Glutinous' Simple Recipes

This is in reply to Pang's post. Hahaha! So funny!

Here are my recommendations of easy things to make:

French Toast

1. Get some eggs and sugar.

2. Beat the eggs and mix in the sugar.

3. Dip a loaf of bread into your mix, so that it is coated in your sticky goodness.

4. Fry the bread.

Pancakes

1. Mix together some egg, milk, flour (preferably self-raising), and sugar. Not sure about exact ratios. Be conservative with the sugar, and put enough of the rest to get a just-very-slightly-watery viscosity (liquid enough for it to be easily poured onto a frying pan, and yet thick enough so that it will form a moderately thick layer on the pan).

2. Heat up the pan - minimal heat.

3. Pour some mix in the pan and let it fry. For circular goodness, use a ladle to pour it onto the pan. Once it looks like the bottom is cooked enough, flip it and cook the other side a bit more (but not as long as before).

Steak

1. The hardest part is choosing the right meat part to buy - just ask the butcher.

2. Heat up pan - max heat.

3. Chuck in steak.

4. Wait 1 minute.

5. Flip.

6. Wait another minute.

7. Eat.

Mashed Potatos (to go with your steak)

1. Get some potatoes.

2. Wash (just roughly) and skin them (or not if you prefer to eat mashed potato with skin bits in them - it is good for your skin apparently).

3. Boil a pot of water.

4. Chuck in potatos. Leave for ages (I think like an hour).

5. Take out your potatos (they should be really soft and mashable).

6. Mash them (with a spoon or whatever - you can buy special spoon things for this too).

7. If you want gravy. Use a pre-mix. :P Hey actually, I just remembered you can get pre-mix mashed potatoes, too - just add water.

Spaghetti (with pre-made sauce)

1. Buy some mince meat and jarred spaghetti sauce.

2. Defrost it. Easiest is to just leave it in the sink for a whole day. You can try with a microwave, but be careful not to cook it in the process.

3. Make big pot of boiling water and chuck in the spaghetti sticks. Leave it to boil (takes forever).

4. While waiting, heat up a pan - medium heat. Chuck in the minced meat and sauce. Stir around a bit until it looks ready (should not take too long). Leave it to simmer while waiting for the freaking spaghetti to ready.

5. Take your spaghetti from the pot. Put a sift in the sink and pour it in to get rid of the water. Combine with your sauce.

6. If you want a bit more fanciness, then cut up some onions (and anything else you might fancy?) and chuck it in with the sauce and minced meat when you cook them.

This is all assuming you use non-stick pan. If you don't... er... buy one. Oiling stuff is bad for you, and you will waste initial food while learning to master it. :P

Can't think of much else...

Boiling stuff is fun. Boiled vegetables are the easiest. Carrots, broccili, and peas are popular. Just remember to cut/skin them first...

And yes, I do make it sound easier than it is. Just experiment. :P You will be GM Cooking in no time.

sydney: day 2

What up !

This is my second day in Sydney... I'm blogging from a netcafe in the city, underneath a McDonalds O_o It's abit expensive but what can you do. If I'm in the city more I guess I could just buy membership to here :p

Had a super tiring day yesterday ... my flight touched down at 6am Sydney time ... that is 4am Perth time :\ I could only get an hour or two of sleep on the plane and we had already landed, oh well. Started the day off with some coffee :p Then caught the train to Charis' house; even though I'm a 'student', it cost $8 for the ticket, soo exp ... I think Sydney is expensive :p That was about 7am, I think Charis forgot I was coming because I woke her up heheh :p

Then after Charis did some crap we went walking .. just walking aroud, it was pretty cold! We went to Cockle Bay for breakfast, it was nice ;) I had toast, eggs, hash browns, mushrooms and spinach... Never had spinach for breakfast before but it was pretty good :p And my eggs were poached, interesting... they called that 'vegetarian', but now that I think about it, vegetarians don't eat eggs, do they :p

After that, it was abit of a blur, I was so tired... and full from the breakfast O_o Went around and around, Charis bought some clothes from David Jones and I fell alseep in this really soft chair ;) Here, there are two David Jones stores across from each other, one sells all girls stuff and the other sells guys stuff, cool :) Then we went to Starbucks; I wanted to have Green Tea Frappucino but I got an ice blended White Chocolate Mocha instead :) Because I was feeling really sleepy at that point, the first coffee having worn off. Then I was quite jittery, and Charis laughed at me :p We walked around for so long ... went to Kinokunia bookstore and also this 'jackets sale' that was selling leather and crap, it was pretty sucky ...

Went to look for a DVD but they were all crap. Then walked around in Chinatown to look at haircut places, now I'm feeling I cbf cutting hair .. I'll just cut and dye at home. Hrmm, really no time to do stuff at home though .. so I guess if I'm bored here .. :)

Last night we went to dinner at this japanese place, I had katsu curry and Charis had this 'steak' ... it was a pretty shitty steak :p Stringy and tough, and the sauce tasted abit like fish... My curry was good :P After that I took a taxi back to the apartment (did I mention that my luggage was 20 kg+?). I had to drag stupid luggage up and down the stairs at the train station ... omg Japan flashbacks huh :P So many stairs !!! Central station here looks like Osaka central trainstation :) The platform, anyway ...

Today I woke up late and just been walking around ... watched some Jerry Springer on tv before I came out :P Caught ferry, $5 wtf ... I went to Darling Harbour and walked around for the past few hours :P Played some Tekken, owned some guy 4 times in a row then been owned for every other match :\ Oh well, I might go and play now again hehe :)

Tomorrow is CeBIT, I'm surprised because there are the flags flying in all the streets advertising it O_o I'll try take along the camera and take some photos :)

I don't have any net access at the place I'm staying at, so I might not be able to upload photos until I get home -_- Or something ... see what happens ...

I'll try find some net at CeBIT and update again ;)

new headphones !!

Haven't posted for a while, but thought I should document the day that I got some new headphones :P

Bought a pair of Shure E2c canalphones, and from listening briefly just then, they get the thumbs up :) The isolation is pretty crazy... when I put them in, I can't hear anything of the outside O_o And I'm still only using the silicone sleeves, they also have some foam sleeves which are supposed to be even better for isolation. Bought them to replace my ~4 year old Sony MDR-EX70SL canalphones... they've served me well but I think it's time to put them into retirement :) Got a pretty good price for the headphones too, thanks eBay!


Sony MDR-EX70SL



Shure E2c

Going to save the foam sleeves for when I go to Sydney ;) That'll be in a week's time; Sunday 22nd of May. Will be there for two weeks while I act as housewife :) I'll also be attending CeBIT Australia 2005 from the 24th - 26th of May... fun fun :P I'll take a camera along and post some pics on the blog.

Other than that... for all those that don't know... I was working at TSG Consulting for the past 4 months, but just resigned. The reason for that is that I'm starting at Motorola's Global Software Group very soon :) Should be interesting...

Motorola interview was quite straightfoward for anyone that's interested. It was quite funny to do an interview after being out of the 'scene' for so long... Hopefully this is the last interview I have to take for a while :P