Manda's Seafood Penne with Clams and Prawns

Like my lobster pasta, the penne here was well-cooked too. Smooth with enough chewiness. heh and look at the generous portions of seafood. *drool*


Chris' Marinated Cod with Black Miso and Herbed Potatos

Jingyi's Oven Roasted Chilean Seabass with Sauteed Mushrooms & Bacon

This was heavenly! I may be a cod-lover but this seabass hooked me over with its chewy texture and thickness. This was clearly fresh fish. haha I found the bacon and mushrooms a tad too salty but I wasn't the one who ate the most of it so I was fine with that. Jingyi didn't have a word of complaints so maybe it was just me. :P

Here comes the best part yet.. DESSERT! haha

Warm Banana Tart with Homemade Lavender Icecream

now this was something special. lavender icecream. lol us girls didn't take it so well cause it felt like we were eating lavender-essence-infused vanilla icecream. we found the lavender fragrance a tad too strong although we did finish it in the end. haha it was okay to stomach lah. just doesn't make me want another go at it. :P the banana tart was great though! since the last time Zhangjin made fried bananas with caramel sauce, I've been having a craving for cooked bananas. Cause when you choose the right bananas, they can taste really sweet and fragrant after they're cooked. This was even better, complimented by the crisp pastry. So icecream aside, this was pretty good.

Our apple tart with vanilla icecream

This apple tart does not have any airs about it, nor does it try to be chi-chi with odd-flavoured icecreams. Its just plain ole ordinary apple tart with boring ole vanilla icecream we've all grown up eating. But to be honest, this was the better than the banana tart. We were almost fighting over the last piece (think jingyi brandishing her dinner knife fending off predators eyeing that last piece) and jingyi was scrapping off every bit of left-over crumbs when we were done. haha unlike the apple tarts you find elsewhere, the ones use in this tart were thick, soft but with some remaining crunchiness of your apple. Neither was it artifically sweet so we couldn't have enough of it. I kind of miss this... hmm