Christmas Eve Dinner

It's finally over, the Christmas and all.

I've stayed put in Singapore this year Christmas, and decided to cook ourselves a little dinner, a little feast at home.

We don't have a huge stomach to store too much food, a three course meal will be too much for us so we had a little 2 course.

I've made creamy mushroom soup for appetizer, and lemon & rosemary chicken with chickpea salad for main. Come to think about it, we did have our three course meal, we had a butter cake that I baked few days before Christmas Eve as desserts to go with my Nespresso coffee ^^

All these, accompanied by the wonderful Christmas tree :)

Creamy mushroom soup

Lemon & rosemary chicken with chickpea salad

For the mushroom soup I didn't follow the recipe. For instance, I used a mix of white and brown button mushrooms; I didn't use corn starch as the cream that I used is thick enough; I used lesser cream than suggested because the soup had already turned very thick; And I blend the soup after it's done with a hand blender instead of blender the mushroom in food processor as I have none. And one thing I regret following the recipe, is the lemon juice. It was too much and the soup had a tinge of sourness.

Well, practice makes perfect anyway.

Now, I'll be off from Singapore soon, to Bangkok! (That would mean more posts on food!)

Christmas Ornaments Sneaked Out from the Tree and Had a Meeting

Toys just want to have fun

Playing with the Lights

 It's interesting how small little changes can change the picture, I'm loving it :)

Honey Lemon

Merry Christmas 2013 :)

It's always one of the favourite time of the year.

We've had our yearly Christmas Party as usual. And this year, I've made a little butter cookies with all the Christmas cookies cutter to give to my friends as a small gift :)

Ginger bread man, X'mas tree and bells

This year I have a 5ft Christmas tree of my own and I love it!

Even my penguin loves it :)

Little Penguin in Scarf

And this little ski slipped out from the tree to take a photo ^^

Have a wonderful holidays everybody!

Trying out with Lights

I've always like to take photos next to the huge window in the living room. The diffused lights make the photos a little nicer compared to taking them in the kitchen. I didn't learn any set up because the lights are sufficient, or so I thought.

I have to admit, I committed a crime of buying too many photography books and never really put them into use. The little knowledge that I've learn have always stopped within the pages. So, I decided to read them, and really play with it so I did a little set up. I've wrapped my box with white mahjong papers so that they can act as my cheap reflector.

And so here they are.

With only window lights

With window lights, and the low quality self made reflector

With window lights, white table lamps near to the objects, and low quality self made reflector

With window lights, white table lamps further away from objects shining from front, ceiling lights, and low quality self made reflector

I would say the set up help to reduce shadows significantly. But the last one is not to my likings because I think the image looks a bit flat.

I still like my window lights, but it's too late in the afternoon, the lights are getting dim... I guess I'll have to try again tomorrow and play more of it.

Till then.

Any advice is welcomed :)