Chawanmushi

What do you do when you’re hungry in the middle of the night and fortunately, you have access to a few eggs?

No you don’t fry them, cause it’s too oily it’s bad for health.

No you don’t boil them, cause it’s just too boring and it’s more breakfast-style.

No you don’t eat them raw … cause it’s just not the type of thing we do (maybe we should!)

So the brilliant housemate (who has been immersed in the Japanese culture for quite a while cause she is taking Japanese Language) came up with the amazing idea of cooking a Japanese dish … Chawanmushi.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chawanmushi

Having no idea on what ingredient is needed, her another housemate (yours truly) came up with some marvelous idea (eg the norm like mushroom and carrot zzz)… only to find that we’ve none of those left.

Yet, nothing beats 3 determined hungry stomach. One went on the quest to hunt for recipes online, one discards the online recipe cause we’ve no ingredients while the other one set to work with whatever we have in the fridge.

She came out with this wonderful idea of adding Boccocini Cheese into the beaten eggs and the other two nodded in agreement.

So the Chawanmushi is set to be cooked. It looks pretty normal and harmless … Boccocini cheese swimming around the beautifully beaten eggs … we believe it’ll turn out so well we can be dubbed the second Einstein *proud*

and the result

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Yes. This is what we see when we removed the rice cooker’s cover.

One ugly piece of er … EGG.

OUR Chawanmushi. Yeah, scroll up to the beginning of the post and do the comparison … yeah, just do it …

=.=’’

This is what we see when we flip it over on the plate.

We gave it a new name: Chawanpudding. Oh yeah, we’re so Einstein *tak tau malu* wtf

At least the Boccocini Cheese is doing it’s job

T____T

 

Taste wise: Not bad … edible … it tasted exactly like … mild cheese and egg.

Yeah, our Chawanpudding TM

Chawanmushi

=____________=

 

We’re so full right now.

The food trivia

While somebody's at it, I shall join in the fun and continue on with the "Randomness".

Despite being home, it does not feel homely for the dinner table was empty. The hungry me had too roll up my sleeves and cook for my grumbling stomach =(

Menu for the day: EGG -___-

First dish: Sunny side

Pretty kan! It’s not perfect but it’s pretty. PLUS, it’s waaaay better than “fried rice uncle’s” sunny side. It’s healthier + cheaper. Hohoho!

Second dish: Eggy tomato

Ha! My motto of life is to live healthy -__- thus the healthy meal.

Decided to combine my meal like I've ordered "eggy tomato rice PLUS egg".

To add on to the HEALTHINESS, rice “not white”.  What it is called again? Grain? Red rice? Gosh, my vocabulary has gone down to negative infinity.

Hoo, look at the yolk. Me like! I know it looks super yucks but who asked you to judge an egg by it's look? STUPID.

Conclusion: My life is NOT pathetic either.

My egg even looks classy. You know, the sauce-decoration thing high class restaurants use in their servings? The sauce to decorate the BIG plate with a SMALL meal? Mine has it.

I’m classy. I know.

*pukes* -__-

Ok, I shall bid Goodbye now.

Back to FINANCIAL-PLANNING-I DON’T-WANT-TO-SEE-YOU-NEXT-SEMESTER.

Oh, and I’m currently reading “My best friend’s girl” by Dorothy Koomson (so much for I-don’t-want-to-see-FP-next-sem x_x)

Yeah, I don’t know my priority.

Farewell!

Loyal. Devoted.

Apparently, when it comes to LOVE, you can either be loyal or devoted or BOTH.

Analysis:

Philia - Loyal and Devoted.
Itu kata, kalau dia love somebody, dia akan love love love. Dia takkan keluar curi ayam curi makan. And she will remember her lover / ex-lover even after 10 years later, 20 years later, 40 years later ... ... .... Die lo like that.

Perempuan macam dia ... pupus dah. Punah. Tapi weak, easy to be bullied.

Yoyo girl - Devoted but not loyal.
Itu kata, dia akan curi ayam curi dinosaur curi kereta even though she is married / dating you. But kalau dia cinta you, dia akan cinta you forever and ever and ever.
But BEWARE, cause she will go out curi curi.

Perempuan with trait macam dia, tak bagus tak bagus. Tapi strong, not easily bullied.

