In more cooking adventures:

Adapted Maangchi's Mul Naengmyeon recipe for a friend who can't have beef and subbed in pork shabu slices and added wintermelon in addition to the pear and cucumber. Success sort of achieved, by which I mean I need to plan better and cool the stock much much earlier; it still wasn't cold enough when I served it. Have ( Read more... )

Just...need...to...finish...this...essay ( Read more... )

Stuffs ( Read more... )

One problem leaving blogging for a very long time is that you can't shake a guilty feeling that you should haven't stopped blogging? but I do want to start it up again, so here we go. Also trying to getting back into reading seriously again. If I can't put it on my phone, I literally don't read it. -__-;; Not a good habit. On the other hand, I have ( Read more... )

Collected a bunch of food related articles and stuff.

Western Side of Things:
- Food through the pages Amazing cool blog about a reader who comes up with recipes based on food described on books. Thought the dish of pears and sausages in the Lies of Locke Lamora sounded interesting? She turned it into an actual edible dish. Also has stuff from ( Read more... )

I think naanima and I were talking about super powers once, and I wanted a totally useless superpower, but I forgot I already had two minor sub-powers: to find crack when I least expect it and to remember totally weird and useless news for no reason. Like heartwarming snake and hamster bonding. (Google Aoi and Gohan, yes really the hamster is named ( Read more... )

I HAVE FOUND MY NEW COOKING CHANNEL OF LOVE. It is called Cooking with Dog. Here, Francis will teach you how to make various items, such as onigiri, tendon, sanma takikomi gohan and for this video, kudzu matcha mochi:How to make mochiAnd completely unrelated to the above link: Quick round up post of manga I've been reading. Next post will probably ( Read more... )

This is too beautiful not to share.

Have you seen this SASUKE BENTO?!!

Also you shouldread the blog of facefood bento, because while I have seen and heard of squareshaped watermelons, this is absolute genius: BUDDHA PEARS. Yep, you can have a little piece of serene green buddha shaped pears, from China ( Read more... )

There are some things that you know perfectly well indulging in them is an exercise of sado-machoism...and you do it anyway.

IOW, I present to you: Princess Diana manga.I have read exactly two chapters just to confirm my suspicions that yes, Diana here is a big eyed, pixie-sh shoujo heroine; Prince Charles is of course, tall and has surprisingly ( Read more... )

Found this old post -- I wrote this halfway and saved it, forgot about it and dug up again today. I can't imagine how I could forget this! Oh that's right, because it was traumatic to read it at the same time we celebrate the birth of Christ.

( SPOILERY SPOILERS: Inappropriate Reading for the Holiday )