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lalal i have not blogged for some time so i don really remember some stuff -__-'' talk about getting old!
but apparently, wel from my phone i only had one bento last week....ta da~! pesto pasta with stir fried beef and garlic sprouts! mum would never approve of that...no no from china veges...haha but it was cheap and i like it :P so there...hopefully she never finds out! O_O aha

then i was being industrious during the weekend coz it was the last time i could be lazy and fili fala til i need to study real hard for exams! so i made...
tada! hmm..the close up shot not too good i think its the lighting! but yea! what is it...
macaron macarons~! =DD
with white chocolate and black sesame filling! hmm...the filling got kinda hard...well coz there was no cream in it and only chocolate...so i guess since its cold her it became very hard so yea...but it was still yummy! the green tea was bitter and off set the sweetness from the white chocolate! =D
since walnuts are in season, i made walnut crispies! crunchy and brainy! apparently walnuts is good for memory! another functional food! munch them walnuts!

i finished my study plan of the day! =D so im happy i thought i didn have enough time but i managed! so tahts good!

starting on micro tomoro...that one arr...hmm...lots of things to do tomoro actually ah well....19 more days till i go home! eks! XDD yay yay

*ciaossu*

hmm...it feels like munching time....

no...i must not munch...*drinks more water* hahah its so late already still wna munch..my gooness...hmm oh bento! thats right!
this was thursday's lunch! i didn put it up then coz i was erm...busy talking to myself and getting ready for my presentation ahah
so here it is! broccoli and hamburger beef steak! that my fren's japanese flat mate taught me how to do. interesting its really yummy! =D definitely making it again!

and then! friday i ate wedges :P haha coz i was so urgh about presentation so i decided to hey what the heck...might as well treat myself!
friday's dinner! omg...the yummiest pizza ever! XDD i love it! i shall make pizza every friday if i get my hands on some good cheese! its tomato with broccoli which for some reason tastes so good on pizza and olives and the bocconcini i bought the other day and the special weapon! the blue cheese! yum yum! you shud try it...blue cheese grilled on toast or on a pizza like this...it is sooooo good! =p~~ hmm i feel like eating again now T__T

oh yesterday i watched the korean version of hana yori dango and then suddenly i felt like eating bibimbap...so i made bibimbap! haha that was pretty easy too! i was amazed! O_O the only thing missng was tauge...which i didn have but yea...next time i will put extra seaweed salad! =D

got another presentation tomoro and more reports due..but yea...its getting there! im working hard! haha erm...hmm...oh im already thinking about tomoro's lunch -_-''' i think its egg sandwiches with kimchi pancake or vege sticks with hummus...mmm...i *heart* hummus! =D

this week i also have some food safety thing to go to coz im helping my fren with her stall during inernational food festival! guess what are we going to make! =DD we will make pau!! imagine...cold wintery dunedin and comforting hot hot steaming pau out from the steamer into your cold cold hands...yum....haha the only way to eat pay! XDD

but yea before THAT! there's much to do! i shall go and practise for my another presentation thats on tomoro!

*ciaossu*

thursday's my favourite day!

hmm...i didn bento much last week. coz i was either at home for lunch or i was too busy to make and eat lunch in uni :P i had an apple on friday if you actually find that interesting...

tuesday's bento!
purple potato salad! interesting! the colour is really nice! =D with rice, kimchi and salted salmon...yum yum....

that was the only bento for the week :P sad...
on friday thoi went to the supermarket and they had so much stuff on sale! =D i was so excited! so i bought some nice cheese and hummus! then i can make real pizza! with real mozzarela cheese! >__< wellt hat will be for this week i guess

monday this week
this was monday's bento! dumpling from last time keeps real long..still tasting good! =D put lots of ginger in the last time and still tasting it!

tuessay
hmm i have not been very 'creative' the pass week i think my brain juice has gone to other more important things...but this sushi is pretty good! =D must be the salmon and hummus inside...yes i put a lot of random stuff in my lunch

i have a presentation tomoro talking about my acrylamides :P hope that goes fine and i don prat around like an idiot. im supposed to talk slooooooooowly so yea...shud be fine la...just gota have confidence! what else...we made more pasta this week and today we are going to look at some competitor products for pasta.

