Happy Birthday Crazieapple!

Ahh.. this may be one day late, but i want to share to our readers that Crazieapple is ageing yet another year! Happy Birthday Sistah!! <3 We hope you enjoyed your surprise party- all credits to Mr. W who has been utmost sweet and planned everything himself.

I know it's been awhile since we've blogged. You will forgive us, wont we? seeing that it's Crazieapple's birthday?

People can never get sick of surprises, and certainly not Augustdiners. We had a mini pre-celebration with the princess at Georgetown white coffee @ Jaya 33. Do you know they have private room upstairs that can cater well to parties? Well now you know. They serve some amazing fish head curry too, this will be in their new menu which will be launched later.

Crazieapple love all things pastels, and shes a crazy obsessed pinterest user, it was not difficult to know what decor would appeal to her. Pink paper lantern? check. Macarons? check. Pink Flowers? Check. Pink Balloons? Pretty Pink Cake? Check Check.

Here are some photos to share :)

Ms Jazz + Mamatan

Feipo! (my pet name for her) May you have a special year filled with all your heart desires!

Enjoy life and love your family! (i.e. Me, kthxbye)

Augustdiners Learns To Cook (NOT!)

I know i know, i'm suppose to put up our Finale from Krabi Trip, but i decided to jump the wagon and instead write about this, because i figured the finale probably would take me an hour to write, whilst this will only take 20 mins. Let's just say i'm lazy at the moment, and am perfectly contented with slapping a few photos and call it a post =P

As much as we love our food, we are pretty weak in the kitchen. So we were happy to have Chef Ken over to assist us in organizing some dishes for an impromptu dinner at home for 40pax one night.

Our menu of the night was quite simple:
Starters: A mix palate of Prawn Salad, Capsicum Pate on Toast (which was delicious by the way), and cherry tomato salad with basil and mozzarella dressed with balsamic vinegrette and olive oil.

Soup: Pumpkin Soup, drizzled with cream and italian parsley

Main: A Choice of Fillet Mignon with Blue cheese Sauce topped with Asparagus on a bed of warm potato salad OR Grilled Lobster with sautee Brocollis on the side

Dessert: Blueberry cheesecake and Cheese Platter

Here are some photos to share =)

1/ Crazieapple hard at work

2/ The apprentice from one of the culinary art colleges came by to assist Chef

3/ Our starters

4/ Preparing to serve our next course

4/ Pumpkin Soup. The cream kind of spread out into a huge lump as my kakaks carried it upstairs for the guest. *urgh* remind us to do the finishing touches only after climbing up the fleet of stairs

our Fillet Mignon, it was so yummy with the blue cheese sauce. I never fancy Blue Cheese, but the sauce goes really well with the tender beef- cooked medium rare.

Into the grill it goes. How can chef make everything look so SIMPLE

The finishing touch

Just with a simple seasoning of salt and pepper

Topped with garlic-herb butter

My current love: UMESHU- goes really well with Soda water

And the Love affair with Patron Coffee Tequila, it's really good!!! 

Thank god the dinner went on smoothly, food was served on time, and plenty of drinks to get the guests happily drunk, and everyone seem to enjoy themselves very much so thank you chef, what can we do without you =) can't wait to organize another one soon!

Father's day Dilemma

Father's day is creeping closer, and few of us daughters are still scratching our head on what to do for our dad this year. Last year we had a Japanese-themed party at home. We got Chef Miyasan's team to come perform wonders in our kitchen: there was a huge spread of sushi, sashimi, wagyu beef, agedashi tofu (bcos i love them!), Udon, tempura, tarts and many others.

But my dad clear favourite is the roast siew yuk as he is a typical chinaman *roll eyes*

Just to share with you some of the pictures:

One of the chef slicing up the sashimis.

Me helping with the party preparation

We're running low on time to cook up something, I'm thinking of a quiet dinner out, just a few of us and atmosphere must be right. Any recommendations?