June round-up

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1st Row: Brown rice risotto with asparagus and bell peppers at home, sweet ginger peach tea at home, Peewee’s Sweet Ginger and Peach with Kiwi and Cranberry Iced Tea at home, Tully’s ground coffee at home, salt fried squid at Macau Cafe, Peanut Sauce noodles at Macau Cafe

2nd Row: Beef Instant Noodles at Macau Cafe, Fuzzy Peach ice cream with shortbread at Ice Cream Chef, Kaya ice cream with shortbread at Ice Cream chef, Cookie Dough ice cream with maltesers at Ice Cream Chef, Steak with tasty rice and garden veggies at Astons, vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting at (kristy’s) home

3rd Row: Chicken taco salad at Margarita’s, Kitchen Sink Burrito at Margarita’s, Pork Fajitas at margarita’s, Frozen Lime Margarita at Margarita’s, Kahlua Tiramisu at Margarita’s, Pork Chop Don at Manpuku

4th Row: Mango tart at Manpuku, Original flavoured frozen yoghurt with kitkat crumbs at Yoguru, Crab and Shrimp Rolls at Prive, BLT & E sandwich at Prive, Eggs Benedicte at Prive, Garlic and Herb sausages at home

May Round-Up

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1st Row: Bikini Martini at Soma, Cherries at home, Butterscotch Tea at Teadot, garlic croutons at home, Drinks at Soma

2nd Row: Sandwiches at home, Drinks at Soma, Vietnamese coffee at Liang Court, Caesar Salad at home, dimsum at Nan Bei

3rd Row: Chocolate Parfait at BenTen Cafe, XLB’s at Nan bei, Vietnamese coffee at Liang Court, Baileys Cake at Teadot, Drinks at Soma

An April Round-Up

A round up of food and drinks from April.

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1st Row: XLB’s from Asian Kitchen, Iced Shaken Lemon Passion Tea from Starbucks, Iced Latte from Starbucks, Noodles from Asian Kitchen, XLB’s from Asian Kitchen (again)

2nd Row: Iced Earl Grey Tea from Starbucks, Vanilla ice cream with chocolate chunks, chocolate sauce and rainbow sprinkles at home, Watermelon Martini at Soma, Mini Burgers at Timbre, Burger at the Singapore Flyer

3rd Row: Beer at Soma, Bloody Mary at Timbre, Chicken Chop at Astons, Grilled Panini at Tampines 1, Chicken Chop at Asian Kitchen

4th Row: Dark Berry Mocha Frappucino at Starbucks, Tacos at the Singapore Flyer, La Mian at the Asian Kitchen, La Mian at the Asian Kitchen (again), Mango Margarita at Timbre

5th row: Martini at Soma, Oreo Cake at the Singapore Flyer, Sizzling Brownie at the Singapore Flyer, Lychee Slushy Goodness at Timbre, Cosmopolitan at Soma

Stirring things back up – Ashlee

Hey guys! The site has been kinda dead since April, but since I’m currently free as a bird (read: unemployed) I’ll upload pictures from our various nights out since then.

Enjoy the slew of pictures up ahead =)

.... foooood....

If you’ve ever had the sudden urge to eat at Munchie Monkey at NUS… there are now 2 of us

Sometime last week, perhaps sick of the rest of the food in school, I felt like, y’know, I just HAD to eat at Munchie Monkey’s. So off we traipsed to YIH, where we walked into the lunchtime non-crowd (a good thing). It was a familiar, friendly place. Just nice for lunch.

Unfortunately, what’s on the menu isn’t necessarily, y’know, on the menu. We tried to order a very exciting dish (I can’t remember what it’s called), at which point we were told that it was not available. (The chef’s special, how dare they!) So we switched to dory fish pasta thing, whereupon, after 5 minutes, we were told that they could only serve 1 more portion of it. (The chef’s special again!) So, frustrated, I ordered yet another Chef’s special; this one was available.

The food that they did sell was quite good. The grilled chicken primavera pasta was tasty, especially the grilled chicken. The dory fish pasta was ok, but the sauce helped to make it extra tasty! My fried food combo (that’s what I call it anyway) was ginormous, and tasted alright. The drinks were uniformly tasty, which was a plus, and the dessert was surprisingly good, so all in all… a bit expensive for the quality, but for a change, why not once or twice?

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Decided to get a rolling with a quick post. I know we’re mainly a food review blog, but there’s no harm tossing in a couple of “do it yourself” entries once in a while, eh?

Today my sister and I decided to whip up some cupcakes, to cheer us up a bit in this gloomy weather. It’s a really really simple recipe, essentially you just mix all the ingredients together and pop it in the oven.

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

For the Cupcakes:

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs

1) Preheat oven to 350F, line your muffin tray with paper cups.
2) Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl.
3) Add the butter, milk and vanilla. Beat on medium for a minute.
4) Add in the eggs, and beat until smooth and creamy.
5) Spoon the batter into the paper liners till about 2/3 full.
6) Bake for about 20 minutes, or till a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

For the Frosting:

300g butter
500g icing sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
4 tablespoons hot water

1) Beat the butter and sugar until well combined.
2) Add in the cocoa powder and water, beat until smooth and creamy.

Decorate as you please

And really, that’s about it.

I made 27 cupcakes, and have enough frosting left over for another 5-10 cupcakes, so you should probably adjust your quantities according. I’d reccomend just halving the recipe for the frosting and keeping the one for the cakes as is, because I didn’t quite fill the paper cups enough, and ended up with more cupcakes than I should have had.

Also, the frosting is pretty sweet, so you really don’t need to use too much of it per cupcake.

xoxo,

Ashlee

Testing….-britbritblueberry-

Hello fellow bimbos,

Welcome to gastronobimbo! Let the greediness and bimboness begin….

xoxo,

britbritblueberry

First Post From Ashlee!

Hello world!

Back in the day, Britbrit and I used to go to a new restaurant every Friday night. We’d attempt to do up reviews, took a lot of pictures, even registered FridayNightFood so we could share our findings with the world. As you can tell, that didn’t work out so well.

Almost two years later, I was going through the archives on my personal blog and I stumbled across that link. It brought back a lot of memories, and I had to share it with Britbrit. She suggested we try to revive FNF, but I simply could not figure out which email address I registered it under.

So here I am, setting up a new blog. We don’t have a regular dinner date night anymore, but we still eat out a lot. And a lot of the time, the rest of the bimbo gang is there as well. And when we all get together, shenanigans usually ensue.

I’ll let everyone introduce themselves as they join up, and hopefully this thing will get a little further off ground than FNF did.

Welcome to Gastronobimbo, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoy your stay!