so yea...hmm i need to mail the company as well...sigh many things to do...next week will be a killeR! T__T

but, somehow there's always time to do cooking and stuff...guess im planning my time correctly! =D
*ciaossu*

timesss flying away!

sigh....time is flying to quickly! why can't there be more time for me to spend my me-time...back to uni tomoro feeling sien...but at the same time i dono..haha going back to uni and then it will be friday again...lots to do! >_<

monday!
here is monday's lunch! remember i made bread during last weekend? well it was sandwich lunch! with salad and canned fish, mayo and coriander! yum yum! its amazing coriander goes sooo well with fish! i just learnt! and my healthy cucumber sticks with hummuS! i LOVE hummus! XDD and my olives and pepper salad thingy!

i brought some cake for my frens to share with in uni! so here it is! with my lunch box all tied up! and my apple a day keeps the doctor away! yes! i eat my 5 a day!

tuesday
tuesday was a hmm i realy have no idea what to do day so i just put my olive and pepper salad fish, mushroom from my bak kut teh and cucumber...all convenience foods sitting in the fridge

wednesday!
i was more adventurous on wednesday and made the FASTEST sushi roll ever! i was almost late for uni i only took like 15 min O_O cuz this cut that and microwave the rice then roll everything, wash up cut, put in container and then go to uni...i think that set the record for fastest time used to make lunch

thursday!
another blur day...just microwaved some weiners! and chucked it in with salad and corn beef and coriander rice! hmm thats good too!

no bento on friday coz i went home for lunch and then back to uni to do my presentation! it was hilarious! luckily it was only a practise run! the teacher and everyone else thought i was talking like f1 but i felt it was my ok speed..hmm...oh wells...

what else...oh! saturday i was very productive! i finally cracked,,,my kimchi! yea! i made kimchi last week! and i finally bought a container for it and then packed it in and set it in the fridge! tell you something interesting! i used chives and spring onion for it right, and then i put it under a anaerobic condition to ferment ie no oxygen so when i was taking everything out to put in the container the chives and spring onion still so green and fresh! i was amazed!! only until i put it in the fridge then it started turning brown like today! so yea..

yesterday i also made some tofu thingy for hot pot! and fry keropok and made bread and i made CREAM PUFF =DD yum yum but i forgot to take photo...
this is the photo before its baked :P very happy with it! coz it puffed up and then dried well so the crust was very crunchy! brought it over and we had hot pot and i assembled this baby there! my fren so funny! he wanted to eat the last one and i told him that was for another fren and hes like
" i told you to make a lot! i told you to make 10!"
so i was like "but i made 12"
haha oh wells it was so funny coz like the cream was a bit flowly and i sprinkled icing sugar on it so when they bite into it right, they wanted to suck in the cream but at the same time they inahled the icing sugar so all 6 of us ended up choking HAHAHHA hilarious! it was like killer cream puff...but everyone liked it =D yay...happy!

yea so yea then today i went swimming! and made my mother's day card to send off tomoro! still doing some planing stuff for uni. tomoro got meeting with my lecturer so i need to have some questions to ask her about for tomoro! so yea! okies! im off again! see you next week! =D

*ciaossu*

what a productive day...

oh....the stressful week with test and assignments have come to an end! next week is a breather and then full out again with reports are due -__-'' sad...it seems exams are nearer than ever coz we're so busy time flies like flies! WAKAKak ok ok that was soooo lame..

mondays bento!
well basically monday was the same thing as sundays dinner...or erm the other day actually...i made a pasta bake! mini! and my gui ling gao! coz i wana gui ling gao dono must be them cravings....haha and golden kiwi! coz it was on special! funny its so hard but its still so sweet...hmm i wonder why i tot have to be squishy then its ripe...oh wells

tuesday!
tuesday! was lab day! so i had more rice! with something new...seaweed rolled egg!, pork chop, and konnyaku daikon stew sigh konnyaku the ultimate diet food! haha the seaweed rolled egg was pretty interesting! yum yum...

wednesday!
i had to stay back in uni to finish my assignment which was due on thursday and friday so i had some vermicilli thing...erm..you know so called 'slow' release of power kinda food with the filling that was supposed to be in with the noodle but somehow it don wana fren each other so had to put then in separately...and my rolled egg and seaweed! interesting!

