Archive for the ‘Ranting’ Category
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
This year, I wrestled with ingredients in the kitchen for about 3.5 hours to make 4 dishes. Fortunately, my brother is home now, so he helped out a lot by caramelizing onions and stirring things on the stove top.Anyway. I started by cleaning the chicken, which was really no challenge, ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
After a long hiatus, I'm writing again. Regularly? I hope so, but very uncertain.Yesterday Irene and I went to the City Bakery. Melanie suffered many commuter disruptions and other incidents in addition to a rainy, Saturday morning. So she couldn't join us.For a very long time, I've heard about City ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
If sitting and studying for endless hours were a sport, I'd be a potential Olympic favorite. Right before finals week, I had two exams, two weeks apart. Lucky me, that means studying nearly every moment possible for the last 3.5-4 weeks.If I really had to, I would sit on a ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Dad is crazy about the brand-new 12" bamboo steamers we recently bought.So the next day (today,) he went food shopping with Mom and they bought these: Chef Kong's Siu Long Bao (Xiao Long Bao.) These XLBs were okay. The shape was nearly perfect, but the dough was too thick. It ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Chubby Bunny is a baller.Props to Hang, because I think we have a mascot. Oh, and props to Ty for creating soft plushies. :)
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
For the Mid-Winter Concert, the catering for the Middle C event was done by Chez Mom, yet again. This time, she took things in similar direction, but with different items on the buffet-style menu.She started with siu mai; these are pork dumplings steamed in wonton wrappes. As Arthur said, these ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Mom decided it's time to learn how to make pad thai. And this past month, she did in fact make pad thai. Once. :(
And I told her that's not the way it looks when I get it. This meant having to go get takeout for dinner one of these nights, ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
It's true. If we fail to eat appropriately and regularly, it is likely we will binge eat to compensate. Such destructive behavior is often why people cannot lose weight by crash dieting. But enough of that.I haven't written in here since for-freaking-ever.So I will binge-write. :) Because there is no ...
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