I had a pre CNY dinner on Saturday at Jos' place with her and the Queks because all 3 of them won't be in London next weekend. :( And they are my only Singaporean friends *sniff* Sad, very sad but I shall not dwell on this for I know my Heavenly Father provides :)
We had arranged to go over to Josy's about 4pm. And I had planned to bake some surprise muffins for tea before dinner. Pig out day, might as well lah. Besides my surprise muffins, my main dinner contribution was a pot of chicken curry. I volunteered for this because my dear grandma would always cook chicken curry for CNY eve reunion dinner amongst her many dishes. Plus it is difficult to cook a whole packet of Prima Taste just for myself. I cannot imagine finishing that whole big pot all on my own.
Call me crazy but I've been looking for a suitable muffin recipe to go with my hot pink silicon muffin tray given to me by Faith over Christmas. So when I saw Pris' pinky raspberry and white chocolate muffin recipe, I knew that was the recipe. It turned out nice and yummy (thank God) but I had put too little batter in each muffin cup so each one looked more like half a muffin haha. They all loved it, and we enjoyed them with a cup of hot tea each. (Today I brought the remaining to office for my team and they loved it too. Big thanks to Pris!)
The all important ingredients
We agreed to wear red for that added atmosphere and the commendable Queks turned up bright red whereas I wore something less striking and.. don't even mention Jos. She was in purple lor. But she was really funny; she went to Chinatown and bought 4 big mandarin oranges and insisted we all bai nian to her (minus the red packets chey) AND best of all, she insisted on playing dong dong chiang CNY songs she sourced from you-tube! We didn't even know you-tube has such songs?! But have to say thanks to her efforts coz it did feel like a mini CNY reunion dinner. Below are some pictures we took. My surprise #2 for them - my cashew nut cookies with some pineapple tarts which KL gave me. Time to share the joy :)
We had arranged to go over to Josy's about 4pm. And I had planned to bake some surprise muffins for tea before dinner. Pig out day, might as well lah. Besides my surprise muffins, my main dinner contribution was a pot of chicken curry. I volunteered for this because my dear grandma would always cook chicken curry for CNY eve reunion dinner amongst her many dishes. Plus it is difficult to cook a whole packet of Prima Taste just for myself. I cannot imagine finishing that whole big pot all on my own.
Call me crazy but I've been looking for a suitable muffin recipe to go with my hot pink silicon muffin tray given to me by Faith over Christmas. So when I saw Pris' pinky raspberry and white chocolate muffin recipe, I knew that was the recipe. It turned out nice and yummy (thank God) but I had put too little batter in each muffin cup so each one looked more like half a muffin haha. They all loved it, and we enjoyed them with a cup of hot tea each. (Today I brought the remaining to office for my team and they loved it too. Big thanks to Pris!)
The all important ingredientsWe agreed to wear red for that added atmosphere and the commendable Queks turned up bright red whereas I wore something less striking and.. don't even mention Jos. She was in purple lor. But she was really funny; she went to Chinatown and bought 4 big mandarin oranges and insisted we all bai nian to her (minus the red packets chey) AND best of all, she insisted on playing dong dong chiang CNY songs she sourced from you-tube! We didn't even know you-tube has such songs?! But have to say thanks to her efforts coz it did feel like a mini CNY reunion dinner. Below are some pictures we took. My surprise #2 for them - my cashew nut cookies with some pineapple tarts which KL gave me. Time to share the joy :)
dong dong dong chiang.. gong xi fa cai!!
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