Hello Hello everybody, in order to celebrate the Easter weekend, I have done a Easter nail art design for you. This is the very first time since I have used so many colors on my ten fingernails!! These nail art designs are inspired by the various blogs and youtube videos related to EASTER....

These are the things you need for the look.

Things to Use (From the left)

Apple Green Color; GR602; Nature Republic
An Affair in Red Square ; NL09 ; OPI
Blue Color; BL603; Faceshop
Yellow Color; YL702; Faceshop
Light Pink Color;15; needme
Bright Pink Color; M255; Ettude House
Pink Color; 21; needme
Base Coat
Top Coat; Sally Hassen
Nail Polish remover
3D Nail Art Color Set

Step 1: Squeeze/pour a bit of the colors you will need onto a piece of paper or color palette.

Step 2: Color the index, ring and last fingers with NL 09 after applying all the fingernails with base coat. 

Step 3: a) Color the middle fingernail with GR602. 
             b) Draw a dark green line across 1/4 of your nail and dot dots below the line using the ultra  
                 thin nail art brush. Draw another line below the dots using BL 609.  
             c) Draw a semi circle using NL09  on the green line, the arms over the green line and draw 
                  the ears  using the tip of the brush. 
             d) Dot black color as the eyes and use 15 to draw inner ears and the nose. 

Step 4:  a) Use 21 to color the thumb nail. 
              b) Color 3/4 of the nail with 15. 
              c) Draw a pink line across at 1/4 of the nail, dot dots below and use BL609 draw below the   
                  dots.
              d) Using YL 702 to draw a semi circle and draw the "wings" on the pink line. 
              e) Dot black color as the eyes and use gold color for the beak. 

Finally.... use the top color to seal the design and add a beautiful shine!!!!

             

Boo and I have been invited to a Karaoke session at the 10 dollars KTV at Ah Hood Road.. hmmm. a very not so convenient place but the main point is the both of us are supposingly the " advisors cum matchmakers" for Boo's friends. haha.. I think I will just stop here before I blah more details out!! shhhh~

Anyway, before proceeding to Ah Hood road, we were almost dying of hunger especially I had to change 3 MRT train routes (North East Line--> Circle Line--> North South Line)  before reaching Toa Payoh Hub. After surveying the place visually, we decided to have some Hor Fun for our dinner!

It is located in the basement food court with a small eatery place of its own. Frankly speaking, there wasn't much of a crowd for an eatery that seem to have a long history behind it. Hopeful it can survive through the fierce competition in the F & B industry.

Boo and I ordered its signature's Gourment Dumpling Soup (small) to share, a Prawn and Chicken HorFun for myself and the Char Siew Wanton Mee for Boo.

See how Boo was in all smiles the moment the server placed all the food we ordered on the table.

The preparation of the Hor Fun is not the same like the famous Changi Village Ipoh Hor Fun I have tried before.The serving was huge with large pieces of fresh chicken meat and 2 unshelled prawns costing $5.80. What further amazed me was that the sauce tasted like some saturated herb sauce, unlike  stalls which have  tasteless sauce and small shreds of chicken meat for $3.50.  IMO, I would definitely choose Rong Ji's HorFun with an additional $2 plus for the taste and portion! <3

The Gourmet Dumpling Soup is no wonder the signature for the eatery!!!! * 100 marks scored for the dumplings! As seen in the picture taken above, the dumpling's filling consists of a whole prawn with pork wrapped around it and not forgetting to mention its thin dumpling skin fit for a King!

The Wanton Mee is not too bad too but i would certainly recommend their Hor Fun and Dumplings!!!

I have been having cravings for glass noodles therefore, I decided to prepare the dish by myself!  To compensate with the super hot weather these days, I have also prepared a cold tofu which is high in protein and most importantly, good for my dieting goal! 

I am presenting you the 1st Asian dish I have posted on my Blog! Da la~~~~ 

Ingredients From the left  (Serve 2 ) 

200 g of  Sweet Potato glass noodle

100 g of Soy Bean Spouts 

102 g of Yi Fong tea mushrooms

1 Japanese Silken tofu

2 tablespoons of Oyster sauce 

1 tablespoon of Japanese salad sauce

200 g of grounded chicken

2 carrots 

1 stalk of scallion (Garnish)

Fry Glass Noodles

Firstly,remove the glass noodle from package and cook under boiling water for 12 mins. Thereafter, drain the water and cool in running water for bouncy texture.  After all above procedures are done, leave the noodles for awhile. 

Get ready to throw the garlic after pouring some oil into the heated wok. Next, pour the chicken meat into the wok till they are slightly cooked and prepare to mix the vegetables. Add a bit of oyster sauce first to enhance the fragrance.  Finally, threw the noodles in and mix everything evenly. Remember to add all the rest of the oyster sauce into the mixture!!!

Cold Tofu

I have went through a few recipes and most prepared the tofu to just be served raw. Well, for me, I preferred to steam the tofu for awhile. So, it will depend on your preference! =)

After steaming for 5 mins in the rice cooker, (yes, it is the rice cooker if you're wondering) put the tofu into the fridge for 15 mins and top up with the Japanese salad sauce and you're almost done!

Add some chopped scallion and Yeah... enjoy the food!

    

The previous two nail arts I have been doing flowers related nail art so today I would like to try something new. haha.. my real reason is actually because I would like to use my new OPI nail polish...

Anyway let's get started with the tutorial ~~ lalala..the bear below is my "Oi Lulu Bear" and he will be my  background for introducing the items to use. 

