Victory for You and Me

My Olympic night ends very well.

Baking in the Sun

Today was such a nice sunny day. Perfect for sleeping in until noon (which I did). The Olympics started so I spent my day at home, catching some snowboarding, and then deciding to cook lasagna. It was a mess to make because my mom came home and said to me, "What happened to my kitchen?!" Hehe... well...

Cheers for Healthy Eating!

Fresh grilled salmon and veggies
After stocking up from Costco, I felt my cooking abilities overflow. I just had to do something with the huge piece of salmon I had purchased. The entire dish was made using the George Foreman grill. It's the best invention ever!

Ingredients
Salmon (it was probably the size of my palm, 1/2 inch thick)
Broccoli (about 4 or 5 florets)
Button Mushroom (1 big one)
Red Onion (1/2 inch slice)
Salt
Pepper
Monterey Steak Seasoning
Olive Oil

1. Take your salmon filet and season it with the monterey steak seasoning, cover with plastic and let it sit in the fridge for 20 minutes.

2. Brush the onion, broccoli, and mushroom with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Start grilling it on the Foreman grill for about 5 minutes.

3. Plate your vegetables. Take out the salmon and start grilling on the high heat for 7 minutes to get a nice crust, unplug the grill, and let the heat cook the fish for another 10 minutes.

Voila! A healthy meal.

San Francisco My Heart

I love how the vines look like a star waterfall down the tree trunk.

















Again the vines down the trees are beautiful. The greens in the original picture was just as vibrant, but I had to lighten up the background.












Golden Gate Bridge. I must add that the Golden Gate Bakery in Chinatown is out of this world.
















Good night, good night

Mistakenly Delcious!

For the past two months, my mom's been extremely busy with work, so my sister and I don't get our usual after school snacks anymore =[. Today I made my usual pasta with basic ingredients. Like fried rice, you would throw in old rice and whatever you have lying around. For this pasta, I did the same thing. Nothing fancy, but I did mess up on the meat. While I was defrosted the chunk of ground beef, I forgot about it in the microwave and it was almost well done and tough -_-. That meant that I could not season it well. However in the end, I managed to throw in all sorts of spices and it came out more than decent due to the pasta. My linguine was AL DENTE to the boot! It was the perfect texture.



Recipe:
Barilla Linguine (I would say 1/4 of the box)
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp salt
3 or 4 cloves of garlic
1 quarter red onion
4 LARGE white button mushrooms (after it had cooked, I could find the mushrooms anywhere! They shrink so much)
1/4 cup Italian bread crumbs
1 1/3 cup Vodka sauce
1/2 lbs ground beef

Begin by boiling your water and while the water is heating, dice the onion, chop the garlic, slice mushrooms, and set aside. Get another saute pan and add olive oil on medium-high heat. When it's hot enough, add onion and garlic, and cook enough so that onion is translucent and garlic is fragrant but not brown. Add beef and bread crumbs. Cook until beef is 60% done and add mushrooms.

By this time the water must be boiling (hopefully). Add about 1 tbs of salt to the water and add the pasta. This should take about 10 minutes. While the pasta is cooking, add in the vodka sauce in the saute pan, and let it simmer with the beef and mushroom mix on low-medium heat. Once the pasta is al dente, add it to the saute pan and combine it with the sauce until each strand is coated. If the sauce is too thick, add a little bit of pasta water.

Finally

If I were as freespirited as I think I am, this is what I'd do all day; eat, drink, travel, and take pictures of me doing it. This is only the first step.