Experiementing with food: BRIAN'S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!@!@

Log start: 10:05pm October 31st 2009 HALLOWEEN


BRIAN'S HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!@!@

This was really annoying to make because i ran out of plastic knives and i had to bring out my secret weapon.... which can't see mankind...
but this was something i thought of while watching some SNSD videos xD
there's a drama that Yoona from SNSD is in called "You Are My Destiny" and in one of the episodes, she goes to a korean BBQ restaurant and orders BBQ, rice, and some other stuff and she mixes it all into a bowl and eats it. (and i will say that she looks cute eating it LOL)
after remembering that dish, i started to crave it, but i didn't have any Kimchi in my fridge.
so i went to the asian grocery around Stony Brook and got myself some kimchi LOL
i was surprised after i mixed everything together because it was something that i couldn't scarf down all in one sitting -_- so i split it in two! ta-da! for dinner and either a late night snack or tommorow's brunch
i don't know if i'll make this again, but if i think of my good ole' SNSD again and that episode comes up, i probably will. and it was just a coincedence that this halloween looking dish was given birth during halloween :p

ok so, the ingredients are as follows:
1 cup sticky rice
~15 pieces of MINI chinese pork & chive dumplings
2 spicy italian sausages (here i go again with the sausages -_-)
2 handfuls of Trader Joe's uncooked & unmolded VEGGIE PATTIES (i baught these because they were cheap and, to my surprise, they were actually not bad at all. it was just a bit too salty for my tastes)
~1/4 cup of kimchi? (I DUNNO, I JUST SCOOP FROM JAR AND DUMP INTO RICE)
~1 tablespoon of sweet & sour sauce
a sprinkle of chili soy sauce
a small scoop of chili garlic sauce (you asian ppl know what i'm talking about! those peppers that come with a green cap and a chicken on it lol)

and i think that was it...
cook everything, put it in a bowl and MIX!
pictures are below






HakoneDayDreamer, i think it needed more peppers

Experiements 2+3: "Nap Time" + "Sesame Noodles"

Log start: 3:27pm October 31st 2009 HALLOWEEN

Brought my beloved camera from home to the dorm so i decided to try that out. results: i love it! *hugs camera* you can even see the cheese sweating!
and FYI, i'm using sausages in most of my meals because they were on sale LOL


Nap Time:



THINGS USED:
1 box of Rice-o-Roni Rice Pilaf
2 spicy italian sausages
2 slices of swiss cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese

i had higher expectations for the rice pilaf -_-
but it looks easy to make and easier turned asian. next time i'll make my own pilaf -_- so look out for that!
other than that, i felt like this dish could use more.... things... in it. but the lack of ingredients is a problem >.> time to make a supermarket run!


Sesame Noodles <-- NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME LATER! (unless someone wants to think of a name, i'll credit you, LOL)




In this picture you will see the results of:
1 pack of knorr's thai sesame noodles
2 spicy italian sausages

you can see the results. i don't like this dish much though... i feel like i can do a better job than instant noodle quality.
the noodles were simply just noodle, soy sauce, just a bit of chopped peppers, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and just a bit of ginger
i can make that myself >;o


HakoneDayDreamer, i ran out of things to cook -_-

Three Cheese Asian Pizza

Log start: 10:07pm Octover 19th 2009

Experiment One: Start

So, quite out of the ordinary for me, actually making a dish to eat lol
it's very out of the ordinary because i have no where to cook :x
i'm too lazy to go downstairs to the basement in my building and usually i just don't care very much, but on sunday i wanted to make something funky and new to eat.

it didn't start out like that though, it started out with my just making rice with a chinese sausage in it. but then i got occupied and when i was comming back from driving ppl from the lirr, it sparked in my head >;o

and this is how it goes.

