The Baskin Robbins outlet had finally opened at Clementi Mall. I went there and had a Maui Brownie Madness and Chocolate Mousse Royale. There’s pecan in the Maui Brownie Madness and chocolate chips in the Chocolate Mousse Royale.

I attempted to cook beef stew for lunch. But I was so full from breakfast that I kept it in a thermal pot and ate it for dinner instead.

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I once read about someone making an avocado scrambled eggs on a blog but I forgot where I originally read it. Anyway, the end result was a pile of really green looking scrambled eggs. I thought it was really funky and I wanted to try it even though I wasn’t a big avocado lover.

I mashed up one avocado and then mixed it with two eggs. Then I cooked them while I quickly toasted a piece of bread. I was a bit apprehensive at the first bite because I did not know how it would taste like. Even though the original blogger said it was delicious, the blogger also loved avocado in the first place. So I took the first bite and it turned out to be quite nice. It was soft and somewhat buttery. It tasted even better when eaten with some toast!

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I bought a can of corned beef at the beginning of the week. It was one of those cans that you need to turn a key to open. It was only when I wanted to open the can then I noticed that the key was missing. It must have fallen off. I tried pulling on the small piece of metal (that should be inserted into the key) and cut my thumb. Luckily it was a shallow cut. Finally I managed to open the can using an old can opener.

I loved onions so I chopped up a big red onion and cooked it for a while before adding the corned beef. I ate the corned beef with wholemeal pita bread warmed up in the oven. The corned beef was nice but pretty oily.

So I was glad that I also prepared some cold tofu. I just poured light soy sauce over the tofu. I was too lazy to grate ginger or chop spring onions and eat it the way it should be eaten. But it was good enough for me. The cold tofu was refreshing to eat in such hot weather and helped to take away the oiliness of the corned beef.

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We celebrated Pooh Bear’s birthday by going to Hatched, a restaurant which served her favorite food – eggs. In preparation for this event, Pooh Bear had been a very good girl and had abstained from consuming eggs for the whole week. Hatched had cute egg-related decorations in the restuarant and overall felt nice and cheery. I thought it would be a good place for a weekend breakfast or brunch. Apparently a lot of people agreed with me because Blue Avatar said the place was crowded on the weekends.

Si Hamil and I each ordered the Sir Benedict ($12) which was a poached egg, ham and bacon on top of half a muffin. It came with mashed potatoes and salad. It looked really tasty but at the same time it also looked small and not filling at all. The egg was perfectly poached and the yolk ran down the moment I cut into it. I liked the muffin which was an English muffin. There was a double portion had two of the egg benedict and cost $18. I didn’t order that because two eggs was a bit too much. Unlike Pooh Bear, I did not abstain from eggs.

Mao Mao’s and Pooh Bear’s Burly Benedict arrived at the table. Si Hamil and I thought ours looked pretty good until we saw theirs. The Burly Benedict was a poached egg and corned beef on top of half a muffin. It also came with salad and some potatoes. Mao Mao loved the corned beef very much and even wanted to order some more as a side dish. We all knew she loved the corned beef because she said “The corned beef is very nice” at least five times.

Mao Mao and Pooh Bear then shared an Oozy Baked Egg. It contained eggs, cream, bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and a piece of cheese at the top. They said it was like creamy chawanmushi. It was quite nice but it was too rich to be eaten alone.

I ordered a cafe latte and Mao Mao said that I had a cafe latte obsession. It was quite nice. Nicer than Coffee Bean but not as nice as Forty Hands. It cost same price ($5) as the cafe latte at Forty Hands.

Mao Mao had a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice. It was really fresh. Mao Mao liked it too but not as much as the corned beef because she said “The grapefruit juice is very nice” only three times.

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Today’s dinner was easy to cook as I just need to prepare everything and put them into the oven. I stuffed cheese into the mushrooms and wrapped bacon around the asparagus. I did not have enough bacon so sometimes I had to wrap the bacon around two sticks of asparagus. Then I peeled and cut up the beetroot. I keep hearing in the cooking shows that fresh beetroot tasted much better than the canned ones. I also made a dressing of salt, pepper, olive oil and balsamic vinegar and then sort of dressed the beetroot in it before putting them into the oven. The end result was not to bad and tasted sweet and a little savory. I think I should have let the beetroot cooked longer as it as still rather crunchy. I also felt that bacon-wrapped asparagus tasted better when pan fried then cooked in the oven although it’s really convenient to just cook everything in the oven at the same time.

I ate so much vegetables that I felt a bit sick at the end of dinner ha ha ha!

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Pooh Bear and I went for lunch at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Pooh Bear wanted to buy refills for the CBTL machine so we might as well have lunch there.

Both of us had the set lunch which came with a drink. I had a cafe latte while Pooh Bear had an ice-blended mocha. I felt the cafe latte was pretty weak and seemed a bit diluted.

I had a spicy tuna linguine which was nice but pretty spicy. Luckily I shared half the plate with Pooh Bear because it would be difficult for me to finish the whole plate by myself.

Pooh Bear had the rosemary chicken sandwich which was juicy and thankfully non-spicy.

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Made an open sandwich for dinner using pretty much the same ingredients as yesterday. I also added a couple of bacon-wrapped asparagus which I cooked in the pan after frying the luncheon meat. It was a nice dinner.

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I made a luncheon meat, egg, cheese and tomato sandwich for dinner. I used Red Leicester cheese because of the beautiful orange color and it turned out to be what I was looking for. It melted beautifully and was pretty salty. I put the egg in between the luncheon meat and cheese and put diced tomatoes on top. It made the sandwich difficult to eat as the tomatoes kept dropping off. I don’t know why I decided to dice them.

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After dinner, Mao Mao and her husband brought us to this ulu place in Tiong Bahru for coffee. Her husband said the coffee was very nice and Mao Mao called it “artisan coffee”. It was located in a shophouse and the front part was air-con while the back was open air. We had to sit in the back because the front was already filled with people.

I had a cafe latte ($5) which was nice and smooth. I’m not much of a coffee drinker but I thought this was the best coffee I had drank in a while.

All the coffee had different coffee art. I must say their baristas were highly skilled.

Mao Mao’s husband said this was the best tau sar bao in Singapore. It was served warm and the skin was soft. The red bean paste was quite solid and not too sweet. But at $2.50 per bun, it felt expensive.

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