Hey folks,
does this font look huge to anyone else? I will see about making some adjustments.
This seems better, but maybe it will be too tiny when I actually make the post.
This is a short entry to say "dang I haven't written in ages." I will tell you some things that I've been busy with:
1. working. I do this a lot, but it had been quite slow and empty since the beginning of April, but now things have started to pick up and I have quite a few things to take care of, and thus I have less time for frivolous activities such as blogging.
2. partying. Last weekend we had our flatwarming! finally... we've all lived there since January, but hey, we're a bit lazy with planning. It was a really good time and it was fabulous seeing my school friends all at the same time again. The next night I made some awesome beer-battered fries (with some unopened beer people had left) and aioli, of which I took pictures and originally intended to blog about. I might still, since I've got an entry partially written. WOULD HATE TO WASTE IT.
3. being boring. When I get home, I eat dinner, watch TV or play Wii with Eric, and then go to bed. That is all. Being so terribly boring is exhausting.
4. being sick. I have felt like I'm coming down with a cold for the past few days. I've been staving it off with eating good food, taking my vitamins, and sucking down lots of glutamine. I guess it's working enough to keep me at the "I'm only a little bit sick" stage instead of allowing it to progress to a fullblown bodybattle against sickliness. Hopefully it ends soon though!
5. sucking at dieting. I'd been doing quite good, and feeling great, about my alternate day diet-- but it was sort of thrown off by the party, at which I drank too much, so that was too many calories for one day, and the next day I had to eat to help my body recover, and then since I've been feeling sick I have been eating regularly because Eric says I have to or else I'll get sicker. I am pretty disappointed that I have not been sticking to my diet, but once my sick feelings go away I intend to start all over again.
And that is it I guess!
FOR NOW.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
I can make Mexican food
Hello!
Happy birthday Mom, I hope it was super fab.
yesterday was a really good day at work. I did stuff, did a good job doing that stuff, and had fun doing it.
this is a picture of my editor, Paul:
and this is a picture of me pretending to be an editor:
after work I came home and me and Eric started putting together our fabulous Mexican feast.
I had soaked some pinto and kidney beans overnight, which were then ready to be crushed and shaped into refried beans. I used a potato masher to smoosh the beans halfway in the pot they'd soaked in while I heated up the skillet.
I used onions from the roast we'd made earlier in the week, and some pre-minced garlic mush, and sauteed them in butter for a minute or so before adding the beans in slowly and further destroying their natural form with help from a wooden spoon. I also added heaps of salt. I thought it was too much salt maybe, but it was not. Once they were all done and cooked, I added some water to give them a nicer texture.
nom nom nom.
I also made some flour tortillas. They turned out absolutely fantastic... and definitely easy enough that I would make again.
Flour Tortilla Recipe
I used the recipe for "Chewy Flour Tortillas" and followed it almost exactly, although I only sat the dough for 10 minutes and then 15 minutes, because I was really really hungry. It did make 8 tortillas, but two of them are a bit runty. So I'd go for maybe 6 tortillas instead of the 8 that the recipe recommends.
Cooking them was easy... once the skillet heated up, it was probably less than 30 seconds per side before they were quite nicely browned.
Eric cut the tomatoes and made the margaritas... I don't think I took any pictures of the frozen margaritas though. We had been using pre-mixed margarita stuff but recently we bought lime cordial and triple sec and it's muuuuch better than the pre-mixed stuff.
you can also see my cute little macbook in the background! I love you, macbook.
The plan was to make burritos, so along with what I've already mentioned we also had rice (I cooked it in chicken stock and some burrito seasoning, and then added corn later... it was pretty bland though so I'd spice it up next time or skip it altogether), lettuce, sour cream, chicken (from the leftover roast... I warmed it up in a dry skillet and added heaps of burrito seasoning, was very yum), and... I think that's it.
This is a picture of the feast laid before us:
you can even see our margaritas in our fabulous margarita glasses. Wholesale restaurant supply stores are awesome.
There are HEAPS of leftovers, too, which helps make the effort of home-cookin' worthwhile. It will do Eric's lunch today, me and Eric's lunch tomorrow, and probably our dinner tomorrow as well. I can't have any today because it's my on day.
Strangely, although I've been talking a lot about food I hadn't even thought about eating any or being hungry. I'm already doing a good job I guess.
