Sunday, May 11, 2008

Pre-Birthday Preparations!

Today, I enlisted the help of mom and Reuben to attempt to bake an apple crumble for dad's birthday tomorrow! We snuck into the kitchen while he was sleeping. Haha.

Modern baking! No more handwritten recipes. In 2008, we use laptops to bake.


And online step-by-step videos! Haha. Des sent me the vid, it looked super duper easy and idiot-proof. Hah! We'll see about that. And don't you think the apples are like Damn Green?! They tasted damn yummy.


Mom paring the apples. Wha paring is seriously like damn hard. Especially since the pare instrument in my house is damn lousy. I was damn scared I would just pare off an entire finger! So I resorted to dicing the apples.


That was until Reuben experienced some flour problems. We told him to go weigh the flour and then pour it into the sieve and sieve it. After weighing it, he poured it into the sieve and said,
"eh! why is it not going down?!" HAHA! We turned to look at realized that he expected the whole bunch of flour to immediately go through the tiny holes in the sieve. omg.
Then we told him you have to shake the sieve slowly. He decided it was taking forever and took over my job at dicing apples.


So after my excellent sieving skills, here is the result - nice pure mound of flour. haha.


mom and preubs.


diced apples! yummy!


Stewed apples!


Now time for the crumble part of the apple crumble. Reuben and his blocks of butter. Haha. I forgot to take a picture of the final result of the crumble. Cos my hands were damn dirty.


Dishing out the apples onto the glass dish.


And that's all! For now. I don't have a picture of the final result cos it's still baking! Cross my fingers and hope it turns out normal. Ok going to check on it now! bye!