Potato Skin Recipe.

Today I shall reveal the secret recipe of my famous potato skin. Ohohohohohoho~~! It is very simple and anyone can cook this. The reason it's named Potato Skin is because normally restaurants make this dish with the potato and the skin as well. Mine is an improvised version, instead of using the potato skin, I use foil.

Before cooking, you can start by putting on your apron. It is important to protect your clothes.

Next, here are the ingredients you will need to make Potato Skin..

Ingredient number 1: Potatoes!

Ingredient number 2: Middle Bacon!

Ingredient number 3: Cheddar cheese & Mozzarella Cheese!

Only these 3 ingredients are needed.

Next you can start preparing your ingredients.

Step 1:

Chop the potatoes into small cubes and boil them until soft.

Step 2:

After the potatoes are soft, mash them and transfer all the potatoes into a bowl.

Step 3:

Use a scissors and cut the bacon into little pieces.

Step 4:

Open the plastic packaging of your mozzarella cheese & cheddar cheese.

Step 5:

Cut out squares of foil and fold them into the shape of a bowl.

Step 6:

After folding the foil into bowl shapes, put a thick layer of potato on the botton & sides of the foil.

Step 7:

Arrange pieces of cheddar cheese over the layer of potato.

Step 8:

Arrange pieces of bacon over the layer of cheddar cheese. In my opinion, the more bacon you put, the nicer it is.

Step 9:

Top everything with a layer of mozzarella cheese. *Note I bought the mozzarella cheese that is already shredded so it's easier to use*

Step 10:

Place the Potato Skin into the oven and set it on low heat to cook the inside nicely (Example around 160 degrees). If the heat is set too high, the mozzarella at the top would be burnt and the cheddar inside would still be cold.

Step 11:

Approximately about 45 minutes later, the potato skin is ready to be eaten! (You can check whether or not the inside the cooked by poking a fork inside and pulling it out to feel whether the fork is hot or cold.)

*End of Recipe*

Other pictures of the Potato Skin:

OHH! How good does that brown mozzarella look!? The mozzarella is the one that gives you that stretchy cheesey thing.

Potato Skin is a very convenient dish. We keep it in containers and put them in the freezer, so when we are hungry we just take one out and pop it in the oven. So simple!

Salad is recommended to be eaten with Potato Skin. Since it's cheese and oven-baked, Potato skin can be quite heaty so the salad is a healthy way to prevent sore throats.

I want to thank my lovely assistant too for making this dish a success!

~The End~

Elevate 2009!!

Elevate 2009 was so good! Why was it good? Because we had a longer time of worship, compared to Sundays. Also, Joel Houston & Darlene Zschech shared the vision of the church to us and everyone got pumped up, which lead to more worship & singing. Lol!

We worshipped and had other stuff in-between like 'Elevate News' & the sharing, but I think worship alone took up almost 1 hour of the whole 2 hours we were there. We heard quite a number of new songs too because Album Recording is coming up in March so we're all learning the new songs. The new songs are really nice, so I'm really excited about the recording!

There were some setbacks about the night though....

Cause of Setback:

-Too many people going to Elevate from the City Campus.

-Not enough room on the buses.

-Sandra had to sit at the back of the bus.

-It was HOT because of the exhaust pipe under the seat.

-Baby cockroaches crawling around.
-Stuck in traffic jam with cockroaches & heat from exhaust.

Effect of Setback:

-Couldn't sleep on the bus.

-Was late for Elevate.

-Missed the first 15 minutes of worship.

-Almost fell asleep when Joel was sharing.

Photos!!

The back of the bus.. This is my good friend Alison.. *Note the traffic jam at the back*

Taneli (the blond) from Sweden & Corrie from the US. They were suffering from the heat at the back of the bus too.

Sean/toast (because of his skin) from Malaysia.

Felipe Palma from Chile. He's a huge football fan & also Sean's roommate.

Summer from Korea. She just came to Hillsong in January 2009. Really nice & sweet girl.

