are you mexican?

That is what Rachel asked her mum yesterday during dinner, since she's not chinese. Wow. But since I am also not mexican, I thought I'd try to prove it today and tada! Timmo you might recognize this. Look Daniel I'm learning! except you probably wouldn't like this. The book I got the recipe from calls it tomato egg drop soup. I dunno what it's called so we'll stick with that.

Recipe:


I didn't follow it very closely cuz I didn't think it necessary. That means I grabbed an onion and a moderate sized tomato, added a garlic, eyeballed the fish sauce and salt. More like tongue tested I guess. The water I added until it looked like a good amount which came out to 4 cups for me. But yeah. I also subbed shimeji mushrooms for the pork cuz....that's what I had in the house.

Before:


Post egg!



And on rice mmmmmmmm.



Tastes almost like mommy makes (I think the missing taste is the pork). Hooray healthy.
I planted the foxglove or at my auntie's yesterday. Here's hoping that they live and that I didn't jump the gun on last frost for the year.

to study or not to study

Not!

Behold! made from instant package sweet korean pancakes! They are called Hoddeok i think and mmmmm.




first your make the dough which is mixing a flour packet a yeast packet and water. It smells pretty good at that point. Then you oil your hands and roll the dough into 10 balls. Then you fill each one with a tasty sugar cinnamon peanut mix (this is dry but it melts with cooking!







into the fry pan it goes! there's some kinda stamp for mushing it circularly....I repeatedly went at it with the spatula. Flip when golden brown.




mmmmmmm the one in the circle bowl is the Sellan friendly side, not made in my cast iron in case bacon residues matter (not that you taste anything like that, I cleaned it pretty well). The filling oozes out, so, good!

studying anatomy

looks kinda like this




















or when you goof off in class it looks likes this









ahahahaha

obession

When i get around to it i will show pictures of my snow toof. Daniel came to see me last weekend! Best weekend ever! We made shandies with michael and pizza tooo. SO GOOD. We also tried kraken rum which is reasonably tasty but also makes you feel like you can breathe fire ahahahha.
This week is a hit and a miss, failed the fixed practical 4/7 and passed the op one 6/5. Then cut the brain out of our cadaver =O. It was really hard and we ended up having to take the brain out with the skull cap. the dura mater was just too stuck to the bone. I had stuck my hands up in there to try to sever the connection but to no avail! An instructor did much of it for us haha.

Righto, so my current obsession is with this little guy.




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I wanna have a taaaank and shrimpies and plants and and ah so cute. Come oooon craigslist.

fluffities

An addendum to the last cookie note, they came out chewy instead of crunchy hahaha but people seem to like them. I had accidentally added the flour before the eggs and vanilla extract because I was distracted. Saved!

I made some sellan friendly cookies yesterday ala this recipe and they're surprisingly good. I did add like 1-2 tbls butter because sellan can have dairy. So instead of the half cup oil it's like 2 tbls butter, quarter cup applesauce (unsweetened) and the rest veggie oil. They are a little underdone because the reviews for the recipe were like don't overcook! so I was scared. They are chewy and remind me of a packaged soft cookie from I dunno what brand. Success!

I was in Tahoe with Theresa this weekend! It was so fun. I can make an oreo go from my forehead to my mouth with my face muscles (but not that fast). I am also a champion dragon streamer which is when you hold on to the end of a streamer decoration roll (paper) and some one holds the other end, and you wave your arm in a circle as fast as possible to get it wound around your hand. Egg beating skills? Theresa played the office ping pong game. The next day was snoooooooooooooooooow. White and fluffy and surprisingly sticky. I rode a sled, made perfectly smooth snowballs, made snow angels, and a snow tooth! ahahahha Mandibular second molar, 3 cusp type. Snow clothes are very good at keeping you warm and dry, much appreciated. At Theresa's church they really like to feed you. I had breakfast, played snow, lots of lunch, played snow, snack, drove back, buffet dinner, then Theresa's ::pass out::

I love okonomiyaki. Yum, favorite dinner, but don't get it at that one Japantown place. They don't put okonomi sauce or bonito flakes on it! Travesty!

My long post is pictureless because I only had time to either post or upload. It is 10:40 and I need to sleep because school beckons tomorrow morning at 7 am because this fixed project is kicking my butt.

explodey

Monday was a lovely gift exchange flavored with pizza and frozen yogurt. Yours truly gave Sellan a vegan ice cream recipe book called "lick it!" which was funnier than I had realized when buying it >.>. Linh gave to me pepper spray and an instant read thermometer, yay! So I can't actually make candy with it but I shall find some use.

It has been a rather poor week for food since I didn;t cook on sunday and I'm going with theresa to tahoe this weekend so i don't want to make anything during the week either. On the bright side, this loaf of bread I bough shall be finished before it goes bad! Can't say the same for the turkey.....It's been mostly eggs for dinner, bacon yesterday and today i have miso with wakame and a couple udon noodles >.> oy.

This quarter we went into school thinking, I'm gonna stay on top of things!! I can do this! Then today we had fixed prosthedontics and uhhhh ::owned::
We had to fake a fracture on a tooth, make a large amalgam filling MOD on #14, and stick putty in the socket of number 12. Then they want use to take impressions, then pour stone, then wax up the messed up teeth, then impression, then pour stone again, and then mount that, by next week, ignoring the fact we also have and ICS test on monday, an operative practical on thurs and some kinda sciencey test on friday. That my friends is absolute bollucks.

On a lighter note, this weekend I shall experience snow for the second time and hope to see it fall from the sky. That will allow me to properly assess whether snowflakes fall gigantic and handsized from the sky.

the return part 2

So it's better than last time still but talk about laaaazy, I sat in bed and watched river cottage and manga from waking (10:30) until 3! then i bought way more groceries than I should have. The weirdest thing, Safeway wasn't selling ANY cabbage!! That means no okonomiyaki this week. Also i didn't eat since lunch yesterday until 8 pm this evening (also not a good sign for mood). ;_; minor weepiness. So what to do when I haven't eaten and don't feel great?










Bake stuff for other people! Yay jackie and joyce will eat these. I made i think 3 dozen and placed 2 logs into the freezer, phew! That means I'm too tired to cook for this week. Turkey sandwiches go go.

oh right the recipe is from america's test kitchen and can be found here except i melted the butter first and doubled everything. also 12 minutes is a good time for my oven and i can do 2 racks at once with each holding a dozen cookies. used a tablespoon for each cookie.