Things to use (From the left)

Golden Glitter; GL112 ; Faceshop 

An Affair in Red Square ; NL09 ; OPI

Parlez-vous OPI? ; NL F14 ; OPI

Base Coat

Top Coat; Sally Hansen

Nail Polish Remover

Nail Art Brush (thin)

Nail Art Brush (thick)

3D Gold color

Starting from clockwise direction,

Step 1:  Paint your index and ring fingers with GL112 and NL F14 for the rest of the fingers after applying the base coat.

Step 2: Paint another layer of the ring finger with golden color using the nail art brush (thick).

Step 3: Using the nail art brush (thin), draw triangle within triangle pattern onto the thumb, middle and last fingers.

Use the top coat to seal your design and add a beautiful shine!!!


Shake it tonight Babes!!~~~WHOO HOO

Boo has always been a manic for meatballs so the moment I chanced upon this recipe online, I though it is a great chance for me to show off my erhh.. um  cooking skills ( I was actually feeling a bit guilty when typing the "cooking skills")!

This is the dish I have prepared ! Frankly speaking it was my first attempt making it and I did a few alternations to its original recipe.

Ingredients (Serve 2, 11 meatballs)

1 bottle of Bologonese sauce
300g of Macaroni
3 tablespoons of Parmesan shreds
1 can of button mushrooms
276g of minced chicken meat
1 Japanese cucumber
1 egg
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
1/2 teaspoon of salt

The blending machine strikes again. I have blended the cucumber first, followed by adding the minced meat, garlic, egg and finally the parmesan shreds. Blending the whole lot of the ingredients added and you got this:

Looks a lot like Avocado drink.. well, I guess it's from the cucumber..

Roll the mixture into little meatballs.

P.S They don't look not so little after all.. =)

Do take note that as I do not have a baking sheet to lay over the baking tray, a piece of aluminum foil was placed over and I applied some margarine onto it. THIS IS TO PREVENT the meatballs from sticking to the surface of the foil. 

Preheat the oven at 230 degrees and put in the meatballs to bake for 18 minutes.  

While waiting for the meatballs, I went on the preparing the small elbow macaroni and most importantly the sauce. 

Bologonese sauce

Pour the entire bottle of the bologonese sauce  and add in the sliced button mushroom. Stir the mixture in slow flames while adding some cheese shreds based on your own preference. 

Finally it is time to serve the finishing dish. I have also added some butter head leaves and cherry tomatoes as appetizer. 

It's coming to Spring !!!!  Singapore may not be experiencing any of the other 3 seasons except Summer, but I secretly love Spring the most!!! Especially when the fashion trends will be focusing mainly on flowery stuffs.. like THAT!!

Anyway, this inspired me to do a nail art on flowers, which is the QUEEN of ALL FLOWERS, ROSES  -----<@! 

Let us began the tutorial. 

Thing to use (From the left):

Apple green color;GR602;Nature Republic
An Affair in red square;NL 09; OPI
Light pink color; 15;Needme
Bright pink color; 21; Needme
Blue color; BL603; Faceshop
Base coat
Top coat; Sally Hassan
3D green tube
Nail art brush (thin)
Natil art brush (thick)

After applying your base coat, paint all the nails in blue (BL603).

Starting from clockwise direction:

Step 1:  Using the dabbing method, dab the bright pink (21) on the each nail with the nail art brush (thick)
Step 2:  Make out some "c" shapes around each bright pink color with the light pink (15) using the nail art brush (thin)
Step 3:  Repeat step 2 except that this time use white( NL 09) to draw the "c" shapes.
Step 4:  Drip some green color from the 3D tube using the thin brush and draw some "inverted water droplets" at the edges of the roses.
Step 5: Use some light green color (GR602) to enhance the darker green.

Finally you have made roses onto your fingernails!

I have never been a good cook and I'm not sure I will be one someday. Haha.. well, ever since I am determined to lost 5 kg, I have been sourcing through websites and forums for both healthy and delicious recipes. Of which, I found this recipe, shepherd's pie with healthy mash potatoes where I have made some amendments to the dish with some of my favorite foods  instead.

My Belief is Eating healthy doesn't mean you can't have your favorite foods!!!! 

I hope it looks appealing to you..=) Let's get started to whip up the dish!!~

 Sorry, I know the super imposed cheese and butter pictures were so obvious, but please bear with it as I forgotten to take them together with the rest. =) 

Ingredients  (4 servings)

1 slice of cheese
3 small red potatoes 
1 small cube of salted SCS butter (Depending on your preference)
1 can of Cream Style Corn with Mushroom 
200 g of small elbow Macaroni 
350 g of Cauliflower 

Preparing Mash Potatoes

Wash and peel the red potatoes while tearing the cauliflower into small pieces.

Boil both the cauliflower and potatoes and get ready for some grinding action! Mummy bought this blender which I must say is very powerful.

It wasn't too long to blend both the potatoes and cauliflower evenly into mash form. Do take note that while blending, you may add the butter bit by bit into the mixture.

Preparing The Filling

Boil the macaroni in water with a pinch of salt and a bit of cooking oil to prevent the macaroni from sticking together.Next, filter the water away.

Mix the can of Campbell (DO NOT ADD ANY WATER) with the macaroni and stir under slow fire.

 

Next, lay the filling into the aluminum tray and layered the top with the healthy mash potato. Place the tray into the oven at set the at 250 Degree Celsius for 30 minutes.

Hope you all love the Baked Macaroni in Mushroom Corn Cream with Healthy Mash Potato                    (Quite mouthful of words)  I have done!!!!~