Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Mum: "I'm going out for lunch. You guys are in charge of dinner tonight."
So after 5 hours of shopping, buying, measuring, cutting, simmering, pressure cooking, sifting, rolling, crushing, stirring, kneading, pouring etc... this is what we came up with:

Spiced Slow-cooked Lamb shanks with Mashed potatoes...

...and a Berry Cheesecake plus a Free-form Peach and Plum Pie for dessert
Doesn't look like much for 5 hours of work... but the lamb shanks took 3 hours to cook (hence the 'slow-cooked' part) and there were lots of little ingredients to prepare and then the berry cheesecake took an hour to cook. Add that to preparation and cleaning up time... *phew* I'm exhasted! lolz But it was worth it. Dinner was delicious! I gobbled it all up! hehe... YUM! Dessert, well, still waiting for the cheesecake to cool down... and the pie, it was only alright. Something went wrong with the short crust pastry. It didn't taste sweet enough. Tasted like flour and butter. lolz. oh wellz, it was my first time. Mistakes are allowed. :)
my thoughts @ 8:03 PM
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