the seaweed is just rehydrated and then add some vinegar, sugar, sesame seeds mix! then add sesame oil! and you get the same thing as the ones that they sell in the shops...well the shop one use fresh seaweed la...so yea...

thursday!
i had another full day and was sad coz i didn manage to keep up to like my goals of the day the night before meaning i had to do more tonight =( so i had cinnamonoroll! made my day! ahah lunch was my seaweed egg roll, onigiri, kimchi pork, and olive on weiner!

friday!
friday! i was so urgh from staying up soo late to finish my assignement i only raelised wen i got to uni that my lunch was all red -__-''' ah wells

today today! erm yesterday i was super busy la with grocery-ing and cutting hair and driving here and there but so yea today! i was very hardworking!

going to bak kut teh for dinner >__< last time i had it was like what...last year?!??!

hmm and three interesting bowls..daikon, cabbage and fermenting dough!
guess what i made!
haha if you can guess it you are very smart! but erm...the dough is for bread obviously...urgh i don wna imagine daikon and cabbage with the dough O_O

so anyway! i was making the sauce that needed like chilli powder and then i dump it in but not chillie enough! so i put the WHOLE 200g of chilli powder and hey its quite a bit its like..about...1 1/2 cup? 2? sth like that la but hten still not hot enough...smelly korean chilli so i added some other bunch of chilli based stuff and came up with this...
but honestly! i tlel you its not spicy! eventhough it looks suicidal...hahah or maybe its just me ...
then i added more stuff and black bean paste so its not that red now...and the lighting is different here so yea...chives and spring onion and a bunch of stuff...i wanted to put in fresh oyster too! but then oysters are like $22 for one dozen! T__T im so super poor...last time i could get away with like $13 for second grade now they don even have seconds -__-''

so yea...heres my veges that are salting and sweating their water out! was pretty interesting how you add salt and then suddenly your vege starts sweating...haha
so yea!
end product! wait...erm...bout a day or 2 and i will check it! kept with micr knowledge arrr~ so that it wont grow mould...hope it ferments nice! =D gave it a lot of love already haha
the bread also nice >_< its rice bread! interesting ei? i made it with like rice and water and flour la of course and its chewy and light coz of teh rice giving it a erm...how to explain mochi mochi texture!

oh this is the cake i baked yesterday! it was good too! cheese souffle cake! =D it was not as nice when it was warm but hwen its int he fridge for a night whoa...the difference is amazing...dense and cheese like but the insides are just a little fluffy so its not too rich. the only thing i couldn get right was the cracking =( when it was in the oven it started getting bigger and then cracked..i tried lowering down the temperature but still cracked...hmm need to ask my fren! hes the son of a baker! haha last time i went over to his place and he baked cake! and it was looking sooo perfect but then right the top was burnt! so yea...

aights! i shall erm go and take bath and all see yah!

*ciaossu*
ps see i told you! productive week! =D i guess the amount i cook = amount of stress im under O_O amazing....

thank god its FRIIIIIIIDAY~!

sup! haha if you are wondering how was my wonderful week at uni it was freaking stress...hahah erm..yea...i had that assignment to do and full day labs and today was the earliest i got home which is before 5 usually i'll be home at like 6 or sth like that O_O but yea easter holidays are here!=D its one week of yay yay then back to uni well...not really for us coz we have SOOOOOO much stuff happening the first week back its not a holiday its a like a free week for us to catch up and study for term tests and course work so yea...with out further ado...lets adjurn to the bentos of the week!

monday!
i fried falafel and roasted some pumpkin and kumara during the weekend! so here it is! i was in a hurry and everything didn really wana get squished in...so yea rice and falafel with cherry tomatoes, salad and roasted pumpkin to eat with black sesame sauce! =D

tuesday!
tuesday i woke up early for some reason and my classes started late so i had time to fili fala in the kitchen to make lunch! haha so i had cucumber sticks with sambal, my tomato, roasted veg, falafel, some chicken salad! and one sad rice ball coz i only had enough rice in the fridge to make one! :P

wednesday
wednesday was my full day! so i had chicken wing and falafel! with roasted veg and cucumber salad! and furikake on my rice! yum! its salty!

