Home Kitchen - My Culinary Exploits

Here's an update showing some of my recent culinary experiments at home.

Home-made Beef & Bacon Burger served with honey salad and straight-cut fries topped with shredded cheddar cheese. 

Shaped (hard-boiled) Eggs

Pasta weekend @ Home

Spaghetti with home-made meatballs served with mushroom tomato sauce

Seafood Farfalle (i.e. bow-tie pasta)

Tuck in!  =)

What would you do if switching off the lights is NOT an option??

I support energy conservation. I support Earth Hour. 

But... what do you do when switching off the lights is NOT an option?

Power consumption of standard 4ft fluorescent tube lamp = 48W

Power consumption of 4ft Save It Easy INSPIRE T5 set  = 25W

Every 125 minutes of operation with Save It Easy INSPIRE T5 yields the same savings as switching off standard lamps for 1 hour. 

So, what would you do if switching off the lights is NOT an option?

www.saveiteasy.com.sg

JacJac's Rare Weekend Walk at the McRitchie Reservoir

JacJac and I went for a rare weekend walkabout along Lornie Road and around parts of McRitchie Reservoir accessible to dogs over last weekend in an infrequent departure from his weekly two-hour swim sessions in Sentosa. 

Just to add some variety to our exercises and to reinforce his training. 

Saw a beautiful sight halfway into our walk and regretted that I was armed with nothing more than my handphone camera. 

A landscape shot from further up the road. 
And finally, the view of dusk from my study at home. 

Of Marley and Me

Firstly, let me qualify my opinions henceforth as a person who has yet to neither read the book nor watched the movie. 

However, I have no doubt that it is a touching movie that only the love for dogs and bonding with them can provide. 

And that, I think should be as far as it goes --- a celebration of bond and love. 

Nevertheless, we shall be seeing spikes in purchases of Labrador Retrievers and subsequent abandoning. Misguided couples and over-pampering parents do not understand that whatever on-screen antics by dog actors perceived as naughty and cute translates into very tangible behavioural and social issues in real life for themselves and their children.  

I can only hope that aspiring owners take heed of the author's warning before taking the plunge into what should be a long-term commitment of care and attention in return for undying devotion, love and loyalty. (See my other post) 

There are many more tears for all the abandoned dogs for every one that was shed during and after the movie.