chill prawns/ ebi chilli エビチリ

エビチリーーーーーＹＹＹ

I had chilli prawns for dinner last night.

I LOVE the combination of Prawns and chilli YY

yum yum...



Last night's dinner☆ was...


*ebi chilli don
*sea weed and egg soup (kakitama jiru).

I was too excited and forgot to take a picture with my complete dinner in it...
I only realized it after I had finished all my dinner!!

oh well...

Ebi chilli serves 2

***Prawns are expensive :(

But you don't need to buy a lot of prawns or expensive ones to cook ebi chilli!

All you need to do is to buy a BIG onion!

If you use a big onion, even with little amount of prawns, ebi chilli can serve 2 people.

And this chilli sauce + onion increase your appetite!
So, cook a lot of rice when you cook ebi chilli! ***

Ingredients
*10 prawns
*1 onion
*garlic 1 table spoon

*tomato ketchup 4 table spoons
*chicken soup stock 1 table spoon
*sake 2 table spoons
*chilli 1tea spoon
*corn starch (or corn flour) 1 tea spoon.

*sea weed (nori) to add on the top if you like.

Instructions
1. chop the onions into small pieces.
2. heat up a pan with some sesame oil and the garlic. cook the prawns.
3. Once the prawns are cooked, add the onions and the rest of the sauce ingredients. stir well.

giving opinions in tutorials

I don't know why but I always feel nervous to speak out in tutorials...

And even though I did the reading, people assume that I didn't when I don't talk in tutes.

I feel so upset when I spent hours and hours to do the readings but people think that I didn't do the readings at all...

I guess, one of the reasons why I feel so nervous to talk in tutes is that i have to speak in English...?

I guess I'm still not that confident in speaking in English in class, in front of many people.

While I don't mind giving presentations in front of many audience or participating in speech contests... it is a bit strange thing.

Anyway....

I'll try to speak at least one word in class from next week!!!

(I'm eating so much everyday due to the stress... hope I can stop eating like this soon too!!!)

semi-dried tomato and red capsicum pasta

Today's lunch Y
pasta with the semi-dried tomatoes I made yesterday:)

Ingredients
*pasta about 1/4 of the packet
*red capsicum 1/3

*semi-dried tomato 1 cup
*ham 3 slices
*garlic 1 table spoon

sauce ingredients
*soya sauce 2 table spoons
*balsamico vinegar 2 table spoons
*salt & papper 1/2 tea spoons
*basil 1 tea spoon
*oregano 1 tea spoon
*olive oil


Instructions
1. Cut the capsicum into small pieces. boil the pasta.
2. Heat up a pan with some olive oil+ garlic and cook the capsicum.
3. Add the pasta and all the sauce ingredients, stir well.
4. Add the ham and the semi-dried tomatoes.

Semi-dried tomatoes

I love semi-dried tomatoesYY

Ingredients

*tomatoes 3

*herbs 1 table spoon each
-oregano
-basil
-thyme
(you can use any herbs you like)
*olive oil 2 table spoons
*dried garlic 1 table spoon
*sugar 1 tea spoon

Instructions
1.cut the tomatoes into thin slices. place them on a tray covered by aluminium foil.
2. pour the rest of the ingredients on the tomatoes. heat up an oven to 180℃, cook them for 30 mins to 1 hour. (be careful not to burn the tomatoes).

Today's dinner & reading group

Today's dinner
*chinese cabbage&mushroom stir fry
*sea weed and egg soup (かき玉汁）
*white rice with flakes
*pickled plum Y I love pickled plumsssss
Vegetarian meal?!

I miss homeeeeeeeee...
and that's why today's dinner is very simple Japanese style.
I think it's always the food which reminds me of home.


***

I joined a "just for fun" reading group which my lecturer organized for students who want to read more and discuss more about media :)

I thought it might be a good idea to join because this is my final year in uni and i wanna learn more about media before I graduate from uni.
Also, since the lecturer said "it's for fun", the reading is not gonna be so challenging....

Yes, indeed, the reading was not that hard.
But then, it was very long.....
I'm quite stressed about the amount of the readings i have to do...

I just finished it though, i still have to read about 100 pages for my tutorials...

Oh well, that's what we all do in uni :(

chinese cabbage&mushroom stir fry/ 八宝菜とマッシュルームの炒め物

I used to live in a share house with 8 other girls.
That was my first experience of living in a share house in Australia
Each girl was from a different country and they cooked different meals.
But I remember a girl from Malaysia, she always cooked veggies only with salt.

I was very curious and asked her,
"Does it actually taste nice? veggies with just some salt?"
She said,
"Just try."

And I did.
I was suprized how tasty veggies can be just by adding salt!!
By not putting strong flavoured sauces, we can taste and enjoy the real flavours of veggies.
I hated vegetables & mushrooms before I came to Australia, but now I'm really friends with them :)

I love this dish YY

I cooked this last night and I LOVED IT so I cooked it again YY

Ingredients

*chinese cabbage (Choy sum/八宝菜) 2 bunches

*swiss brown mushrooms 100g

(You can use any types of mushrooms. I bought this swiss ones for the first time but they are really tasty!!!!)

*garlic 1 tea spoon

*sesame seeds(just because it is good for health) 1 tea spoon

*salt 1/2 tea spoon

Instructions

1. tear the veggie into the pieces you think is easier to eat. (You don't need to make them really tiny)

**tearing this type of veggie is better than cutting them because they can absorb the flavours this way. ***

2. cut the mushrooms into the pieces you think is easier to eat.

3. heat up a pan with some sesame oil, put the garlic and stir fry the veggie and mushrooms with the salt.

4. add the sesame seeds on the top if you like :)

Creamy tomato chicken + cheese lunch

Today's lunch

*creamy tomato chicken+ cheese rice

*fresh tomatoes

Rice + creamy tomato chicken+ cheese on the top!

and I just microwaved it for few minutes.

It's nicer if you use an oven and bake it, but I was too lazy :p

when you use an oven, try putting cheese in the rice too!

I love tomatoes Y

They are good for skin!

and they were only 98c /kg in safeway...

I bought a lot of tomatoes so that I can make semi-dried tomatoes!