Low Carbo Diet

I'm practicing on carbonara now. Again I searched the web to source out good recipes. I wanted a recipe with little ingredients so that it's simple.


And I did find it. Turns out that in the original Roman carbonara recipe had no cream, no mushrooms and made with spaghetti. Great! I did not have cream which makes this recipe ideal for me. All it needed was, spaghetti, Parmesan cheese, pancetta and eggs. The egg mix would become like cream sauce for the dish.

I also did not have pancetta so I replaced it with bacon. I bought linguine instead. Kinda preferred that to spaghetti.

I've tried this many times. First time, my egg mix became tiny curdles of egg, the linguine was a little hard and the taste was not really there. Was disappointed but I wanted to do better. My most recent try (probably 5th or 6th), I made sure the pan was not hot so as to not cook the egg so quickly and it did. Looks the nicest compared to the previous batches. But there are things still lacking. The egg mix does not have enough taste, the noodles can be a little softer. And maybe not burnt bacon.

I will try it again until it's good to be sold outside! Hehe.

I Scrambled Everywhere for Scrambled Eggs

Long time long time.


For the past month, my office mates have been watching Hell's Kitchen. It was really interesting to see the contestants getting scolded for their mistakes. But I think as the one scolding, it's not fun at all. As an instructor, if I see my cadets commission without the right standards and values, I would feel like I have failed. Likewise for parents I'm sure.

Okay, better not divert too far. Anyway, Hell's Kitchen has inspired me to cook! So I thought of recipes to cook. I decided to go for easy recipes and came up with scrambled eggs.

The internet is good and bad. You get a lot of results, and that many state their scrambled eggs are the "perfect", or "ultimate", or "traditional", or "Mummy's" scrambled eggs. I searched for the one which required the least ingredients so that if I were to cook it at someone's house, I could produce the same results and standards. :)

And after experimenting for the very first time! I got THIS!

It was soo good! Never made eggs with such texture in my life. I believe it's what the recipe said that other recipes did not have. What's that you ask? I shall not state it here. Hehehe.

I'm going to tackle more recipes. Next one I'm going after is Carbonara. :D

Awesomeness at 10 Baht!

The first time I went Thailand as a cadet, I had this amazing dessert after lunch at K-Town. Her stall was just a push-cart.


6 months later, I went back to the same place for lunch at K-Town and saw her again after the meal! She was selling the same amazing coconut ice cream!

She would take 2 scoops into the cup, followed by 2 scoops of sticky rice (the one you eat with the mango dessert at ThaiExpress) and then 4 more scoops of coconut ice cream. Drizzle the top with a spoonfull of roasted peanuts and evaporated milk and voila!
Ahh~

Just 10 baht! Awesomeness! :D

Mission Accomplished!

Finally, I have managed to update every single song in my iPod with its respective album art!


Right now, my iPod looks like this.


Take a look at the most left cover art, that is one of Air's albums, Pocket Symphony. Just a random observation. :)

All I can say is Yay!

My New Mission

It's been more than a month! I've always been telling myself to update and update but I always don't do it.


I am currently on a mission.

My mission is: To put good quality and well done up album cover art on every song in my iPod.

It's a very tedious thing to do and people keep saying "so free ah?" to me. Why I am doing this is because my laptop has revived! I bought a 120GB IDE hard disk from my friend. Since now I have more space, why not include the album art? It gives me a sense of satisfaction when I browse through the Cover Flow filled with many pictures. It allows me to fake that all my songs were bought too! I also get to know more about the band when I look for the pictures.

Rare!


Scary looking!


Nice.

I really like the last album cover art by Audio Adrenaline. It's the nicest among all their album covers. Once I'm done with my iPod, it's on to the 9k+ songs that Mark sent me. How long do you think it is going to take!?!