The title is inspired by my recent obsession with Lee DeWyze’s version of Treat Her Like A Lady from this year’s American Idol. (It’s definitely one of my guilty pleasures, along with McDonald’s 2-for-99-cents apple pies.) As much as I love eating eggs, getting them right is one tricky business. Think about the stuff you [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Treat your eggs like a lady
Posted in Babbles, tagged American Idol, eggs, French omelet, Lee DeWyze on April 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Getting lost online and inkitchen
Posted in Babbles on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure exactly how many hours I spend online everyday, but it’s a lot. Usually start with my email. Then I see a Facebook notification for me being tagged in a photo. I click on the link, check out the photo and decide to keep me tagged. Then I read through newsfeed. Someone posted [...]
Deboning a chicken at midnight
Posted in Photography on April 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Who knows why, but, last night, I felt like practicing deboning a chicken for my upcoming “Western cuisine” practical. A whole chicken, check. An empty plate for the bones, check. A sharp knife, check. (Not shown to keep my blog PG rated.) Target time, 15:00. Bam. My time, 13:42. FYI, there are many other ways [...]
More ducky photos
Posted in Photography, tagged Beijing duck, Peking duck on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By popular demand, here are the rest of the pictures from the Beijing Duck dinner: Slices of duck liver. Tasted like other game livers I’ve had before. Very soft. Duck hearts. It was actually quite tasty. Here’s a slice of the duck’s skin, with a layer of fat. Its flavor is incredibly rich (and very [...]
Would you rather eat raw beef or duck feet?
Posted in Babbles, tagged Beijing duck, cooking class, 육회, raw beef on April 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
More pics of the duck posted here I’ve been getting up at 5:30 in the morning to make it to my 6:30 cooking classes on time. There are four different cuisines offered, and I’m learning to make some Korean food. This morning’s challenge was raw beef. Well, to be exact, “육회” in Korean, or “beef [...]
Building roofs and finding roots
Posted in Babbles, tagged Cooking from scratch, Little House on the Prairie, noodles on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of my absolute favorite books from childhood is Little House on the Prairie. I’ve probably read it more than a hundred times, although I never kept exact count. My favorite part of the book is where Pa builds a new house from scratch, all by himself. As his little daughter describes how he sets [...]
Burning thighs. Burnt sauce.
Posted in Babbles on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
No photo today. Sorry (but I spent over two hours on drawing something myself last night, so I feel somewhat justified). I’m obsessed with yoga — well, to be exact, Yogalates which is yoga plus Pilates (just learned that’s actually someone’s last name). I’ve been doing it regularly for a little over a year now, [...]
Redesigned
Posted in Notices on April 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I couldn’t work with WP’s rather ugly templates and had to come up with my own. Of course I had about twenty things to today before hitting the sack by 10:30pm (it’s now 11:15pm) but Adobe programs, especially Illustrator, just suck you in. I’m happy with the final design at least. Spent a long time [...]
Oven 101: Introduction
Posted in 101s on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Before you read on, let’s run through a quick checklist: • When it comes to preheating, I solely rely on the temperature dial or the digital screen. • When I’m done with my batter, I stick it into the oven right away. • There should be no difference in using a metal or a glass [...]
Keep your cell phones shut. Your oven too.
Posted in Babbles, tagged Bagel, Ballet, Cell phones, Juni, Oven, Sue-jin Kang on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see Sue-jin Kang perform at Seoul Arts Center last night, with thousands of other people who were there to admire the utmost elegance of the world-famous ballerina. As people took off their coats and settled into their seats, the lights in the opera hall grew dimmer, soon leaving everyone in pitch black. [...]
