Laphet Thote

I went over to my friend Su's place one day and she made me some Lahpet Thote! (pickled tea salad)
Lahpet is fermented tea leaves, and a national delicacy from Burma. I fell in love with it soo much that she got me the special ingredients to this delicious salad.

sesame seeds, peanuts, and other fried crunchy goods

slice fresh tomato, fresh garlic, and chili

ok, these aren't fresh limes! but the store is so far away!

eat with rice. and i'm gonna have tons of water.

Playlist:

Mocca!

Leftover Naan

Sometimes that leftover naan bread can become stale. So whaddya do about it? DEEP FRY IT!

plain naan and garlic naan 

sprinkle a bit of salt

dip in leftover butter chicken. mmm!

Playlist:

Jan Pehchan Ho

Shrimp Cream Cheese Deep Fried Gyozas

Oh boy, this recipe is so simple and SO Delicious and can be varied in so many ways. You can even make heaps of these and store it in the freezer. They would make awesome holiday gifts. Frozen ready to fry appetizers to serve at your holiday shin-digs. I'm already thinking about the holidays because i needed something to fill the void of Halloween, and because i had a peppermint mocha latte from starbucks.

This is my first attempt at making these bad boys.

All you need are these ingredients three plus oil for deep frying:

1. Cream Cheese

2. Shrimp, or prawn... or anything else.

3. Wonton Wrapper

You can buy these wonton wrappers in the fridge section. I got this from T&T Supermarket.

Double Happiness! :Dx2

I chopped up the peeled shrimps to make more gyozas. Wet the edges of the wrap with water

I had extra wrappers so i mixed some jalapeno and cream cheese together with some imitation lobster. Also made lobster with avocado. You can do just about anything with this. Meat would be soo good.

Make tons of these and just freeze on a cookie sheet before placing them in a ziplock bag to prevent sticking. Now you have a bunch of these for whenever you want it.

wrapped one like a wonton. cream cheese almost exploded!

goes well with this sauce!

Playlist:

Wikked Lil Grrls by Esthero
Electricity Drive by Alphawezen
Djs Sublime Cover by No Doubt
A Real Hero by College feat. Electric Youth
All songs from the radio in The Sims Social

Miniature Cantaloup

This thing is small. Got it from Nesters Market. I could be fooling you. I could just have a mega-ipod.

Playlist: ?

Thai Green Curry

Summa the stuff you'd need:

1 can of coconut milk 

half a pack of that curry paste

basil

thai chili

fish sauce

brown sugar

meat (chicken, basa fish is good too, beef)

veggie - i like green bell pepper, eggplant, and sometimes mushroom or zuchinni

onions and garlic are optional. 

You can buy this packet from Chinatown at Sunrise market for like 79cents. They have red and yellow as well. they carry it at other stores too. Check your local Asian grocers.

Heat up a wok with some oil, throw in the paste, throw in the meat, throw in the coconut milk. Then once meat is cooked, throw in the veggies, and cook for a bit. Season with fish sauce. Just follow whatever it says on the packet. I'm so lazy right now. This post was basically made so i can show off my new cleaver and knife magnet.

Garnish with Chili and Basil.

Playlist: MTV SOUTHEAST ASIA

Get off my lawn and marry my daughter!

It's a Doilie kind of Day!

Yesterday was such a cranky moody day. This morning i decided not to waste today like i did the previous day. Today was going to be a lovely day. Been listening to upbeat music to get in a cheery mood! Went for lunch with my sister Diane, and on the walk ran into this:

A beautiful doilie chillin' out max with a dandelion! I left the doilie there cuz that's where it was meant to be. It really is a beautiful life though isn't it!

Here are some songs and videos that make me feel happy!

Something Else by Diamond Rings. This song is so cute. I didn't care for it at first, but now i'm so into it.

I love this song Here Comes Your Man by the pixies, but i also love Joseph Gordon Levitt's version in the movie 500 Days of Summer. this song is "about winos and hobos traveling on the trains, who die in the California Earthquake"

I'm also really hopped up on lavender oil and osmanthus oil.

Syringe Jello 'Shots'

Syringe jello shots for my trash rock themed birthday party last weekend. I don't remember much of it. I think that means it was a blast.

I like these Knorr pack over Jello cuz they tend to have more of an exotic flavour. but jello is fine too. I did Pineapple with the Malibu, and Honeydew with Stoli Blueberry.

You can get syringes w/o needles at any pharmacy for around 30cents a pop. these were 10ml ones.

 For each packet of jello, use one cup of boiling water and one cup of liquor. I watered it down with more liquor cuz i was worried the jello might be too hard, and i like my drinks strong.

 I only bought 40 syringes, so i had leftover jello for normal shots.

carole taking a jello shot

Playlist:

Worked Up So Sexual by The Faint
Black Tongue by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fuck'n'Spend by N.E.R.D.
Sex n' Drugs n' Rock n' Roll by Ian Drury and the Blockheads

Creme Brulee Recipe sooo easy!

I love creme brulee so much. So much that one year, the girls at my old work got me a blow torch for my birthday. I love trying it at restaurants that offer it. So far the best iv'e ever had was at Sweet Revenge, and that's pretty much the best one aside from mine. Yeah, this recipe is all that and a bag of crisps!!! But i already knew that.








You will need:

• 8 egg yolks (you can keep the whites in the freezer for future use)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• vanilla bean
• 2 1/2 cup heavy cream (i use whipping cream)
• blow torch (there are other ways to do this w/o torch, but its not FUN, so i will not tell u)
• ramekins, or if you're cool like me, random dishes. i got these from daiso! the small ones make for great portion control.
• baking pan
• 10cups of FUN!

heat cream split vanilla bean til almost boiling. turn off heat. let sit for 15 minutes to infuse the vanilla bean.

scrape pods with knife along edge of pot, and mix with the cream. discard pod.

meanwhile, mix yolks with sugar

 assemble dishes in baking pan

slowly stir cream into egg mixturse. pour mixture back into pot through a strainer and divide into dishes

 fill baking pan with warm water till almost but not too much to the top of the dish

throw into 350 degree oven for about 25minutes or until knife comes out clean. you know what i mean?

let cool. then keep in fridge for at least 2 hours. it tastes best a day after. even better the next next day!

throw some sugar on top and torch the hell out of it.

There are many things you can do with this recipe. Add cubes of pear or raspberries on the bottom. Mix with cocoa powder and chili. Lavender. Bacon.

Playlist: La Foule by Edith Piaf