The first time I enjoyed a delicious pesto salad was during a farewell potluck and I’d wanted to make my own ever since. After discovering pesto sauce and much googling later, this is my own tried-and-tested recipe.

My very own

Ingredients
Farfalle (or other pasta of your choice)
Salmon (or Tuna, Chicken, whatever you prefer)
Medium pitted olives
Cherry tomatoes (I prefer sun-dried tomatoes but they are so expensive and rare in Singapore)
Bell peppers *optional
Pesto Sauce
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt
Black Pepper

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I met up with dear SYT blackbiscuits yesterday at Plaza Singapura yesterday. We went shopping at Spotlight, the only one left in Singapore. It’s terribly messy and I don’t like to shop there but it’s fun when you’ve got good company. I learnt about the remnants bin from blackbiscuits and scored a very light blue gingham! I also learnt that the minimum I could buy was 1/4 meter instead of 1/2 meter and bought some light blue gingham for a long overdue craft project.

Home-baked cookies with lotsa love

blackbiscuits‘ going back to Melbourne for her studies in 2 weeks. I’m gonna miss her and the yummy stuff she bakes for me whenever we meet up. She even remembers I hate raisins and dislike nuts even though I only told her once a very long time ago; now she makes me my favorite no-nut chocolate chip cookies. This time the cookies are pink inside and there are even heart shaped “rainbow rice”!

On Valentine’s day, I visited Cynthia’s place and she taught me how to make felt beads and beaded hair slides! She so generously gave me a bag of hemp cords and wool for my own crafty projects. I’m going to post again once I’ve finished a felt bead project. Cynthia holds her own beading classes and you can find more details here!

I went home in the evening and prepared pasta salad with soup for a simple Valentine’s day dinner with hubby. It’s a quiet one this year with no lavish gifts because I’m in between jobs and we’re both pretty broke. It’s my first time whipping up pesto pasta salad and I am very happy with how it turned out. I even had a Jamie Oliver moment charring the capsicum over open fire on the stove! He bought me a single stalk of pink rose, it’s the first pink rose I got from him in all these years! It’s sweet, and pink is sweet. I used to looove half-bloomed blue roses, I don’t know why. Now I prefer them champagne, pink or red, and fully bloomed!

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