While my mug bean soup is being cooked, I've decided on what I'm cooking for dinner tomorrow. I'm going to prepare Kimbap!
The different types of kimbaps I'm going to make is 1) the traditional, including carrot, egg, yellow pickles, and sausage; 2) bulgogi kimbap; 3) kimchi kimbap.
Stay tuned...
Monday, March 1, 2010
我要做一個賢氣的太太了！！
After a relaxing Reading week, getting back onto my two sore feet is a pretty difficult task to accomplish. Therefore, I had another idea of making something delightful and out of the ordinary, 綠豆湯! Guessing this will help me diverge my brain a little away from school work. Anyways, I called my grandma and my mom for the recipe and got the ingredients ready a few days ago. It's a very time consuming thing to make, therefore this blog will be updated as I go along. By the way, I'm starting to think my blog is going to turn into a thoughts on cooking blog, much like Julie & Julia, that's pretty sad :( Anyways wish me luck...
Step 1: I soaked the mug beans into water for at least two hours so they can soak up the water and it'll make cooking less time consuming.
What happened here was the bean covers started to crack because there was water being absorbed, I thought it was pretty cool if I started taking the peels off. The problem was when I tried squeezing the peels off, the beans would split in half. That's why in the picture below, you can see some really yellow beans which I accidentally split.
Step 2: after the bean is soaked for more than two hours its time to put it in the rice cooker.
Problem here was we put a 1:3 ratio of bean and water into the cooker, after a few minutes the room started to smell like burnt beans. This, of course, meant something was wrong so we went to check up on the cooker. Turns out, the beans were flipping and flopping around the cooker and the water was boiling way too much. Guess what Ming did...he got a whole water jug and poured the left over water into the cooker. Way too much water. Thanks Ming, now the ratio's more like 1:10!
Step 1: I soaked the mug beans into water for at least two hours so they can soak up the water and it'll make cooking less time consuming.
What happened here was the bean covers started to crack because there was water being absorbed, I thought it was pretty cool if I started taking the peels off. The problem was when I tried squeezing the peels off, the beans would split in half. That's why in the picture below, you can see some really yellow beans which I accidentally split.
Step 2: after the bean is soaked for more than two hours its time to put it in the rice cooker.Problem here was we put a 1:3 ratio of bean and water into the cooker, after a few minutes the room started to smell like burnt beans. This, of course, meant something was wrong so we went to check up on the cooker. Turns out, the beans were flipping and flopping around the cooker and the water was boiling way too much. Guess what Ming did...he got a whole water jug and poured the left over water into the cooker. Way too much water. Thanks Ming, now the ratio's more like 1:10!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
New Idea
Living life in residents means doing the same things each day. First, you wake up in the morning, eat breakfast at Colman Commons, go to class, go back to your dorms and sleep until its time for your next class, go to your next class, come home, eat lunch at Colman Commons, go online, eat dinner, study (or not), get ready for bed, crash, and start the cycle once again. There's really nothing else to do in a 5m by 3m room except the same routine.
That's when I thought, I HAD ENOUGH! There must be something I can do in order to change my routine, and there it was...Cooking. After thinking about the endless variety of cuisines I wanted to eat, I created a goal; to cook all the things I've been dreaming of eating. Browsing through YouTube I've encountered numerous recipes. Dokboki, bulgogi kimbap, yakisoba, omurice, katsu don, and many more. Well, it's mainly Japanese and Korean food but you get the idea.
(too lazy to write more... here's the summary)
So then Ming came up with the idea of making sushi in our dorm, and here are some pictures of how home cooked sushi turned out to be...
This is our final product. We did make a lot more than 8 pieces but everyone ate as we made them.
Thank you Annie for washing the dishes.
Us enjoying the sushi.
and finally, a picture of our head chief.
Here's a little clip on our third try in making sushi
That's when I thought, I HAD ENOUGH! There must be something I can do in order to change my routine, and there it was...Cooking. After thinking about the endless variety of cuisines I wanted to eat, I created a goal; to cook all the things I've been dreaming of eating. Browsing through YouTube I've encountered numerous recipes. Dokboki, bulgogi kimbap, yakisoba, omurice, katsu don, and many more. Well, it's mainly Japanese and Korean food but you get the idea.
(too lazy to write more... here's the summary)
So then Ming came up with the idea of making sushi in our dorm, and here are some pictures of how home cooked sushi turned out to be...
This is our final product. We did make a lot more than 8 pieces but everyone ate as we made them.
Thank you Annie for washing the dishes.
Us enjoying the sushi.
and finally, a picture of our head chief.
Here's a little clip on our third try in making sushi
Thursday, February 11, 2010
wasting my time
This opening blog is called "wasting my time". It should be very self explanatory since there is a remainder of 13 hours for me to write my philosophy essay, and I am currently eating the time away by sitting in the school library's silent zone, thinking about what to do with this blog that I've recently created. Yes, I realized that I'm a little insane spending my time "wisely" on these useless blogs which I'm expecting little people to read, but I guess it's better that doodling on my new bought mug from Starbucks which I have been so very attached to for the past hour and a half.
I guess this is how university life is: students are assigned an exceptionally time consuming assignment and start to worry about the work before it's assigned, read through the criteria sheet when it is handed out in class, put the paper into a very organized binder and forget about the assignment until the day before its due. Yes, that sounds about right!
Anyways, I'm been reading through Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy for the second time, and after refreshing my all-so-tired brain, error. I tried to recall what I've read just a second ago, but nothing. My mind actually blanked out and the ideas that I believed formed in my head while my eyes moved from left to right disappeared like puff... Sad isn't it?
After a minute or two from my memory loss, I opened my computer for a glimpse of what exactly Bertrand Russell was trying to interpret. Sparknotes! That's the most ideal place to look for answers... but hold on, for two chapters of Russell, there is 6 pages of summary and explanation for each chapter, meaning 12 pages of 12pt Calibri font on windows... This is going to be hell!
Another few minutes drained while I tried to enlarge the font size so I wouldn't go blind. I realized, how can people sit down and read these pointless works of philosophers? Ideas, assumptions, a bunch of bull! Why would anyone care about whether a table actually exists or not? These thoughts came rushing into my head as my contacts grew dry from reading the fine print.
How many more hours of this torturous reading do I have to do? I need red bull fast before I crash into the table and end up with a big scar on my head. Somebody, RESCUE ME!
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