Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Turkish Food

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Hello Everyone!

Just came back from a dinner with former coursemates. Most of us are going elsewhere soon, so it's like a farewell dinner.

A friend of mine asked me to take some photos of Turkish food, so here they are =)


This is what I ordered.. but I can't remember the name!


This is their mixed.. kebab dish

This is delicious

They used some other restaurant's tissue... note the address

Most of the dishes use lamb.. but they are all pretty delicious. The spices they put, or the way they marinated the meat made it smell good. The stew is also quite delicious... all the aroma of both the spices and lamb are quite balanced.

I've finally finished going through my photos, and I'm about to post the first part of my journey in the next post and on facebook. I think I won't post it on friendster.. too much work. I'll just simply select a few out of 1.9 gig of photos.. but there's so many to choose from!


I'm Back!

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Hello people!

Sorry for the overdue update again. Well, although I should have lots of free time after the examinations, there were still quite a bit of things to take care off. Things like my new accommodation in Reading, my parent's trip here, my work permit/visa, cleaning the house, etc etc. These little things keep gnawing at the back of my mind so I couldn't really no think about anything and just relax. Heck, I haven't bought the bus tickets to and from London and book a place in Lake District. ARGH screw that lar.. I shall do that tomorrow night.

Anyhow, enough of stories about the boring stuff which I have to do. Let me take my mind of all that. I shall start with this picture below. Yes, it's a picture of a crabs pincers! CRABS! One of my favorite food. Although it was a bit tough (overcooked, I think), but it still smelt very good. YUMMY. Courtesy of Yee Huai.


Next up, this little building hidden somewhere near Hicks building, is the venue for my last paper, biomechanics. YES, this is waaay overdue, but better late then never. =)

This, is the picture of the brunch we had in Wong Ting. DIM SUM! Right after the final paper. Finally, some proper food! (Samuel, you might wanna skip this post altogether, if it is really making you fat T__T)

Dunno what this is, but tastes good with vinegar!
Forgot something pao. Look! So shiny!
Clouds.
Yvonne and HER friend (sorry mate, forgot your name ahha). They went to Ibiza, Spain for a four day trip. *Envy
Bright light :)
Cloudy, dark day
View from Yein Shiang's new place. Groovy!
More pictures of the sky =)
Flat flowers. LOL!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a picture of KAYA! Yes, kaya in Sheffield. Yee Huai's friend brought it over from Singapore. Although it isn't the best I've ever had, but it's been such a while since I last had some I can't help but to snap a picture. (yea yea... the blogger syndrome has set in. )
KAYA
On Thursday night, I went to Dan's place to have a dinner with all the ex-committee. It was a vegetarian meal, but it was quite a unique experience to me. He made up some of the recipes (inspired by a dream he claimed!) and others were.. Mediterranean-ish. Unfortunately, I had a bit of red wine before the meal and due to my poor tolerance, I felt like puking throughout the evening and tried hard to resist that. So, I couldn't really savor the meal =(.
Cous cous with parsley

Salad. Promegranate, pineapple, lime, err.. mint, olive oil, and something I can't remember.
The pot of, curry I think, he made himself. Groovy. ( Well, it tasted like curry to me, but not spicy) He used, sweet potatoes, spinach, bell pepper, etc. (I sincerely hope Dan doesn't mine me sharing [incompletly,] his recipes.)
These are pickled lemon. New to me, but i didn't dare to try T__T
Something.. oh, Bell pepper, chillies, paste? nice~
This is the dessert. Baclava, filled with almond, pistachio, and bread. Drenched in lime syrup. Yummy.
That's a pot of mint tea.
This is the view downhill. It's really steep! Ran out of breathe walking up T__T. (Click to magnify, the long straight road doesn't look so nice here)
View of Sheffield.

Anyhow, I'm downloading Age of Mythology to play with James (and others, hopefully). The two of us concluded that games played in cooperation with friends are best (or those with nice story lines, like final fantasy ^^). Hopefully, this shall inject some excitement into our somewhat dull holidays. T__T

Oh, initially, we planned to go for a walk in the Peaks with Wang Ang before he leaves for China, but unfortunately, he couldn't make it pulak. T__T. What else what else, oh, Tad Song's cousin is here.

Allright people, I shall now train Cloud a bit before continuing the quest to get the Keystone and save the world from Sephiroth. Till next update!

