bianca's photo albums

Initially my multiply site started of as an extra space to share my photos online, but as I found it very user friendly I have in the meantime decided to make this my primary photo space. Feel free to browse my photos of travel, diving, family, friends, outings, etc. I'll slowly be adding my old collections here as well, that are now scattered around the web.

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Recipes are back on Multiply! I have moved my recipes to Recipe section....

Happy Chinese New Year 2010!

Happy Chinese NY 2010!! Xin Nian Kuai Le 新年快乐! gong xi fa cai! may the year of the Tiger bring happiness, good health & prosperity to everyone!... more

Previous blog entries:
Aug 15	-	Phuket Diving videos (15 Aug 2009)
Jun 21	-	Steve McCurry Masterclass @ACM Singapore
Feb 23	-	Tempeh burgers at Food #03

squid

at one of the dives at Phuket we saw this squid... love the way they move!

Previous videos:
Jul 4	-	turtle swimming
Jul 4	-	turtle eating
Sep 28	-	Manta swimming away

Harry's sticky date pudding

To top off our nice dinner at Hooked! last Saturday, we had a sticky date pudding (came with ice cream and strawberry) @ Harry's.
And a glass of white wine... yums

Previous reviews:
Sep 20	-	Hooked!
Jun 8	-	Sharkwater / Supersize Me
Feb 12	-	Kite Runner (spoiler alert)

Dutch Cheese cake (non-baked) - Kwarktaart

This cake is made with fresh curd cheese, which is a very young cheese and tastes like yoghurt. The difficult part is to get the right ingredients in Singapore.

In Dutch this cheese is called "kwark" (pronounce as: quark), in French it's "fromage fraiche" - learn more at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(cheese)

This cake is not oven baked and it needs to stiffen up in the fridge overnight, preferably about 24 hours.

In this case I used strawberries, but other fruits can be used too (berries are best), try not to use kiwi's as they break down the enzymes in the cake - and some fruits don't work with agar agar if you use that instead of gelatin.

I couldn't find gelatin sheets, so I used agar agar, but with 2 packets of it it didn't get the same texture as gelatin - maybe I did it wrongly? If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know!

Previous recipes:
Dec 28	-	Belgian Endives from the oven (witlof uit de oven)
Dec 28	-	Coq au Vin (rooster in wine)
Aug 16	-	Beef Stroganoff (Russian)
bianca's favorite recipes:
Mar 23	-	Cajun Prawns with Pineapple Salsa
Mar 23	-	Gumbo Soup
Dec 15	-	Assam prawns
Dec 15	-	Brinjal stuffed with minced meat
Dec 15	-	Assam fish curry
Dec 15	-	Curry pumpkin soup
Dec 15	-	Cannelloni Spinach & Minced Meat
Dec 15	-	Cucumber soup
Dec 15	-	Chicken in beer (啤酒鸡)/ Duck in beer (啤酒鸭)
Dec 15	-	Fried Beehoon (Singapore style)
Dec 15	-	Waldorf Salad
Dec 15	-	cocunut sambal (Sri Lankan)
Dec 15	-	Chye Sim salad (Sri Lankan)
Dec 15	-	Dahl curry (Sri Lankan)
Dec 9	-	Curry chicken (Sri Lankan)
Dec 9	-	Green bean curry (Sri Lankan)
Dec 8	-	Keema (minced meat curry)