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It was the morning of my birthday when I got a phone call from Harvest cake shop asking me to describe how to get to my home. A few moments later, a delivery person arrived, bringing the most awesome package I have ever received, with a note attached “Happy birthday Hesti! Love, the Scotts”
During our super fast visit to Denmark to attend a training, we took the opportunity to visit my hubby’s daughter on the weekend after the training concluded. She lives in Sweden, just across the bridge from Copenhagen, in a locality named Kyrkheddinge situated in the municipality of Staffanstorp, Skåne county. We spent two nights there before we had to fly back home to Jakarta.
Having tried the in-house Chinese restaurant at the Imperial Queen’s Park, hubby and I decided to try out the French restaurant, Les Nympheas. The place looked quite posh and I loved the interior. It had very high ceiling and a semi-open kitchen. The seats were really comfortable and decorated with plenty of pillows covered with colourful Thai silk.
After quite a while of cooking and eating in, my hubby and I decided to go out for dinner last Saturday. We wanted something nice but not too far from home as we dreaded the usual Jakarta traffic. We picked Toscana, an Italian restaurant in Kemang. My hubby went there with his office colleagues once, and said it was good, so I wanted to try it too.
My hubby ordered asparagus soup and pan-fried sole fish with mustard sauce, while I ordered onion soup and lamb chop with mint sauce. I can only speak for my order, of course, and while the onion soup was unfortunately a little bland, the lamb chop was really nice. At least compared to the last one I ordered elsewhere where the lamb chop was completely tough and the mint sauce tasted like plain olive oil. Here, the meat was quite tender and the mint sauce was tasty and added a nice fragrance to the meat.
For desserts, my hubby had chocolate mousse (which he claimed it does not stand a chance against the one in Brasserie), and I had crème brûlée. I tasted some of the chocolate mousse and I agreed it was not as good as Brasserie’s (it was quite heavier and sweeter) but I did like their crème brûlée. It was very creamy and not too sweet, although I thought it could have used a slightly thicker sugar crust. 
Due to poor lighting, I did not take any pictures of the food. 
The verdict? Will definitely come back another time to try out other menu items (but stay clear of the onion soup). 
My boss invited me and my hubby over for dinner with her visiting mother and some friends/colleagues. I decided (and she totally agreed) to bring over some chocolate mousse a la Nigella Lawson. So, that I did. It was fun and easy to make and it tasted delicious! To view a video of her on this recipe, go here.
Ingredients:
Melt all first four ingredients together, set aside to cool. Whip the cream together with 
vanilla extract (or rum, whichever you choose) until it’s fluffy/firm. Fold the (cooled) chocolate mix into the cream.
It seemed to be a hit at dinner, although I thought it was a bit too sweet. I think the chocolate fill of the marshmallow may have something to do with it, so if I can’t find plain marshmallows, I will have to use partly unsweetened chocolate. However, it’s definitely a keeper! 
(And according to my hubby, it’s dangerously close to knocking off Brasserie’s chocolate mousse from the top).
Since I had to bring it over to my boss’ house, I spooned it into paper coffee cups, so it doesn’t really show the mousse itself. The picture above shows it garnished with (hand-)whipped cream.
