I was talking to one of my cousins the other day when i said, "One of these days, i'll make a bonofi pie for you people." She went on about what's a bonofi pie and that she's never heard of such a dish. She being the boss when it comes to stuff about food, there isn't a dish called 'bonofi pie' if she says there isn't. But then again, it might be called something else in sg, maybe 'homemade banana pie' or 'english dessert'. Anyway, some of the ingredients which i use for bonofi pie isn't available in sg, and i'm too lazy to try out replcements, so i won't be making it anytime soon.



I made a bonofi pie for my adorable housemate yinyin for her birthday. I didn't get her any presents though, since i was kind of a poor man. But of course that's just an excuse, the truth was that i didn't really know what to get her. I didn't even ask my other housemate phun tscho to join us for the bonofi pie. The main reason was that she usually come as a bundle with her friend chimmi. I don't know chimmi that well, only that she's a vegetarian. I'm not sure if she can eat the pie i made. If you asked me, the bonofi pie is vegetarian to me, but it really depends on how strict the vegetarian is with the diet. I've got a friend who looks at the ingredients of a food to ensure that certain enzyme (no, i'm not kidding) is not included before she would consume it. So to avoid asking her to come over and chance that she might not be eating anything, i didn't tell phun tscho about yinyin's birthday too. But turned out that just as we were setting out candles on the pie, she came back for a phone call, and i asked her to stay for the bonofi pie.



Yinyin and i were always watching tv. In fact, we were more like some old couple whiling away the last days of our life in front of the picture box than students. Now for the bandit to yell out some rant, "whoever took our tv remote, that's very mean.". You don't just take a man's beer and remote from him ya know. But then beer won't apply to me, i don't drink beer. ok... i do drink beer, but only socially. Its not my kind of drink, if i were to quaff alcohol, i rather down raw vodka. Some friends swear that i can hold my alcohol well, but that's just becoz they assume that drunk people either pass out or say/do wrong things. I usually just keep quiet when i'm drunk to avoid saying the wrong things. Hitting people with my shoes is not my kind of thing.



This days i'm more of a coffee person.

I drink coffee to stay awake,

drink coffee to fall asleep,

coffee when i'm sick,

coffee when i'm beat,

coffee to make me tick,

coffee to make me.. dam i'm running out of words.



Bonofi Pie



Ingredients :

- one roll of plain arnott's biscuits.

- half butter (the whole butter cut in half, yes lots of butter)

- one can of condense milk

- one small bottle of thickened cream

- some bananas

- two bars of chocolate flakes (not available in sg, ya have to find something else)



Process :

1. Pound the biscuits into fine crumbs.

2. Melt butter and mix butter with crumbs. Spread batter out on a pie dish evenly. Then refrigerate batter overnight to make it harden.

3. Boil condense milk for one hour (put the whole can w/o opening in boiling water). Be careful when you open the can later. Hot compressed caramel will shoot out, literally.

4. Spread home made caramel onto batter evenly.

5. Slice banana into pieces and spread on top of caramel.

6. Use mixer to turn thicken cream into whipped cream.

7. Spread home made whipped cream on top of banana.

8. Break chocolate flakes into crumbs and sprinkle on top of whip cream. refrigerate bonofi pie to harden caramel and cream before serving.



Note :

- you can use a blender to blend the biscuits, but the result is a little too fine for my taste

- you can use caramel instead of condense milk to save on the effort. but its no longer freshly home made.

- you can use whipped cream instead of thickened cream to save on the effort. but its no longer freshly home made.

- you can use fruits other than banana, but banana seems to be the best.