I dropped my iPod.

Yes. The one that I won 1st prize in my company lucky draw during Christmas about 2 years back…

Its really sad. But I must admit I’ve not been anal enough about protecting my iPod. Apparently the silicon casing that you see still on, wasn’t enough protection to withstand a 5 foot drop from my chest (hooked on a lanyard). I was shopping for groceries to cook this weekend for friends and family. I was just reaching down to pick up some paprika from the herbs section at NTUC, which was immensely crowded as usual on Friday nights. And I was “wearing” my iPod using a lanyard like I always do, hooked and dangling. As I stood up, it caught the trolley handle, snapped off and just hit the floor. As anyone would say… “shit…” followed by a heavy sigh… did all of that… Apparently a $20 silicone casing doesn’t prevent LCD leakage if dropped. On the bright side. It still works fine. Just pray that the leakage doesn’t spread across the screen.

Thankfully was not bothered by it too much. Got home to marinate the boneless chicken legs. Spent an entire hour marinating the meat (bought 2 kg frozen legs). This one is different from last week’s marinade. By the time I was done it was 12 am and I felt like puking. Too much rawness…

Felt better the next morning. Chicken has marinated overnight. So did a trial run for brunch. Very low fire, skin down, lid on for about 12 mins… vuala…

Skin was nice and crisp and the meat was succulent. Mum thoroughly enjoyed it too. Its actually very nice, but I realized that dried rosemary, oregano and basil was definitely secondary to the original fresh versions you see on Jamie Oliver. The ones I did at RN’s place didn’t have that crispyness on the skin. The wok, stove fire, and lid were all completely different from what I use at home. Plus I could not recreate the sauce I did last sunday because Campbell mushroom soup wasn’t part of the menu (now you know how I make my sauce). RN helped to solve my sauce problem while I was almost unsuccessful trying out Lee Kum Kee black pepper sauce. Cooked for RN and KM only because I wasn’t that hungry, and got a little sick of my own cooking.

After dinner at RNs place, went to east coast together with KM and RN to try out some very good home made ice cream at east coast. Its actually at the ground floor of a condominium named Ocean Park. I must say damn good because I thought it was better than Ben and Jerrys. Ordered mint and chocolate. And the cool thing was they had those “freeze stoves” like the one at Yuki Yaki where you make your own ice cream. They also had lots of topping/mixing choices. I mixed both my chosen flavors with oreos… and it just blew me away.

KM was really tired so sent him back first, then went with RN to ABC Brickworks food centre to have my dinner. Was walking around and came across the aroma of something that I’ve wanted to eat weeks ago…

Authentic claypot rice. woo hoo… God is good. To think we had no idea where to go for dinner after sending KM back. RN was still full and as always, its not easy to think of what to eat at times.  But when this baby arrived at our table… RN simply said “Ok now I’m hungry!” LP lived in the neighbourhood so came down to join us. Thankfully he didn’t want to eat claypot rice… hahaha. I mean… this dish was just fantastic… chicken was nice and tender, perfect blend of sauces… kiam hir (salted fish), and lap chiong (chinese sausages)…. woooot… it was damn satisfying.

Thinking of what I wanna try cooking next weekend. Already done meats… how about some fish… hmm… thinking salmon and cod. Not easy to do nice fish… also thought of doing vongole… also craving for Riciotti at the Riverwalk. Need to learn how to use paprika too… seems like a very nice spice to use but can go wrong if the combinations aren’t right.

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