I'm supposed to go and sleep in about 10 minutes so I shall squeeze in whatever I can on this post.

Tomorrow's school again... Back to work. Sigh.

I've been in the kitchen most of this weekend, trying out the new recipe I learnt in my Food Technology lesson in school. Shortcrust pastry. Well it's not that difficult but I'm just not that skilful I guess. The cheesy vegetable pie I made at home looked and smelt good, but I discovered the pie was underbaked. ARGH. My cake was overbaked and now my pie is underbaked! What's with the food I make?!

Ooh it seems like I'm on a baking spree currently. I seem to be uing my dear oven so much more often now. :P

Anyway, my interim report (term report) is going to be released this Friday. :/ And the teachers will send it straight to my parents, which means my parents get to view and study it first. D: Not good. I'd really prefer to see it first.

Gtg! :O

The Enchanting Twilight

Labels: Pie

Yay I baked my hot chocolate cheesecake. It smelt really good, it looked appetising, but it didn't taste that great. :( Oh well, 1st try...

There were supposed to be 2 layers - one pastry layer at the bottom and the cake layer on top. But when it came out of the oven, it had 3 layers - above the cake layer was a burnt cake layer. D: Well I garnished it with crushed almonds, so it looked nice. From far the burnt layer actually looks like a creamy-ish icing. Hahaha.

Anyway I got a hand whisk. And I found out that I should've gotten an electric hand whisk to whisk the egg white well so that a lot of air would be trapped in the egg white. If you don't get the egg white stiff then the whole cake would be a failure. But I just went on with my manual hand whisk and yes my sis and I got the stiff egg white! :D I remembered in MOELC's French fair we made madeleines and the teacher went around whisking the egg whites with the electric whisk. Heh. I did it with my own hand. :D

Cakes are really fattening. The amount of double cream, sugar, hot chocolate powder, margarine, cheese etc. I put into it is crazily huge! Oh plus about 100g of almonds? D: I think I baked it for too long and put it too high in the oven so that's why it became hard and dry. At least the pastry layer was good. :)

I thought it tasted weird, my sis didn't exactly like it, my mum thought it was dry but okay and my dad liked it because it's crunchy. (Of course it'll be crunchy - it's burnt!) Well it's gone now. Everyone ate it up, haha! :D

I realised I'd spent most of the day in the kitchen (because I cooked dinner too). And I've hardly completed any work for the hols because I've been slacking away and doing silly things. Well not like there's much to complete, but a bit of revision would be good. Nvm, I've had experience of doing things at the last minute from my life in Singapore. :P

The Enchanting Twilight

PS: I found a park with a perfect practice hill for running. Did 12 100-metre hill repetitions. Yay I should keep up with this as my hill work is still really horrible.

Labels: Baking

This is kind of late but I honestly need to post this. Oct 2, there was another Cross-country meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, and yay I wasn't last! :D 26th position out of 32 girls is an improvement. :D Fine it's still last 10 but who cares. Well the course was comparatively easier than the Frankfurt one; less uphill. But a good experience overall. It was really cold that day, about 16dC+, and I really didn't want to take off my jacket and track pants... But I had to in the end. It was the Swiss Group International Schools (SGIS) Competition, so no schools from other parts of Europe, only from Switzerland. :)

And the Autumn break has started! Apparently I've been slacking away, but there's only 2 pieces of homework! :D An English essay and a History worksheet. Not that they're super easy, but it's much more manageable. :) NOT LIKE IN SINGAPORE WHERE THE TEACHERS PILE YOU WITH A MOUNTAIN FOR EACH DAY. So I have time to plan a running schedule so that my coach can see my improvement. Hopefully. Haha. Oh and I was thinking of trying to bake a cake on my own (without telling my mum, hehe). Okay I haven't baked before and I pulled out one of my mum's really ancient recipes and thought this is a good way of improving my skills for Food Technology (a subject in school). I went to buy most of the ingredients today, BUT I discovered my mum threw our whisk away before we moved! URGH. The whisk! I guess I'll have to buy one for myself. D: Hot Chocolate cheesecake. :D I sincerely hope it'll turn out good. Anyway I'm prepared for a great deal of scolding from my mum for my kitchen experiments. I don't care; her scoldings aren't that severe to me anymore. :P

Oh I just realised that if I'm making a cake and trying to run for exercise, it's totally making no sense. Run = losing calories; Cake = gaining calories. -.- NEVER MIND. For my parents. :) So far in school I've learnt how to cook a few dishes from European and Mexican cuisines. I feel accomplished!

7 weeks in school. 7 weeks of German. :) Now I can introduce myself rather fluently. :D And some boys in my class speak German to each other, so I try to catch anything I can. Well, one or two words sometimes. But at least it's something! :)The boys are horrible; I think partly they speak German it's because German's their mother tongue, and partly because they don't want people like me who can't speak German to understand what they're talking about.

And I know my English has never been that great, but to think some students whose English is not their mother tongue can score better than me is rather depressing. Oh well. :(

Hmm, I'm not sure if we're going back to Singapore and Malaysia next year for CNY. Cos that means skipping school for about 1-2 weeks...? Oh I'm not sure if we're going back during the winter hols or not...

The Enchanting Twilight

Labels: Autumn, Lausanne, Switzerland