Pressies!

Thank you everyone for my awesome presents! I love them all :)) 

Monopoly

We had so much fun playing Monopoly (brought by other D :)) that we ended up extending lunch all the way till dinner. Obviously, Monopoly does not work with more than 6 people so Simian and D were killing us by buying everything but the game never ended :) We all trooped off for chicken rice at Pow Sing afterwards.

Christmas Lunch

We had a delicious Christmas lunch as usual. Everyone brought so much food that we were in a food coma. Everything was fantastic from PlanetofSound's pasta salad to J's Fava Bean and Sweet Potato salads (where J sliced, not popped, each pod to slowly ease the fava beans out) and D's tofu and red cabbage with bourbon. I obviously didn't try the ham or beef that D and PlanetofSound made respectively but everyone said they were great. Simian also went to collect fries from The Factory and those were great too. M - you missed a great spread.

I made a cranberry eggnog tart. I misread the instructions and put in WAY too much butter so I had to throw out the dough and start again! Fortunately I made the tart yesterday and so had time to remedy the defects.

Anniversary Dinner

Simian and I had an early anniversary dinner at Restaurant Ember. The food was fantastic. They made us lovely vegetarian entrees and they even surprised us with dessert.

Package

Thank you for the lovely Christmas package Suntaneye and her Husby. My first reaction was oh no, they shouldn't have, followed,I am shamed to admit, by the thought of whether there was Trader Joe's goodness inside. Suntaneye did not disappoint. This does not mean however, that you should repeat this again! Thank you guys! I will wait for Simian to come home before ripping into this :)))

Christmas

Simian and I went over to our neighbours for drinks and snacks last night and today we had a quiet (and lovely) Christmas at home. Simone dressed up for the occasion :) I had some lovely presents - handmade knitted gloves from Mom and wireless headphones from Simian. I need mittens all the time and I am always complaining about my in-ear headphones so both were perfect! Simian cracked open his Westvlteren 12 (my Christmas present to him) to try it out.

Tulasi

Imp and PlanetofSound told us that they found a great vegetarian place and they took us to Tulasi today. It was great - HUGE selection and the food was good. I am still in a food coma.

I've been Christmas baking the last few days. This year I'm making spiced nuts and cookies but I have given away almost all my nuts without taking a photo. Will take a photo the next time :) I'm happy with the sweet pecan nuts but the salty nuts are not quite right.

Bidadari

Simian, Dad and I went to Bidadari Cemetery two weekends ago to try and do a spot of birdwatching. We saw far more people then birds unfortunately. We did spot this laced woodpecker and a common flame back (which flew off before we could get a photo).

Pottery and Pies

 

Imp, Simian and I went to Mom's pottery class the other day - the quality of the work was really impressive. Here is Mom working on one of her pots.

Imp and Planetofsound also brought over Baja Fresh the other day for dinner. I made a bittersweet chocolate Pecan Pie and it turned out pretty yummy - Gourmet rules the day again!

Turn

We finally got down to see Susie's exhibition, Turn, on the last day. It was lovely and had some beautiful images.