Deep fried Oreos.

Ingredients
1 cup buttermilk pancake mix
3/4 cup ice water
1 quart vegetable oil
1 sleeve of Oreo cookies (14 each)
2 tablespoons confectioners sugar

Hardware
3-quart saucepan or electric deep fryer
Whisk
Medium bowl
Metal tongs
Paper towels
Sheet pan

Step 1: Freeze cookies for 3 hours.
Step 2: In a 3-quart saucepot or deep fryer, heat oil to 350 degrees F (medium heat on stove top).
Step 3: While oil is heating, set up a sheet pan with paper towels for draining.
Step 4: In a medium bowl, stir water into buttermilk pancake mix with a whisk until thoroughly combined. Batter should be consistency of pancake mix, if not, add more water or mix accordingly.
Step 5: With metal tongs, dip each cookie one at a time into batter, making a thin coat completely around the cookie.
Step 6: Place coated cookie carefully into hot oil. Repeat for each cookie. Fry on both sides, turning over once until golden brown.
Step 7: Remove fried cookie from hot oil with metal tongs and drain on paper towels.
Note: The cookies inside should be soft throughout, if they are cold and hard reduce oil temperature.
Step 8: Dust with confectioners sugar.
Step 9: Let cool slightly (about 2 minutes) before serving

Makes 14 cookies.

How much do I cost?

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: 'Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?'

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.'

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough.'

DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'

CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in it?'

Alexandra McQueen, Fall 2009.

McQueen makes everyone else look boring.
Love these dresses.
Maybe I should I throw a costume party sometime.
hmm..

Boysenberry.

Art inserts are from a colour-water painted in a primary colour 'boysenberry'.

Below is a story of an illustrator & his finding of the odd-yet-some-what-surreal colour.

While working on a film and focusing on color for the movie, Mr Hoofine lost sleep over not having enough colours in the world and because he could not find the "perfect" color for these trees in one of the scenes.
One day, Mrs. Hoofine made Mr. Hoofine a boysenberry sandwich, and when he opened up the sandwhich and saw the color of the boysenberry, he knew that he finally found his color.

Have you discovered your own colour?

Meredith Melling Burke.

A good friend of mine asked me where do I get my style ideas from.
I told him there's no one particular source really. I tend to play it safe mostly by choosing neutral colours & simple symmetrical lines.
But on weekends I wear colour.
And I dont always get it right.

But I can tell you one lady that almost always get it right.

If you're an avid VOGUE reader like me, Meredith is one lady telling you what to wear next. She's their Senior Market Editor. I just love her impeccable taste and killer style (in my opinion). Her wardrobe is drool-worthy. She puts pieces together that even I have not thought to do, as of yet.

Doughnut Muffins.

I have always found baking therapeutic.
Perhaps its the smell of butter or putting to use all the energy on stirring & mixing.

So here's to great friends, family & glorious butter.

Doughnut Muffins (adapted from a recipe by Kathleen Stewart)

from Lottie + Doof.com

Muffins:

• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3/4 cup whole milk
• 1/4 cup buttermilk

Topping:

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a standard-size muffin tin.

In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until just mixed in. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. Combine the milk and buttermilk. With a wooden spoon, mix a quarter of the dry ingredients into the butter mixture. Then mix in a third of the milk mixture. Continue mixing in the remaining dry and wet ingredients alternately, ending with the dry. Mix until well combined and smooth, but don’t overmix. Scoop enough batter into each tin so that the top of the batter is even with the rim of the cup, about 1/2 cup. Bake the muffins until firm to the touch, 30-35 minutes.

For the topping: Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. When the muffins are just cool enough to handle, remove them from the tin, brush them all over with melted butter and roll them in the cinnamon sugar.

***The muffins are best the day they are made when they taste most doughnut-y and delicious, although that didn’t stop us from happily eating the leftovers the next day.

Ultra luxe living.

Here's the residence of a powerful Malaysian family from YTL group.
Designed by a Paris-based architect Agence Jouin Manku.

I think its gorgeous. Also kinda looks like Wall-E's head to me.
Maybe that's how Manku got his inspiration from.
Hehe.