CB Flowers

Have always been into plants and flowers. Besides the regular visits to nursery for plants shopping, I would buy fresh cut flowers every other week as I like our home to be decorated with plants & flowers and filled with floral scents.

So going through circuit breaker period would mean no flowers for at least a couple of months. So at the start of CB, in early April, made an online order of 2 floral arrangements and was very happy with what were delivered.

  • Fresh flowers in pretty pink! Love it!
  • Bouquet of preserved flowers.
    It is still a very gorgeous table piece after 3 months

Was addicted to having a variety of lovely flowers around the house, so ordered some items to DIY a few more arrangements.

  • A round of online purchase to DIY
  • Creation 1
  • Creation 2
  • Latest addition

Café during CB

So glad that we got a nice espresso machine last year. It made our stay-at-home days of 3 months a very nice one. While most people found it stifling, we enjoyed our home, especially with the continuous supply of coffee and food at our own cafe corner. I was too busy exploring recipes to feel bored 😄

How it’s brewing at KELV’S

Simpler weekend breakfasts

  • Our good old local breakfast – fried bee hoon, egg and compressed beancurd

CREME BRULEE

  • Lemon loaf topped with candied lemon slices
  • Onde onde
  • Nutty bread baked in dutch oven
  • Granola with lots of nuts

Cocktail time

Sparkling Brunches

Enjoying a long brunch on Saturday over some bubbly has become something we looked forward to after a week’s work at home.

  • Our home office on weekdays
  • Turning into brunch table on weekends
  • Mini cheese board, yogurt with homemade nutty granola and fresh beetroot juice
  • Crêpes, yogurt with homemade banana puree
  • Pulled pork open toast
  • Garlic buttered haricot vert & baked kale chips
  • Oeuf en cocotte, mashed pumpkin on portobello
  • Banana puree on yogurt, beetroot sorbet
  • Portobello stuffed avocado
  • Power juice
  • Cold pressed beetroot juice with our new slow juicer
  • French sparkling rosé

Circuit Breaker SG

I am finally back. Have been working from home for more than 3 months, even before the partial lockdown (we called it Circuit Breaker). Staying home 24 hours every day did not make me any freer. My enthusiasm in cooking went in full bloom.. not that I had a choice but I am definitely not complaining.

Like any one else in Singapore or rather, all over the world, staying home is our way of contributing to the society.

The 2 months of CB had also given me a good chance to spend more time in my floral interest. I used to buy fresh flowers for our home every other week but due to CB, it was not possible. So I ventured into preserved & dried flowers.

  • Went Korean tonight
  • DIY side dish 1 – stir fried Korean fish cake
  • DIY side dish 2 – seasoned spinach salad
  • Anchovies & almonds bought online from a local Korean mart
  • Chicken bulgogi
  • Paired with soju

Hubz loves Korean food so a couple of Korean treats for him.

Besides salads, grain bowls, fried rice/vermicelli, cream soups which were the usual items in our every day’s lunch & dinner menu, these are some of the creations on weekends during the 2 months of Circuit Breaker (mainly local fare) …

Char siew fresh from the oven
Homemade wanton noodle
  • Siew mai with truffled abalone
  • Claypot scallop tang hoon
  • Nasi lemak
  • Steamed pork ribs
  • Stir-fried baby kai lan with mushrooms
    Sweet sour pork
    Scrambled egg
    Basmati rice
  • Satay ingredients
  • Chicken & pork satays
  • Satays with DIY sauce
Sparkling Saturday Brunches
Café Eats
des fleurs

Day 4, Paris.

It was a day of walking on another 0°C day.
It so happened that our pre-planned itinerary was mainly to explore the areas around our hotel.
We did intend to take the metro for a stop or 2 for some places so it did not affect us much by exploring on foot except for the last venue.
  • A hot coffee was the best treat after a 1.3km morning walk.
  • Police were everywhere
  • A walk in the park – Jardin du Luxembourg
  • Had lunch at La Table in Jardin du Luxembourg
  • Lunch
  • The usually busy Rue Royale was blocked that day
  • Finally we reached Boulevard Haussmann
  • The beautiful Christmas decorations in Galeries Lafayette Haussmann.

Craved for some hot soupy dinner after a day out in the wintry Paris streets.

  • So we were happy to have found this Chinese eatery on our way back to the hotel.
  • What our step tracker reported to us at the end of the day 🙂