Did you get it?

This picture speaks a thousand words..do you get the joke? Very cute.

Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Paste AKA Nutella

Yum Nutella, instead of buying it from the supermarket, you can now make it yourself and you know exactly what ingredients go into the making. Cool!

Recipe and photo from NYTimes

Toast 1 cup peeled hazelnuts in a dry pan until they are fragrant and golden, then let cool. Meanwhile, melt 4 ounces semisweet chocolate (not chips) and 2 ounces unsalted butter (4 tablespoons). Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Blend cooled nuts in a food processor until smooth, 3 to 5 minutes, drizzling in 1 to 2 tablespoons nut or vegetable oil. With the machine running, add the chocolate mixture, 3 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. Transfer to a container and refrigerate.

To be honest, the steps all look very simple and all ingredients are readily available here except making the hazelnuts..hmmm

Prints

I am kinda addicted to prints right now, now the shop Prints which sells stationery nor prints on clothing etc. But PRINTS....could be words of wisdoms, poems or just random ramblings or descriptions.

Everything I see or read, I kept trying to visualize how they look if I were to blow them up and frame them.

Don't you think these are wonderful? Prints for your laundry, for your bedroom, for your kitchen, for your bathroom, etc etc!! Somehow I am attracted to those with words not just pictures, imagine stopping in front of it and ponder everytime when you passes by.

FB and me

Recently I have not had much patience with FB. To be honest, I rarely login anymore, mainly go there to reply messages left by my frens and some still communicate with me through FB like a mailbox. What started to make me dread FB is strangers wanting to add me when I don't know them, or school mates from my pony tail days whom I have no recollection anymore and whom I have no intention to continue our friendship from where we left off.

Most of all, I see frens inviting others to party, to weddings via FB. What the heck? I mean, what makes you think those whom you want to invite is on FB? And call me backwards but I still love receiving wedding invitations by hand or by post.

Perhaps I should disconnect myself from FB given that I am suddenly becoming so 'anti-social'.

Big Red Cross

Whenever I am surfing on some blog, the pictures are 80% sure NOT to turn up and all I see is a big fat red cross in a box. It is pissing me off especially when refreshing the page doesn't help.

I don't know what the problem is since I can view some pictures in other websites. Anyway I love the Red Cross Society, I do but please, do not keep appearing on my computer!

Kettle

I never know one day I will be raving about a kettle *faintz* but while on my vacation in Australia, the apartment I was staying in had this kettle and it cost AUD 119 in the cheapest electrical store, I can't bear to part with that money but I just can't stop raving about it.

It is red and most of all I love the fire engine sound it make when the water is boiled. Marvellous. If only I can get one in Singapore at a cheaper price, that would rock!