SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER EDITION: Home-made Chocolate Bars and Chocolate Animals.

Hi guys!

My name is Greggors Thompson.  I am a male homemaker, a food buff, and a friend of Bella's.  I have a GREAT recipe to show you today.  These are home-made chocolate bars and mini chocolate animals for the kids, and adults who are kids inside, LIKE ME!

Here's what you're gonna need:


1.) Chocolate (I used Baker's chocolate, I would suggest another kind though.  You can figure it out.)
2.) Apricots
3.) Nuts
4.) Vanilla
5.) Brown sugar
6.) 6-pack of beer
7.) An inter-racial couple that will give you a chocolate making kit as a present.

This is what the kit looks like.

Ok, first things first: drink three of the beers in order to get into the mood to cook.

Chop up the apricots and nuts.

They'll look like this if you chop them up.

Next, heat a pot of bowling water and put a metal bowl overtop with the chocolate in it and melt it.  It takes a bit of time so drink another one of the beers while you stir.

Pour in a bit of the vanilla.  Just a blurp.

Add some brown sugar because if you're like me, NOTHING is ever sweet enough.  Drink one more beer and pour the last beer into two cups, one big and one large.

Drink the large beer and pour a bit from the small beer into the chocolate.  Drink the remainder of the small beer.

Pour the chocolate into the mold.  I started with the chocolate bar mold so you should too.

It will look like this if you don't do it wrong.

Next, I poured the chocolate into the animal molds and put the nuts and apricot in.  It should look messy and rushed.

Your work station should also look messy and rushed.

Put the molds into the fridge and after an hour or two, take them out and remove the chocolates from the mold.

I like to leave the edges rough and unattractive.  If I were you I would change the recipe though.  It actually doesn't work very well and doesn't taste good.

PLAYLIST:
"Young Turks" by Rod Stewart.
"Whatta man" by Salt n Peppa.
That song about buying shoes by Nelly.

DIY Sushi Candy

This candy is so much fun! I didn't make the photos as nice and thorough as i'd like because i was soo into it. I found it at Candyland in Crystal Mall. When i checked the Candyland at Aberdeen, they were sold out. 

making sushi 'rice'

got so excited i ended up spilling the red all over lol!

These were my favourite part! They look like the real thing and taste delicious.

This was a lot of fun. It all tasted pretty inoffensive. Like muscat. Actually the flavor reminded me of Aloe Vera juice. The rice part had a funny texture.

Good stuff, and most importantly FUN!

Playlist:
FYI (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) by Utada Hikaru

Lychee Pocky Review

They were alright.

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