Rhinestic's Knick Knacks
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Saturday, April 22, 2006

日本料理を作った

My parents didn't cook today, so I made use of this opportunity to cook my own Japanese meal... Even though I've cooked soup soba, Japanese curry and "rolled" sushi before (<-- note the verb i used...), this is the first time I'm cooking Japanese rice. Luckily, it turned out okay.. Hahahha.. Today's menu was "Yakitori and Kare omu donburi", Japanese egg drop soup and mini onigiri. Sounds like a feast, isn't it? Hahaha.. Oh well, the onigiri was made from the leftover rice meant for the donburi... And to have kare omu (curry omelette) was an impromptu thing...

焼き鳥とカレオム丼.ミニおにぎり.卵スップ

Click on picture to enlarge. (That wine glass is just for show... It contained ribena.. Hahaha...)

Rhinestic's recipe for yakitori
  • Satay sticks (Thin wooden skewers)

  • 5 to 6 small chicken drumsticks (Please use chicken breast instead... The reason I used chicken drumsticks was because my house ran out of chicken breast... Hahah..)

  • 1 level dessertspoon of sake for cooking

  • 2 level dessertspoons of yakitori sauce (you can get it in most major supermarkets.. I bought mine from the Isetan supermarket)

  • 1 level dessertspoon of cornflour

  • Drizzle of yakitori sauce (Will need it just before grilling)


  • 1. De-skin and De-bone the drumsticks/chicken breast. Put them in a bowl.
    2. Mix in the cornflour.
    3. Pour in the sake and yakitori sauce. Mix well. Set aside for at least 30 min (best results if set aside for about 2 hours. I was kinda hungry, so I marinated for only 30 min.)
    4. After setting aside for some time, poke a few pieces of chicken meat through each satay stick. Leave about 2 to 3 inches empty at one end so that u can use that area to turn during grilling.
    5. Just before putting the sticks of chicken meat to grill, drizzle some yakitori sauce over the meat. This will give them a nice caramelized glaze over the chicken.
    6. If you are grilling the chicken in the oven (which I was using..), make sure to oil your grilling tray a bit. On my oven, there's a "meat skewer" choice. I used that to grill for 16 min, turning over every 4 min. If your oven doesn't have that choice, set the temperature to 200 degree celsius, and grill the chicken for 20 min, turning them once every 5 min. (<-- this instruction is printed on the yakitori sauce bottle)
    7. Enjoy.


    Rhinestic's recipe for kare omu (curry omelette)
  • 1 egg

  • A handful of julienned cabbage/chinese cabbage

  • 1 packet of curry omelette mix

  • 1 level dessertspoon of vegetable oil (I used a bit less)


  • 1. Cook the cabbage in a saucepan of boiling water. When they're cooked, take them out and set aside.
    2. Crack an egg into a bowl. Beat it to mix the yolk and egg white well).
    3. Mix in the curry omelette mix. (You can replace this with plain curry powder with a bit of salt or shoyu)
    4. Pour in the vegetable oil into a saucepan (preferably non-stick).
    5. When the oil is heated, pour in the egg mix.
    6. When the underside of the egg is cooked, put in the cooked cabbage.
    7. When the egg is almost done, turn off the fire. Roll up the egg or fold it in half. This will allow the egg to be fully cooked.
    8. Enjoy.

    Rhinestic's recipe for 焼き鳥とカレオム丼

    1. Cook some japanese rice.
    2. Follow the above 2 recipes.
    3. Cook some julienned cabbage/chinese cabbage in a saucepan of boiling water. When they're cooked, take them out and set aside.
    3. Place the cooked rice into a bowl, followed by placing the kare omu. Then place the cabbage on top of the rice that's not covered.
    4. For the sauce, pour about 2 level dessertspoon of yakitori sauce, abt 1 level dessertspoons of cooking sake, and about 1 level dessertspoon of water into a saucepan. Turn off the heat when the mixture bubbles. Drizzle the sauce over the cabbage and rice.
    5. Place the grilled chicken on top of the cabbage.
    6. Enjoy.


    Pictures of my plants
    Alright, the pictures for last week...


    Petunia


    Mandarin oranges seedlings


    Chilli Padi seedling...


