Late night cooking = bad idea. Especially when it's something I haven't made before. I had been meaning to make some Chinese pan-fried chive dumplings for a while now. Apparently for too long as the chives I bought were partially rotting. I had to go through each stalk, not just to wash them, but to pick off any slimy rotted portions. This took a LOT longer than expected. I started at 10:30pm but did not finish until 2am.
This was the recipe I followed: Stuffed Pancakes with Garlic Chives
The dough calls for boiling water. Why? I don't know. I didn't have any pork on hand so mine only had vermicelli, egg, and chives as filling. The second most time consuming part was wrapping the damn things. When a recipe calls for 1 lb of flour for a dough that then needs to be divided into small chunks to wrap things with, that should be a clue to either cut the recipe in half or not start it at 10:30pm.
Silly me, I made the entire portion of dough and separated it into 16 balls. I continuously wrapped until 2am, by which time my back and legs hurt. I couldn't even try one because Lawrence didn't want me to fry them up that late at night. Instead I got up extra early this morning to fry some up. I made them last night so that I could bring them for lunch so I better have some for lunch.
I was a little bit skeptical because the chives & vermicelli were not cooked before wrapping but they steamed up nicely inside the dumplings while they were being pan fried. It actually turned out pretty good, but I think I'll try cooking the next batch at a medium-high heat instead of full on high. I think the outsides got too dark before the dough could fully cook. However, the one I ate seemed cooked through so I don't know if it's even an issue.
Three pan-fried chive dumplings + 3 slices pan-fried turnip cake with sweet chili sauce = nom nom lunch!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
weekend
Saturday
- went to a patternmaking class at the Urban Craft Center in Santa Monica (was almost 1.5 hrs late but I caught up)
- went to the LudoTruck (doing well, food is awesome with just a few tweaks needed and consistency issues addressed)
- went to see Muse at the Staples Center (great show, my 2nd? stadium concert EVAR)
Sunday
- played WoW ALL DAY (got my warlock from lvl 13 to lvl 20)
- did laundry, including hand-wash clothes (I won't even say how long it's been)
- washed dishes & prepped lunch (go me!)
- went to a patternmaking class at the Urban Craft Center in Santa Monica (was almost 1.5 hrs late but I caught up)
- went to the LudoTruck (doing well, food is awesome with just a few tweaks needed and consistency issues addressed)
- went to see Muse at the Staples Center (great show, my 2nd? stadium concert EVAR)
Sunday
- played WoW ALL DAY (got my warlock from lvl 13 to lvl 20)
- did laundry, including hand-wash clothes (I won't even say how long it's been)
- washed dishes & prepped lunch (go me!)
Monday, September 13, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Kinokuniya's crafting section
So usually when I go to the Kinokuniya in Little Tokyo, I browse the Japanese knitting & crocheting books. Today I happened to be browsing around the other random things at the front of the store and found, OMG, a crafting section right at the front! They have these Hamanaka kits for a bunch of different crafts...
There were whole kits for these amigurumi animals, either as small stuffed animals or keychains, for $14.45 each. They even had tools, like the pom pom maker I bought a while back, as well as a needle felting starter tool kit, a felted ball maker, crochet hooks, clay sculpting supplies, bags of different colored wools for felting, pom pom animal kits, and these freakin' basketweaving kits to make these cute little piggy baskets.
There were whole kits for these amigurumi animals, either as small stuffed animals or keychains, for $14.45 each. They even had tools, like the pom pom maker I bought a while back, as well as a needle felting starter tool kit, a felted ball maker, crochet hooks, clay sculpting supplies, bags of different colored wools for felting, pom pom animal kits, and these freakin' basketweaving kits to make these cute little piggy baskets.
Monday, September 6, 2010
workout
3 sets of:
- standing cable rows, as many as possible, one minute each hand
- standing cable presses, as many as possible, one minute each hand
- jump squats, as many as possible for one minute
Total that was only 15 minutes of exercise, but I must have taken 15 minutes of rest because I only got through 3 sets of that. It was tough, tiring, and I tried not to get nauseous. It really did not help that this was a morning workout and I wasn't able to eat early enough beforehand (what I did eat was only a cup of yogurt). Plus we went to sleep at 3am last night, and right before that we had pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns, and sausages at IHOP for dinner (at 2am).
- standing cable rows, as many as possible, one minute each hand
- standing cable presses, as many as possible, one minute each hand
- jump squats, as many as possible for one minute
Total that was only 15 minutes of exercise, but I must have taken 15 minutes of rest because I only got through 3 sets of that. It was tough, tiring, and I tried not to get nauseous. It really did not help that this was a morning workout and I wasn't able to eat early enough beforehand (what I did eat was only a cup of yogurt). Plus we went to sleep at 3am last night, and right before that we had pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns, and sausages at IHOP for dinner (at 2am).
Friday, September 3, 2010
kettlebells!
Last night:
18kg kettlebell~
- 40 swings
- 30 swings
- 20 swings
- 10 swings
(100 total)
- 5 on each side - squat, transitioning into a press upon standing back up
- 10 on each side - rows
The entire set repeated twice, and then just a third set of the swings (300 total swings in 30 minutes!).
18kg kettlebell~
- 40 swings
- 30 swings
- 20 swings
- 10 swings
(100 total)
- 5 on each side - squat, transitioning into a press upon standing back up
- 10 on each side - rows
The entire set repeated twice, and then just a third set of the swings (300 total swings in 30 minutes!).
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday workout
6x total with double 8kg kettle bells (all two-handed):
- 5 reps of: clean, swing, high-pull, snatch
- 5 reps of: squat, press
- 5 reps of: rows
- 5 reps of: clean, swing, high-pull, snatch
- 5 reps of: squat, press
- 5 reps of: rows
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