Hot Chocolate: Last Sunday Supper

Last Sunday of being a medical student/chef in my own kitchen. It shall be epic. It shall be awesome. It shall be a classic.



We need bad-ass colossal line-up to showcase what the last stretch's all about. The whole Sunday started with Edi who kindly fulfilled my mum's wish to get pictures of my medical action. She said to me,"You know it's been a dozen years you're not home. It's kinda nice to see how you turn out in the end."

The Sunday Menu

Of course a man's gotta eat. So I invited Edi for a dinner and just so happen the busy-saving-the-world Adri was available to bite in and have a shoot off with Edi. I have cooked a truly disappointing, from a situationally-coerced-by-someone-to-cook, Spaghetti Carbonara 5 years ago. Thankfully Adri didn't remember much except that he said it was good, well I was set to stamp the record straight to 'amazing'. Adri is like one of those people whom you can't never hate and never get tired of. Though I never worked with him, I do consult a lot of pharmaceutical dilemma with him. I also invited friends who was featured here a little more than a month ago; Edi & Surya. So with Edi, Adri and Surya to freeze the epicness to a mesmerising nostalgia, it's the 'way' to end. If sometimes I hang out with my chef buddies for a 'cook off', this is gonna be a Sunday of a 'shoot-off'.

Of course we have to have a variety. I invited a classmate of mine, Achala, who thought that my blog was poetic?! If you ever get to Wellington and be in the hands of Achala, you'd be rather very safe indeed. She has a great sensitivity to your sickie needs. I think Achala had tasted my food ages ago at my old kitchen in Dunedin, NZ. I hope this time around is better for her too.

And then there's Darren and John, we've been in the same health science first year class back half a decade ago. Since then we've parted ways but been running in to each other on and off. They are serious bunch of blast with quirky hilarious critical comments about anything and everything. Surely they're in the list!

We kinda experimented on taking some cool moving pictures for the night. Just to add a little bit of an 'uhm!' to whatever it'd turn out to be. I was actually hosting a little masterclass on how to make a damn authentic Spaghetti Carbonara - a chance to redeem myself for Adri and the rest of the world. Recipes of them will come one future post at a time; some of which is recorded in video. So feel free to mock me and try the recipes at home!

I'm gonna start with an embarrassingly simple recipe as a practice video-take for the crew before the main event. It's a hot chocolate recipe. Feel free to add anything to the recipe; like liquor, chili powder, etc. Music's 'Take Five' by Dave Brubeck.


Hot Chocolate
serves 1

a handful of milk chocolate, chopped
3/4 cup milk
1 ts cocoa powder (optional)
1/2 cinnamon quill (optional)
1 ts chestnut powder (optional)

1. Heat milk and cinnamon to boiling. Meanwhile, add the rest to a bowl. Pour and whisk in the hot milk to chocolate until smooth. Serve!

PS. It's Sunday, why bother shaving whilst you can be an Asian Jesus ;P

"Wake up Lazarus!"