Let me buy you dinner.

I took a day off from work to settle my stuff with the inland revenue department. It went well and I am back home now with half more day to spare. They told me I made a silly mistake in one of the forms I submitted and the current status is that I infact have credit balance with them. It's not a terribly huge credit amount but it should be enough for me to buy dinner for a few (offer valid till the next credit card billing cycle).

I'm still in a critically dire situation with work (that was the problem I was referring to in my previous post) but I suppose it just boils down to a matter of updating my cv, if you know what I mean. I had thought I won't be updating this blog while my crisis still looms but I guess I have too much to rant about!

Anyways, I did do a few nice things over the weekend: had a 4-hour conversation over a few drinks with my socialist friend (lets see if he will hit me on my head for labelling him that). And I did some cooking again Sunday evening: a characteristically Malay curry dish known as rendang. It turned out ok but wasn't spectacular. It was also not a particularly photogenic dish so I'm not putting up any pictures of it.

I still have a few peaches in the fridge and am open to suggestions on how best to eat them. The French buddhist suggested I make a compote as the fruits aren't very ripe but I thought that would be a tiny bit boring.

A break

There will soon be a long break in this blog as the author is currently going through a seriously rough patch that is eating up everything around the author's world. There is always the risk that the days of lavish wining and dining may fast become a memory of a passed era.

Crumble

Crumble indeed!
Throwing caution to the wind tonight
Indulge!

Had my favourite dishes for dinner tonight: baked rosemary chicken, spaghetti in olive oil with bell pepper and courgette. A fabulous dinner - even if only in my opinion - accompanied by family and a lovely bottle of French Pinot Noir.

I even made apple crumble for dessert: stewed apples in red wine, topped with cinnamon scented crumble.

I'll save you from having to guess what plant I was holding there. It's two twigs of Thai basil.


And you see here again the fresh basil as garnish on the apple crumble.

We had it with lime ripple ice cream.

Shadow of a quail's egg