Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Cooking!

So I did say I would make a post about cooking fail.

Well basically, I tried to boil an egg. And it turned out barely cooked.


Yes very fail I know.

But anyway! Some cooking success stories, pictures included!


The first time I tried to actually COOK Maggi Mee (not the cup kind ok!)


Hahaha it actually didn't turn out that bad, except it was a bit overcooked and had too much water so it was a bit tasteless.

The first time I tried to cook spaghetti (Eni style)!
This one has like step by step okay!



Cutting the onions and mushrooms..the onions were a bit too big but apparently my knife wasn't very sharp.


Mushrooms!



Me stirring the sauce! So you know I did help with SOMETHING :P



The sauce and the pasta cooking!

It turned out good actually, even though I went overboard with the sugar at first - I somehow knew to splatter tomato sauce everywhere and it evened out to go just right. Everyone who tasted it loved it and it was almost as good as Eni's ;)

The first time I tried to cook noodle omelette (apparently it's an Australian dish where you put the cooked Maggi Mee IN the omelette..yeah, don't ask me :S)


I didn't take the 'making of' pictures so this is all you get..a pile of goop involving egg, ham, mushrooms and onions xD



And yes, tomato sauce. 

It wasn't actually that bad, just a little bit tasteless because we hadn't put in salt with the egg and the noodles were also kinda tasteless. With the right seasoning the next time it might be better..it was just weird :P

The first time I tried to cook chicken!

Erm..I don't know why it's upside down, but let's just call it artistic :P Peeling the potatoes and cutting them into cubes!



Very important job - cutting the veggies! (I'm getting quite good at them! The carrots were a pain though)




Cooking the chicken together with the potato cubes! They should technically be done separately but nobody wanted to wait that long.




Me moving the potato cubes around in the frying pan. Apparently that classifies as cooking also xD




Boiling the veggies! They turned out a bit underboiled but hey, nobody cared.




Frying the potato cubes! I SAID that they were burnt but nobody believed me..and they did turn out burnt. Ha!




Oooo the chicken is starting to look good!




Buttering up the veggies! Not enough butter though.




Nearly cooked! Hungry~~




The finished product! Are you drooling yet? :P

Honestly to us it was really good, although the chicken was a teensy bit undercooked (a bit pinkish that's all) and the potatoes were burnt and the veggies were still a bit hard, but hey to a student this is luxury :P It took us like an hour and a half to cook though so this probably isn't something I'm going to do again for a while!

Making Indian curry!

I didn't get many 'before' photos but we basically just cut up the chicken, carrot and broccoli and poured it into a pan with the sauce that we bought.
This is rice. I've never tried boiling rice in a saucepan before. It turned out not too bad, a bit tending towards the porridge side rather than rice but that was just fine by me since the curry was spicy :P



Tada! Me eating spicy Indian curry - now I'm a 'real Asian' xD


Besides the obvious fact that it was spicy, it was actually pretty good! A little bit less salty than I would have liked but less salt is good for you! Plus the sauce was bought so that wasn't our fault.

 A few other things I've been eating since I've been here (not cooked by me):



I really have no idea why the picture is the wrong way up but I can't be bothered flipping it the right way so! This is barbecue pork + beancurd and veggies on rice at the Malaya Cafe just outside of Caulfield campus. I swear there are no other good places to eat there, honestly - they're all either expensive or cafe/coffeehouse types. This plate cost me 8 bucks. You'd actually be surprised how many Chinese/Asian food stores there are around Melbourne.




My warm chicken salad at some restaurant in Federation Square. Very yummy!




I don't know if this is called Seafood Linguini, but it was from the same restaurant as above. Looked good on paper, was tasteless in real life.




Churros, a type of Spanish doughnut. This one was filled with milk chocolate. In hindsight, it might have been nicer if I'd thought to bring it home and heat it up, but cold it was just yucky.




This is a typical small plate. The plate is very small and they pile it high with stuff. Again costs about 8 bucks for noodles, veggies and chicken and Mongolian beef. Not too bad honestly if you don't think about the conversion rate (because then you'd starve).

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Salty popcorn - very weird lor!

posted by FluffyRed @ 3:45 AM

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