Cherry tomatoes and stringy pasta are my favourite quick dinner standby. While cooking up whatever dried pasta you have in, heat up a small amount of olive oil in a pan, add the toms, brown them, allowing some of them to burst, and mix in the pasta. Enjoy this highly unhealthy meal with a glass […]
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chrysanthemum tea
I love chrysanthemum tea, but I don’t like the kind that comes in sachets. My main gripe with them is that they’re usually too sugary. So when I saw bags of flowers in a Chinese herb shop in Monterey Park, I just could not resist. To make this cup of tea, I packed the inner […]
dim sum
A lor mai bao from NBC Seafood in Monterey Park, LA, a speciality of the restaurant. Lor mai (eight-treasure glutinous rice) is usually wrapped in leaves and steamed. This version has it wrapped in dumpling skin, which changes the eating experience from attempts at picking up lumps of sticky rice and rushing it to the […]
Resistant virus prompts concern over second line of defence
From Nature (news): Researchers call for more bird flu drugs. While I’m not 100% convinced the threat of a mosaic/mutant virus will emerge this time, there is one thing that is bugging me about the situation arising in Europe. In response, countries are stocking up on Tamiflu, the main anti-viral medicine recommended by the World […]
iMac
OMG! I want!
Edinburgh City flip-flops
From BBC news: Longer parking to help city shops. Ha! I see falling revenues have pushed the Council to review their draconian parking limits in Edinburgh’s city centre. We don’t normally drive to the shops, seeing as we live but a 20 minute walk away from the West End. But even when we do want […]
buffalo steak on udon
A rare chance to cook and eat in one evening. A nice thick buffalo steak, briefly fried on each side, served on a bed of udon (thick Japanese noodles) and steamed veggies.
baked figs
Bought some figs. Realised I don’t particularly like figs raw. So I baked them in some honey. Decided it needed something extra, so sat them on some creme fraiche. Looks kinda disgusting, but tastes pretty good. Would have been better on plain ol’ cream or with a dollop of ice cream.
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 