Mango with nata de coco

I'm a little behind in my posts thus this dessert is now being presented even though I made it two weeks ago during the dry spell. We've since been getting lots of rain, heavy torrential rain for the past few days.

This has been a hot item on most blogs last year but I never made it then. However, when I chanced upon it this time round, I decided to give it a try seeing that it was pretty easy and mangoes are abundant now. However, having missed the pomelo season during CNY, I came up with the idea of adding nata de coco to it.

Princess doesn't like pomelo anyway and she loves nata so it's a great pairing. :)

I got my recipe from here if you are keen to try.

Gobi

Have you heard of Gobi? Well, a friend mentioned it in passing and I didn't bother about it. All I knew was that they have a shopfront in Katong Mall but they do not sell cakes off the counter. You need to pre-order and collect there.

We were handed this box of cake from uncle and aunt who can't consume them so lucky us got to try it.

I love the box with angel wings. To know more about the shop, visit here.

Have the pictures spoken to you? Well, yes the cake was gorgeous and all, but for me, I found it too sweet. I'm not sure of the mousse on the top, but it was basically a green tea-flavoured cake. The chocolate surrounding the cake was very delicate. Wow, I really admire these chefs who can do artwork like that.

Pasta & Pudding

Last weekend, I opened this packet of smoked salmon and together with the scallops leftover from bbq, made a pasta dish. The salmon was a gift from Uncle Joe n Aunt Nana when they were over for dinner during the Chinese New Year. It was brought back from Canada. And I loved it. The usual smoked salmon I know is almost raw-like but this one is a texture I've not tasted before. It's flaky and it had a lovely smoked flavour.

The second thing I made was sago pudding using Daphne's recipe. I had come across these green pandan sago pearls in the supermarket a while back. It was actually princess who pointed them out to me. She wanted to buy them. I thought I could make a pudding with them and remembered Daphne having made something like that. I decided I should make them for a 'working mums meeting' with the ballet teacher. It was to discuss a funfair that we are organising. It was going to be a potluck thing so I thought it'd be a lovely dessert to bring. Unfortunately it didn't make it there. :( Firstly I had forgotten to get the coconut milk, then after cooking the sugar, found that there was a little bee or something inside. Was disgusting with the little wings floating around. It most definitely was from within the gula melaka. I was too tired to go out to the supermarket to get them so I abandoned the idea. Meanwhile the pudding sat in the fridge and by the time I had a chance to make the syrup etc, some of the tops of the pudding had dried up. But they were still edible. I love this recipe. Thanks Daphne. I also love the overall colour. Reminds me of chendol.