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Ingredients to yummy tarts: Shortcrust Pastry, Pineapple Jam, Friends and a Happy heart

Shortcrust pastry -- Sift 23 heaped tablespoons of all purpose flour+3 heaped tablespoons of icing sugar+2 teaspoons of baking powder+1/2teaspoon salt. Rub 3 sticks of cold unsalted butter into flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add about 3 eggyolks and knead into a dough. I don't have weighing scale so must anyhow estimate. 1 heaped tablespoon is usually about 25 grams. Pastry is easier to make if you usually have cold hands, cos then the butter doesn't melt as easily. After kneading, put the dough in the fridge to cool (so butter doesn't melt)

Pineapple Jam -- Buy a not-so-ripe whole pineapple, shave off skin (careful don't prick yourself), cut a slice to eat (must feed the chef) and grate the rest into a small saucepan. Grate = hold pineapple in hand and move back and forth quickly on a grater. Hahaha. Add about 200g sugar for one pineapple, then boil over a low heat. To accelerate the caramelization, remove the liquid occasionally over a period of about 4 hours. Cook until the jam is thick and golden (instead of yellow), then cool and put inside fridge to let it gel even more.

Friends -- This one secret recipe, cannot post online. If you really want to try making the above tarts and need the secret recipe, please request for it personally.

A Happy Heart -- :)

They weren't very consistent in size, some were darker and some were lighter. Some didn't have the cross on top, some had more filling than others. Sure signs that the tarts were home (and hand)made. I like making such things. I like staying up late at night grating pineapple and boiling it slowly and watching the sugar caramelize. I like to feel like I'm paying attention to the small details behind the scenes. And, most importantly, I like pineapple tarts.

The tarts are hard to make, just like friendships are hard to keep. Nice to eat, hard to make. Money gets u tarts, but don't homemade ones taste better? Money sometimes can get you friends too, but...? Ironically, money gets you tarts that sometimes keep much longer than homemade ones. On another note, the best things in life sometimes don't require much effort. Like sambal stingray. It's probably one of the simplest dishes to make, but yet such a delight.

I like the smell of the air after it rains, though I don't like rain. But the latter must happen before I can enjoy the former, so suck it up mao. I want good times, but not exactly good memories. Memories are always in the past, and they keep tugging. But the latter occurs naturally after the former, so suck it up too mao.

I like you because you're weird.