Anyway the mexican was delicious and it was really fun to cook with my boyf.
You guys should definitely have a go at making homemade tortillas and refried beans... but use beans from the bulk bin instead of canned beans, they are much better for you and if you use the water from boiling them to smooth out the texture in the end, you get even more nutrients... which I didn't get to do because I just drained out all the water, but oh well. Next time! And there shall definitely be a next time.
The only downside is that we used about 50 craptons of dishes. This isn't surprising, since every time I remember having Mexican, we've always had tons of dishes... but I should have taken a picture of these because seriously, I don't even know how we used that many dishes. It's amazing.
Overall rating:
Happy birthday Mom, I hope it was super fab.
yesterday was a really good day at work. I did stuff, did a good job doing that stuff, and had fun doing it.
this is a picture of my editor, Paul:
and this is a picture of me pretending to be an editor:
after work I came home and me and Eric started putting together our fabulous Mexican feast.
I had soaked some pinto and kidney beans overnight, which were then ready to be crushed and shaped into refried beans. I used a potato masher to smoosh the beans halfway in the pot they'd soaked in while I heated up the skillet.
I used onions from the roast we'd made earlier in the week, and some pre-minced garlic mush, and sauteed them in butter for a minute or so before adding the beans in slowly and further destroying their natural form with help from a wooden spoon. I also added heaps of salt. I thought it was too much salt maybe, but it was not. Once they were all done and cooked, I added some water to give them a nicer texture.
nom nom nom.
I also made some flour tortillas. They turned out absolutely fantastic... and definitely easy enough that I would make again.
Flour Tortilla Recipe
I used the recipe for "Chewy Flour Tortillas" and followed it almost exactly, although I only sat the dough for 10 minutes and then 15 minutes, because I was really really hungry. It did make 8 tortillas, but two of them are a bit runty. So I'd go for maybe 6 tortillas instead of the 8 that the recipe recommends.
Cooking them was easy... once the skillet heated up, it was probably less than 30 seconds per side before they were quite nicely browned.
Eric cut the tomatoes and made the margaritas... I don't think I took any pictures of the frozen margaritas though. We had been using pre-mixed margarita stuff but recently we bought lime cordial and triple sec and it's muuuuch better than the pre-mixed stuff.
you can also see my cute little macbook in the background! I love you, macbook.
The plan was to make burritos, so along with what I've already mentioned we also had rice (I cooked it in chicken stock and some burrito seasoning, and then added corn later... it was pretty bland though so I'd spice it up next time or skip it altogether), lettuce, sour cream, chicken (from the leftover roast... I warmed it up in a dry skillet and added heaps of burrito seasoning, was very yum), and... I think that's it.
This is a picture of the feast laid before us:
you can even see our margaritas in our fabulous margarita glasses. Wholesale restaurant supply stores are awesome.
There are HEAPS of leftovers, too, which helps make the effort of home-cookin' worthwhile. It will do Eric's lunch today, me and Eric's lunch tomorrow, and probably our dinner tomorrow as well. I can't have any today because it's my on day.
Strangely, although I've been talking a lot about food I hadn't even thought about eating any or being hungry. I'm already doing a good job I guess.
Anyway the mexican was delicious and it was really fun to cook with my boyf.
You guys should definitely have a go at making homemade tortillas and refried beans... but use beans from the bulk bin instead of canned beans, they are much better for you and if you use the water from boiling them to smooth out the texture in the end, you get even more nutrients... which I didn't get to do because I just drained out all the water, but oh well. Next time! And there shall definitely be a next time.
The only downside is that we used about 50 craptons of dishes. This isn't surprising, since every time I remember having Mexican, we've always had tons of dishes... but I should have taken a picture of these because seriously, I don't even know how we used that many dishes. It's amazing.
Overall rating:
Monday, April 5, 2010
I've got an imdb page!
yaaaaayyyyy! I'm really a person who does movie stuff now I guess. The TV movie I'm working on doesn't have an imdb page yet, but maybe it will someday I hope!
my imdb page!
