Adventures in Cooking: Attempt #4

In the first pic, that's the leftover peanut sauce from yesterday. As I said, it looks gross on camera, but it's pretty decent tasting. ^^;;

Just used tuna & mayonnaise for filling for the riceballs. The latter pic is egg drop soup. Ingredients used for 2 bowls:

• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• about 2 cups soup base (I used vegetarian bouillon)

Beat the egg before pouring it into the soup base. I recc turning the fire off right before pouring the egg in, and pouring the egg in slowly while stirring the soup.

Happy New Year's Eve! Don't party too hard. :3

EDIT: lol. This has nothing to do with anything, but:

*drumroll*

Brand new haircut, brand new attitude! :P

Food posts later~ I bought some furikake, so I might make tuna onigiri and tofu satay later. :)

Adventures in Cooking: Attempt #3

No pics for this, since the peanut sauce looks gross on camera. It did turn out pretty well, though! ^^;

My reccs for ingredients are (for about 2 servings):

• 1/2 cup peanut butter (crunchy peanut butter if you want nuts in it)
• 1/2 cup coconut milk (you can also use dry coconut powder and boil it in water)
• 1 tablespoon of soy sauce & just a few drops of fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon of brown sugar
• about a tablespoon of lime juice
• if you want it spicy, add crushed red pepper

Goes well with spring rolls and satays. :)

I have some Japanese noodles sitting around in my fridge, so I *might* try to make yakisoba tomorrow. Or maybe pad thai...?

EDIT: Also, I bought vanilla extract today and found out that a tiny bottle costs $10! What the hell!!

Adventures in Cooking: Attempt #2

This turned out muuuch better. I even fried the rice to make it crunchy! Here's a few tips to anyone who wants to make this themselves. This is prob. obvious to people who've been cooking for a long time, but bear with me here. lol

• If using broccoli, boil it in water first before frying it if you don't want it to be dry.
• Also, fry tofu before anything else, even before onions. Tofu takes a looong time to cook.
• If you want the rice to have a crunchy texture, fry it with just a teaspoon of oil (for a one-person serving) over high heat. Make sure the oil is hot before adding the rice. It'll take a while to get crunchy; the rice should change slightly in color. Also, it's easier to fry less sticky rices (like Chinese white rice, apparently).

I might make the same thing for dinner, but with a peanut sauce. :)

Adventures in Cooking: Attempt #1

Since my relatives all decided to nag me to start cooking within the same 2-day span. :3

Tried to make tofu stir fry for dinner. It was okay, though the sauce tasted kinda... funny. I'm not sure if it was supposed to taste like that or if I did something wrong, but I think it might've had too much oyster sauce. Either that or apple cider vinegar isn't a good substitute for rice vinegar, after all. x_x

Ah well. Tomorrow, I'll play it safe and use my bottled plum sauce. ^^;