Wednesday, February 27, 2013

THE LOGOS HOPE

As part of my new job, I got to visit the Biggest Floating Bookstore ever. "THE LOGOS HOPE"


Waa, Yes, it was quite amazing, I met and got to talk to few volunteers on the ship. The ship is part of the German Organisation GBA Ships, and they had already sent 3 previous Bookstore ship to the world since 1980s.
There were various kinds of book inside the floating Bookstore, but most of them are in English, as well as few shelves of Thai book. (Where's the photo, Wita?)
Along with the book, there also are some souvenirs and memento to remind you of the memories of being on board.
 I checked out this one about the ship herself.

They also have some activities.. say, Kids Corner 



Oh well, I was delighted to be on the ship, but I could help thinking of the phrase someone said to me when he heard of the ship; "perhaps all the right cost will go to the right people, if they use the money to buy and give out free Kindle rather than to maintain the ship."

Hmm, that's so far I could make it interesting.

Best

Wits xx

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Cream Cheese Cherry Cake served fresh from the rice cooker! :D


I know, baking a cake is nothing special I could brag about. However, this time cake is slightly different from other cake I’ve ever baked as I normally used the oven.
However, once I travelled back to my home country, where oven is not very popular, and the main dished of every meal is rice. I must learn to adopt something.
Sadly I did not plan to update the blog in prior, so I did not take any photo of my cake being baked in the rice cooker (I’ll surely do that next time).
However, you could have a look at my cherry cake!


Adding the cream cheese into the cake was slightly strange when you mix it, as I always thought that it could only go well with cheese cake. It turns out that the cake is really rich and soft. I used fresh cherry for the cake, but I would suggest the preserved one instead, because once the cherry is cooked it became really sweet and soft, and it also ruins your cake texture (mine collapsed for a bit when I cut them apart).

Baking the cake in rice cooker is really easy too. I left my cake in the rice cooker for nearly 50 mins and didn’t even checked that it went from ‘cook’ to ‘keep warm’ for how long. By leaving it cooked, as I believe makes the cake’s skin cooked and I was glad I didn’t forced the rice cooker to cook it for too long as my cake’s skin became quite dark, and I even thought that it was burned! (Lucky it wasn’t!!) I think the heat from ‘keep warm’ mode is much enough to slowly cook the cake. But as you can see the skin is not very smooth as the cake was rather boiled than baked, so the skin in the last area that is cooked at it became all bubbly!

Lastly, I am glad I still keep on doing what I like, despite the lack of appropriate tools. 

I enjoy it, and I hope you do too! 

Wita xx