Pyong Bricole

No Cocktail, only cherries

I supposed to take picture of my Midori Sour with cherries being thrown on it. Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't on my side and I really wanted to take, at least one, good shot that night. So, there goes Julien LOL. I asked him to drank up my midori, once the cocktail gone I had 3 shinny cherries in my cognac cup. Lied them on my light box and there you go... I named it "Mon Cherries" not a proper English nor French LOL, just a mix of both;)

PERFECT BIRTHDAY

Last Friday, I celebrated my birthday at the office. It's one of those perfect days in my life...early morning, Regina already sang the birthday song for me, later on Julien surprised me with a jewelry sets, after everyone head out to work and school, Sebastien helped me to mop the floor with the Swiffer (woohoo). And that afternoon....they surprised me with a Mousse au Chocolate and a bottle of champagne in the office.WHAT A PERFECT BIRTHDAY I had!

Last Raisin of the Season

During the visit to our friend's house at Saviese, I found this beautiful image of last raisin if this season on their neighbor's wineyard. Mid of last week all of sudden we got the cold front which brought snow even at the lower altitude. They told me those raisin, which been dried out on it's branches, will be picked up later by birds.

Tonight's Dinner : PAELLA

Today we got invited by our neighbour, Eddie, for dinner. Eddie and his girlfriend, Mame, are Spanish, and tonight, they made for us special Spanish Tapas for appetizer and a delicious Paella served with a great Chardonay. They are such a nice couple, we sat and talked until quite late at night, then got to go back home cause kiddos need to go to bed.Well, got to invite them to come over here next time... for another cuisine from another side of the planet...Indonesia's Cuisine.

 

Low-Calories MIDORI SOUR

Everyone, especially woman, loves MIDORI SOUR. The sweet and fruity taste of it, make it a perfect cocktail for everyday. I want to share way I make my Midori Sour at home, low-calories.....but still with it's full taste......

 I use the Bali Moon - melon one. I bought it in Bali a while ago, but never use it until now.

For this mix, I use 4 cl of Bali Moon  and fill it up with Sprite Zero according to your taste (like stronger cocktail, then put a bit less Sprite)

-----ENJOY YOUR COCTAIL, CHEERS!!!!-----

All day out....

Today, we spent almost the whole day outside....begin with my gardening activities in the morning, then preparing the BBQ in the garden, back again to do the garden...and finally at the late afternoon...I started with my sewing thingy again

I hate having anything WILD in my garden....I hate wild grass, flowers, bush...whatever you call it...I will certainly cut it off, or if I can't at least I will trim it down. See how I trimmed down the wild bush....looks like a professional gardener, don't I? LOL....

So today, besides cut down all those wild things, I also planted some more new flowers for summer. I forgot the name (my oh my....) but it's a tricolor flowers, small flowers that I planted into the pot...easy to take care, and have less chance to be eaten by those snail when we had too much rain (like last year)

We also did BBQ at the otherside of the garden....'GUILT-FREE BBQ'.... we skipped all the processed foods, instead we replaced them with grilled halibut and salmon, shrimps and skinless chicken...we also replaced the french fries with jasmine rice...we need to support Julien with his diet....otherwise he will say...'It's your fault....' I think I will try to open my recipes book again, try to figure out Indonesian style BBQ....it's certainly super duper delicious....light (we hate oil) LOL..........

Japanese Cooking (the arts)

Pyong loves to eat.....so do I. My very favorite cuisine is Italian's, what else can be better. But, I never forget where I came from, of course I also love asian cooking with once condition....no spicy and oily foods. That's why I love Japanese cooking.....light, delicious, fresh and CUTE. Talking about cute food, today, my friend forwarded me an email full with pictures of cute foods, and now....I also want to share it with all of you... BON APPETIT!!!!!!!

Royal Family. Sushi decorated in a Japanese traditional yellowish (should be goldish) wears...in this case, the omelette is used to give the goldish tones. Smart idea!!!

As I remember, the story should be about 3 little pigs fighting against an evil wolf. But in this case, one of the pig got sun burn so badly that's why it's turned to be brown pig.I like the way they decorated the omelette with the nori, it gave a tone seems like it's a bi-color kimono lol

I call it Inari on the beach lol....look at how they use those inari pocket to be the beach long chair...it's cool, creative, the most important thing...it looks super duper delicious...................

for more cute lunch boxes, snacks idea, check  my photobucket.

Guild Free Muffin ala WW (Weight Watchers)

My big guy at home is on diet, well...sometimes. He always love desserts, the sweeter, the better. Last time when I went to COOP (a chained supermarket) I found this package of cake mix powder on sale, well...since this is weight watcher...why not....I go ahead and bought it along with a package of the sour cream and frozen berries. I did not make it until this afternoon...and it took me about 40 minutes in total to make this guild free muffins...all you need to do is just preheat the oven at 180°C and mix the mixture with 225 grams of water and 75 grams of sour creams. Mix well with the mixer for about 3 minutes. After it's well mixed, I put in the thawed frozen berries, and mix it again, this time by hand, not with the machine, unless you want to puree all those berries. Divide the mixture equally into 12 lined muffin cup, put it in the heated oven-...and 35 minutes later...you will have 12 delicious guild free muffins ready to be consumed by the whole family...BON APPETIT

                                                               

Happy Birthday, Julien!!

                          Today, 25th March, is Julien's birthday....in the afternoon we had lunch with his father Au Gréni, his father restaurant owned by family good friend - Hendriksen Family. Foods are great - Emincé Zurichoise with Rösti for me, Julien and his father had Fillet de Péche with french fries and Grilled Sausage with french fries for the children, but the wine chosed by his father is a bit too strong then I refused to empty my glass (I finished my mineral water instead). For the dessert, everybody basically having scoops of ice cream for them except me, Créme Brulée. It is one of the best I ever had.

In the afternoon, a small apero with some friends, I ordered a vacherin birthday cake for him from Christian Brigué. Vacherin cake is kind of ice cream cake, but instead of ice cream, it used sorbet. It wrapped by a generous amount of creams and cover by meringuée. This vacherin is actually using a mix of 2 kind of sorbet - Apricot and vanilla. it's not only great but the most important is...it's guilt free (sorbet is less fat than normal ice cream) lol

Marbré Chocolat-Vanille

Today afternoon, we invited some friends to have a 'BIRTHDAY APERO' for Julien. Since the morning, I just had a feeling, I need to do something....there will be more people than I expected. Check my kitchen in the morning, I found about 500 grams of butter and 10 eggs. Grab one of my favorite dessert recipe book - DESSERTS AU CHOCOLAT, I found the recipe of Marbré Chocolat-Vanille, easy to make and I do not need to run to the grocery stores for any other ingredients. The recipe made 12 Marbré Chocolat-Vanille cupcakes (I made it in the form of cupcakes than log since I think it will be served more for the children than adult). The great part is the chocolate mixture that been put on the top of the white mixture, it looks more like chocolate meringuée than cake mixture.

For the recipe of Marbré Chocolat-Vanille, please check out my page. Bonne Cuisine!