Utah & Chicago

I had something programmed to go up currently (a quick, lovable giveaway), though we absolutely had to get the photo recaps up from Utah as well as Chicago for all the honeyed folks which came out to get the book as well as get it signed. So contemptible it took me longer than we had planned, though they have been eventually cropped as well as ready to view.

Below have been the small from Salt Lake City, Chicago as well as Oakbrook during the end of the post have been links to slideshows with some-more fun photos from each. If we were during one of the signings as well as see the pic of yourself, feel giveaway to squeeze your photo from my flickr page.

First up Salt Lake City

Look during those faces.

And these. Hi Maria. And thanks girls for the fun treats. And additionally for saving me the outing to The Sweet Tooth Fairys shop. we dont consider we would have had time to expostulate there.

Speaking of faces. Look during this small guy. A George Clooney in the making.

And these girls. Cute as well as colorful.

Cupcake Bum. Adorable.

Lots of in depth review about the most appropriate approach to get chocolate coating smooth.

Fingertip fashion. Who knew.

Great bangs.

Smiles for miles.

See what we mean.

My brand new friend Robyn from the Cupcake Camp we attended in Oregon the few weeks ago as well as the integrate of her sisters. She has two some-more only as pretty.

Then came Chicago with the same unrestrained as well as great smiles.

Hi.

and hey!

Frankenstein pops.

More boys Big

and little.

Okay Check this out.

Cute shirt.

And it gets better.

Wait for it.

You ch uckled didnt you. we did.

Then came Oakbrook.

And so stylish. ; )

And creative, too. Look during this flower ring she brought. Its done of pinkish as well as green siren cleaners. Fun. fun.

It would look good with your top, too.

An astonishing treat. Meeting all the immature kids as well as teenagers which have been already into baking as well as loving it.

Everyone Ive met has only been the pleasure to talk with.

Friends.

Family.

Couples.

And of march the Williams-Sonoma folks, too.

P.S. Ill be in Dallas this Thursday if we want to come say Hi.

P.S.S. Stay tuned for the discerning giveaway.

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World Cafe: Middle East with Bobby Chinn

Bobby Chinn with his fans, foe winner Jovin as well as Queenie
TLC (formerly Discovery Travel & Living) not long ago held a special cooking to deliver their latest foodie adventure, World Cafe:Middle East which hits our television screens (Astro Channel 707)today during 10pm. Hosted by Bobby Chinn, a man we're all informed with for his gallivanting epicurean cooking around in World Cafe Asia, a cooking was a tiny intimate affair with only Kyspeaks (with Haze)and a a organisation of really lucky foe winners together with Jovin who had flown in specifically from Penang.
According to Bobby, a Middle East hold Adam & Eve ate a pomegranate (vs an apple) in Eden, a childhood cookie, stone sweets with pencil lead - cinema have been pleasantness of TLC
Befitting a Middle East theme, cooking was during Al-Halabi Lounge located upon a lower ground building of JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur. The place which is run by a people who own Tarbush was packaged with Middle Eastern tourists who desired a opulent design, easy lounging chairs as well as etc. While a food wasn't really enticing (only a bread as well as hummus was good whilst a rest was really ho hum), we were allthere to hob nob with a infamous Mr. Chinn who has a larger than hold up personality.
dates, dates, as well as some-more dates, Bobby does his most appropriate Lawrence of Arabia sense - cinema have been pleasantness of TLC
The uncover is kinda person! al to hi m, since he can snippet his birthright to Egypt where he was born.For any partial in this third series of his show, he introduces recipes, history as well as delves deep in to a culture. The Middle Eastern cuisine additionally covers a broad range due to a meridian as well as culture. Persian, Levantine, Turkish as well as North Africa has additionally shabby a Middle Eastern cuisine.
Hummus, feathery bread, baklava, flattering roses from Al-Halabi Lounge, JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur
Bobby's travels cover Istanbul, Damascus & Aleppo, Jordan & The West Bank as well as eventually Cairo & Alexandria. Each partial is a single hour (versus 30 minutes similar to before) as Bobby longed for to highlight some-more engaging stories. He common which they used to cut out so many engaging stories for a World Cafe Middle East series due to a miss of time.
His journey starts in Istanbul, a crossroads with Eurupoe where he explores food similar to kebabs, pilafs, filo pies which all originated from a Ottoman Empire. Damascus & Aleppo is next, where Bobby breaks bread (with his head) to have breadcrumbs. Damascus is additionally a oldest city in a world.At Aleppo, this is a last partial of a spice route as a result a abundance of spices there. Jordan & West Bank is next where Bobby dons a Lawrence of Arabia clothe as well as gets up tighten as well as personalwith a camel. He additionally visits date farms as well as olive groves as well as explore Palestinian food.Then comes Cairo & Alexandria, where hegot a little family timewith hiscousins. They were there during Prophet Muhammad's birthday, which a Egyptians celebrate by giving a kids candy. He is pictured with stone sweets as well as a big frown as they had inked a eyebrows in with pencil lead which is poisonous! Bobb! y additi onally gets to relieve childhood memories by trying a thin cookie from his immature days. He alsointroduces ful medames (made from fava beans as well as garlic) as well as melokhia, a soup made wih Corete, avegetable local to Egypt. Incidentally, I've eaten which vegetable as they sell it in Justlife underneath a name mulukhiya.
It was great fun dining with Bobby as well as meeting a little brand new people similar to Jovin from Penang as well as Joelynn from Kuala Lumpur (who has read about a blog before!). Thanks to TLC as well as Compass Communications for making a arrangements.
Don't forget to tune in to Channel 707 (TLC) tonight during 10pm for a initial partial of World Cafe: Middle East. The uncover additionally repeats upon Tuesdays, 4pm as well as Saturdays, 2pm. For some-more pictures, see the Flickr set.
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Which is Healthier for Me Tea or Coffee ?

