Not so crazy and definitely not lazy food

As I mentioned in the previous post, I finally managed to try baking something new. 


Honey cake with honeyed almond crunch
I got the recipe from here.

When I first read the recipe, I thought it's very easy. But me being me, things always have to come with surprises. Right before I finished work in the office, I took one more look at the recipe and realized I missed out something very important. I needed to whisk egg whites. My arms are more Olive Oyl than Popeye, hm... And so i had to go buy an electric beater! Well I figured I'll need it for other cakes anyway but it's just annoying that I had to make a detour and stop by the department store... 


In the end the cake turned out ok although slightly burnt at the edges. Plus I managed to burn my thumb too. Typical me. 


Obviously I can't finish it all. Gave a few slices to my parents who were so happy to see that their daughter can and does actually cook. 


Also gave one slice to the chef, trying to kick away his blues. Glad that he said it's not bad. But maybe he's just saying. I still have the feeling that he really doesn't care. But like he said, the cake was not the point. 


Well, then what's the point then? If you would show me please...

Dizzy lazy food

I haven't been cooking much lately. For the past couple of weeks I've been thinking to start baking again but procrastination always wins...

Finally on Monday I decided to bake something simple, no matter what. So after work I quickly went to get everything that I needed and rushed home. Although the cake was simple enough to make, by the time I put it in the oven, it was already 10pm. As I was washing the messy bowls and stuff, I suddenly felt very dizzy. It was really quite bad. I almost fainted. It was then that I realized, oh right, I hadn't had dinner. No wonder. 

So after I regained my energy, I made a simple noodle. 



Cold soba noodle with crab meat

Ingredients

• Soba noodles
• Crab meat (crab leg actually. got from the supermarket when I did the shopping for the cake ingredients)
• Dipping sauce 
• Nori sesame mix

Method

1. Cook the noodles in boiling water for 5-6 minutes
2. Drain and rinse the noodles with cold water a few times (so that noodles are completely cold)
3. Put noodles in serving bowl. Place crab meat on top
4. Sprinkle with nori and sesame mix
5. Serve with dipping sauce

As you can see, it's really simple. But tasty and it definitely saved my life. 

Dreaming again

Once again I was weak. Thought it was going to stop. I managed just one week.


Saw your little message and my heart skipped a beat.


You seemed all right and we texted for a bit. Then all of a sudden you ignored me again. Did I say something wrong?


Five hours later, early in the morning, came your message. You said you weren't happy. What's wrong? I asked. But you didn't tell me.


OK, go to sleep my dear. You must be tired.


I fell back to sleep. In that short 20 minutes before I needed to wake up and go to work, you met me in my dream. What we did, where we were, what we said, I totally forgot now. But that's not important really, no?

How far can I go?

三年前，那位俄羅斯有婦之夫說：「其實你不知道你自己的底線吧。」 (I don't think you realise how far you can go) 當時我有點嬲，who do you think you are? 你以為很了解我嗎？

然後，他離開了香港。

三年後的今日，我竟然被另一個他不斷測試及挑戰我的底線。到目前為止，他很成功。我的底線就如無底深潭，要幾低有幾低。

現在他竟然同我細訴如何周旋於眾多女伴之中！好像我還要同情他。這，究竟是甚麼意思？

我知道，在他心裡，在他眼中，我再沒有吸引力。

我的紋身不再性感；我的打扮不再吸引；我那口音不再有趣；我給他的意外不再是驚喜。

再沒有說笑話逗我開心；再沒有為我彈結他；再沒有對我說想跟我生個小孩；再沒有將來。

或許從來沒有愛。那倒沒所謂，乾脆老實跟我說便行了。奈何男人都是貪心（花心？）的。多留一個喜歡自己的女人在身邊也好呀。

如此這般，我便繼續這樣下去。明知沒有結果。身邊的朋友都說不值得，我卻還認為他們不明白。其實，我一早已經明白一切。但，明白和接受可以是兩碼子事。

直到最近，我好像突然成為他傾訴心事的對象。為甚麼？那喋喋不休的獨白，跟我何干？前言不對後語的每個故事，也令我心裡不好受，卻因為要面子，還要裝成沒甚麼大不了的樣子。說到其中一位我也有過一面之緣的她，那殘酷冷漠的態度，令我頓然醒來：我在他心目中，大概跟這位女子一樣，只是一個無關痛癢，卻又久不久為他帶來煩惱的人吧。

累了，睡吧。

乜我哋真係咁捍衛廣東話咩？咪講笑啦！ Do we really love our mother tongue?

這邊廂有穗港兩地的熱血青年上街保衛廣州話，那邊廂一眾港孩的父母卻前仆後繼，唔理三七廿一，明知自己的英文半桶水，卻全力堅持對子女只講英文。

英文，並唔係咁學㗎。

While we are excited about the young people from Guangzhou and Hong Kong taking it to the streets to defend our mother tongue Cantonese, isn't it an irony that a lot of parents in Hong Kong insist in speaking to their children ONLY in their broken English? 

crazy lazy food 2

Had a very late lunch at 4pm today. And was contemplating skipping dinner tonight. Then the voice of my Chinese doctor (along with my mom and other friends) rang in my ear... "You must eat more. You must eat more. You must eat more". Creepy...

So I gave in.

As I didn't buy any food for the night, my only resort was whatever I could find in my cupboard. Well, I wasn't doing too bad. I could at least come up with 4 dishes:
1. Spaghetti with tuna in cream sauce
2. Noodle in soup with corn
3. Baked beans and fried eggs
4. Oatmeal / porridge
And all fit in with my "one pot" policy !

And the winner was number 1, Spaghetti with tuna in cream sauce. Although number 4 would be a wiser choice given that I'm still recovering from flu and therefore should eat something more healthy. But me being me, I always opt for something irrational.

As usual, I improvise as I cooked and ended up with something slightly different than what I first imagined.

Here we go.

Ingredients:

• Spaghetti
• 1 Tin of tuna (soaked in oil)
• Whipping cream
• Chilli flakes
• Manchego cheese, cut into small pieces (yeah, just found that in the fridge)
• 1 Egg, beaten
• Xiaoxing wine (or any wine you have)

Method

1. Cook the spaghetti (or pasta of your choice) according to instruction on the package
2. Heat the pot, add oil (taken from the tin of tuna) and chilli flakes
3. Add the tuna, cook over low heat. Stir gently so the tuna don't stay as huge chunks
4. Add whipping cream
5. Add spaghetti when the sauce starts to bubble
6. Add manchego cheese. Stir to mix all ingredients well
7. Add Xiaoxing wine when the cheese are melted. Turn to high heat
8. Turn off heat when the wine is more or less evaporated
9. Stir in the egg
10. Serve

Again, no photos and can't even give correct quantities/measurements of the ingredients.

P.S. Was talking to a friend just this afternoon and we're wondering how come there are so many Italian restaurants in town. And maybe that's one of reasons I chose to cook something remotely Italian tonight?

My n-th monologue

Can't believe it's been a year. I've been a classic fool for a year.

I have to admit that there's been loads of good times. But mostly, I felt lost, lonely and sad.

The Chinese astrology said that last year was not really a good one for me. Turned out, the worst and best things happened to me was actually the same thing.

It's always hard to say goodbye. But I guess I have got to be the one doing it.

And I did. It didn't turn out the way I expected. I was angry but all the better. At least I did it and I saw the ugly side of it all.

It wasn't a clean cut though. I was weak...

But for some strange reasons, I felt better now. I think I'm ready now. To move on.

Take care of yourself.