THE CRYSTAL PROJECT

I was at work today and found this recipe on How Sweet It Is.

Could

Not

Stop

Thinking

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It

On the pretext of giving my lil sister who's in the midst of exams a treat, I made this for supper.













Typical me, I didn't really read the recipe properly because I was too eager and missed a few key steps.

You're basically supposed to..

1. Melt butter with garlic, parsley and salt

2. Slice your bread and pour the melted butter into every nook and cranny of the bread

3. Cover it with aluminum foil, bake it for 10 minutes

4. Remove it from the oven, stuff cheddar in the crevices and sprinkle it on the bread. Cover it with aluminum foil and pop it back into the oven for 15 minutes and wala!

Pretty sure if you follow her recipe, you're all set. Hers looked divine!

Made a few of these lil bad boys this evening.

It's fried chicken stuffed with garlic&herb butter, the Chicken Kiev.

For the compound butter, you'll need:

1 tsp of your favorite herbs
1 tsp of sea salt
120g of unsalted butter
1 dash of black pepper and chilli flakes if you like things spicy

Mix it all well and roll it up in wax paper and pop in back into the refrigerator. It makes a good garlic bread spread too.









Pound 4 chicken breast fillets and cut the compound butter into 4 pieces.
Wrap each butter with the fillet and try to make it tight, using toothpicks to hold the meat in position.
Wrap the meat with cling wrap and put them in the fridge for an hour.

When an hour has passed, unwrap your chicken, cover it with corn flour first, then, eggs and finally bread crumbs.

Boil your vegetable oil.
When you throw some breadcrumbs in and it sizzles, you're ready to start frying.
Depending on the thickness of the chicken meat, fry each side for about 5-10 minutes until golden brown.

Recipe for Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce

Picked up this lil' guy at a warehouse sale for $2.50.
It had marks all over it but I knew what I wanted to do with it.

I made a mistake not cleaning the bag thoroughly before painting it. You can still see the marks peeking through.

Anyway, it's a no-brainer project but it is tedious.

I mixed the acrylic paint with water to thin it and painted about hmm, 5 layers before finishing it with just acrylic paint.
You have to wait for each layer to dry before painting the next. And that's why it's tedious but ohhhhhh soooo worth it!!!

A friend bought me an earl grey cupcake once and it tasted so good that I decided to try making it myself. I took a recipe for muffins online and tweaked it a little. Tried and tested, the earl grey muffins smell & taste like milk tea and they are SO EASY to make!