thursday!
todays one very special
dun dun dun
its coming....
attack of the sausage alien!! ahha its supposed to be a penguin but when i cooked it i think i cut the arms to wide so it became like alien so i just put some vege stalks on it la hahah
today i took my sweet time as well haha coz i started slightly later than usual! today was egg rice! falefal, squeezed erm vege thingy i have no idea what it is i tot it was rocket salad when i bought it from the korean store but when i opened the pack it had like leaves with the stalks so i guess it aint rocket salad! :P oh i added brussel sprouts too! coz they are yum! =D very fresh tasting! taste even better stir-fried XDD

now! the interesting thing of the week! this week we had a microbiology lab again and we have to like plate our microbes found in the sauerkraut we made. every week we do a plate count and see what grew and stuff this week...
tada! my agar plate! so cool so cool! the white thing its like a mould and looks like popcorn! i was like eeeeeeeeeeee sooo cute and everyone was like ewww thats dissssssssssguuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhsting =( sad...guess im a freak

then we had a jelly lab for product development! where me and my fren made like coffee agar so coffee and cream! we used like industrial colouring and flavouring and worked with the percentages of what we needed to use with trial and error that kinda thing so that was pretty cool! =D then right

when we were making it somthing went wrong in the first batch and the jelly die-ded so we made shark fin soup!
ta da!! shark fin soup! yum yum!!! haahhahah did you believe me?!!?!?! i don think so -___'''
its actually the jelly hahah coz the coffee part did not want to coagulate but the cream phase did so we melted the cream phase and like pour in the coffee coz we tot it set already but it didn so we pour and it became like that and i wanted to throw away so put in plastic bag then really look like shark fin soup! O_O amazing! haha can go and con people outside :P

well in the end for the jelly evaluation, we didn win the like best tasting jelly coz some people didn like coffee so they rated ours really low =( so what ever...but in the end we did win a prize! XDD it was coz we made the effort to go the extra mile to make 2 layers coz everyone else did one only and that means when we make two we need to formulate for like 2 products instead of one that means twice the workload but we managed with..erm...minimal technical difficulties :P and this is what we won!
tada! when the gave out the prizes, it was a tied first place with some random fruit thingy i don rmember i think ginger beer flavour and feijoa and apple flavour and the teacher each gave them a box of favourites chocolates being the group 'favourtie' haha then she was like this is for the group that went the extra mile to make a two layer one and she pulled this out and everyone laughed! =( they tot it was some random oranges but little did they know...
so cool ei? its like orange with like cranberry flavour! it must be like GE food i think cross-breed with orange and cranberry! so cool so cool! ahah and the colour is like pinky in there not really like blood oranges...hmm haha so yea! have not tried it yet! i tot like i'ld wait for saturrrrday!

saturday is our drinking day! XDD yay yay! haha taste it with my team mate! =D

so yea im going to bum for a few days then get to work again beginning next week :P shuucks before the work load suffocates me again :P okies im off to err...bed haha see ya!

*ciassu*

daylight savings!

do you remember my bacon and egg pie from last week? =D coz i do! haha
before....
after...and then!
the inside! yum yum! =D eat with lingams chilli sauce with garlic...yuum yum! haha i added kumara and peas and corn and boiled egg and yea but it was kinda dry..hmm...might need to set the oven again and see how it goes :P but to my surprise...it only took like 55 min to make! well provided that you have ready made pastry la...which i did...tee hee so yea!

bento of the week!
monday!
monday was pie! erm the black thing is my gochujang with sesame sauce! yum yum its black coz i used black sesame to make the sauce. i bought them last time to make like watermelon biscuit with the black sesame as the seeds but i only used a minute amount so i still have loads!

tuesday!
tuesday was my full microlab day! O_O was so tiring....so i had DOUBLE bento! haha with a octopus and crab weiner! and egg and salmon and rice ball with fish!

