Food from North End (Little Italy)

Swordfish Kebab

Lobster Roll

Sitting outdoors on the steps overlooking Faneuil Hall

Eclairs

waaaaaaay tooooooo much pastry cream!

Cream puffs

Tiramisu cup

I loved the swordfish kebab and lobster roll but was not crazy about the pastries at all. Disappointing! They are from Mike's Pastry that is always packed or sometimes, they even have a super long queue outside the store, but seriously, they were not a big deal.

Lemon Blueberry Cake and Cinnamon Rolls

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Lemon Blueberry Cake

Cinnamon Rolls

round felt cushion

i'm usually not the one who wants to spend stupid money on small lil things for the house that we can do without, but my heart goes out to these lil felt round cushions...how can you not want one? or a few?

they are USD 150 each. crazy!

Back to yoga

I have been practising yoga almost 2-3 times a week, but I have been doing this at home, with DVDs for about 2 months now. With the boy's health scare, followed by my health issues, looking of a new place and moving to a new place, going for yoga classes religiously kinda fell off my radar for a while. I didn't realise how much I missed it till I booked a class today and couldn't stop grinning till the time came to leave home for class!

I was super excited to practise under my teacher again. And when she whispered "welcome back", I felt the usual sense of peace and comfort under her teachings. And of course, how my inner thighs and upper back feels now is a bigger confirmation that I need to return to yoga classes.

things i loved about this weekend

1. the outdoor run accompanied by 20 degrees C weather, perfect!

2. lobster for lunch

3. the boy going out of his way to ta-pao back bubble tea for me

4. inglorious basterds

5. brunch at the south end buttery

6. the boy cooking dinner for me

7. ending the weekend with a stroll to north end for cream puffs, eclairs and a tiramisu cup!

Bread and carrots

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Carrot Cupcakes

Parker House Rolls

i need a haircut!

since we're on the topic of ramblings...let me ramble abt my long overdue haircut. i have yet to trim it since we moved here, so that's almost 1 yr and 3 mths! n it's curly - curly long hair is crazy to manage, even though i can tie it all up easily, it's still a hassle when it comes to washing and drying. and the occasional times that i do let it down, i take forever to style it right so that the curls dont go every single direction possible.

i have also not thread my eyebrows...and i am not wearing much makeup these days too. i dun even paint my nails anymore. hmmm....this is bad huh? not painting my nails is like the clearest sign that i dun care how i look anymore. LOL.

it's ok, i still bathe. hahahahahahahahaha! like i said, just hear me ramble.

stupid rain

it's been raining the whole weekend. it's not a huge storm but it's super windy making it impossible to hold a brolly properly, oh well, it's not like the brolly shields u from any rain.

a simple trip to the grocery store took me 3 hours to and fro. carrying 2 grocery bags home while trying to manage the brolly was a feat as well. i refuse to take the cab becos i believe it is just rain and i can walk home, needless to say halfway home i was cursing myself. then there's the issue with my stupid skin that still hasnt gotten use to the chills, it breaks out in hives (thank god they go away in an hour or so).

argh. stupid rain, stupid sunday. *rambles rambles*

Baked goods for the week

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Dark Chocolate Walnut and Golden Raisins Cookies

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

alone in new home

the boy left me! well, for texas and only for 4 days but still! he left me all alone in our new home! BOOHOOHOO!

he took off this morning for some happening conference in austin, texas where the sun is shining and deep fried food is the norm. oh and it is also the city with the most number of smokers in america. not so good for the recovering lung of his.

anyway, the good news is, i am left with this macbook for the weekend! YAY YAY YAY! i will try to upload photos of the house!

More baking!

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Chocolate Macarons with Chocolate Ganache filling

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes

full of surprises

this week has been full of lil surprises. 

first the doctor. ok that was quite a big surprise. the examination for a surprise, the series of tests he wants to run on me following the examination is another surprise. but what the hell, i have to go for those tests. becos the boy says so. see i live by the motto, what you duno wont kill u. so i rather not know. the boy lives by the motto of knowing is better than not knowing. n he's very very kia-si when it comes to health matters. 

second my baking of macarons. the first 2 attempts were sad failures. i didnt even manage to pop anything into the oven. the batter itself failed. but this week, voila! perfect chocolate macarons! will post photos later. 

third my boy. he's been leaving lil notes ard the house saying sweet stuff before leaving for work...sending me sweet emails during the day, even gg as far as sending a stupid lil sweet video...and even gg to nyc for work had him coming back with a small tub of greek yoghurt from my fav place. 

maybe he's trying to comfort me after what happened with the doctor. ha!