finally had his durain after a long time and I must admit, not because we were in Australia but rather I would avoid him if he eats that fruit! *Evil Grin*
King of Fruit - Durain |
Savouring it with his mom |
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Finally, I get to eat durain! |
I am satisfied hence I am happy and grinning away! |
... We LOVE our FOOD don't we? ...
...comes from the family. Naturally!
Monday, December 25, 2006
As you can see, all the food on the table are prepared by my parents. Yes the Christmas turkey and ham too!! My parents prepared the turkey, the stuffing and ham from scratch. The turkey was huge, about 6kg or 7kg and it took my parents about 4 hours to cook it and our family devoured all of it in just one evening. I guess this spells how yummy the food was.
We had a good time playing with the fire sparklers and we even had a mini project with all the cousins! It was no easy feat however we succeed and I will make it into cards (special edition) for all the families this (2007) Christmas!
Family Feast |
Look at that Leg Ham |
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Huge turkey |
Fresh Oysters |
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Ham slices |
Baked potatoes with dill |
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Little cousins getting their fill |
Playing with fire sparklers |
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Trying to form a word |
Having fun |