anyway, back to the beaches, it was a really lovely day- not too cold, not even that windy and plenty of sunlight =) we spent a couple of hours just strolling about.. we even made a pact to picnic in spring..
i had two dinners as clemont and pierre planned a french dinner where they prepared quiche lorraine and a french dessert called 'ile flottante' which means floating island.
the quiche was a mouth-watering entree, made up of bacon and countless eggs wheras 'ile flottante' was essentially vanilla custard sauce drapped over meringue, topped with caramelized sugar.
the effort put in by these two guys was simply amazing.. they made both dishes from scratch, despite the fact that you could buy ready made items from supermarkets. and the dessert! the merticulous separating of about a dozen egg whites from their yolks and the time-comsuming relentless whisking of stiff peaks.. i say, you should take a spoonful and savour it in your mouth for a good two minutes before letting it disappear into the dark abyss of your digestive track.
second dinner materialised in the form of a modified rosti- potatoes, onion, tomatoes and cheese simmer-sizzling in a pan.. simple yet immensely enjoyable. there's the picture of me in front of a stove to prove that i had had a hand in creating the dish but really, heiko and andy did the work i.e. boiling and peeling of potatoes while i, the master culinary pretender, simply sliced the potatoes and mucked around the pan for a while..
in fact, if not for these guys or our sunday dinners, i doubt i would ever have proper homecooked food. and no, pasta does not qualify as 'cooked food'... everybody keeps asking me when they can try singaporean food and last night, i threw them a random date, "april 25th" and one asked, "is that when your mum will be here?"
very funny. so april 25th: bring your can-opener, guys!
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