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| Biscuits hot from the oven |
I can finally report success with a batch of homemade (as in, from scratch) biscuits! You may recall that since our apartment came with no oven we supplemented with a portable microwave/ convection combo oven. My initial attempts at baking have been mediocre. This time I decided rather than use prepared baking mixes I would go back to an old original recipe. I purchased the basic ingredients and gave it a try last weekend. John and I were both well-sated after our simple but delicious breakfast that also included freshly diced Thai mangos and bananas.
However, since our arrival in Singapore I continue to find my grocery shopping experiences producing various jaw-dropping scenes of sticker-shock. As a case in point, I needed to buy butter or shortening for my recipe. While perusing the shelves at the various choices in this category I found the "healthy" alternative (like a brand of margarine such as Earth Matters) at the price of nearly $18 for a 1-lb package. The real butter was "only" about $6/lb. Guess which one I bought?
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Strawberries and Cherries
Market price "bargains"!
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You can see what I mean with other examples in a few of these pics. My latest gasp was when I decided to get some ground beef for our dinner meal earlier last week. In my cooking, I've been sticking mostly with simple meals that are either entirely vegetarian or may include a bit of chicken or fish. I knew from our time in Hong Kong that for some reason beef is expensive in Asia (even though much of it (like the produce as well) comes from Australia. Geographically Singapore is not that far away so I thought perhaps beef would be fairly reasonable. WRONG! An equivalent pound of ground beef (not even top sirloin) is $18 here!
Check out the price of other beef cuts here (fyi, 1 kilogram = about 2 pounds). It is apparently a delicacy on par with caviar or something like that!
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| Breakfast is served |
So next time you chow down a burger in the States, I hope you will appreciate each precious bite and we'll "make do" with our biscuits and butter on this side of the planet!
3 comments:
Wow the prices are unbelievable Cindy!! Vegetarian is a good way to go.
breakfast looks delicious. I hope there was coffee too
Looks like you need to order crates of peanut butter from the U.S. (Subsitute for beef!) However, I could get into the eating out since it is cheaper to do that than cook at home which we all know is one of my least favorite things to do---except for my homemade cinnamon rolls! I would love to have a breakfast like your picture daily. Jackie G.
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