Snacking...!
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sherryillkI'm snacking on teriyaki beef jerky again, which I am sure isn't the best thing for my teeth or my jaw. But they're so sweet and spicy and yummy goodness. So what if some bits are hard and to chew? That just makes the bits that are soft and easy so much better. I really am not a snacker but when it's right in front of me, how can I resist? *no self control what so ever*
Today, I took pictures of some yellow cherries to show Masha. I know it's odd thing to be photographing but we had been talking about yellow cherries recently so I thought what the hell. They turned out less than perfect but they're nice overall. I had actually two that I had to decide from -- one that I taken with flash and one without and while the one with flash was less blurry, it was the one without that ended up looking the most natural. The flash reflected off the cherries so they seemed as though they were glowing, which wasn't exactly the most aesthetically pleasing photograph of them.
And since I had taken the time to transfer the pics off the flash disk, I had a chance to upload my sushi pictures from last Tuesday. I was particularly proud of this batch as they turned out rather nicely. They actually looked like California rolls, and they stayed together which was much better than the first time we had attempted them. The knife wasn't too sharp so bits of the stuff inside are poking out because they got yanked by the knife as I was cutting it. Also, the bits of avocado were the most unbendy bits ever. I left the avocado to my brother to buy and in typical Kent fashion, he bought me the rawest, hardest, tightest little avocado you could buy. And since I like my avocado nice and mushy soft, I wasn't all to happy. But I still used it anyway. I wasn't going to waste more money getting a whole new avocado.
Yellow cherries! I still find them incredibly cute and amazing that yellow colored cherries can still be considered ripe and sweet. :)
The California Rolls took yummy, don't they? They just make me wanna go and make some right now so I could snack on them. There were actually more in the beginning (I had made this cool mountain of California Rolls) but we had eaten some and some were given to the adults to eat as well.
But! Today I learned a new trick on the Food Network! To stop the enzymatic reaction of the avocados, all you need to do is squirt some lime juice on them and they won't turn brown. That had been a problem with our past avocados so I'm glad to have learned it. In hindsight, I realize this must be why you add lime juice to guacamole... ^^"
Last night I watched a new TVB show with my sister called La Femme Desperado. It is surprisingly good, despite the pathetic female lead. I have never seen such a pathetic woman before. She really does take the cake for being pushed around by everybody around her. I feel sad that Raymond is the evil guy in this though -- I had a crush on when I was younger and I still think he's pretty cute, especially with that curly hair of his.
This show has particularly great one liners that are just so funny and yet some are so terrible as well. Still, you can't help but laugh at what happens to this woman. In the second or third episode though, she ended up destroying this little kid's urn of the ashes of her parents it was such a shocking, "OMG, I can't believe she did that!!!" moment. I'm still reeling from it. What a way to get hated... And in her infinite stupidity, she fesses up to it to the mother of the dead father. It was still really funny in a catastrophic way. Tonight marks even more La Femme Desperado, which I'm going to join my sister in watching now. ^^
And man, I really am loving Yamamoto Ryohei's the LIGHT. It's seriously such a wonderful song. I can't stop listening to it at all.
Today, I took pictures of some yellow cherries to show Masha. I know it's odd thing to be photographing but we had been talking about yellow cherries recently so I thought what the hell. They turned out less than perfect but they're nice overall. I had actually two that I had to decide from -- one that I taken with flash and one without and while the one with flash was less blurry, it was the one without that ended up looking the most natural. The flash reflected off the cherries so they seemed as though they were glowing, which wasn't exactly the most aesthetically pleasing photograph of them.
And since I had taken the time to transfer the pics off the flash disk, I had a chance to upload my sushi pictures from last Tuesday. I was particularly proud of this batch as they turned out rather nicely. They actually looked like California rolls, and they stayed together which was much better than the first time we had attempted them. The knife wasn't too sharp so bits of the stuff inside are poking out because they got yanked by the knife as I was cutting it. Also, the bits of avocado were the most unbendy bits ever. I left the avocado to my brother to buy and in typical Kent fashion, he bought me the rawest, hardest, tightest little avocado you could buy. And since I like my avocado nice and mushy soft, I wasn't all to happy. But I still used it anyway. I wasn't going to waste more money getting a whole new avocado.
Yellow cherries! I still find them incredibly cute and amazing that yellow colored cherries can still be considered ripe and sweet. :)
The California Rolls took yummy, don't they? They just make me wanna go and make some right now so I could snack on them. There were actually more in the beginning (I had made this cool mountain of California Rolls) but we had eaten some and some were given to the adults to eat as well.
But! Today I learned a new trick on the Food Network! To stop the enzymatic reaction of the avocados, all you need to do is squirt some lime juice on them and they won't turn brown. That had been a problem with our past avocados so I'm glad to have learned it. In hindsight, I realize this must be why you add lime juice to guacamole... ^^"
Last night I watched a new TVB show with my sister called La Femme Desperado. It is surprisingly good, despite the pathetic female lead. I have never seen such a pathetic woman before. She really does take the cake for being pushed around by everybody around her. I feel sad that Raymond is the evil guy in this though -- I had a crush on when I was younger and I still think he's pretty cute, especially with that curly hair of his.
This show has particularly great one liners that are just so funny and yet some are so terrible as well. Still, you can't help but laugh at what happens to this woman. In the second or third episode though, she ended up destroying this little kid's urn of the ashes of her parents it was such a shocking, "OMG, I can't believe she did that!!!" moment. I'm still reeling from it. What a way to get hated... And in her infinite stupidity, she fesses up to it to the mother of the dead father. It was still really funny in a catastrophic way. Tonight marks even more La Femme Desperado, which I'm going to join my sister in watching now. ^^
And man, I really am loving Yamamoto Ryohei's the LIGHT. It's seriously such a wonderful song. I can't stop listening to it at all.
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on 2006-07-31 01:30 pm (UTC)psh, not like you bought the first one.
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on 2006-07-31 01:32 pm (UTC)Yellow cherries always somehow remind me of alien spawn podlings. I guess I'm just really weird like that.
I love it when posts are entirely about cool foods. :D
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on 2006-07-31 08:44 pm (UTC)LOL, the inside out-ness of my California rolls is because of the fact taht I've always eaten them like that. I did try them outside in but they turned out too thin (have no idea why, maybe I should use more rice?) so I didn't continue making them that a way.
You're not supposed to do anything with the nori. It's good as it is. You just don't want them to dry out so I usually wait until the very last moment to open the package.
My rice was too sticky the second time as well... The first time the rice was a bit raw so I increased the water for the second time. Turns out I increased too much and I lost a good amount of rice just from washing it off my hands...