I love it when everything goes right in a day. First off, the weather was beautiful today. Clear skies, warm, sunny, I even broke out the shants and sandals to wear.
I had a delicious lunch at a sushi place I discovered by work. There was a little hitch in plans going there because [...]
Despite having to soak the niengao for a whole day, this meal was quick to make. I just defrosted and chopped up the Chinese spinach (I don’t know why it says Chinese Leek on the package), fried up some dried and preserved cabbage, and threw them all together with the niengao in the wok. [...]
Israeli couscous cooked with mung bean and lentils.
Mashed yam and rutabaga — I had planned to roast them, but let them parboil for too long.
Roasted asparagus — I marinated these overnight in some ponzu and chopped garlic.
I was craving peanut butter cookies, so I took the recipe from The PPK’s Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies and adjusted it a bit to make it uh…more nutritious for breakfast. I used a banana instead of the apple sauce, put in chopped pecans, and added in some craisins. They came out pretty well [...]
I finally finished this cowl. This was my first cowl and I don’t know why I didn’t make these sooner. They have the advantage of keeping you warm like a scarf, but also has the advantage of not falling off or getting in the way.
The stitch pattern I used is from here (pdf). The [...]
Instead of going out, we celebrating Valentine’s Day by cooking dinner at home. We stuffed and roasted some bell peppers in the oven. The stuffing was leftover from stuffed zucchini we had a few nights ago. Then we made a beets and fennel salad, and a side of steamed broccoli. The [...]
A few nights ago, the BF made a delicious fava bean and polenta soup. The dried fava beans took a long time to cook even though we soaked it all day. The fried pieces of polenta was what really made the soup delicious. They tasted like a fried version of Chinese tamale.
Fun [...]