Nicole - Loyal but not Devoted.
Itu kata, kalau dia dating / sudah married (HAHAHA!), dia akan loyal kepada the guy / husband (HAHAHA!). Itu kata dia tak akan keluar curi ayam curi daging curi ikan. Dia akan faithful kepada boy itu.
Tapi, dia tak devoted. Itu kata, kalau dia suka you sekarang, mungkin 1 year later she won't suka you already.

Perempuan with trait macam dia, bagus. Bagus. And not easily bullied.

So the moral of the story, LOVE with all your heart. But when that person don't appreciate it, just forget about him. Don't love him forever and ever and ever.
No point loving him.

Plus, why waste time on him when you can use TIME for other use, like EARN MONEY?

Yeah, another moral of the story, worship $$$. Wtf.


Disclaimer: This post is morally wrong, if you think so la. Or else, just accept it as it is. Anyways, who cares?

AdventuRun 2008

Put your hands together and scream "CONGRATULATIONS!!!" to Philia Adeline Mastan!

She has like one-year supply of VICO whoever who is in need of some VICO powder can just approach her.

She can even organise a VICO party and guests drink VICO and VICO only wtf.

Oh, I've focused so much on VICO I've totally forgotten to announce that she won 2nd for the 'G' category - Women 5km.

There you go. The girl and her medal.

She has totally participate to win cause she claims Indonesians are better than Malaysians.

-___- come, whoever who wants to beat her up, please feel free to drop by her house at Subang Jaya SS15/7, right opposite Chan Li Huey's house.

Oh, this is Chan Li Huey, aka Yoyo girl.

The one on the right of course, the one with the not-so-nice spectacles.

A girl with IQ 180 and very nice to be with, although it might seem that she is living in denial. No doubt, she is.

She claims that she is very very leng lui, and she claims she has the 3rd best handwriting (after Nicole and Phi). Delusion I tell you, delusion.

~sigh~ lets all pray that courage will be given to her when the cold hard truth land right on her face one day. ~sigh~

*shakes head*

Bye!

Opposite Attracts

Went Pavilion with Mama and Bro yesterday to check out the HP fair.

Fact: Nicole Lai don't think she will get a new laptop for Aussie. She thinks she'll be bringing this not-so-new laptop she is using.

Held: It is true. The reason behind that is because her brother got a new laptop. So she need not pass her laptop to him, so she is obliged to bring her not-so-new laptop.

Note: Do not ajak her to PC fair or LowYat, she will be geram-fied.

Other note: Please do ajak her, cause she needs a headphone and an external hard disk.

Nyways, remember this?

Nicole Lai now has thisand thisand a whole stack of these the use of them? I don't know.

 

Bye bye. I need to RESUME ICBM. I'm still in Chapter One, cause I'm FAST like that.

Thank you Bye bye. 

Pre-Exam Syndrome 2

Since there are not much happenings around us, let us look back on our tensed-up-days, where we do weird stuff to keep ourselves sane.

Heard of 'Anything' & 'Whatever'?

don't mind the apple on it. I don't know why we put it there.

They're part of our daily lives.

Where to eat? Anything.

What to eat? Whatever.

Yeah, that's our slogan.

So we heard (loooong time ago) that some company came up with these drinks called 'Anything' and 'Whatever'. Being insane, we were ready to try on anything cheeky.

Anything Whatever

Thats us drinking them. I randomly selected the Rootbeer one while she (unfortunately) picked a Peach one (which is super sweeeeet).

and the craziness continues ...

... ...

pardon us. It was exam period.

Of Pre-Exam Syndrome

I think its time to unleash the wild crazy side of us crappers.

What do we do when we are really tensed up and at the same time, equipped with a web cam? We camwhore. We take terrible pictures of ourselves just so we won't forget we've been through this stage – the stage of studying for exams.

First, when you've just discovered that your web cam can take pictures, you rush to the nearby mirror only to find that you cannot actually do the ... erm, Karen Cheng pose (without dressing up of course, cause we are in hysterics)

So you turn over and face your stagnant laptop, get your friends to pose like idiots and *chi chak*

You then rush to the laptop and snap another picture looking really enthusiastic about something

Still not satisfied, you try to cover the face of your friend like she is some famous artiste involved in a scandal while you're the body guard who is trying to prevent reporters from getting her pictures into the tabloid news. Wtf.

All these done at a time when the cafeteria was crowded and students giving blank stare at us.

Pardon us, but we were stressed.

100th post

100th post!

