mm had an ok busy weekend. After work on Saturday, mm went to one of the shops that sells baking ingredients, utensils, apparatus etc and City Super. Both were good. Had lunch at one of the local tea house at Wanchai close to the shop mentioned above - tasted great!

Was gonna attend a Yoga class, but mm had had pain on the upper back so she'd left it until next week.

mm had apple crumble in mind - bb no here to make for mm lah! She downloaded Delia Smith's recipe. The recipe was to serve 6 to 8 and mm intended to cut everything by half, hopefully the end result would serve 3 to 4. Sat was too tired and so mm made it yesterday evening, after having been to churches in Central and Kln (ceremony for her Goddaughters). It's pretty bad, kind of a disaster! Firstly, taking bb's advice, mm only measured one-quarter of the sugar in the recipe for the crumble but she forgot to put it - when she remembered that, the crumble was already baking in the oven! The crumble had medium sized lumps and it was difficult for mm to make them into nice little crumbles, like those bb made. mm guessed that's probably because she didn't do it quick enough - the butter was already soft, too soft to make them into nice crumbles.

The recipe suggested a bit of ground cloves. mm tried several places but couldn't get any.

There's no Bramley apples here, so mm used Granny Smith.

Then the custard. mm bought vanilla extract - which Delia recommended as an excellent substitute to vanilla pods; she said vanilla essence was no good. The recipe didn't say how much vanilla extract should be added so mm added several drops to start with. She could only smell milk and egg. She added another 1 or 2 teaspoons; didn't help much either. The custard wasn't thick enough too. You see, this time, mm did the entire measurement so no half-ing, although she used whole milk, as suppose to double cream, which Delia said should be ok. The end product was pretty runny and a bit cuddled as mm brought it to boil (!) in her desperation to get it thickened - unfortunately.

All sounded pretty disasterous, right? mm was disappointed too. Surprisingly, it tasted ok! mm guess : u can't go far wrong with baked apples! :p

mm will give another try to making apple crumble - her favourite dessert ! It was good fun too !

bb will be back tomorrow - yeah! : D

Perhaps she would give some tips to mm?

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Bruce called last week - we'll attend a seminar by a Franchisor of creative memory (or thinking or what not??! :P ) tomorrow evening (Monday). Objective is really as part of market research for a possible business, something to do with kid. will see lah.