YET AGAIN I have mysteriously managed to cook a meal just like the Chinese... I always knew they knocked out marvellous dishes with zero effort, but seemed to believe the magic lay ... I dunno where ..??... perhaps in their ability to shout in Chinese while tossing woks over metre-high flames. Or something. Tonight I successfully managed fried rice (no eggs; I saved that pleasure for later). And I must reprimand the authors of online Chinese recipes. If you don't specify "boil the rice first and leave in fridge to dry out for an hour" someone like me is not going to know that! Well that's how I did my rice. Boiled first. Left uncovered in fridge for one hour. Did mixed vegetable stirfry. (Onions, btw are NOT part of takeaway mix vegetable fry rice, at least not round here.) Mine was carrots, mushrooms, peas. I'd have chucked in babycorn if I had any... Then I repeated my chicken and blackbean sauce trick, but added onions to THAT. Far nicer. Wahey!AND ON TO CHOCOLATE. Cadbury's Mini Eggs are back. Very nice they are too. Cadbury's inimitable (milk) chocolate (cannot be replicated). In a yummy crisp sugar shell. Goes very nicely with a cup of tea (in my opinion). Best dark chocolate is Ritter Dark Whole Hazelnuts (50% cocoa solids). You can click here to see it - look at the bottom right hand corner. Yummmm.
Sorry for the blabber I am fantasizing about chocolate I have to go in case someone buys all the 100g packs of Mini Eggs. They only had 40 left last time I checked...
PS Hamsters really like chocolate!
I HATE the fact they bring out easter eggs the day after christmas! For christs sakes, give us a break!
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Congrats on the great
ReplyDeletepictures you have posted. Well done,
I am glad you figured it out. I enjoyed the video of Queen Alexandra. It was very interesting. I don't watch every one because of lack of time. You do well with your cooking too. When I boil rice, I drain it and run some water through it (to get rid of some starch) and then you can use it. I cook a packet of mixed frozen vegies, Combine with rice, add soy sauce and some scrambled eggs with fried onions. Then you could add some of the sauces you like.
Thanks for your comments ~ glad you liked the story of the old man with good attitudes. It is great to be content with what we have. Take care my friend, Regards, Merle.
2008 will be the year of Gledwood!!
Vi Vi: yeah I had a good look at the confectionary near Valium Marilyn's house and it was full of Easter "treats" haha!
ReplyDeleteMerle: I would like to learn to make those sauces from scratch... especially the elusive Chinese curry sauce (which is available from all Chinese takeaways in this country... either as part of chicken/etc curry or as a tub to tip over chips/fries...
Hey there, thanks for the comment on my blog!
ReplyDeleteMy blog is about lucid dreaming, but the post you read isn't exclusively. It's a technique that can be applied to both lucid and non-lucid dreams.
And i hear you about the experience -- isn't it amazing?
If you said you crashed into the ceiling, that's definately an out of body experience. You felt like you were floating and stuff, and crashed into the ceiling? You may have been dreaming and had an out of body experience that way, or you may have just astrally projected. It's an amazing feeling!
Oh, by the way, those are cute hamsters. I used to have three dwarf hamsters, cutest things ever. It was a sad day when they died!
ReplyDeleteGledwood--I posted about Amouage a bit today--
ReplyDeleteyou could visit their website Amouage.com also--
love, Ched
b12: is there any difference between what you call "out of body experience" and "astral projection"? these things happened to me donkeys years ago... though I still dream frequently of flying!
ReplyDeleteBCB: thanks very much for that... wasn't Amouage designed by the Arabian prince for his sweetheart?... or am I getting my parfums confused..??
i will look out for that dark choc.
ReplyDeleteI was given some Bendick's Bittermints for Christmas - one of the best. And bought tons of Montezumas chocs for a friend before Christmas.... wishing i'd got just a bit for me too...
so little furry creatures like chocolate too? who would have thought it....
Ritter comes in a perfect 100g square (click the link)
ReplyDeleteit tends to be stocked in more "cosmopolitan" newsagents etc
e.g. it's quite easy to get here in London... out of town you may have to look for it.
also they do about 18 varieties... the darkest is pure dark 70% cocoa solids for about 70p 100g which is really not bad compared to the price of green & blacks
the one I recommended is 50% cocoa full of hazelnuts NOT to be confused with milky hazelnuts
I advise clicking on the Ritter link
the one I was talking about is bottom right hand corner
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THIS IS THE RITTER LINK:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ritter-sport.com/index_ritter.phtml
Ritter's a German chocolate, so just click the Union Jack top left and you'll get English language tumuskers... woohay!!
One of my mummies-in-law gave me a rice cooker and that makes sticky rice just perfectly.
ReplyDeleteChocolate is so yummy, I have a nice stash of it from the holidays still, big bars of dark and milk chocolate that I was going to use for baking and never got around to... now it's for us to snack on.
have you ever tried making hot chocolate with proper chocolate squares?... it's meant to be really nice...
ReplyDeletei like rice to be non-stuck-together enough for individual grains to be pretty easily shaved off by passing a knife over the top... THAT kind of rice seems to make a perfect FRIED version...
if you have any mysterious korean recipes, PLEASE pass them on!!
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Ah yes, homemade hot chocolate... yummy... with some vanilla extra, a little fine sugar, etc.
ReplyDeleteA big spoonful of sticky rice is good in soup, or if you make sushi rolls.
Yes, I have a cookbook on Korean dishes... email me if you want a couple.
Also, there's a blog on my sidebar called 'my korean kitchen'... there might be some stuff in there, altho it's been awhile since I visited.