Glutton for a Day

The day has been arranged and fixed a month ago. Two ladies had been waiting for this day - 30 Sep. One wanted to be a glutton, knowing that she will be served good quality home made food. The other was excitedly preparing and baking food, hoping that her guest will be happy with her bakes.

Finally, the time has come for "Passionate About Baking" to meet "Kitchen Corner" again. Ever since Grace and I first met in March, we have been keeping in contact. Then we met up again during the first blogger's party in May. We had been postponing our appointment to meet up for quite a while as she was busy shuttling between Singapore and Malaysia. I believe our friendship was able to sustain because both of us take the effort to keep in contact. It takes two to tango. I like her because I feel that she is very sincere and simple person. She has no airs, and is all so willing to share her baking experience. Ok, so I'm the glutton here.

I had been invited to her place for lunch. She specifically told me "...don't bring anything, just bring an empty stomach..." So I obliged. I was secretly hoping to have her "Jamie Oliver's burger" and my wish came true! Well, I didn't request for it for fear that there will be too much preparation for her. I just want to catch up with her on the happenings after our last meeting.

Okay, here was what I was being fed...
The main course were Homemade burger with baked potato and sweet potatoes. Followed by sweet potato curry puff. And ended with a strawberry yogurt ice-cream on chocolate tart.


We also wanted to try making macarons together. And so we did that after our heavy lunch. That was Grace doing all those work while I was "supervising" at one corner. Heehee...


Unfortunately, our macarons didn't turn out well. It's like the blind leading the blind. It's actually my fault. I felt quite bad the macarons didn't turn out to be what we hoped. Even though the macarons didn't have fritty feet, with the addition of Grace's buttercream, it tasted very very good. She filled them with green tea, coffee, blackberry and her homemade peanut butter and blackcurrant jam. All these buttercreams were really really good. Her homemade peanut butter was really rich and thick, yummy!

The best part about our rendezvous was... I get to "take away" too! These were my "take away" treats (in the picture) - Chocolate almond cookies, ang ku kueh, snow skin mooncakes, her attempted macarons, coffee chiffon cake (not in the picture) and her biscotti.


Now, will someone tell me, am I one of the luckiest person (besides Eric, her spouse) or what? Her bakes are all so yummy, and so beautifully presented. And because of the good food I had at her place, I had to eat "simpler" food today! Hahaha...

Well, like I said, it takes two to tango. I knew I'll get good food when I go to her place, so, I just can't go empty handed. I've also shared with her some stuff which I baked over the week. They were - petit fours, chocolate macarons, walnut moontarts and green tea pound cake. And some of my chocolate modelling roses and some fondant cut flowers. I'm just glad she liked them.


Anyway, thanks Grace for hosting me yesterday. I think you won't considered me as a free-loather since I worked (washing the dishes) for my meals! I really enjoyed your company and to taste your wonderful bakes! Thank you, terima kasih and 谢谢.