Hormone's Fault

15 March

I was hungry. At the coffee shop, I was deciding between ba chor mee and ban mian since both stalls had no queue. I walked to the ba chor mee stall, but one man suddenly appeared and ordered. Then, my sister walked over and wanted to cut my queue, saying that she was very hungry. Whether she really wanted to cut my queue is another issue, I was irritated and walked to the ban mian stall instead. I ordered my you mian soup and the uncle proceeded with the cooking. Halfway through, more customers appeared and that uncle became the cashier while another uncle took over the cooking. 

While I observed, I felt like the cook wasn't even cooking my noodles. True enough, the guy after me got his order before me, even though the uncle supposedly already started cooking mine before this guy came to order -.-. It must be the swop of cook that mixed everything up. I asked for my order at that point, whether was it ready and stated that I was before the guy who received his order first. I was pissed off man. The cashier uncle ask for my order again somemore, and he just looked guilty but never apologized. Pretend pretend. I had to also inform the cook uncle that mine was with extra noodles (their portion just damn small, add noodles= normal portion). What is wrong man, other people's order got one receipt there to guide them, mine don't have ar?!

After I finally sat down, the ba chor mee orderers were already eating their food. I damn upset and angry. It's like I just want to have my food as soon as possible, then my sister had to come and disturb me, and the uncle had to miss out my order, and the noodle also never cook properly because some parts were sticking together (they scared already la, see I angry then anyhow faster cook). I sat there feeling so emotional and teary. But I controlled. 

Then right, my auntie's whole family had to pass by. They came over to talk to us. I sat there damn quiet and moody, just eating my food. But my auntie had to say "Who is this girl with so much breakouts?" WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER. Of course that's me and my breakouts are pretty normal. When I didn't reply (or rather I was saying hello real softly, not looking up), she tapped me and like oi me. That's when I just couldn't take it. I stood up and walked to the toilet because those tears became uncontrollable. After I calmed down and wanted to go out, my brother came in (coffee shop toilet is mixed) and asked me what happened. So, I started crying inconsolably and I don't even know why the hell I was crying so badly. 

Dad commented like I shouldn't cry in public. It's a shameful thing. Wth, not like I want right. And I am free to express my feelings okay, who cares what people think.

And this is what is called PMS. You just go siao.

Cornflake Goodies

After eating some chocolate krispies CNY goodies in office, I had the urge to make some too! On that day itself, I went to buy the ingredients. I searched for some recipes online but I adapted it to my convenience.

Chocolate Krispies

1st attempt:

Half bar of Cadbury Milk Chocolate (about 100gm)

50gm salted butter (as I just used the spreadable one I have at home)

Half packet of Rice Krispies (65gm)

I microwaved the chocolate bar and butter together, mid-high for about 3 mins, taking out every 1 min to see if everything melted. However, the chocolate seemed to have dried out, and doesn't look saucy enough. When I mixed the krispies in, the chocolate is unevenly distributed. Tasted crispy, with some parts being way too sweet, and it looked weird. I had to throw the first batch away.

2nd attempt:

Half bar of Cadbury Milk Chocolate

50gm salted butter

Half packet of Rice Krispies

After I learned my mistake, I steamed my chocolate instead. I added the butter after the chocolate is melted halfway. This is okay because my butter is the spreadable kind and is already rather soft. After stirring the mixture, it looks saucy and of the right texture! I'm guessing the butter makes the chocolate smoother and liquidier, otherwise it would be too dry. Everything looks good after the mixing and I distributed them slowly in the small cupcake cups. The sad thing is, because I was handling too much krispies with such a slow-poke speed, the krispies became non-crispy. They 漏风 already. SAD. And milk chocolate is bad choice because it is too sweet and not dark coloured enough. 

3rd attempt:

As I wanted to try making honey cornflakes, I bought a box of Kelloggs cornflakes too. Hence, I gave this chocolate thingy a last try with my 50gm Meiji dark chocolate.

50gm Meiji Dark Chocolate

25gm salted butter

1/3 box of cornflakes, about 50gm

I steamed my dark chocolate and then add butter. Stir and mixed the cornflakes until even. Note that this time I am using a smaller quantity so that I can finish separating them before they turn non crispy. Even then, it's still quite a number of small cups, maybe 20? It still tasted okay before I put in the fridge. After about 3 hours, it is still good. So I took some out, packed them in a container and sealed it to prevent air from going in. Two days later, I decided to taste it before giving it away. It turned unchewable and inedible!! The fridge one also a bit lou feng already and harder to chew. I threw them all away :(. A lot of recipes actually added golden syrup, but I didn't. Maybe that is why I failed but I don't want to buy golden syrup just for this. Am not going to try this again.

 

Honey Cornflakes

1st attempt

I took reference from Noobcook recipe again! However, I didn't put the rainbow coloured sweet stuff, so it looks plain.

1 tbsp of honey

25gm salted butter

About 50gm cornflakes

Toaster Oven--

Preheating 150 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes

Knob turned to Convection mode

Bake for 10 minutes

I guess I could mix my butter with the honey directly as my butter is pretty soft to start with, but I steamed them anyway. Stirred them together until mixed and threw in the cornflakes. Mixed quickly and put them into cups (actually this one no need to so kan chiong because it requires baking, so it will be crispy anyway!). I placed the cups onto the metal plate that comes with my toaster and left it to do its magic. I guess I only baked it about 5 minutes at first, took it out to realized it was not so crispy, so I continued another 5 minutes.

The result was good! The cornflakes all stuck together nicely. The only thing that it was quite sticky at the bottom, kept getting stuck to the cups. The first batch tasted buttery and not very honeyish.

2nd attempt

1.5 tbsp of honey

25gm salted butter

About 50gm

This time I added more honey and baked it continuously for 10 minutes. Results were better! Cornflakes tasted more honeyish and have more crisp.

This is what I have been doing this CNY. Usually I'm slacking around but this year my mum was commenting that I was very busy. The conclusion is that I will definitely make honey cornflakes again! Maybe I am doing the chocolate one wrong, maybe it requires baking? Please enlighten me. 

I am a sad employee.
Maybe I should stop thinking, and just do what my heart wants.