Monday, November 29, 2010

My first Mandu (dumplings)


My first Mandu (dumplings)

I like the taste of Korean foods so much but I can only eat when I go to a Korean Resto. One time I tried to cook one kind of Korean recipe, a Mandu or dumplings. Pls. do send me a message if it's not correct.

Ingredients:
• 1 cup of ground pork
• 2 cups of ground beef
• 2 cups of chopped boo chu (asian chives)
• 4-5 soaked Shiitake mushrooms
• half onion
• half package of tofu
• 3 cloves of minced garlic
• salt
• sugar
• sesame oil
• vegetable oil
• fish sauce (patis)
• egg
• green onion
• mandu wrapper

Procedure:
1. Place 1 cup of ground pork and 2 cups of ground beef into big bowl. Add 1 ts of salt, 1 tbs of sesame oil, ½ ts of ground pepper and mix.
2. Wash asian chives (bu chu), dry well with paper towel or cotton cloth and then chop them to make 2 cups. Add 1 tbs of oil and mix. Set aside….
Note: oil will coat vegetables so that liquid would not come out from it.
3. Chop 4-5 soaked shiitake mushrooms and half an onion. Add 1 ts of soy sauce, 1 ts of sugar, and 2 ts of sesame oil and mix.
4. Squeeze half a package of tofu using cotton cloth or paper. Then add a pinch of salt, 1 ts of sesame oil and mix it and put it next to chopped chives.
5. In the big bowl, add 3 cloves of minced garlic and mix all ingredients by hand.
6. Then get a teaspoonful or a bit more of filling and wrap it with Mandu skin.


I bought this container, thought that it’s a good storage for my Mandu and space saver. Though I don’t like so much the colored blue, no choice, there’s no other color available but it’s so cheap ..^_^..



It's my first fried, it's a bit burnt because I forgot to put a small amount of water before I covered the pan..^_^..

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Captured Insects

After visiting my garden in my backyard, I noticed the leaves of one plant that was damaged. I tried to looked underneath the leaves and I've seen a caterpillar.I found it so cute that I took a photo of it.It has a big eyes but it winked when the light flashed.


Then I started taking photos of insects around,

Like the dragonflies...




The red ants that always bite me


The tiny beetle on the wall


The black/red small spider


Kinds of butterflies



The grasshopper that camouflaged the plant, perhaps it thought that I can't see him. It was so surprised when I took him a photo.


And the 2 resting mosquitoes


If only I have a nice camera, I could captured them more beautifully in my lens. For now that's all I could.

October happenings

* Mommy's b-day, no plan to celebrate, I just attended a mass to thank the Lord for everything. Thank Him that I'm still healthy and aging gracefully. But my friends surprised me, they came to the house with some foods, an instant pot luck.



* We were finishing my Stephannie's project report. A feasibility study with building plan and lay out and model.Though I can it's good that my 6th brother was here, he help and did the plan and we help in making the model though were not an engr. or architect or else we will pay for the professional to make like Steph classmates. And it's good again that I have a background about acctg. I help her about the financial statement too.



* The next morning we found out that our newly bought (just a month old) motor bike that was parked down stair was gone. It was been car napped.


* After the exam my Mycah came home crying and so depressed when she missed to answer the 5 numbers on her test paper. She said she knows very well the answer but why came the moment she's going to answer the question she was suddenly mentally block. She's so worried that she won't be on top ten anymore.

I just hugged her and told her that it's OK, it usually happen to anybody.

I told her I will buy peanuts frequently now to feed her brain more, he he.



* Barangay election was done for more or less 42,025 Barangays all over the Phil island. Election for Barrio captain and 8 councilors.

-for 4 days I can't get rid of the indelible ink in my nail though I washed it thoroughly. I don't know if it's the same to other country that if we vote they put an indelible ink in our nail after to prove that we were voted already.They put this to avoid flying voters.


* Been to my friends b-day celebration. Again I ate a lot :( I can't resist the delicious foods offered. With in this month, I attended to 3 of my friends b-day celebration. Oh my God I'm so heavy now, I feel I have baggage's of cholesterol now. I must go back to the gym to reduced weight.

* Last day of October , every body was so busy preparing for the "All saints and all souls day".Of course me too. I bought foods, candles and fresh flowers . We will bring those to the grave of my mother. Again its party time in the cemetery.