cny goodness!

so it's reading week... and also chinese new year... so i decided to make pineapple tarts! didn't want to spend hours cutting pineapples by myself so i opted for the canned stuff (trying to make it look more 'authentic' in the photo lol. and hurrah for modern conveniences - the blender! but nothing could save me from the 3 hours of boiling and stirring on tuesday night to make the jam. God knows how it goes from that sickly yellow colour to the golden orangey jam... then the next day wenling came over with her pineapple tart cookie cutter! yay. so i could make pretty ones instead of something to the effect of pineapple thumbprints =D and oh-so-pretty they were! (i also learnt that i can't seem to apply pressure evenly hmmm.) filled them with jam and - just for kicks... put smiley faces on with the extra dough.. which was incidentally the most time consuming and most happy-fying part of the process.
and voila! yumyum. maybe i should sell them next year... after i buy my own cookie cutter. hmm =)