Well, it turned out fine. Really, it cannot go wrong at all cause the package that was given to me by a friend practically contained the DOUGH in it.

I just had to turn on the oven. Distribute the dough evenly across the 15 cup cake molds and place the tray into the oven. 20 mins and tralala – ready to eat!

Phew, thank goodness it was a success.

Food was one thing but concept and ambiance was superb though you may have to be really lucky to get a table (or loads of patience). It’s situated in one of the hip areas of Brussels (Flagey). The gyoza was good. Mr Fudge has a rice burger and I had a ramen which didn’t impressed me too much. Still I’ll go again to try something else.

More pouting to do meantime…

Ooops, I didn’t manage to take any picture of the food (busy eating!) but you can check it out here.

I used this recipe. Thanks to Rachael!

Mr Fudge helped out too. Our wrapping skills were not bad at all. Though one can easily identify the different styles.

Here’s my recipe with the ‘uhmmphh’:

Serves 4

• One chicken or I used 4 large chicken drum+thigh pieces
• 8 onions, sliced
• 2 carrots, roughly chopped (optional vegetable)
• 10 tbsp lemon juice
• 8 tbsp Peanut oil
• 4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 4 tbsp dijon mustard
• 1 cube of chicken stock
• 2 tbsp of soya sauce
• 2 small chillis
• Salt, pepper, nutmeg

1. Marinate the chicken with all ingredients overnight except optional vegetable (seal well!)
2. Preheat oven to 180°C and grill chicken for 15mins to brown it only
3. Remove the onions from the marinade and saute them in a large pan until translucent but not brown
4. Add the remainder of the marinade to the pan and cook until you have a thin sauce
5. Add the browned chicken back into your pan, cover and let simmer over low heat until the chicken is done

Serve over white rice and with cooked plantain if you can find them.

Bon appétit!

Sorry about the picture, so hungry that I snapped in haste but trust me, it was yummy.

Here’s my recipe (a modified version of Jamie’s):

Serves 4

• 4 chicken thighs
• 2 handful of cherry tomatoes
• Bunch of basil leaves
• 1 garlic bulb, broken into cloves, skin on
• Handful of black olives, stoned (I squeezed them!)
• Olive oil
• 1 red chilli
• 8 slices of thin-sliced smokey streaky bacon
• 4 potatoes

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Chuck everything except bacon in a big roasting tray, drizzle with generous amount of olive oil, salt and pepper over, mixed up.
3. Grill for 30 mins. Turn chicken over. Grill for another 30 mins.
4. Lay bacon on top of chicken and continue to grill for another 15 mins.
5. Ready to serve! Great with salad.

Let’s hope my interest lasts up till harvest time!

There is The Atlantis but I am not a big fan of super-sized man-made resorts. Though I went for a quick look just because they say that’s the one thing you gotta see if you are in Bahamas (kiasu-ism!). Well, nothing fancy to me except the Predator Tunnel which was a shorter and free version of our Under Water World in Singapore. I had my daily dose of Starbucks by the Marina Village, gawking at the rich and famous with their gorgeous boats. 2 hours is enough for all that.

But I’ve learnt to love this place of ever ready smiles and laid back lifestyle. People are so very friendly. So far, I’ve only been meeting only the nicest people. Even the taxi drivers. Ever ready and generous with information about their dear island and so far haven’t come across one who tries to overcharge me. And the humor! The bus drivers crack jokes every other minute.

Of course, not forgetting the happy tourists. Walk into a lift, you cannot pass without saying hello and how are you doing to anyone and everyone.

The other great thing is the FOOD. Go to Fish Fry. You can get tonnes of laid back fish restaurants. I’ve been having grouper and whole snappers every day. Grilled, fried, steamed – anyway you want it.

Here I also learn what is plantain – which is in fact, our ‘pisang goreng’. It is eaten alike substitute to potatoes, meaning you eat it as a side dish to your rice and fish/ meat. Took me a bit of time to get used to this as in Malaysia, ‘goreng pisang’ is our teatime snack or even dessert (served with ice cream). People gave me funny look when I told them that this is a type of snack/ dessert in my country. LOL.

The other yummy stuff and unique especially to the Bahamas is the conch. Its a type of large sea snails. The conch is usually minched and made into chowder or conch-fritters. Many helpful people tried to describe it to me. One said, “Its like Hermit The Crab, ya know”. Haha!

(Oops, totally forgot to take any picture of the food cuz too busy gobbling em up!)

I wanna be back to dive someday!

Last Sunday, I embarked on my first baking mission. (I am getting quite domesticated he!)

Thank goodness, the muffins turned out well. Very edible, thus, I ate almost of all them myself (uhm, diet?) Spared 2 for my nice colleagues and they were impressed.

It was easy!

I got the inspiration from RasaMalaysia (all those yummy-licious looking pictures on her blog) so if you would like to try, go get the recipe there!

This weekend, it will be a butter cake!

Still, I managed to drag us out at least for a couple of hours to discover a new place – Cook & Book. I read up about this place in Cheese Web, a featured blog in the expat website. Sounded too good to be true for me - 9 bookstores with different themes – comics, art, travel, music, cookery, english… I stopped venturing when I found the english section where I dwelled for a couple of hours. Though most of the books are in french or flemish, occasionally, one will stumble upon some english reads.

The decor is impressive with every room at its own theme setting a perfect dining and reading browsing experience. Amidst all these, as much as I am overwhelmed with the ambience and tonnes of books, I can’t help swaying to the old french tunes playing at the back of the scene.

This is just THE perfect place for a lazy Sunday, to chill with a book and a good cuppa coffee at hand. Or maybe even brunch?

As usual (the shopping streak in me) I couldn’t leave without grabbing myself a couple of books. Cookbooks! I will embark myself on a ‘Japanese Cooking for Dummies’ ‘Mastering Japanese Cooking’ project for the next 3 months! The other book is for Mr D to add more variety to his Belgian dinners. Ha!