Gimme summa that

actual food item on offer in one stall at lau pa sat festival market, where marlon and i go for our stingray and satay fix. sorry to disappoint you all, but i did not try it. my engagement with this dish only went as far as taking a picture of it on the menu. gawd. you can see the actual brain. *barf*

my culinary adventures on this trip have been rather unadventurous so far in terms of restos. we've stuck to well-loved favorites -- dessert at bakerzin, indian food at samarkand in boat quay, drinks at indochine, crab at jumbo. just about the only new thing i experienced with stingray was being able to pet one befor actually having one for dinner, thanks to a saturday afternoon trip to underwater world at sentosa (more on this in another post).

however, the real adventures have been in marlon's kitchen, where, led by my dyed-in-the-wool houseband of a boyfriend and armed with a fabulous cookbook of my mom's called superfast food, i've begun to conquer my fear of cooking.

an example: left to my own devices, too lazy to scrub pans and cook brown rice, my lunch for today was a mixed green salad (out of a bag, haha) and a french dressing that i whipped up myself from scratch. i just tossed together the following odds and ends scavenged from marlon's cupboard: extra virgin olive oil, lots of freshly ground pepper, rock salt, a pinch of parsley and basil, white vinegar and wholegrain mustard (the closest i could find to a nice coarse dijon). stirred them into a paste (which, in retrospect, should probably have been less pasty) and voila! a yummy five-minute lunch! and no tutong to scrape out of the rice cooker!

to follow: currystrumpet in her own version of "the kitchen god's wife." haha! stay tuned.