The guys were gentlemen and gave their seats to the girls, so they stood for half the journey & sat on the floor for the other half.

Our crowded & hot bus. See all the guys standing??

*Hillsong Church - Hills Campus* "We're here!!!!"

Elevate news brought to us by Ben Fielding & JD (Jonathan Douglas).. Hehe it was really funny with a lot of Aussie humor..

This is the Main Auditorium in the Hills Campus. This is only 3/4 of the room & there are more seats on the top. These are the people who are part of the Creative side of church, including musicians, production people, Choir, etc etc.. All the creative people from Hills & City are gathered here & of course the pastors are here too.

Of course the platform is bigger compared to the one in the City. Hehe and those people are Ben Fielding, Jad Gillies & Gabriel Kelly (from left to right).

Random picture of some HUGE drumsticks I saw outside, but I think it's hollow inside because it was pretty light..

That's All!! Cheers people!!

Job Hunting!!

Everyone like my new Blog template? I think it's so cute, if not I won't use.

Hehe, so this semester I decided it was time that I found a job. I need to stop living off my Dad's money and earn my own money (A last minute New Year's Resolution)! Anyway, my good friend Alison asked me to come along to Fox Studios because she wanted to find a job and it would be fun to just hang out, so I went. But I just brought some of my Resumes in case I get lucky and get hired, you know. I also brought my camera along because on our 30 minute walk to Fox Studios, we walk through this park that has big and shady trees. So the pictures are taken on our way to Fox Studios.

Me & Alison. Her parents are from China but she was born in the USA. So basically she's A.B.C. (American Born Chinese).

The park that we walk through. Nice shady place for a picnic. Come visit me and we'll have a picnic here!!

Huge tree trunk right?

Alison doesn't like taking pictures but I got her to just pose for one. She's quite photogenic right?

This picture can be used as the cover for 'The Purpose Driven Life'. Hehe looks like it right? This park is a relaxing place to 'pak tor' (dating).

On the way there we met some of our friends, who just came back from looking for jobs at Fox Studios. So many competitors! Anyway this is me, Natalie & Aline (pronounced A-li-ni), they're from Brazil.

So at Fox Studios there are some boutiques, cafes, restaurant, a movie theatre, a bowling alley & some other shops. So I asked around and hopefully someone will get back to me soon.

Actually the real reason I want a job is because:

1. I can buy more Tokidoki/LeSportsac bags from the Duty Free Shop.

2. M.A.C. is releasing a new range of limited edition HELLO KITTY makeup, so I need money to afford it.

3. I want to eat out once in awhile. After eating my cooking for weeks, it gets boring. Not that it doesn't taste good, my cooking is delicious (to me anyway) but I need to eat other food sometimes.

Yeah so my real intentions are revealed. Please take 20 seconds to say a short prayer for me that GOD will help me find a good job. Thank you so much!!

All my friends back home in Malaysia, "I LOVE YOU GUYS, I MISS YOU TOO!!!" That's all. Lolz.

A Flat White with 1 Sugar, please.

Coffee has been my good & faithful friend for the past week of college. "She" was there for me through many of my 4 hour lectures and early mornings. "She" was also with me last night when I wanted to sleep, but "she" kept me awake. "She" is too powerful sometimes. Beware...

*End of lame story*

The first 2 weeks of college are the Intensives, and you can bet they are intensive. For 4 days a week I have at least 2-4 hours of "Church Ministry" (usually 4 hours), but today's lecture was a record-breaking of 7 hours!! There were some breaks in-between but it was still 7 hours.. I think I saw one-quarter of the class leave after 5 hours, but a GOOD student like me stayed faithful until the end.. The very end..

Summer Retreat~~!

First of all, I have to warn you guys that Hillsong does not organize camps the way we do it in Kuala Lumpur. So throw away your previous mindsets and expectations of camp and hear me out. These are some of the differences:

1. You have to get your own transportation to the camp, either by car pooling or by public transportation (bus/train).

2. You have to find your own accommodation. This is the most shocking to me! But I had the help of my Connect Group Leader, who graciously invited me to bunk-in with the other girls in my CG.