wednesday i had sandwich which i forgot to take photo of :P i tot not that interesting ahah

thursday!
my poor lunch =( coz i woke up late and i had to go to uni early to do micr again...so its kimchi with tomato and egg only sad -_-'' and my black sesame sauce! =D

friday! i had friday bakery pain au chocolat! yay! i was in such a hurry coz we had to go back to the micro lab to get our samples and stuff and do more stuff O_O so much stuff to do! then after that straight to violin then came back to sit for 20 min eating lunch then class again! but violin was fun! XD

fridays dinner was okonomiyaki! =D yum yum! it was humongous!!! i didn realise i chopped sooo much cabbage until i was going to mix it in this tiny bowl for one and was lke uh oh...nevermind...i even managed to finish it O_O whats with me and my montrous appetite??!!?!

so yea and then today i went to the market! and i bought corn which i had just now...2 corn cobs O_O and im still so so and i ate fruits just now and a pastie and an almond croissant from friday bakery and im still hmm...O_O im going to get fat TT^TT ah well haha just gota do more swimming!

still working on assignment. new one :P trying to get it done by this weekend so the weekdays i can have time for...yes...other assignments :P okies! im off!

*ciaossu*

lazy sunday?

JUST finished my smely assignment! omg! haha freaking finally!! just sent it to all the other team members to look at it. asking me for referencing and stuff i guess they can change it! ive done MY PART! so yea its up to them now its a humongous part! i think i did like XX% wakkakak cant tell you! so yea! aaaanyway! hmm what happened this week...oh i was super busy...erm...i went swimming and i went for some international mentor thingy that was pretty cool! =D we had pizza! and they ordered like plain cheese and its so nice! O_O im so amazed...i guess simple flavours are the best! ;)
so! without further ado...its another bento week!

this weeks theme is kinpira! for vege! its erm...jullined how ever you spell it carrots with konnyaku! the ultimate diet food! O_O
monday!oh ho ho nori-ben with seaweed on rice! coz i have so much seaweed i dont know what to do with it :P with my salted salmon, crab weiner, kinpira and on sale cherry tomato!


tuesday
i was sad sth happened on monday =( so for lunch on tuesday i used my special cinnamonoroll paper cup so i felt better =D erm i went to unimart on monday and bought this thing called shiso? erm..sesame leaves sth like that la thats the green thing covering the rice! was pretty late! so i jsut cooked the gyoza that i made and froze the other day

wednesday!
i woke up late again >__< well not really la just was reading manga while munching my breakkie when holy crap! look at the time! ahha so i just packed left overs! rice with my shisho leave and my amazing curry with purple potato! i made it during the weekend well i was kinda procrastinating la...so i decided to experiment and grated the onion making it really smooth. when i cooked it the curry was quite dry but so tasty! XDD i didn put ajinomoto which i always do....ahha i admit it but then it was really good! =D definitely cooking again!

thursday!
thursday was my full day! i had early start then all the way until lab, 5 sth then the international mentor meeting(well they had pizza but yea). so i had a BIG! bento! haha erm its kinpira, salted salmon and octopus weiner! with 3 rolls of rice with chopped shisho leave in nori! and my mayo face! coz i didn wana go to uni =( i was lazy so i drew that hmm...makes me feel better ahah but then when i got to uni and opened my lunch right...the face got squished already O_O oh wells

friday!
i had sandwiches! which i forgot to take photo of :P it was realy yummy tho! amazingly erm...it was a canned fish, coriander, shisho and lettuce sandwich! was in a hurry i only had time to scoff my sandwich down before going to violin. then i had to go back home to get my notes which i forgot stupid me...argh coz i was up late doing my assignment after i got back late again...from uni on thursday coz i was looking up on journal articles to write a research paper on my 353 paper :P so yea!

friday was really warm >w< the leaves were falling down everywhere...it was so pretty! i was walking to get some groceries and felt ~sigh~ autumn is here...pretty pretty =D

finally!! saturday was taken up by assignmenting again! and then sunday more assignmenting! i jsut finished like 4 sth O_O then i realised i have not eaten anything since the morn eks! so i made TOASTIE! =DD
i like 'em toasties!
toast the bread first! and then put baked beans and sliced cheese! the cheese was the cambozola on special! i love it! its camembert with a hint of blue sooo good then put it in the sandwich kiap grill thing and grill the cheese yay yay!

now im off to make my bacon and egg pie for lunch....er..dinner eat bath look at uni stuff and hopefully get an early night! -__-'' feeling blur already my fren sed some of my sentences are non-sense! haha oh wells

im off!
*ciaossu*