Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Chicken strip w/cheese filling and ZB pasta
This experimental recipe has been cooking in my mind for a while now. I decided to put it to test today.
Ingredient:
Zucchini: 1/3
Bacon: 1 strip
Chicken thigh: a few chunk? haha
Mozzarella Cheese: a few slice
Pasta of The Day: Fettuccine
I am still working on experimental procedure. I will post once I got something going.
For the chicken strips, I sliced chicken 1cm thick and sandwiched it with the cheese. I used egg and flour to stabilize the shape and seal in the flavor. I fried the chicken slightly and cook them in the oven.
For the pasta, I wanna go with something lighter. First, I stir-fried the garlic with the bacon. When the bacon is half cooked, I took the strip out and chop them into bacon bits for the color, and then throw them in with the sliced zucchini. I mix them well with the pasta and add salt and pepper to taste.
The soup of the day is French onion soup, accompany by a glass of white wine.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Lost of Soul for Brownies
Few days ago, I was presented an opportunity to obtain some devilish Brownies. Miss Devil's advocate offered me the deal for details of my illicit activities during the winter holiday break. Jan's Brownies are to die for; it is hard resist the godforsaken temptation. After few seconds of soul searching, I decided to give in to what they asked for. Even after agreement and preparation of the photographic evidences, my guilt had interrupted my sleep and forced to negotiate for a separate arrangement for the poor victims. Dear God, please have mercy on my soul. What am I supposed to do to resist such devilish temptation. My condolence to the poor for my weak will.
I curse you, Jan Chan, for baking such addictive brownies.
NooOoooooOoooooooooo ~~~~
Poor slave Wu Wu,
I curse you, Jan Chan, for baking such addictive brownies.
NooOoooooOoooooooooo ~~~~
Poor slave Wu Wu,
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Shrimpy Mozzarella Pasta v1.2
Yesterday, I attempted to improve my mozzarella recipe by altering some of the ingredients and cooking order. The result was rather interesting. First, I tried to blend in the flour with hot water first and stirred into the melted butter. It didn't work out well. Once I mixed the flour with the hot butter, the flour formed little pieces of pastry-kind mixture instead of fusing with the butter. I decided to go back to the original plan with less flour, but, this time, I melted the cheese into the paste before adding milk. It was a big mistake. I don't know if I didn't have enough heat to fully melt the cheese or the cheese became little clumps(similar to first flour trial) due to the saturation. Tmd, I was rather pissed off. The sauce wasn't thick enough as well. Still need a lot of work.
With the disappointment aside, the new ingredients were quite pleasing. I decided to added 1 piece of bacon, and few slices of zucchini. First, I blasted the bacon, cut them into bits and throw them into my sauce. I used the remaining oil to cook my vegetable. Good pork fat really makes stuffs smell nice. However, my attempt to "grill" the vegetable did not work so well. Maybe I need a real grill. (cough, birthday gift? *pointing @ brownie master*) I definitely need one more pan just for the sauce. I find mixing everything at the end, makes it look kind of disgusting. :P It tasted good though. Anyways, I will post a picture next time if I manage to perfect it. I got my dish layout and camera all ready!!
With the disappointment aside, the new ingredients were quite pleasing. I decided to added 1 piece of bacon, and few slices of zucchini. First, I blasted the bacon, cut them into bits and throw them into my sauce. I used the remaining oil to cook my vegetable. Good pork fat really makes stuffs smell nice. However, my attempt to "grill" the vegetable did not work so well. Maybe I need a real grill. (cough, birthday gift? *pointing @ brownie master*) I definitely need one more pan just for the sauce. I find mixing everything at the end, makes it look kind of disgusting. :P It tasted good though. Anyways, I will post a picture next time if I manage to perfect it. I got my dish layout and camera all ready!!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Lightbulb and I Theorem
This theorem came to me once again during my field trip to Emerald Dream. I ran across a certain memory that took place on New Year's Eve. I stayed over at a friend's house. We decided to play through the whole night, but we could not last against the sleepy eyes and fell dead on the couch. During middle of the night, my friend woke up and told me that I could sleep better on the longer couch in another room. He and his girlfriend were sleeping on the couch beside me. At that time, I was half unconscious and could not interpret the signal, so I decided to disregard the "suggestion" and kept sleeping. Until this morning, I suddenly realized what he attempted to signal me. Pretty Slow, eh? Anyways, I did a little recollection of the number of times that I "exhibit " as a 300 Watt light bulb; the result was rather staggering. Upon such alarming observation, I decide to formulate a function that describe how Shiny a light bulb can be.B(I) = ∑ F(f,t)*k*I
B= Brightness, F(f,t) = Friend's date with frequency and time
k = Universal good guy constant, I = Mr/Miss Light Bulb Variable
B= Brightness, F(f,t) = Friend's date with frequency and time
k = Universal good guy constant, I = Mr/Miss Light Bulb Variable
Note: For those with western background, being a light bulb in a couple's date is the same thing as being the Third Wheel. Hopefully, I did not get the saying wrong.
