Anyway, we had a huge Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. I was in charge of the potato salad, while my housemate is in charge of the coleslaw, while our neighbour was in charge of the turkey (8kg!). Prior to the dinner, for the few days, I have been trying to finish my assignments and study for the exam. I've completed 3/4 of all of my work, but that 1/4 left is really really difficult, I'm going to work on it today and tomorrow. Did all my laundry and cleaned my room too (finally!). Anyway, I'm in charge of the potato salad!
As you know, I recently cut my thumb, which means for the past week I've not been doing any thumb related thing. Most importantly, chopping things. One hand holds the item while the other the knife. Because I can't do that (heck, I got my cut because I was trying to slice a rutabaga), that means I have not been cooking meals at home. How could I? It's been a really expensive week constantly ordering out...
So for the potato salad, it's time for me to try out my thumb strength. After peeling 17 potatoes, it's time to chop them up into mini pieces. I did it! But I'm not gonna lie, somewhere in the middle, my thumb felt extremely tired and numb, and I had to take a break. The horrible part is that, I used to be the guy in the house people go to if they can't open a jar. But now, I have to go to my housemate for that. I tried gripping the jar and my left thumb just went jelly. It was an extremely sad moment to watch.
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| Figure 49.1: Notice the angle of the cut |
I think my potato salad turn out good though! I received praises from the guests.
One of my favourite memory from the Thanksgiving dinner was when we were playing this game called Drawful 2. It's basically like pictionary, but the catch is you're drawing it on your phone (so chubby fingers is bad!) and, I kid you not, the developers did this on purpose... there's no erase function. Yeah, people were complaining about the lack of erase function in the first Drawful game, so the developers heard about it, and publicly stated that they will not put in an erase function in the second game, but instead we're giving you 2 colours to work with! Anyway, there was this really really buff guy, like massive! He's a friend of a friend, and he brought pie. The man is intimidating as hell. He has the male equivalent of the RBF syndrome, coupled with his extremely huge body, makes him really scary to approach. Well, throughout the entire game, he was giddy as hell. He was like this little kid constantly jumping on his seat and all, it was pretty funny.
So yeah, the guests stayed till really late, I just went to sleep cause I was super tired.
I missed one week of my "bake a new thing once a week" thing last week because of my thumb. Well, I finally did it this week!
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| Figure 49.2: Taadaaa~ |
These choco chip muffins were surprisingly really really REALLY easy to make. I might have to make more. Personally, I only had one muffin, I gave the rest out to my friends and neighbours. This week, for my new recipe and new baking routine, I'm thinking either a vegetarian lasagna or an oyakodon (親子丼). An oyakodon is a japanese dish, meaning "parent-and-child donburi". It's basically chicken and egg made in broth put on rice, that's why it's called parent and child! Get it? Those funky Japanese! Oh, and donburi basically just mean rice dish. A vegetarian lasagna is like a lasagna, except it's vegetarian, which means there's no meat.
Why these two? As for the oyakodon, I've been really craving for one. As for the lasagna, it's because I have a cooking rival. Does she think of me as a rival? Probably not, she's too high level. That girl... is my housemate's girlfriend.
It all started when I made that post-exam cinnamon roll and it failed. My housemate then took a photo of it and them shared it with her girlfriend. She then went like: "Oh I'm going to make cinnamon rolls too!" and it came out waaayyyy better than mine. Ever since then, she's my cooking rival. Anyway, I was told that she's making vegetarian lasagna for her partner (my housemate), so that gave me the urge to rival her lasagna and make a much superior lasagna.
As for the baking one, banana bread maybe?
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| Figure 49.3: Slowly but surely |
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