Farfalle and Prawns & Chocolate Chip Cookies

So today was a crazy food day for some strange reason...

I got the urge to cook the funky pasta I bought from this wholesaler in Tuas earlier this week.

So I got my good friend Ting An over to help me cook a pasta dish. In actuality, he did all the cooking this time... I just watched, and of course, ate, when the food was ready. We made Farfalle with Prawns, which tasted okay with a simple white wine sauce. But somehow, I felt the dish looked a little 'much' with all the colours clashing and trying to vie for attention. This is what I mean:

So after Ting An left, I was surfing one of my favourite websites, TasteSpotting, and was suddenly inspired to bake something. So I set about gathering the ingredients to make meself a nice, hearty batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies!!!

I don't own an electrical mixer at home, so everytime I need to cream butter and sugar, I get quite a solid workout. So after about an hour or so or careful work, I managed to produce a decent batch of cookie dough.

Then came my other dilemma - I didn't have decent baking trays/sheets. So I had to improvise using my oven's baking tray. This proved slightly unwise because the heat distribution was very uneven, and it was too good conductor of heat - resulting in several cookie casualties.

Fortunately, I managed to figure out to work around the temperature in the oven such that my dough stopped burning. I simply lowered the overall temperature of the oven and moved the baking tray higher up, thus avoiding the heat source from the bottom. Needless to say, it's time for me to get proper baking trays/sheets.

Here is the result:

Looks so awesome right? The bottoms are slightly charred, but once I get proper baking equipment, they should turn out fine. I am mighty pleased with myself today.

Yay-ness!