Many of you may wonder why I put "k*I" inside the summation. From my numerous experiences in the last few years (Yes, I am an artisan Light bulb), I found out that one can improve the power and efficiency of the light bulb as the amount of dates intruded increases. For someone like myself, I can even be a light bulb when I sleep. This mastery of light bulb proficiency is rarely achieved.
If I were to seriously calculate my Brightness, I believe I posses the power equivalent to a Nuclear Powered Reactor .
Many of you may wonder why I put "k*I" inside the summation. From my numerous experiences in the last few years (Yes, I am an artisan Light bulb), I found out that one can improve the power and efficiency of the light bulb as the amount of dates intruded increases. For someone like myself, I can even be a light bulb when I sleep. This mastery of light bulb proficiency is rarely achieved.
If I were to seriously calculate my Brightness, I believe I posses the power equivalent to a Nuclear Powered Reactor .
What's Yours?
ps. just of the record, most of those light bulb appearances were unwillingly participated by me. I don't know how, but I always end up being the light bulb when my friends asked me out. I am the poor victim here!!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Further Insight into 1st Theorem
Yesterday, I showed my friend the launch of my new theorem. He was utterly confused with the concept and, at one point, he asked me to double check my math. =.=" I guess that being a graduate student in University of Taiwan requires a certain amount of inquisition at things unfamiliar to them. (or I think he just want to piss me off .... &#$^#$^#$%$#)
Anyways, Let's back to the main topic.
Anyways, Let's back to the main topic.
P = T*S(ƒ)²
Perspective, a point of view on a specific topic, is a function Time and Space.
Why Time? Why the specialized Space function?
Time changes how we look and feel at things in our lives. Things that used to bother me don't affect me as much anymore. Is it a type of a maturity? or just getting old and lacking energy to fight back? The passage of time changes our perspective like water drops on a rock. Each drop shapes and alters our mindset in a subtle way, but, surely in time, it will change us. Of course, there are instances where rock just split open all of the sudden. That's why we call those people EMO! or touched by the HANDS of God!! Either way, it's pretty crazy.
Space can be interpreted in two ways, physical space and space of heart. This function came to me when I notice the amount of broken hearts around me, all caused by Space. From my observation, even with a little space, people can change how they look at each other, especially lovers. This exponential growth rate seems to be a mortifying impact on our perspective, but I realize the existence of an unsettling factor that nullify the modulation. I call it, flexibility. Flexibility of the mind appears to solve the problems caused by space. If one of the lovers were willing to make the change or sacrifice for the other, the relationship could be saved. If my friend were willing move to another country for his girlfriend, or his girlfriend were willing to step down from her life dream and stayed, this heartbreak could be saved. Many things can be changed for a better tomorrow, if people were flexible. However, also the reason behind flexibility being an unsettling factor, staying flexible may not be all that wonderful; things could head to a worse direction if we don't stand firm on our belief. Only time will tell.
Life is complicated, isn't it?
Why Time? Why the specialized Space function?
Time changes how we look and feel at things in our lives. Things that used to bother me don't affect me as much anymore. Is it a type of a maturity? or just getting old and lacking energy to fight back? The passage of time changes our perspective like water drops on a rock. Each drop shapes and alters our mindset in a subtle way, but, surely in time, it will change us. Of course, there are instances where rock just split open all of the sudden. That's why we call those people EMO! or touched by the HANDS of God!! Either way, it's pretty crazy.
Space can be interpreted in two ways, physical space and space of heart. This function came to me when I notice the amount of broken hearts around me, all caused by Space. From my observation, even with a little space, people can change how they look at each other, especially lovers. This exponential growth rate seems to be a mortifying impact on our perspective, but I realize the existence of an unsettling factor that nullify the modulation. I call it, flexibility. Flexibility of the mind appears to solve the problems caused by space. If one of the lovers were willing to make the change or sacrifice for the other, the relationship could be saved. If my friend were willing move to another country for his girlfriend, or his girlfriend were willing to step down from her life dream and stayed, this heartbreak could be saved. Many things can be changed for a better tomorrow, if people were flexible. However, also the reason behind flexibility being an unsettling factor, staying flexible may not be all that wonderful; things could head to a worse direction if we don't stand firm on our belief. Only time will tell.
Life is complicated, isn't it?
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