Tomato stew with hamburg steaks/トマト煮込みハンバーグ recipe

Tonight's dinner

Menu

• Tomato stew with hamburg steaks
• Pumpkin soup
• Steamed egg with shiitake mushrooms
• White rice

Recipe for Tomato stew with hamburger steaks

Ingredients for the tomato stew

• Canned tomato sauce (I always use the one with herbs)
• Water 1 cup
• Veggies (1 potato,1 carrot, 1/2 onion)
• Japanese fruit and vegetable sauce 2 table spoons
• Konsome 1 cube
• Fresh cream 1/2
• Cheese 3 table spoons

Ingredients for the hamburg steaks

• Minced Veal 250g
• Bread crumbs 1/2 cup
• egg 1

Instructions

1. Cut the veggies into eatable sizes. heat up a pot with some butter (1 table spoon) and cook all the veggies.
   
2. Pour the water, canned tomato sauce, fruit and vegetable suace and konsome into the pot. Bring to the boil, take out scums. Close the lid, cook for about 10 mins so that veggies become soft.
   
3. Meanwhile, cook the hamburg steaks. Place all the ingredients for the hamburg steak in a bowl and mix them very very well. Then, make the round, flat hamburg steak shapes.
   
4. Heat up a pan and place the hamburg steaks. (no oil required for a non-stick pan but if you are using an ordinary pan, put some oil)
   
5. Once one side is cooked, flip them over. Hamburg steaks do not have to be fully cooked because we'll cook them in a stew later.
   
6. Once hamburg steaks got nice brown colours, place them into the pot with the soup.
   Cook for another 10 mins. just before you turn off the fire, pour the fresh cream and the cheese. Stir a bit. Serve while hot!

Food & Wine Festival & Disney Dreams Come True exhibition at ACMI

Food & Wine Festival at Federation Square

I had volunteer work at ACMI yesterday.

Because of the Food&Wine Festival at Federation Square, ACMI has got extra visitors

(ACMI is also located on Federation Square)

Many people came to ACMI wondering what ACMI was all about.

After work, as I came out from ACMI,

I saw 2 people playing drams

just outside of ACMI.

Cool!

ACMI is now having the Disney Dreams Come True exhibition

Dreams Come True Exhibition

Thursday 18 November 2010 - Tuesday 26 April 2011
Exhibition open daily 10am-6pm

Tickets

Adult $16, Concession $12, ACMI Members $11
Family (2 adults, 3 children) $50
Child (aged 4-15) $9
Unlimited entry: Full $40, Concession $30, ACMI Member $25

ACMI website

The exhibition is really good

It's worth checking it out

We are also showing some films (Disney's new film, Tangled is coming up in April).
We always have a free exhibition called "Screen Worlds" too.

I'm actually practicing giving tours at the moment.
I'll be soon giving tours at Screen Worlds!

Kimchi rice in soup recipe

Menu

• Kimchi rice in soup
• Tofu and chicken patties
• Pickles (radish&cucumber)
• seasoned spinach

My friend left some kimchi in my house

so I cooked kimchi rice in soup for lunch.

This is the chicken and tofu patties made by my bf .

yum!!

Recipe for Kimchi rice in soup



Ingredients

• kimchi 1 cup
• soya beans sprouts 1/2 package
• bacons 2 slices
• soya sauce 1 table spoon
• mirin 3 table spoons
• chicken powder 1 table spoon
• water 3 cup
• rice 2 cups
• egg1

Instructions

1. cut the bacons into eatable sizes, wash soya bean sprouts.
2. heat up a pot with some oil, cook the bacons and soya bean sprouts.
3. add the rest of the ingredients (except for the egg) to the pot.
4. Take out scums. just before you stop the fire, pour stired egg in to the pot. Stir gently.

Comic drawing and storytelling workshop

I went to Mr. Bernard Caleo's

"Comic drawing and storytelling workshop"

at City Library yesterday.

Mr. Bernard Caleo is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist.

He is an comic editor and performer as well.

It was a free event ran by the City of Melbourne.

I found out about this workshop

through an email from the international students organization.

They said in the email that

it's a free workshop but only lucky 30 students could attend.

The words

"free"

and "lucky 30 students"

grabed my attention.

I love drawing.

I am interested in learning the storytelling techniques using pictures.

So why not?

I quickly applied.

That's how I became one of those lucky 30 students.

The workshop was really fun

It wasn't just about how to draw pictures.

Rather, it was about how to tell a story using pictures.

You can tell a story sometimes without a word.

It was amazing to see how we could all tell a story

by just using 1 or 2 square boxes on a paper as well.

You know how most of the comics have pages and pages to tell a story?

But sometimes you don't need so many pages.

Just like Peanuts (Snoopy) comics,

4 square boxes on a single paper can be enough for you to tell a story.

I was happy to be the lucky 30

Easy and tasty iced coffee recipe

Easy and tasty series part2

Easy and tasty iced coffee recipe

I usually don't drink coffee because I don't like bitter drinks.

However, this one is really yummy

Ingredients

• A packet of latte


• Water 1/2 cup


• Milk 1/2 cup


• Vanilla ice cream 1 table spoon


• some Ice cubes

I used this Woolworths latte package↓

Instruction

put everything in a blender. Blend them for about 10 seconds.

Easy and tasty vegetable soup recipe

Haven't eaten many veggies lately

Why don't you try cooking some easy and tasty vegetable soup

Ingredients

• Sausages 4 ( the more sausages you put, the tastier the soup becomes)


• Bacons 2 pieces


• carrot1


• onion1


• Water 6-10 cups


• Buiyon (Japanese soup stock for western dishes)


• Salts and paper (some)
  

Instructions

1. Cut the sausages, bacons and veggies into eatable sizes.


2. Heat up a pot with some oil, stir fry everything.


3. Pour the water into the pot and cook with strong fire till the water boils


4. Add Buiyon and cook for 10 mins or so till veggies become soft.


5. Take out scum if you see any. Sprinkle salts and paper to finish off.

Longer you cook, tastier it becomes

Sardine egg rolls

Japanese style rolled eggs with the sardine

They are really really yummy!!

It's a good idea to make this egg rolls

on the next day you cooked Sardine with ginger and sweet sauce.

Ingredients

• Eggs 2


• Milk 3 table spoons


• Japanese soup stock 2 tea spoons


• Some sardine with ginger and sweet sauce

Instructions

1. Put eggs, milk and soup stock in a bowl, mix them well


2. heat up a non-stick pan with some oil, pour 1/3 of the mixed egg in, spread it evenly.


3. place some sardine on top of the spreaded egg, once the egg is cooked, roll it over, pour another 1/3 of the mixed egg in, place the sardine... repreat the same process.