| | I am currently marinating some salmon in the fridge with some pre-made White Herb and White Wine Mix I bought at Jewel. I'm going to steam the Salmon and some Edamame and might throw some Green Onions onto the Salmon right before I steam it. I might make some sort of Avocado Salad to go on top of that.
I am hungry.
In the last couple of months I have tried making for the first time:
- Lumpia (with shrimp and pork)
- Lumpia (with pork and potatoes)
- Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Pansit (with chicken, pork, and shrimp)/With the Pansit and Lumpia I started off with my mom's version, but I have now learned how to make my own version of Lumpia and Pansit.
- BACON!!!
- Fried Calamari (Added some Cilantro and Lemon)
- Salmon Avocado Maki
- Tuna Avocado Maki
- Cucumber Maki
- Avocado Maki
- Cucumber Avocado Maki
- A Bunch of Other Kinds of Maki
- Chee Chong Fun/Shrimp Fun Roll (the Noodles were pre-made)
- Fried Tilapia Fillets
- Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Avocado, Mushrooms, & Bacon
- Steak Quesdillas with Guacamole, Mushrooms, and Cheddar Cheese topped with Jalapeno Slices, Hot Salsa, and Sour Cream
- Sticky Rice
- Marinated pieces of Steak with Teriyaki Sauce, Sesame Oil, Soy Sauce, & Hoisin Sauce and Stir Fried it with Garlic, Onions, Mushrooms, Pho Noodles, Shrimp, Chinese Pork Sausage, and added Chili Paste, Cilantro, Green Onions, Radish, Sesame Seeds and a little bit of Lime, ended it off eating it with Sriracha Hot Sauce
- My mom's Cheesy Potatoes
- Omelettes with Cheddar Cheese, Mushrooms, Cherry Tomatoes, Avocados, and Spinach (topped with Hot Sauce)
- Apple Pie (Which was delicious, but I screwed up the Pie Dough on top, so the Pie was topless!)
Other experiments I am curious to try:
- Cherry Rhubarb Pie
- Trying to have roll my Maki's with the Rice on the outside/Seaweed on the inside and rolling the outside of the roll in some Sesame Seeds
- Frying an entire Tilapia
- Learning to Gut, Scale, and Clean an entire Fish
- Lechon Kawali
- Crispy Pata
- Seaweed Salad with Tofu
- Creating some sort of Avocado Spinach Salad with Bits of Steak and Crumbled Blue Cheese adding some sort of Nuts in there
- Hamburger Patties
- Learning how to make Chee Chong Fun/Shrimp Fun Roll Noodles entirely from scratch.
I am in LOVE with:
- Starting off cooking with Garlic and Onions
- Orange Soda
- Throwing in Baby Bok Choy, Cilantro, and/or Green Onions at the end of cooking something
- Discovering the Round Bottom Wok I've kept in the bottom kitchen cabinets for years
- Rolling Makis
- Eating Sliced Mangos (the way my father sliced them) with Bagoong (Shrimp Paste)
- Orange Slices
- Goat Cheese
- Boiled Eggs with a little bit of Salt
- Haagen Daz's Extra Rich Light Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
- Aida's (from work) Coffee first thing in the morning
- Eating Cheeseburgers with James and talking about BACON!!!
- Steaming Okra, Edamame, and other Vegetables, and pre-made Pork Dumplings with Sriracha Hot Sauce
- Bing Cherries (which I keep snacking on Kristy's cherries that she bought the other day.)
- Harvest Time, Joongboo Market/Chicago Food Corporation, the Asian grocery stores along Argyle and Broadway, near Lawrence
- My LINKS card that ends at the end of August
- Hiromi's Restaurant
- Listening to my iTunes on shuffle as I cook, especially when I am rolling Lumpia
I need to:
- Experiment more with the wok
- Buy one of those special wok spoons
- Buy a sushi cutting knife
- Get rid of the vegetable oil that I used for the Lumpia the other night
- Eat at a Brazilian Steakhouse, eat Chicken Wings at Chicago Joe's, eat at Tank one last time, eat at Kuma's, shop at a Farmer's Market before I move out of Chicago at the end of August. Actually I should probably start creating a TO DO ONE MORE TIME or TO TRY BEFORE I LEAVE list in the next couple of days.
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