Chocolate Muffins Day Tmr

I added my favourite Cowhead EDIT: The Laughing Cow cheese slices (by the chunk) to the popovers, and have been going by a revised recipe - 1/4 tsp of salt, and much less milk, about half a cup. I tried to make a chocolate-filled pancake using an egg ring the night before, but did not quite succeed. It turned out looking like the matcha souffle from Hoshino, but the insides weren't too well done. The cheap frying pan doesn't have great heat distribution properties, so it takes too long to brown one side and by then the other side is too dry to make a nice golden colour.

Tried this truffle recipe as well, it's easy and the result is decent.

Truffles, in case they don't look like it.

Salmon Mentai

I ate at Sushi Tei for the first time on Monday. I always wondered why the queue there was always so long. We were there slightly ahead of dinner hours, so there were plenty of seats. What I found annoying was the server expecting you to order a drink before you even had a chance to look at the menu. I decided on two salmon-ish dishes: Salmon mentai (loved this after eating salmon mentai sushi) and a salmon wrap with golden mushrooms. Ice cream-like dessert. Wonderful meal at less than 25 dollars per pax; it is a decent eat-out once in a while.

Afterwards we went to look for Blackball, a new dessert shop in Singapore, with a branch at Bugis+ as well as Star Vista. I was expecting lots of 芋圆, like the shop in Jiufen, Taiwan, but it was nothing like that. $4.90, and you get lots of grass jelly, two yam balls, one yam dice, one pumpkin chunk and some pearls. Pretty pathetic, and if you ask me, they have got the formula wrong. Pearl and grass jelly are so commonplace here, they shouldn't be the mains; the yam balls and whatnot should be the focus in this dessert. I don't think Blackball will be a hit in Singapore.

Popovers

Following up on the muffins - I tried the recipe a second time, and this time the consistency was pleasing. But I baked them too long and they were too hard on the outside. There will be a third time soon. In the meantime, I have chanced upon English muffins sold by the pack in Cold Storage at Compass Point while buying ham for breakfast.

Made breakfast this morning; there was bratwurst (I think they are my favourite sausages for now), pan pacific breakfast ham (very little visible fat but skin is pretty chewy), scrambled eggs, failed pancakes that did not materialise, and! savoury POPOVERS. All washed down by a strawberry-banana smoothie (that contained orange juice too) but no one else liked it.

1 cup white flour

1 cup milk (I used only half of this because 1 cup makes a really liquid-y batter)

3 (good) eggs (The recipe calls for good eggs but I can't tell a good egg from a bad one)

2 tbsp melted butter

1/2 tsp salt

Slightly chewy texture, very airy and highly collapsible at the top - so eat them fast, right out of the oven! Making them tomorrow again, pairing them with reheated ready-made muffins from Cold Storage. Probably would throw in a strawberry smoothie as well.

Next up: Sauteed mushrooms and pumpkin soup. Will look for more baked goodies to make.