Kitchen Fun !!

I decided to try to bake fat-free, sugar-free muffins, and document the process. Baking in Asia isn't quite like baking at home.. ( or in North-America ?! ) I've been having a tough time finding good muffin recipes that actually work here, in terms of our mini-Barbie-sized oven and different ingredients. I just winged 3 different batters ( inspired by the ones I know ) and went for it ! Now, why fat-free, sugar-free ? I really don't know.. I guess the pressure to fit into asian clothing is getting to me ?! Ahahaha  (0:

The batters tasted very different, the best one was the 1st one ( the one at the top of the pictures ), followed by 3rd, then 2nd. The first was actually delicious, but I was worried it might be too liquid. The second and third ones were what I expected from usual muffin batters... I really didn't care for the taste of #2, but that's just because it was very dense.

After cooking them, 1st one looked very boring, while 2nd and 3rd looked almost the same.

Taste test !!

1st batter; hands down winner !! Estimated 38 calories/muffin; can't beat that (0:

2nd batter; 2nd best. Very nice texture, but the flavour is super plain. Estimated 92 calories/muffin.

3rd batter; beurk! The muffin is very 'hollow' and falls apart in big chunks. I missed up that one big time ahahahah! Even the flavour can't save it; it's too banal. Estimated 121 calories/muffin.

.. Now if David could just wake-up from his Pre-game nap so we have a 2nd opinion (0: 

I pay later for this?

So i really enjoy taking random pictures of ianne and i thought maybe i would share a few of my action shots. 

Update

Havent put anything up in a bit here so here are some pics from my first weekend in China. Very cool to be in China. Lots n lots of people. Stayed at a great hotel. Food was good. Very cheap. Rink was very modern except for one odd detail as you can see in the pic i had to take of their toilet...and of course I had to check out McDo in China!

Oh how ironic !

Tonight I decided to make this great marinade for a salmon recipe .. Feeling inspired, I look at the fridge, stocked with every sauces imaginable, right? Well surprise surprise; we live in ASIA and we don't have soy sauce!??? What kind of horrible foreigners are we? Ahahahah ..

Off to China!

Remember the good old 'first day of school' pictures? Well here is an updated version of it;

David's first day of work!! Off to China for 6 days to play his very first games in the Asia league. Bonne chance (0:

Ianne

Well after a few delays Ianne made it to SK. Mikey and I picked her up at the airport and the one piece of luggage that made it with her. I think she was excited as during the 40ish minute drive home as there wasnt much dead air in the car. After dropping the bag off we met up with Mikey for dinner. Korean bbq n local beverages were on tap and it was delicious. Then we met up with Bryan and some english teachers for some more fun. All in all a great first night. Next day we did a 500$ Costco run and today we figured out the subway system and started stocking up the apartment from the grocery store. Has been a solid weekend.