Attemped to bake for the first time in a long while and it was to make Sticky Toffee Pudding after the delicious one I had at PS. Cafe.
Looked for a recipe online and decided to make the one that looked the easiest...
... I should have known the recipe was going to be a disaster when the poster wrote how you could prepare the toffee sauce using the microwave, and so many steps were not explained in detail.
This pudding was really moist, and not in a good way, the cake was not crumbly at all, it was actually mushy, the toffee sauce was fucking disgusting, the whole thing was a fucking mess, it looked so fugly.
Decided to do more research and watched more videos of people actually doing the Pudding the proper way, not using the microwave...
... and it came out so much better.
My sauce was closer to Caramel than Butterscotch, but it was definitely leaps and bounds better than the first attempt. Nothing close to the one at PS Cafe, but it was a very decent bake.
7th June.
Made a batch for Bee, replaced a few ingredient because he can't take dairy, so the caramel sauce had to be made with Coconut Cream instead of regular cream, which was not bad, but it doesn't set the same way as regular caramel.
I also left the cake in the oven for a little too long, so it ended up becoming really dry, the difference an additional 1-2 minutes of overbaking makes. I brought the bakes over to his place and he got ice cream, which I told him was a requirement because we needed the ice cream to moisten the cake again.
It was still dry.
He didn't complain about the dryness and just kept telling me it was good.
We headed out after lunch at his place to look at more plants, I was so worried the weather would be very hot, so I met him in my Dry-Fit clothes that I would normally wear for gym class. The last time we met, I remember how sticky I felt and I didn't want a repeat of that.
Once he got his plants, we went to this vegan cafe around the Dhoby Ghuat area called Lilac and Oak, I was worried it was going to be packed, but thankfully it wasn't too bad, probably because the location isn't the best and vegan spots don't always scream good food.
The plan was just to have ice cream and waffles, but we ended up sharing a main...
Rose Pasta but instead of Tomato Sauce, it's Gochujang, so this one was throwing me off because I kept expecting the pasta to have the same bounce as tteoboki, but it doesn't, it doesn't even have the same bounce as regular pasta because this is a vegan version.
Pulat Hitam Ice Cream with Waffles.
This was pretty good. It was a great pairing with the pasta, everytime I ate one, I would suddenly have appetite for the other, so they were acting as appetizers for each other.
Bee then suggested we have a slice of cake as well..
So Lemon Cake with Black Seasame it is. Not bad as well, but their cakes are on the drier side, and by that I mean it felt like the cake was pulling moisture from my mouth, maybe it's a vegan bake thing, the flavors were great, but I just wish it was lighter and more moist.
After this, Bee walked me to Plaza Singapura and we called it a day.
13th June
Saturday Fitstop class with my Secondary School friend.
I went for the 9.15am class with her, but if I am alone I will usually book the 8am one. Anyways, the 9.15am class is actually Competition Training, so instead of being just 50 minutes long like the 8am class that day, it was roughly aboout 75 minutes. I went knowing it was going to be longer, and I was quite worried if I can handle it, thankfully I did survive.
We would usually have brunch after, but because this class was longer than the usual classes, I think it would be more apt to call this an early lunch.
I opted to take a shower before heading over because the session was long, I was sweaty and I knew my shirt will start to properly stink up once I am dry. We were joined by another gym member and headed over to Bukit Timah Plaza for sarnies at this shop called HunBun when I was done freshening up.
The walk over was hot, which wasn't really surprising, and I normally wouldn't think to walk to Bukit Timah Plaza from Beauty World in the past, but I think being made to run around the area for cardio class has made me realize that the distance between the two places isn't as far as I thought.
Anyways, here is what I got, it's called a Caprese Diem and it's mainly just cheese and marinara sauce, but we added an extra chicken breast inside for some protein, I shared this with my friend, and we also got a side of fried Cauliflowers as well, which was equally tasty. Her friend got his own portion of another sandwich that was a lot more sustainable looking.
20th June
I did not attend my weekend Fitstop class on this particular Saturday because they were having their Games Day at their other outlet and it was going to be a culmination of members from all 3 gym locations. Just the thought of being surrounded by so many unfamilar faces in what I know would be a very crowded event was enough to turn me off from attending it.
That Saturday would have been extremely lazy if I hadn't made plans to meet up with Bee for a very late dinner, since he had work, we could only meet after his work ended, which was at around 8.30pm, it was really really late, I remember how odd it felt for me to be heading out for dinner when the sky is already dark, the only time I would usually do that is when I am on a solo overseas trip and wanted to maximise the trip.
We met at Great World City and had a meal at P.S Cafe.
Had a chat about work and stuff, then had Ice Cream at Kind Kones, which was actually quite nice before calling it a night and headed our seperate ways.
27th June
Went back to my regular Saturday Fitstop Class in the morning, and since my friend wasn't able to join me, I decided to go for the earlier timeslot, which isn't Competition Training, so the class was not as long as the previous Saturday and also not as intense.
One thing I have noticed about my body ever since I started going for gym classes is that it is perpetually in pain, if it's not the back, it's the shoulders, if it's not the shoulder's, it's the wrist, and if it's not the wrist, it's my thighs or my calfs, there is always just this constant ache somewhere and the odd thing is I actually enjoy the ache.
The lower back ache and wrist one maybe not so much because those are due to bad form.
Anyways, I decided to get a new pair of shoes for gym class and headed over to IMM to take a look at the selection.
I really needed to get a better pair because I have come to realize that the current Nike shoes I wear is more for daily wear and short jogs, it doesn't really provide the best support for Functional Training. I got ChatGPT to recommend a few options and it was either Nike Metcons or ON Cloud, both are around $250, which is more than twice the price of what I paid for my current shoes, and honestly so much more expensive than any shoes I had gotten in the past, because most of the sports shoe I had were free pairs that I got from the Army.
A lot of the gym members wear ON and most of the coaches wear Metcon, I was defintiely more interested in ON, I did went to the Nike shop and Addias one to take a look at what they had, but it was so crowded and I was really confused where the shoes I wanted to look at were, so I just gave up and headed straight to Running Lab to look at the ON shoes.
Original price of the shoes were $240, Running Lab was selling them at $175, it was a really good deal, so I looked at the colour I wanted, struggled to find a place to sit because the store was also really crowded, found that they fit pretty well and got it after maybe just 5 minutes of being in there.
Funny thing is I have seen this brand before when I was getting my first pair of Nikes for my very Fitstop class back in December last year, thought nothing of it then because I haven't personally heard of the brand before and it was so expensive, and then now that I have been with the gym for more than half a year and been seeing so many people there wearing this brand, suddenly I am getting FOMO and decided to splurge money on it ot get myself a pair.
Since I was already at IMM, figured I would have lunch there before heading home, so had a solo lunch date at Yuen Kee Dumplings, then bought some sour plums at a nearby food stand which was super expensive, 300g of plumes cost me almost $30, granted they were pretty good but I felt like I got scammed because they charge by weight and the shopkeeper was definitely overselling by constantly telling me add more because it didn't look like it was enough.
That's all for June.
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