Ingredients:
1 cup of sticky rice
1 can of Cambells Tomato Soup
1 link of chinese sausage
2 links of spicy italian sausage
1 slice of Muenster Cheese
1 slice of Mozzerella Cheese
1 slice of American Cheese

and all i used to cook them were a rice cooker and a george foreman grill :D



experiments usually aren't that pretty <-- going to come back to haunt me later on
and since i thought of this on the spot, the actual preparation and cooking kinda took my imagination by surprise.

So, put rice in rice cooker and leave the chinese sausage on top and then wait for the rice to fully cook.
then i added a can of tomato soup into the cooked rice and i stirred until it was completely even.
then i flicked the rice cooker on to the cook position.
i don't know why i did this but i think it was to heat the tomato & rice combo up, lol.
then i cut the cheese up (har har har, cut the cheese xD) and spread it out evenly and again, i flicked it into the cooked position.

ok, rice is done.

then i sliced the two italian sausages in half so that it cooks faster on the grill and i plopped it on for about 4 mins on each side.

get a bowl and try and get the rice out on to the bowl with the cheese upright and then place the sausages on top!

Experiment One: End


here's a picture of the completed product, more individual pictures are posted on Facebook though so check that out if you have time.




overall, it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great. i'm sure if i had more prep time then it would be better than letting my imagination run wild, especially with food. but this was a good run, i enjoyed the results.

Oh, and i gave the name Asian Pizza some thought after i thought of what to do lol.
i was thinking hmm... bread + tomato + pepperoni = pepperoni pizza!
so rice + tomato + sausages = asian pizza!

oh man, i amaze myself sometimes. LOL.

HakoneDayDreamer, i'll probably end up fine tuning it soon, hopefully.

When things start to get boring...

Log start: 1:07am October 19th 2009

energy... depleted... all my focus is on ESSAYS and MIDTERMS right now ~_~
still have 1 more midterm to worry about, then i can have a nice week to relax then it's back to hell again, *sigh*

But for those off times that i'm not busy, mainly weekends, there isn't much that you can do really. and when you do something to combat boredom, it can only stay fun for sooooo long

so what do you do when things start to get boring?
I do nothing.

such a simple answer, but it's not the answer i was looking for in myself. i expect better comming from myself, but the brain juice that's usually for creative things right now are being re-directed to a lot of studying :\
a lot and a lot of slow...and..painful....studying -___-"

WELL, for the time that i have to relax, if it's not entertaining guests, it's usually on the xbox playing rock band 2 with the suitemates.

well this weekend, we decided to take it up a step. someone purchased a set of perfect pushup pro this weekend. those things that you see on TV that rotate your arm when you do push ups so you get to move more muscles while doing them.

so we hit up the xbox, yeah.
and this time, it wasn't a battle against completing the song like it always was. this time, it was a battle against each other.

if you know the basics of rock band, this post is easy to understand, for those of you with no knowledge what-so-ever. sorry xD

so we started playing and we got our instruments. we played a song and after every song, the person who had the least percentage of notes hit was punished with 10 push ups.

oh yes, 10 push ups. FYI, pushups for a person like me, is pain waiting to happen. let's just say i did so many pushups i couldn't take a shower properly last night and all my activities today were limited to things that i could do with my arms below shoulder height.

painful indeed.

but there was one thing that i didn't notice until the latter half of playing the game. it was that i was at a huge disadvantage -_-
i'm usually on vocals and the mic is UNFORGIVING on expert. for guitar, bass, and drums, all you have to do is hit the notes on time. i'm not saying they're uber easy, it's just that i'm at a HUGE disadvantage when it comes to bet like these.

i can't explain it over words and i wish i had a camera good enough to VLog this. but this is insane x_x

i was practically the one doing push ups 2/3 of the songs lol. even on my best songs i would completely bomb it. Aiya.

that's what happens when things start to get boring. people end up in pain, usually me -_-
now if you excuse me, i need to get back to the homework i was procrastinating on all weekend long.


IN PAIN, HakoneDayDreamer