I haven't added a photo or anything to it yet, but I certainly plan to. I was thinking maybe taking a photo of myself on a faux red carpet type thing, get pretty fancy and awesome as if I'm truly a part of the scene. :D
Right now I'm at work! So it's possible that I shouldn't be blogging, but also: Paul says there isn't anything for me to do right now. I will probably play around in Avid once I've done writing this blog, because Paul gave me some advice on music video editing and I want to play around with it. We have some cool songs on the server that we've used as temp music until the composer sends us some real stuff, so I might as well enjoy myself. I'd much rather be editing than be at home now anyway -- Eric is at school and the only thing for me at home is dishes and laundry. NO THANKS MISTER.
Today is my on day, so I had an orange for breakfast and for food at work I brought along: one yellow capsicum, one tomato, and two hard boiled eggs. All of those things together equal ~295 calories, which is hardly anything for as much food as I intend to eat. EXCITING. For dinner I will probably have broth and something that is around 150 calories, but I do not yet know what that is.
Tonight I am going to soak some pinto and red kidney beans so that tomorrow they will be ready to make into refried beans... I am also going to make homemade flour tortillas and then some sort of chicken and corn filling so we can have awesome burritos. So basically: you can expect a cooking post tomorrow, which should have lots of pictures and maybe be interesting, or at least make you hungry.
Okay, that is all for now! I am going to edit some music video stuff I guess.
my imdb page!
I haven't added a photo or anything to it yet, but I certainly plan to. I was thinking maybe taking a photo of myself on a faux red carpet type thing, get pretty fancy and awesome as if I'm truly a part of the scene. :D
Right now I'm at work! So it's possible that I shouldn't be blogging, but also: Paul says there isn't anything for me to do right now. I will probably play around in Avid once I've done writing this blog, because Paul gave me some advice on music video editing and I want to play around with it. We have some cool songs on the server that we've used as temp music until the composer sends us some real stuff, so I might as well enjoy myself. I'd much rather be editing than be at home now anyway -- Eric is at school and the only thing for me at home is dishes and laundry. NO THANKS MISTER.
Today is my on day, so I had an orange for breakfast and for food at work I brought along: one yellow capsicum, one tomato, and two hard boiled eggs. All of those things together equal ~295 calories, which is hardly anything for as much food as I intend to eat. EXCITING. For dinner I will probably have broth and something that is around 150 calories, but I do not yet know what that is.
Tonight I am going to soak some pinto and red kidney beans so that tomorrow they will be ready to make into refried beans... I am also going to make homemade flour tortillas and then some sort of chicken and corn filling so we can have awesome burritos. So basically: you can expect a cooking post tomorrow, which should have lots of pictures and maybe be interesting, or at least make you hungry.
Okay, that is all for now! I am going to edit some music video stuff I guess.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
guess what
I'm making a blog and I suspect it will be awesome. I want to do an awesome blog-a-day like you, Shannon, but that isn't going to happen so hopefully this will be at least a blog-a-week thing.
in addition to random blatherings about my unimportant life events and my opinions on things, I want to use this space to track my progress as I have just begun a new lifestyle change-- I'm (rigidly) following the alternate day diet, for two months at least. If I feel good and lose weight, then I'll stick to it rigidly until I'm at my goal weight (68 kgs) and then I'll stick to it more casually for the rest of my life. If it sucks and does nothing and I feel crap, then... I'll do something else I guess.
Anyway if you aren't familiar with the alternate day diet, it's basically this: one day you eat what you want and however much of it you want (the up or off day) and the next day you restrict your calorie intake (the down or on day). link to a better description
I've just barely started, so I'm interested in seeing when I start seeing results. I haven't been exercising as much as I used to, but I intend to get back into it once my work contract has run out and I'm back to being a barely-occupied bum.
Alternate Day Diet Week 1:
Start: Sunday, April 4/4/10.
Weight: 100.9 kgs
Other than that, I've begun to fancy myself some sort of a chef. I roast chickens regularly, I made an awesome pie crust that I used for an awesome chicken pot pie, some sweet mexican dishes, chai tea cupcakes, fa
ntastic plum crumbles, and banana cake. Everything except the banana cake has been awesome. I have some pictures of a few of my creations, and when I do cook stuff I am going to post pictures here, as well as some guidelines. I don't use recipes for stuff that isn't cooked in the oven, mainly because I can't be bothered and I like to think that I know what I'm doing. I'm gutted that plums are out of season though... man they are a fantastic fruit.So yes. This is my massively boring introductory post. But pretty much all of you are family, so I hope that maybe you'll come back anyway.
<3
PS I put all of those photos in because I care.
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