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Attempt #2 for brunch goodness! I think I improved a bit! Hehe.
The previous time, I was quite stressed out cos there was a hungry man (read: the bf) who kept reminding me every 15mins that he’s hungry… and that never helps anything. This morning I woke up at 9am so that the food would be ready by the time he’s up!
2 dishes for this meal… first, caesar salad:
I’m quite proud of this! Cos I made the dressing and croutons from scratch myself. And I think the presentation was quite nice. Hehehe.
The bf said that the croutons were awesome. /giggle
And the dressing! Amazingly, it tasted… well… like caesar salad dressing. Might sound like a non-statement but I was completely expecting it to fail. Used this recipe btw! Minus the Worcestershire sauce cos didn’t want to spend on a bottle of that just to use 1 tablespoon for the dressing. Saving $$$ remember?
One last look at the salad in detail:
*Happy sigh*
Next…
No name for this cos it’s pretty much a self-creation. I know that it looks horrid, but by the time i was done with the salad, I’ve exhausted all my determination to make food look good.
This is basically pasta, in tomato basil cream sauce with bacon and onions. It’s perfect comfort food material and really easy to put together.
A lil something I made for brunch this morning! Ha… half a success I think?
Pancakes were made from scratch following a recipe online. They were supposed to turn out super fluffy but um… it just looked normal. The taste was not bad though I think? For presentation points, I added a small saucer of honey instead of directly drizzing it over the pancakes. Haha.
I wanted to have them with whipped cream and blueberries BUT apparently I suck at whipping cream and completely overestimated myself. It became curdled butter instead and I had to bin the entire half cup of it away. Oh well.
Scrambled eggs were fantastic as usual but nothing to shout about… they’re just eggs. Sprinkled parmesan cheese over them for extra kick!
Fresh baby spinach salad to have something “lighter” in the meal and also add some greens. Didn’t bother with dressing cos I wanted to save time and they already tasted pretty good by themselves!
Overall I give myself around 6/10 points. It turned out ok and had a “homely feel” but actually I was aiming for something more exquisite hahaha. So in that sense it was kind of a failure. Hopefully I’ll improve next time!
Chicken chop rice, otah & apple orange juice. Cheaps! Compared to my usual weekday lunches where I pay the same amount but just get a miserable plate of mee siam or something. :|
Location: Ghim Moh Market
Spent: $6/pax
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Christopher Michaelson, an assistant professor of ethics and business law at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, has conducted a classroom exercise on meaningful work over the past few years. That research is the basis for an article in the 2009 Journal of Business Ethics Education. Over the course of each academic term, he asks undergraduate and graduate business students three questions:
1. A year out of this program what do you expect your job will be?
2. What kind of job contributes the most to general well being?
3. Practicality aside, if you could be doing anything 10 years from now, what would it be?
The first question is one of pragmatics, figuring out market fit and also the reality of needing to pay off loans and support a family. The second has more to do with the idea of social responsibility, of what we should do and not what we’re motivated to do in terms of self-realization or economic necessity. And the third helps define what students consider their dream job.
What’s striking is that there is almost no overlap among the students’ answers to these questions.
For the first students often respond by discussing jobs in finance, marketing and information technology. They talk about becoming banking managers, financial analysts or IT analysts. For the second they discuss fields like education, medicine and public safety. They discuss becoming a social worker, research scientist, doctor, teacher or charity director. For the third they talk of working in the arts, entertainment or sports and recreation. In their dream jobs, they see themselves as professional athletes, entrepreneurs, filmmakers and travel guides.
The question then becomes: Why are students studying so hard and paying so much to reach objectives that are neither what they dream of nor what they think of as especially responsible?
[Source: http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/11/meaningful-work-employment-leadership-careers-mitsloan.html]
Dinner tonight. :) Chicken katsu curry at 313. Yums but not enough sauce hehe.
Location: Somerset 313, L5
Spent: $12/pax
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