    Many chilli padi seedlings.... =='''


    Cherry tomato seedling


    Red amaranth

    That's last week... Look at what happened this week!


    My red amaranth.... IT'S GROWING FLOWERS!!! Click the picture to enlarge it! Haha... The thing in front is cherry tomato..

    Cannot see the flowers??? Here's a closer look... Look at where the arrows are pointing...

    Still cannot see??!?!? Go enlarge it! Click on the picture! Hahaha...

    Thursday, March 09, 2006

    28th Feb: Got my JLPT 4 results

    Was really nervous when my father passed the envelope to me... I took a deep breath, and quickly opened the envelope.. What a shock!! A pleasant shock though.. I thought I would do very badly for my listening... Glad that I passed it... Overall, I never expect to get that score... *phew* (Someone's going to bish me...)


    1st Mar - 3rd Mar: Cruise!!

    Yeap, the days I'd been waiting for~ Only to be *disappointed* with the unhappening karaoke pub... For the 3 (or rather, 2) days, had been listening to old cantonese/chinese/english songs sung by the same few folks.. Was feeling quite nostalgic initially.. But I got kinda tired of listening to those drearily slow songs everyday, almost every hour... ==

    Otherwise, had quite a *FULL* and relatively fun trip. *Full* as in we always ended up very full after every meal (so much for the 70% full cap in my tummy).. And fun.. Fun for being targeted for a game show.. Hahahaha... Some tic tac toe gameshow involving trivia games and some sporty games... Fortunately, xb and I kena the trivia questions instead of the pretty *embarrassing* games.. We're quite fortunate to win the game in spite of the "bad" start.. HAHAHAHHA.. Hey! It's not easy to do hoola hoop, kay? But, XB, you did look quite funny... HAHAHAHAHHAHA... =P And coz of the game, we won free lunch meals at the Japanese restaurant in the ship, free show tickets to FEVER (a topless dance show that turned out er.. boring?), 2 tickets to book the karaoke rooms for free for an hour each (which we didn't in the end coz i was too tired... concussed...), 2 bottles of red wine, and 2 classical music cds... Quite rewarding, considering I've not won anything for quite some time...

    Here're a few photos to whet your appetite!.. (As if)


    Superstar Virgo.. The cruise we're on.. =P


    Sun rise.. Taken from our cabin!


    Alamak... So windy!


    Nice horizon!!


    4th Mar: Happy Birthday, Joel!

    Wait wait.. Before going to the part about Joel's birthday... I've some photo updates of my plants on this day!


    My red amaranth... Getting bigger!


    Top view~~


    It's always getting taller... I'm talking about Swordy, of course...


    Hey! There's another leaf shoot! I was hoping for a flower shoot though.. =

    Horror of horrors... My father dumped so many chilli padi seeds into a pot!!! o.O'''


    Pardon these 2 cherry tomato seedlings for looking squiggly...

    Ok, ok... back to Joel's birthday party... You see, Joel's my BU3's baby son.. A very cute little boy.. Hahaha.. Whenever he saw XB, he would do that funny hand movements! But he didn't seem to take any interest in me or Gor gor... =\ All he did was stare at me... Sobs... I want hand movements too!! Hahahhaa... Anyway, Happy Birthday, Kiddo! 快高长大哟!


    Hahhhhh!!! I snapping a photo of BU3 who's snapping a photo of XB, Gorgor and me!


    Who's that?? Very nice ring... (Buaahahhahaha... That'd be XB...)


    A falsely very tanned Gorgor... I think he's enjoying whatever he's eating... Or was that a frown!?


    Finally!!! The 主角... Halloooo, Joel!! Happy Birthday!!


    9th Mar: Photo update of my plants


    Red Amaranth looking more and more like mini veges rather than seedlings now~


    Is there something interesting on the right??? Why are all the chilli padi seedlings swaying to 1 direction!? (Hahahhaa, that's coz my mum didn't keep turning the pot in the partial shade during day time... ==)


    The cherry tomato seedlings ended up with the same fate as the chilli padi seedlings... =.=''' But they have true leaves already! Funny shapes..


    The old vine isn't growing much... But looks like the new shoot's taking over...
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