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I’m really pleased with my decision to join the Daring Bakers. Although it has only been 3 months since I joined, I managed to experiment with so many baking techniques which I have avoided in the past for fear of failure and inconvenience. My first challenge involved bread making from scratch, and that’s without a bread machine! In the second challenge, I had to make a genoise cake covered with coffee buttercream and decorated with marzipan mushrooms for the Yule Log. This month, the daring bakers were celebrating the arrival of the new year with lemon meringue pies!
Island Creamery is a great place for students and friends to hangout at. Located at a prime location where many schools reside, it has become as a favorite haunt for students to chill at. Upon entering the shop, you are greeted with a plaster of photos on the walls. They are mostly photos taken by the customers at the shop, creatively decorated like what you find on Neoprints. What you do is take a photo using your phone or digicam and send it for printing on the spot using their photo-printer.
Ikea has always been one of my favorite places to find simplistic yet classy homewares. In fact, I am contented with just flipping through the pages of the catalogue book that they send to my mailbox. My trips down to Ikea will always involve eating at their restaurant. I mean, who can resist their piping hot and fragrant fried chicken wings? Almost everyone in the queue ordered the wings. I think they added Tumeric to their wings, which gives it that extra punch. At only $1 a piece, this cheap delicacy is definitely a must try at Ikea!