Christmas dinner

Saturday, 29 December 2007

Hello People!

I know this update is long overdue, but nvm. Basically we had a dinner to 'celebrate' christmas but I just wanna boast about my turkey wtf lol!

Anyway, enough of the lame shit. Well well we had the christmas dinner. That's it. With Barry's brother and Joshua. And ugh.. we talked lots of crap till 12 midnight. err.. sounds boring.

I've learned a lot of stuff cooking the turkey. Actually, most of the work came from preparing the gravy. Anyways, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here you go, four thousand words!


The turkey broth made from gibblets(neck and internal organs T__T) and the juice from the cooked turkey
The Roux. It was supposed to be whitish and then turn dark and have the aroma of toasted bread or nut. I did not use pure butter, but some cheapskate Sainsbury stuff so this is the akibat. It took me twice the instruction's cooking time to get the aroma and change of texture. Maybe I stared at it too long that my mind started imagining things when actually it did not change at all. hahah!
Za Turrrkey! Big, Fat Juicy, with stuffing and lemon up it's ass. The bacon was used to cover the breasts.. supposed to keep it juicy wor..
Do you notice that there are two colours of the meat? The inner meat is yellowish.. dunno why

I ate the thigh the day after, and it was tougher than the breast meat T__T. The leftover turkey is still left downstairs, no one disposed of it. hahah I shall do it tmrw.

Fortunately, no one died or got food poisoning from the food (or else I won't be here blogging). Oh I tried to took a picture of all the dishes together (salad, mashed potatoes, yorkshire
pudding, cocktail sausages, bacon, and leek & potato soup) but it turned out so blurry I decided not to post here. We had guests, so I also pai seh wanna take so many photos like a maniac

Anyways, the day after that we had Barry's famous Sarawak laksa. Yummy yummy! So much good food.. I think that was my only meal of the day.. lol

Yesterday, Tad Song left for London. Now, there's only me and James.. the house is quieter than ever. Heck I haven't seen James for four days liow. WTF we both in the house never meet. So quiet.. sometimes feel a bit lonely lar, despite chatting with people on the net. No face to face interaction.. Lol.

Anyway, now Yein Shiang is back so I got some one to talk crap with.

The New Year is coming, but I haven't planned anything for that yet. Lazy lazy lazy. No one contact me also, so I also lazy wanna initiate. lor.

Ok, that's all this time.

Ja!

Moon, Dinner, Tekken

Sunday, 23 December 2007

Yesterday night, I just realised that I can still see the moon from my room! Wow.. the light shinning into the room was so bright.. so nice! I missed the moon by just a bit if I were on the bed.. but still nice to see the ray of light.

Anyways, I found out that everyone slept at 5 a.m. yesterday. Hhaha! We all heard the neighbour's noisy party, and fire alarm T__T.

Ohh we cooked for Barry tonight, and while coming back, I saw the moon again, which was so damn big! I tried taking photos with my phone but failed miserably. Dang. Anyways, I cooked beef with pepper.. using packet powder of course! I've gotta start using them.. so many of them hiding in the cupboard. This time, I read the instructions clearly. The last time i tried using a packet sauce for fried rice, I added the sauce after I finish frying. It was when I threw away the packaging that I read the instructions: Stir fry the sauce with oil, then add meat. After that, add rice. T__T"

Oh, we'll be going shopping tmrw for our christmas dinner. I'll be in charge of the darn turkey. We'll be making salad, mashed potatoes, and leek with some white unidentified sauce. (Me and James tried this before.. we'll find out the ingredients tonight on the net.. then go get the ingredients tmrw). The dessert will be apple (something.. pie?), soft drinks, and ice cream (cuz Yvonne took back the weighing scales.. so I can't make pudding this time.. but I ain't complaining.. one dish is enough for me!) Waahhh so many nice dishes... I hope it'll turn out fine!
Barry's brother and friend will be joining us too. ohohohoho!

ANYWAYS, I lumped all the photos togeher cuz I am too lazy to sort them out. After this, we'll be going to Barry's place for some tekken. wahahahah!

YEOSH! GAMBATE! FIGHT TILL THE END!

View from my room.. that's the moon. Damn bright right! (although you can't see it clearly)
Blur photo.
Wahh look so delicious
Wahhh bah kut teh and vege!
UWAAHHH GOT SMOKE COMING OUT SOME MORE!

 
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