Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore

My birthday dinner with Ting at Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore.

Parma ham rock melon

 Dumpling with beef filling 

 My all time favorite, ban mian kind of thick pasta, oh so delish. 

Any other restaurant sell such thick pasta, please share with me :)

 Ice cream crepe

 Sweet Ting, bought me a piece of cake! 

and a mini Celine ear cap :) Thank babe, Chup Chup! 555

The Hand Burger

 The Handburger once in awhile is a good boost!

Greatest combination, salt with orange zest sprinkle on top of lustrous chocolate gelato.

Chocolate Therapy

Chocolate therapy from Ben and Jerry's from management on BG com day

Old Town Espresso Ice Cream

Espresso ice cream at Old Town is a yummy add on ($1.90)

Rose Rose I Have Rose

It has become a yearly routine our sweet guy colleague bought a stalk of rose for the ladies in office, in return we will treat them with cakes or ice cream...

 Maggie Moo from 313 basement

 Expensive and too sweet, i don't think i will patronize them again.

Presentation looks crappy too

Christmas 2011

 A simple Christmas meal for our family

 Pork knuckle with Mcd fries, what a combo!

 Sinful but heck, it's Christmas! 

 Frozen mango yogurt (froyo) cake. Max satisfactory, less guilt and a very healthy digestive system. LOL

 More froyo and less cake, yeah! Taste like mango sorbet, i cant stop eating it.

 Next time i will ask for less cream though it's delish too.

End the night coughing on our sofa watching HBO with champagne from hubby's client, just the two of us.

Gift Exchange with Alanis and Ting

 Christmas meet up with my wonderful girls

 Look at how much gift we have for each others! I have to love Alanis's "this is all i can afford" wrapper.

 Ting's birthday present. I am an angel, with wings.

 Notebook and pen for Alanis

 Presents from Ting to us, she made  us a customized photo album :)

 So here's our food, fried platter to bite.

 Blue cheese burger to kill

 Why did i say kill? Check out the blueness of the rotten cheese! 

 Every girl's favorite dessert, varieties! We just love variety, especially when it comes to dessert, don't we.

The mango sherbet from Ben and Jerry is so good, we ordered a second portion.

Merry Christmas Girls, love our 2012 will be as great or even better than this year!

Cold Stone

Dessert at Cold Stone after lunch is love~ Too sweet, gotta share around.

Creamery Marble Slab Iluma

Featured in couple of magazines these few months..

Creamery Marble Slab "frying"/churning ice cream for you on their ice cold pan...

Had their flavour of the month... having 50% off! :p Chocolate with pound cake, fudge and chocolate bits...

Their hand churn ice cream is perfect, only if their ice cold pan is colder.. *It freaking look like it is going to melt anytime!!*

Swirl Art - The Frozen Yogurt Place

 Swirl Art the frozen yogurt place. They adapt similar concept as the frozen yogurt we visit in Bangkok.. DIY then weight and pay at the counter

 

 I over estimate the weight again! This one here weight me about 400g $12!!

Their charging is tag at $3 per 100g

Operation hour up to 12am and they do have a bean bag corner for group to chill out...

Haato Chill

U.D.D.E.R.S

2nd visit to U.D.D.E.R.S .... another round of disappoinment.. dont think i will revisit them ever... Awesome chocolate wasnt as smooth, lychee martini doesnt even taste alocohol... Dud!

Venezia

Comfort food... Belgium chocolate and Rum Raisin

Home Made Chocolate Ice Cream

Bought the whipped cream and full cream milk teacher recommended

I did a twist in soya choc ice cream recipes, instead of soya milk i used egg yolk again for stabliser

6 portion of 170ml ice cream, so i used 300ml of milk and 300ml of whipped cream

Use less sugar compare to the green tea because i used milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate, yolk wise, since this is 6 portion, so 6 yolk

Melt the whole bar of 200g chocolate in the microwave

Didnt get baking dark chocolate, cant get it in NTUC, so i got Van Houten almond chocolate instead

Stir melt chocolate and 3 tea spoon of choco powder with the custard

Continue stirring until mixture turn super smooth, no clutter, sieve the mixture if you want to...

Even better, no icy touch, very smooth, very thick, very sinful!! :)

It didn't harden in the fridge as my previous green tea experience, this is so good!

Home Made Macha Ice Cream

Made macha ice cream at home

Ingredient need:

1 egg yolk
20g sugar
100ml whipped cream
75ml full cream milk
1teaspoon green tea powder

(makes about 1 portion 170ml of ice cream)

Try to get wipped cream and not the one i got.. i am not sure if there is a different but because i couldn't whipped cream in the super lousy Tiong Bahru NTUC so i got nestle cream instead~ FYI whipped cream used for ice cream is not the commercial one they use in starbucks.. Not the foam kind but the liquid kind~ :)

Bought the same green tea powder as the shop used. $12.50

Step 1: Mix green tea powder with 50ml of cream until powder no longer lumpy

Step 2: Beat egg yolk with sugar until turn pale yellow
Step 3: pour 50ml of cream and 75ml of milk into pot and heat it while stirring, Low heat, do not boil
step 4: Let milk cream mixture simmer and pour into egg and sugar mix while whisking swiftly
Step 5: Transfer mixture back to pot
Step 6: stir mixture over low fire until custard thickens enough to coat back of spoon *keep stiring for 5-8min*
Step 7: Remove from heat and pour custard into cream and green tea powder mix and stir swiftly, stir until it is smooth, heat will further help to melt and smoother the green tea mix
Step 8: pour the custard through sieve to filter lumpy bits

Step 9 : Allow settle to room temperature before freezing
Step 10: Whisk custard (with the whisk as shown in the picture) every 45min to break up ice crystal and repeat this process at least twice

and it is done!!!! :D smooth green tea home made goodness
*photo taken in my kitchen with low lights, actual ice cream color look like the one shown in the previous post*

Only problem i encounter: my home fridge is too cold.. probably because 2 ppl live, whole fridge doesn't have much stuff inside.. if you want to achieve shop like quality make sure you adjust your fridge temperature so ice cream will stay creamy smooth and not hard frozen :)

Once frozen, the texture will change from creamy smooth to icy crunch *sorbet* Reason being partial water molecule from the ice cream custard mixture will be separated as they refroze faster than the rest of ingredient... These access moisture will damage the smooth texture and make your ice cream to taste like sorbet...

1 last thing... home made ice cream can last about 2 weeks!

Have fun making ice cream at home!!

Updates:

Ice Cream Guru replied to my frozen ice cream question

and he also mention:

I think you should stick to using whipping cream (not whipped cream/ Nestle cream). Whipping cream is usually sold refrigerated. The cream you used (I saw from your blog) is probably not suitable for ice cream making. That is why you find that your ice cream is crunchy and icy.And also, try not to use Meiji milk! Stick to full cream milk. Meiji milk is "thinner" in taste.

FYI: this is the brand teacher used, Greenfields from NZ, $2Greenfields Whipped cream $8-9 1 litre