More Food from Nottingham~

Hey all!

Sorry for lack of activity. Haven't had a smooth run on my laptop. It got hit by this malware the other day, don't ask.

Anyways as a space filler I'm just gonna update with what me and Shin made when I went there over the weekend last week! We made Sushi, Pineapple fried rice and Shin baked green tea sponge cake :D

How to make the sushi? It's simple! You need:

 Rice!

 Crabsticks!

 Thick omelette!

 Cucumber!

 Seaweed!

 And bamboo mat roller thingie! I saw another friend use aluminium foil, don't know how that works

Then you toss everything onto your counter or table and it'll look like this:

Wow! Even better than Mama! *Gold coin*

Roll it up~

Cut and serve~ mmmmmm~

This is the pineapple fried rice~ We kinda mashed 2 recipes from 2 sites and then added our own variation. It tasted like pineapple fried rice so I'll call it a success xD

Shin's Green Tea Spongecake! She said it was too moist but it tasted alright to me~ I ate more than half of it I think :X So much for trying to lose weight.

Anyhoo! I got The Sims Medieval recently along with Okamiden for the NDS. I hope to be able to review them in the near future haha. Stay tuned!

Thanks for reading guys!

~Fox

Recent stuff from Nottingham

Hey guys,

Just a random update from when I was in Nottingham last week. Yesterday I had a bad case of nausea ending with a massive vomit in the evening. No I'm not pregnant, for god's sake.

Anyways nothing much of interest to you guys happened in Notts other than some foodstuff haha.

 We went to this coffee shop in Beeston where they did student discounts and also Shin's hall advertises it I think.

 Their caramel latte is pretty good! Personally I think it's on par with Starbuck's caramel macchiato.

 Their carrot cake thingie (forgot what's it called passion cake? or something) was not bad too. Icing made it very sweet though.

Shin and I made the Singaporean style prawn noodles. Just got egg noodles, kang kong, king prawns and shredded boiled chicken breast. 

Added soup and shallots at the end. The soup is simple, we used the pre-made paste-stuff LOL. Just add it to water and bring to boil.

The noodles were pretty good. The soup tastes like the stuff you get at shops if not better. Worth a try if you want something fast and simple. The chicken is not a must but I find it tastes great with it haha.

There you go, something short of an update. Will post more soon!

~Fox

Nottingham Update 2 of 2 - Making pancakes!

Hey all!

Fueled by sugar and caffeine from Starbucks' Cinnamon swirl and Caramel Macchiato as well as a pint of Guiness, here's the second part of my update!

On the last morning of my stay in Nottingham, I made pancakes for Shin (she's been asking for the past few days but I kept over sleeping).

What did I use? Here's the estimated recipe:
300g flour,
3 tablespoon sugar,
1/2 tablespoon salt,
2 eggs,
A bit of milk,
water.

Just crack the eggs into the flour and add water, not too much though, it's easy to add water but impossible to balance too much without making too many. Stir/whip it and add a bit of milk then water as necessary and add the salt and sugar. Keep mixing until you get about a sticky consistency but watery enough for it to not be tough to mix. Mix til you're satisfied with it or it has little or no bubbles and/or chunks of unmixed flour (This is best done with a whisk as using a fork or spoon as I traditionally did was difficult to do).

Then depending on the size of frying pan you using, you estimate how much butter you need, for the small pan I used a quarter tablespoon of butter. First time was too much :( And just fry it over medium-low heat.

Cooking is a trial and error learning process! Do it and get better, don't do and eat other's cooking :P
Here I'm frying the first "test" piece.

Taste testing the piece. I used 1.5 tablespoons of sugar initially and kicked it up to 3 in total.
It's based on preference really.

Frying one more and it looks better!

Too high heat! Need to tend to it quite a bit lol, so no leaving it to chat with friends on MSN.

The ones after that were brilliant! Shin likes em crispy round the edges and I've grown accustomed to making them like this.

Finished product! A stack of pancakes will definitely woo the boy/girl of your dreams.
Just add honey/butter/whatever you want on top and serve!

There you go people! Hope you enjoyed these posts! Check back frequently for updates :P


~Fox

Nottingham Update 1 of 2 - Food galore!

Hey all,

Just a quick update with pics on my trip to Notts. It was awesome spending time with Shin as well as cooking some fabulous stuff together :P Oh the pic above? I found it amusing to see a pink pair of testicles with wings so thought I shared it with ya. lol

On one of the nights we made Wonton soup, mapo tofu and kimchi stew!

Wonton making in progress!

Ready to cook!

Just boil them!

Add some chicken soup and voila! Added some fried anchovies to the soup made it taste awesome~

Finished cooking the mapo tofu~ Basically used a mapo tofu seasoning powder, add water and cook as instructed.

Kimchi stew finally done~ Shin used pork, prawn, kimchi, enoki mushrooms and a bit of egg tofu!

The taste of that dinner was one I will not soon forget~

On another night we went to Nandos for some spicy Peri-peri grilled chicken~ But they boiled it first which made me sadface. Note 100% students.

At least the chicken was not cancer flavour (burnt epicly)

Chicken liver~! One of Shin's favs which I introduced hoho. It tastes great! Especially with the spicy-salty sauce; a must try!

There cannot be only good things... That's why somehow one of the days we went to New Ocean City for some dimsum... And it was CRAP! It was bland, tasteless, slow but the service was friendly I guess...

I still felt hungry after the dimsum so I ordered a paikut fan (steamed pork with rice)

Presentation I give a 5! But the taste is just a 2... the worst part is....

One of the pork was still fucking raw! WTF!

Bottom line is! New Ocean City is crap now, not worth the money and students only get 10% off now. Sadface, need to find another good dimsum place in Notts!

Last but not least~ I had the best watermelon in like... AGES, which includes even when I went back home during the summer. Can't remember when I had watermelons this good.

The deep deep red is not just for show! It was extremely juicy and sweet! So awesome! Hope we can find more next time. This was bought from Tesco, Sainsbury's ones can't compare :P

My next post will be about making a certain breakfast food for Shin, look forward to it~

~Fox

Back to unexpected freeze

Hey everyone,

Just got back from Nottingham today to a freezing London and I’m not doing anything so I decided to make another entry. Why go to Nottingham and come back on a weekday, you ask? What? You didn’t ask? I’ll tell you anyway! It’s because I only have classes on Thursdays and Fridays and I want to see my gf :P. Apparently there was something added to the timetable while my internet was down during the weekend so I went to Notts not knowing. So… oh well.

Nuisances in Notts

Nothing much happened there other than some of my girlfriend, Shin’s flatmates at Broadgate Park halls making noises and causing her to be stressed. The wardens there seem to have their hands full with delinquents too, I guess. They should put similar years’ people together not first years who just want to party and have fun with final years who are drowned in work and stress. They just need to be complained about anonymously to the higher ups, hopefully they’ll grow up and see the light.

Surprise in Notts

One of the night there I “accidentally” saw an invoice from Superdry while Shin was checking her e-mail. I started to poke fun at her compulsive shopping and turns out she bought me a hoody which looks awesome, and I’m not just saying. I decided to take a few pics of it and show you guys. Sorry for my bad photography skills.

Front

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Back

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Much thanks to Shin <3 <3

Back in London

It’s surprising how easy it is to fit back into my Hall in London, from getting cafeteria food dinner to playing pool with the friends I met here, it’s all good. Hope my class tomorrow will be something interesting. I really hope my course will shape up sooner or later…

As always, thanks for reading peeps, add a comment if you wish.

~Fox