Inhabitants of earth can be rounded off divided in to 2 groups: tea lovers as well as coffee addicts. Some countries have been home to most more of a single kind than a other. The US is a coffee nation, though a UK as well as most parts of Asia have been resolutely rooted in tea culture.

That said, most people enjoy both drinks. We motionless to review them from a nutrition aspect, just for kicks.

What we need to know:
Both coffee as well as tea enclose probably no calories when churned with water. For most people a straight taste is too bitter or deficient as well as they must add sugarine and/or cream. But a actual tea root or coffee bean is probably calorie-less. With no fat, no sodium, as well as no carbs where can we go wrong?

Both beverages enclose caffeine, with coffee about twice as much as tea for a allied crater of prohibited drink. Caffeine in reasonable amounts during a day (3 cups of coffee or six cups of tea) is actually considered healthy for most people, as it helps flog begin a metabolism. If we work out in a morning, a discerning cuppa joe before your 2 mile lope will help we perform better.

Coffee has a little B vitamins, potassium as well as alternative minerals whilst Tea is tall in manganese, folate as well as potassium. So both can a bit of nutritious goodness to your daily mix. But a categorical reason tea has turn so renouned in illness circles is a cancer-fighting antioxidants green tea purports to yield a bodies.

And a new investigate published in a American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that daily intakes of more than 100 ml of tea or coffee might significantly revoke a risk of certain brain tumors. Nice.

So will it be a blazing prohibited shot of espresso during 7am, or 4 oclock Earl Grey?

As prolonged as we hang to a basic liquid, seems similar to there is no ! need to choose sides here. Both these prohibited drinks have been harmless in lucid quantities throughout a day, as well as might even yield a couple of nutritional benefits to their fans.

If youre adding sugarine or artificial sweeteners, plea yourself to progressively revoke a volume by half. From experience, we can go down from 2 teaspoons to 1 within a couple of weeks to months, as well as then down from a single to nothing within a similar time frame.

What to do during a supermarket:

Take a look during a part lists to have certain no warn ingredients have been added to your coffee beans or your tea leaves.

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I cooked: Prawn, pork and tofu miso soup with udon noodles

by Baby Sumo

Noodles epitomise fast food. They are easy to prepare and utterly versatile. -Hugo Arnold, author ofWagamama, Ways with noodles.

During our visit to Sanuki Udon, we purchased 1 kg of their freshly-made udon noodles (RM20/kg) as we loved the texture of the noodles we sampled there. These noodles are to be frozen on the day of purchase and can be kept in the freezer for up to 10 days. Udon noodles can be stir fried or cooked in soups. They are healthy, high in complex carbohydrates, low in fat and essentially free of additives.

Sanuki Udon noodles

When you think fast food, think noodles.

This is a recipe you can throw together very easily to create a healthy and hearty meal.