3. The place we have sessions is apart from the resort we lived at. Hence, we had to car pool to get to the venue/place for sessions everyday! This is so unheard of in KL, right?! Anyway, I was more fortunate than others who had to walk there, which took them around 20 minutes or so.. I'm estimating here..

4. Lastly, I had to share a room with 5 girls, including myself. Imagine how time consuming it was to wait on each other to use the bathroom every morning and night. In KL, rooms are more affordable so there was no need so pack so many people into 1 room, but sadly this is not the case here.

As a result of these differences, I was unable to fully enjoy myself at the start of camp, but slowly and surely I managed to cast away my nostalgia of home and have FUN. I took a lot of pictures because I wanted to share them with my friends from home, but I posted more pictures on my Facebook, so feel free to flip through them. Great! On with the pictures then.

Basically our room space is mostly taken up by the twin bed & single bed. I didn't get to sleep in any of them, because the other girls took up the beds. So me and one of my friends took turns to alternate sleeping on the couch and the extra bed for the 2 nights.

Here it comes! My make-shift bed for this first night. For my short stature, I thought that I would fit nicely in the couch, but I was so so wrong. I couldn't stretch my feet out so it resulted in a lack of sleep and a grumpy/blur attitude the next day.

Haha will you guys believe it that this was all I packed for a 3 days & 2 nights camp? Usually I bring a luggage bad with wheels and more, but thank GOD I managed to fit everything inside nicely and snug.

So these are the girls that I hung out with during the time at Summer Camp. From the right to left is Julia (with the blue spagetti strap top), Allison Kwan, Sandra Sally (Indonesian), Joanna, Meegan, myself, Anna Follesdal (CG Leader & the girl behind me), and lastly Natalia. It was nice to just relax and spend time with girls for once.

Another group photo together. Some guy took it for us, that's why it's blurry.

This is Joanna, holding a cool looking camera that allows you to take pictures from a 180 degree angle, I think.. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Everyone was waiting outside the venue to get inside on the first day of session. The venue is actually a church but they removed all the chairs so we had to sit on the floor. It was packed inside and people were bumping into me during worship, so that made me irritable sometimes.. Only sometimes..

*This is mostly what took place on the first day. The following pictures will be the 2nd Day.*

This is Terrigal Beach and look how blue the water is.. It was so nice to just soak my tired feet into the cold and relaxing water.. This was 1 thing I will miss about the beach..

What would a beach be without the steaming hot Fish & Chips?! It was great even though the chips were too much.

After the lunch of Fish & Chips, we headed down to the sand and saw all these people! Practically everyone from Summer Camp was here.

So apart from sitting and getting tan, I went in search of these things called 'Blue Bottles'/Portuguese Man of War. We don't have these in Malaysia and it piqued my curiosity, so I scouted the shore to find one. Finally I stumbled upon one that looked like it was half dead.

'Blue Bottles' are actually kind of like jellyfish, in the way that they sting people and cause you pain, except they are smaller. For more info, this is the website: http://www.australianfauna.com/bluebottlejellyfish.php.

This is the bigger one that curl around people's abdomens and sting them. Obviously this is found on the internet, because I would not go so near one to get a shot.

After all the water, sand and Blue Bottles, I was carrying my friend's surfboard to the car. I found it really funny and flattering that people think the surfboard is mine and I'm a surfer chick. Hehe makes me feel so cool.

The next post of the 3rd day of Camp will be posted in the next few days . Thanks for reading so far. Hope no one got freaked out because of the 'Blue Bottles'.

On Vacation!

Hey guys! Sorry I know I haven't been updating my blog. My excuse for not doing so is because I'm on holiday in Malaysia until the 25th of January. So until I'm back in Sydney, I won't be blogging because the connection in KL is seriously slow lo compared to Sydney. No offense or anything!

Just wanna wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!