10 More Working Days

No mood to work.

22 more days to EDD and 10 more working days less weekends and MCs! Haha.

And this weather is perfect to sleep in.

Yesterday I was at home so I made pineapple tarts! The lengths I go to to get Golden Churn butter in the tin, omg! I could have given birth seriously. I searched aisles and aisles at 2 NTUCs, 2 baking shops, whole of Chong Pang and finally found one last tin, slightly old cos the due date is October this year, and super pricey at $9.90! But I bought it cos there's no way I'm searching anymore. Apparently Phoon Huat doesn't carry Golden Churn brand, and NTUC and Giant are supposed to have them but maybe too many makcik2 and kakak2 buy oredi. Le sigh.

I went Giant at Sembawang thinking there'd be stock there since it's big but I asked 2 staff and they don't know where it is either. Great. So I resorted to buying the block butter at the refrigerated section.

I made 1 batch only since I only had 1 tin of butter, but at the rate we're eating, I wonder if the tarts will see Hari Raya or not. Seems like I have to make another batch.

I'm excited to make cornflake cookies too using my mum's recipe! Hopefully it'll turn out okay since my mum doesn't have the measurement for flour and I have to estimate on my own. Gasp. So that would mean having to make the cookies after buka I guess so I can taste. I don't know why but I recently love those green and red cherries in cookies. Bought both for these cookies! Can't wait to eat them haha :)

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