fine dining?

to start with, wish you all a wonderful new year! may you have a safe, beautiful, happy and successful 2009!

these holidays have been everything a perfect holiday should be. I've woken up as late as 1.30 PM, eaten as much junk food as i wanted to (figure be damned. it helps that i don't have one to begin with :P), a lot of mindless tv watching, meeting friends old and new, reading, and avoiding the very thought of finishing assignments (holiday homework if you please! i am in my FINAL year of college, and i get hhw. sigh.) now of course, two days remain before concentration camp(read college) reopens, and i have two humungous projects to finish. sob. can someone tell me how to finish a weeks' worth of work in less than two days?

in the mindless tv watching was a fair bit of travel and living. i love all the cookery shows. and i especially like nigella lawson. not that i watch her program regularly, but she's nice. she's beautiful, her figure is wholesome, she laughs a lot, and she's a little messy in the kitchen. all of which makes her appealing. so one evening, i found myself watching her cook fried rice from leftovers. and then it was time for...dessert?

as she set about making it, my interest was piqued. i've lately had an exxageratedly active sweet tooth. she mentioned how it was her mom's favourite comfort food, and how simple and delicious it was. simple and delicious eh? great, it'd be a cinch even for a kitchen-handicapped person like me. i was already mentally savouring the rich, dool-worthy dessert.

and what does madam N do? she warms milk, breaks bread into little pieces, sprinkles sugar on it, and adds the warmed milk! cooking accomplished!

this is the same breakfast me mum forced me to have whenever she ran short of time, and i loathed it. it tasted like exactly nothing. i never imagined, even in my wildest dreams, that it'd make it to a cookery show!
now my mom can say she fed me gourmet food all the time. i was just too dense to appreciate it :P