Happy Saint Valentine's Day

The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were excerpted by Bede and briefly expounded in Legenda Aurea. According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.

Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both.

It was a note that read "From your Valentine."

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,

All in the morning betime,

And I a maid at your window,

To be your Valentine.

Then up he rose,

and donn'd his clothes,

And dupp'd the chamber-door;

Let in the maid,

that out a maid

Never departed more.

(William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)

Chocolate Oreo Truffles

For my Valentine

For this year Valentine

i've decided to try to make something special for that special someone.

I'd learnt this from a guy and i hope it succeed! Haha!

Its quite easy and simple to make.

let's check out what's the ingredients needed !

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Box of OREO cookies (36 cookies)

1/3 of Cream Cheese

Baking Chocolate

Chocolate Powder/Crushed Almonds/Chocolate Rice (Optional)

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Baking Chocolate =)

OREO cookies =)

Australian Natural Cream Cheese =)

or Phi.. something cream cheese also can do!

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1stly

crushed the Oreo cookies into fine powder form, using a food processor.

After crushing & destroying the Oreos,

add in the 1/3 of the cream cheese with the crushed Oreos.

MIX !

Mix !

Mix !

It will turn to be like a dough.

A BIG black dough !! haha!

Remember to mix well!

Take a pinch of it,

roll it into a ball with your hands

almost the size of a ping-pong ball !

Refrigerate it for 30mins.

While waiting, get the chocolate coating ready.

Melt the baking chocolate over a bowl.

Remember DO NOT let water or steam entering the chocolate!

Stir it till evenly melted =)

Roll the ball of oreo into the bowl of melted chocolate

and leave it to harden.

(During this process, you can roll the coated ball onto choco powder/crushed almond/choco rice for a better look )

Finally CHILL it and its good to go!

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Chocolate Oreo Truffles

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Khim & XN gave me a gift as well =)

Thanks guys.

Khim gave me a CHOCOLATE HORN!!

XN gave a scented flower but i havent take photo of it yet!

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Supposely to meet the rest as well, but all TOO BUSY with their partner.. ..

To think of me making the truffles just for them.. nvmlah.

I might as well eat by myself.

I went Johor after seeing them with my family.

EAT!!

OMG.. sore throat and dying.. still can eeattt such food.. =O

WHATEVERLAH!

Sadly Valentine Day =(