*claps*

no mood to celebrate. haih. shud i like delete this post and leave it till like after exam then only post it up so that we can like have double joy? like wtf. -__-

Since its the like 100th post, I want to write down a wishlist.

1. I wish disaster like earthquake happen to Malaysia before I sit for my MA paper.
2. I wish disaster like Darurat happen to Malaysia before I sit for my MA paper.
3. I wish disaster like fire happen to our MA paper.
4. I wish like UniSA sent us Management paper or ADA paper instead of MA.
5. I wish ... I wish ... I wish ...

Ha. So happy. I wish my wishes can come true. Wtf.

Thank you BYE BYE


PS: I so should delete this post. =.='' after exams la. *winks*

Newspaper

In the midst of exam stress, I discovered a new ME.

A ME who enjoy reading small sections of newspaper
and snap photos of them.

Below are two of my masterpieces (monologue: wtf, like that also called masterpiece ah ... aiya, stress ma, need to self praise a bit) :The more the reason why I should go Las Vegas =) 4 meter *woot*!

Do make www.milklovesyou.com your homepage and click on it everyday =)

Haha, Milk you love us don't you? Want to give us free milk? Erm, not from your big b***** (18 sx). I want Tetra Pak-ed ones.

Egg Onion

I. HAVE. NO. MOOD. TO STUDY.

!@#$%^

Anyways, I cooked onion-egg today. Yeah baybeh, eggs ... again.
I think egg is the BEST creation of God. Erm, maybe after cocoa powder, and milk.

They look so real hor.

I mean, looks like it's cooked by mama one hor. Haha, I'm so proud I managed to cook a proper eggy-onion. Cause usually what goes in the WOK under Nicole comes out black. =) This came out the way it should. Bravo!

PS: I've ran out of stock for chocolates. No chocolate bar, no chocolate cookies, no chocolate whatsoever. That explains my moodiness. And due to that, I've been sleeping THE WHOLE DAY. I planned not to sleep tonight. I plan to turn myself into a REAL OWL.

I need self-discipline. Wtf.

Cheese - Rich - Cake

I have dreamt (throughout these few days of STUDIES) of having a rich rich cheese cake with me when I'm studying so that I can have something SATISFYING to munch on. Chocolate does fall into this category but ... too much chocolate no cheese makes Nicole a dull girl. Besides, these chocolate are making me feel HOT. Literally, I can feel my body temperature shooting up by the day.

So I dreamt to have some cold cold rich rich cheesy cake instead, and MY DREAM CAME TRUE! Serious! I did not tell mummy anything, but yesterday night she came back with this cheese-stick-cake for me! Yay!Guess my DREAMS DO COME TRUE sometimes. Hmm ... maybe I should dream about something like getting STRAIGHT HD's for this sememster than hmm ... maybe I can get all HDs!
*note to self : Nicole, you have to dream on. Keep dreaming! Do dream! I support you!*

So yeah, here's my super rich until like so rich cheese cake. Too bad the portion is too small. I finished it in like 10 minutes (I've tried to slow down) and I'm yearning for more now.

Nah, a close-up shot. Seriously, can you SEE how rich the texture is? Like totally CHEESY and flourless.

Taufu Fish Lunch

Ha! I’m soooo free!

Lunch for today:

Ingredients:

Taufu

Fish (get from fresh-market to ensure freshness and get the fish monger to take off the bones for you and get him to slice/chop/smash/punch the fish till it looks like mince meat)

Button mushroom (2 – 3)

Parsley

Salt

Pepper

Steps:

1. 1. Throw in one taufu into metal bowl.

2. 2.Throw in erm, the sliced/ chopped/ smash / punched fish.

3. 3.Throw in sliced button mushroom.

4. 4.Throw in chopped parsley.

5. 5.Spinkle in some salt.

6. 6. Use a spoon to smash and squash everything.

7. 7.Fill rice cooker with water and throw in the steam-rack.

8. 8.Throw the bowl onto the steam-rack and switch on rice cooker/

9. 9.Walk around for 15 – 30 minutes.

10. 10.Switch off rice cooker and take out the bowl.

11. 11.Squint your face because the fish smells so … smelly.

12. 12.Sprinkle in some pepper / whatever you want.

13. 13. Enjoy!

14. 14.Vomit if you don’t like it and experiment with something else.

Thank you Bye Bye.
~resume F&I formula sheet~

Eggs ... again

This blog is getting egg-fied
cause none other citizens of crapkingdom blogs but me
and I'm getting egg-fied.

