More Food! Yummms

What a better way to spend a Saturday than to bake and cook! (: After spending 11-hours in slumberland, I woke up feeling like a lazy bag of bones. I was so nua the entire day, and dear didn't want to go Vivo which we planned earlier. So, it became our rest day and I was desperately trying to force myself to get out of bed.

Finally, I decided to surf the net and look for nice recipes. For the past 2 days, I have been telling myself that I want to bake Fruit Tarts next because it's another of my favourites! I loovveee fruit tarts a lot. And since my entire family would not be around for dinner, I thought to myself, why not settle my own dinner too? After all, it's been a while since I last cooked. Hence, I settled on these two recipes from the net - Fruit Tarts & Chicken Stroganoff.

But because I decided to save some money and scrimp on some ingredients, I didn't follow the recipes rigidly. Anyway, it's nice to alter recipes and take a risk sometimes :)

Fruit Tarts

You may be wondering...why the weird combination of fruits, Dragon fruit & Pineapple?! Well, i didn't want to spend any money buying fruits just to make my tarts since i wasn't confident enough that it would turn out nice. So, I looked around my kitchen and decided that these are the only two fruits that I could use. Anyway, the colour combination turned out pretty, no? :)

Although a little huge in size, i guess it turned out not bad. But I think I could do with thinner crust and put less of cream cheese in the filling cos i personally found it a little rich. Not too bad for a start! :)

After an afternoon of baking, it was time for dinner!

Chicken Stroganoff (Served with Fetuccini)

I must say (although a little paiseh), that i really enjoyed my dinner! It was sooo yummy! But I think i should have bought some mustard, which was an ingredient listed in the recipe. I wanna cook this again, but perhaps using beef instead (:

Really happy that an initially unproductive nua saturday turned out to be productive and fun-filled!

On a side note, I hope i can lose off all the calories with a run tomorrow...