Prawn, pork and tofu miso soup with udon noodles

Preparation time: 10-15 minutes

Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients

500g udon noodles

4 large red chillies, deseeded and thinly sliced

6-7 small shitake mushrooms, stems removed and thinly sliced

50g lean pork, thinly sliced

200g raw king prawns, peeled and deveined

1 block firm tofu, cut into 1cm cubes

4 tbsp miso paste

For garnish

1 tbsp lightly toasted black sesame seeds

1 tbsp lightly toasted white sesame seeds

5-6 stalks spring onions, finely chopped

20g dry seaweed, cut into thin strips

1. Remove the noodles from the freezer just before cooking, place into a large pot of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes or until soften. Drain and refresh under cold water. (Never use salt water when softening noodles)

2. In a separate large pot, bring 1.5 litres of water to boil. Add the miso paste, pork and mushrooms and leave to simmer for 2 minutes.

The ingredients

3. Add the raw king prawns, chillies and tofu and simmer for another 2 minutes or until prawns are cooked.

4. Divide the udon noodles between 4 bowls and ladle the hot soup over the noodles.

5. Serve topped with sesame seeds, dry seaweed and spring onions.

It doesn't take long to throw this delicious bowl of noodles together

Crazieapple is back and reviewing: Carousel (Melbourne)

Being single as good as beautiful means you'll get asked out for dates a lot. (Just kidding!! =P)
Having a privilege of study in Aussie means carrying a eventuality of carrying a good sceneric view whilst carrying breakfast/lunch, enjoying a breeze, carrying a beer, chilling out with your date mates.
Carousel, a modern as good as stylish cafe, is situated in a undiluted location, overlooking a serene Alberk Park Lake. Nothing about this cafeteria doens't roar "Perfect date place!!!" (well, unless you're starting out with a date from hell)
The cafeteria offers an all day breakfast, lunch or even snack. The outside rug where we sat upon is roughly a undiluted mark upon could get. The pic below is what i eat my lunch to:
. Jealous already? hehe
One of a reason since i haven't been updating Augustdiners (apart from being lazy), is since i mislaid my camera in an hapless event.. =( unless we guys wanna hurt your eyes with bad quality food photos, i'll be updating alot less frequent, as good as try to leech upon Chowvi's pro DSL.. hehe
Pics from this post have been by courtesy of Chowvi:
Testing out my veteran photo-taking skills.. i would contend i'm doing a pretty good job!! haha have him look so cold rightt?? haha (he's actually quite lame in real life!! hahahahaha JK!)
Chow's Duck Pie with a salad of roated celeriac, toasted hazelnuts, beetroot, frisee, rocket, radicchio as good as quince vinegar dressing
When i asked, his verdict was: "Very Good!! Different from normal pies.. Best eaten whilst list! ening to a song below:"
Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand
Erm... yea.. told we my friend is weird.. -.-''
Moving upon to my meal,
Sparkling H2O for a start as good as Latte for a weirdo.. haha
I need to cut down upon my caffeine intakes whenever i can afford to, since it's examination period.. we should let my physique off upon caffeine upon weekends..
I systematic a infamous Carousel Burger, consist of beef hamburger, cheddar, caramelized onion, bacon, butter lettuce, tomato, fried egg, pesto aioli, grassed area salad as good as pickles. The multiple of all a ingredients is like a burst of all heavenly flavour; a corrupted oily bacon, cheese, with a brew of salad n pickles.. It was messy to eat but nonetheless, a prime pick!! Love how a hamburger doesn't ambience too processed (much like McDs).
This is really a recommended preference to those who wants for pay carousel a visit!! Time to whip out your sunnies!!
Happy as good as Satisfied Patrons


After meal, i in a centre took out my harangue notes as good as proposed revising there.. we don't wanna waste no good weather, keeping m! yself at home as good as debase with my books, do i? hehe
Oh, as good as a lil' drink doesn't mistreat right?? =)Surprisingly much some-more prolific since someone confiscated my phone as good as refused to talk to me.. When there's no other distractions to spin to, you'll automatically spin to your books.. haha
Chow's really inventive (konon-nye) shot. For some-more of his "arts", we can check outhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/chowvi/
I loved everything about Carousel upon this beautiful day!! The sun, a breeze, a food is superb, undiluted view to clean your eyes, friendly (not to mention prohibited ) waiter... Definitely a prohibited mark to hang out!!


Ratings:Food: 8/10(unfortunately, i listened a breakfast was nothing to rave about)
Service: 8/10(cashier even addressed Chow by his surname when he paid a bills: "thank we Mr Thian". Doesn't this kinda service normally occur in Business classes?)
Ambience:10/10(nothing to complain unless it rains as good as ruin a sceneric)Overall: 8.5/10
Carousel22 Aughtie Drive
Albert Park Lake VIC 3205
(03) 8646 6000
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