My house is equipped with nothing that I know how to cook of but the eggs
so I had to do something with them.

Introducing ...

Nicole's Cawamushi! (cawanmushi? cawamushi? whatever)

Its super simple to make.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 button mushroom
1 baby carrot

Toppings:
Soy sauce

Utensils:
Fork
Small metal bowl
Rice cooker
The rack that is used to heat things up (whatever izzit called ... usually people put in the wok to steam things)

Steps:
1. Whip eggs in small metal bowl.
2. Throw in sliced button mushroom.
3. Throw in sliced baby carrot.
4. Add water into rice cooker and throw in the rack and place the small metal bowl on it.
5. Switch on rice cooker and leave it till you see steam rushing out.
6. Switch off rice cooker and take out your Cawanmushi.
7. Pour on some Soy sauce.
8. Enjoy!

PS: The reason I use soy sauce cause I've totally forgotten to add in salt in the first place. I think you can add in some seasoning / spices as well. Add just anything that suits your taste.

Ok to be frank, it aint that delicious afterall ... but baaaah, BEGINNER ma. Student summore, where got time to eat nice nice food right?! Baaaahhh

Egg is Good

Something to snack on while I'm studying at home ...

Add on some soy sauce and pepper for a better taste



Boy, don't I just heart eggs! <3

Management Accounting

R@N|)OM

I am FAT, so what?

Oh Gautama Oh Jesus Christ Oh Ya Allah,

Exam is around the corner, and all I can talk about is food, food and FOOD.

It's like the subject that I'll be examined is FOOD, not Management Accounting, not Finanacial Accounting, not Introduction to Law, not Finance and Investment but food, food and FOOD.

There's so many FOOD under this roof they made me wonder : "HOW NOT TO BE FAT?"

Blaarrdddyyy ...

Introducing the new arrivals:

duck-thigh rice.

One for me, one for my blaadddy bladder.

My parents ta-pau-ed (packed / bungkus) from don't know where, then they went off to don't know where to eat don't know what don't know who recommended. Yeah, call me Miss Don't Know.

So kesian hor? The kids eat packed-rice, and the parents eat don't know what -___-

Afterall, it's Miss Don't Know here who refused to go out with them. She excused herself by saying: "I want to study. Exam is near". Then she ended up don't-knowing at this don't know what blog.

If you don't already know, the above is called Bak Chang (Hokkien) or Ham Yuk Chong (Cantonese) or Zhong Zi (Mandarin) or for the sake of Englishmen, Glutinous Rice Dumplings.

It has been Triangle Zhong for me all the while, or if I bother to be be proper and speak proper language, I call it Ham Yuk Zhong. The name bak chang has not been known until recently cause the gang ie - Jojo and Ah Gong the Hokkiens and Audrey the Alien called it bak chang. Phi Phi called it ... erm, bek cheng? Haha! Ah Ma called it ... I don't know.

So yeah, why the story? Nothing.

Anyways, if you don't already see it, ANOTHER BATCH OF BAK CHANG found their way to my tiny inny minny bitchy house! Blaaarrdy ... How not to be FAT I asked you?! Baaaahhh

Also, this batch is claimed to be delicious. Maybe it's the same "maker" as the one I ate yesterday. So yeah, for the fellow-faraway-from-home-friends' sake, I'll be bringing one of these to Subang. On Tuesday, not Monday. Cause Monday I have Monday blues (lame).

Then there are French Fries made/cooked by my cousin sister. Don't know why. Maybe she is just too free when I'm too busy. Or she want to try out her hidden cooking skills. Or she thinks I'm not fat, just big-boned. Or maybe she intended to fry a French but found no French so she fried French Fries. Or maybe she is considering to be a franchisee of McDonalds. Or maybe she wants to work in McDonald. I don't know. Never bother to ask. Got food, eat la. Duh.

Then there are Chinese kuihs. Again I don't know what Chinese kuehs/kuihs is actually called in ENGLISH. I think I got the term weeks ago but my tinny inny bitchy mind just can't store it and thus it was wiped off before I can use it. Is anybody kind enough increase my English vocab?

See they are so colourful and so adorable! Haha, stewpid. There are purple, yellow, orange and green. And there's my favourite pink-coloured-pau. HOW NOT TO BE FAT?! @#$%^

Thank you papa mama for adding these to the house. -__-