Final Fantasy XI inspired drink called San d’Orian tea. It’s really just black tea, sage, maple sugar (substituted with maple syrup), and half & half creamer. The tea came out tasty and rather delicate.
Ingredients
– fresh sage
– black tea
– half and half creamer
– maple syrup
1) Put sage and tea in tea pot. Add hot water and let seep.
2) 1 tbsp creamer and 1 tbsp maple syrup into each cup
3) Pour tea into cups.
Abandon room! Abandon room!
I’m in the living room on my Macbook trying to escape the heat of my room. Gah.
I’ve been making my parents the negi buta muffin. They’re liking it. Success! ^_^.v After my third (or is it forth) attempt I finally got the cooking temperature right and it wasn’t super burned like the previous ones were. There’s a new Kyou no Ryouri magazine out, so I need to see if Kaede Shobo has any yet.
A few weeks ago I bought ume flavored sake. I thought, I love plums, I love sake. This ought to be good. Yea, well, unfortunately for me, the ume flavored sake doesn’t go very well with foods in my opinion. I’ve tried it with other things before, and they didn’t go very well together. Tonight I tried it with the pork and green onions muffin. The muffin is very good. Tastes like gyoza. But pairing with plum sake was no good. :\ I ended up washing down the muffin with Roots Aroma White Latte drink.
They’re chilling in the freezer. Now they need to be cooked. I hope they taste good…
I got a new lens today. Nothing fancy. I thought it was high time I got a good lens for taking portraits of people. The depth of field on the lens is sick. And when I say sick, I don’t mean puking gross yuckiness, but freakin’ awesome I’m-in-love-with-an-inanimate-object sweetness. Seriously.
I bought Metal Gear Solid 4. Installed it, and then shut it down to play FFXI instead. >.>; I’ll get around to checking out the art and stuff in MGS4 this weekend…
Hyper Game still didn’t get any copies of Wii Fit. :\ I might have to buy from Best Buy or something.
This was supposed to be hoshi shiitake no tsuya-ni. Now it’s a smelly carbon mess.
Negi Buta Mafin
Green Onion and Pork Muffin
Ingredients
A:
Time 10 minutes.
1.) Cut English muffins into half.
2.) Cut the green onions finely. Add all the group A ingredients into a bowl and mix with your hands.
3.) Partition the meat into 8 and spread each onto 1 muffin half. Wrap and freeze.
When ready to cook:
Additional ingredients
Estimated 180 kcal for 1.
Time 15 minutes.
1.) Remove the wrap from the frozen green onion and pork muffin.
2.) Add sesame oil to the fry pan. Place the muffin meat side down onto the pan and cook on low heat for about 7~8 minutes.
3.) When the meat has a good cooked coloring to it, flip it over. Cook for another 1 minute. Remove from heat and serve.
I haven’t made these yet, but they sounded yummy so I’m making a pre-emptive translation. ^^
For this week, I decided that I’m going to make something different for lunch. Instead of tamago yaki, ham, or gyoza, I’m going to make chicken. Originally, I wanted to try out the Marukome miso yaki marinade since I did win free sumo tickets from them, but unfortunately, Mitsuwa didn’t carry any of it. I settled for Kikkoman teriyaki sauce instead. I also decided to go for green beans to make ingen no goma-ae as my cooked veggie. That still leaves my bento box a bit bare, so I’m thinking of adding hoshi shiitake no tsuya-ni. It’s in June 2008 issue of Kyou no Ryouri magazine. I still have some cherry tomatoes from last week and I bought more pickles. I’ll probably slice up the red bell pepper and stick those in there, too. Add rice and some more ripe strawberries and done! Picture on Tuesday.
Today was a rather eventful and productive day.
In the morning, I ran several errands. Bought oat hay, dropped off my tennis racquet to be restrung, shipped off Kazu’s 7-Eleven mugs, and drooled on some nice Nikkor 50mm lenses. Didn’t buy, just drooled… The photo album doesn’t count! >.>;
When I got home around noon, I decided to drink/eat the young coconut that I bought earlier in the week at Whole Foods. It took me a while to get it open as I had no clue how to. I did manage to get a hole punched in on my own and drank the water, but I didn’t know how to crack it open until I Googled it and got a hit on YouTube. Mmm, young coconut. :9
At 3:15 PM ish, I picked up my friend Franklin and we went to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena to watch sumo wrestling. I know nothing about sumo when I signed up to win sumo tickets, but I’m very glad that I did. It was very entertaining, more entertaining than I expected it to be. I was rather excited that Asashoryu and Kotooshu were there. Two names that have been in the sumo news as of late. Asashoryu for going emo and running away to his native Mongolia, and Kotooshu to be the first European to win a big sumo tournament last week.
Each match for sumo lasted for only two minutes or so, with most of the time taken up by ritual. I think the actual wrestling lasted something like 15 seconds. The longer ones seemed to take about 30 seconds. The winner goes on to the next round.
Afterwards, dinner was at Orochon Ramen in Little Tokyo. I really do like that place. :9 今日、食べ過ぎたかも…