Thursday, March 18, 2010

A picture post!


The above photo is from about two weeks ago, when the fire alarm in Normanby House rang at 5 am with no warning at all. For some reason from the minute I jerked awake I immediately knew what it was, and my first thought (which I would later keep repeating as I marched down the hall and outside) was 'oh my god you cannot be serious.' 

Sadly, however, it was serious, and the lot of us waited outside next to that tree in the picture as the fire engines raced down the street and the firemen sauntered nonchalantly (yes, I am not exaggerating) into the house to see what was the matter. Poor us freezing outside and they're taking their own sweet time to check! Further evidence that it must happen a lot.

Hopefully no more 5 am wake up calls. So glad I didn't have morning classes that day.

Also if you were curious, it was a faulty alarm thing. 

Procrastination is a hard habit to shake - I've been sitting around since about 9, thinking I should do work, and the most I've accomplished is finding an online journalism topic to write about - and I didn't even think of that myself. Still, it was a problem that was bugging me all week, so that's a good thing! I will now have to wake up at 5 to do my tutorial questions for COM2160. Oh well, good practice for assignment week I suppose.

Anyway! Cooking lessons again!

This time, I made pizza yesterday! Not alone, but still. I made pizza!!



Chopping up the onions and mushrooms.




Frying the sausages. Don't they look yummy?




Now frying the onions!





Tomato paste and mozarella cheese for later.




The pizza with all the toppings





I don't know what's wrong with my pictures, they were all right side up when I uploaded them. But this is my pizza now with ham on it.





Now with pineapple!




And the crown glory - mozarella cheese!





Then seal it in aluminium foil (cos I don't have a baking pan)




And bake! (grill..whatever)




And then...TADA~~


At Papa Gino's, a popular Italian restaurant, their pizzas look like the one below:




That's worth about 15 bucks, roughly.





Can compare la hor? xD


Admittedly putting onions in with pineapples was a bit weird but I needed to finish it off!




Yummmmmmmmy~~


Considering one slice of pizza sold here is half that size, with half that much stuff and generally costs about 3 bucks, I think I have value for money :P


Other cooking adventures:

Today I decided to be unlazy and cook properly for once. This was the first time I'd tried to cook rice outside of home!
Basically I boiled carrots and fried some mushrooms and pre-marinated honey soy chicken (I wish I could say I did it but nah, it was bought), and made some rice. It's harder work than it sounds! Especially since the chicken was um..9 days older after the expiry date *cough* They told me it would be okay since it was frozen though! I suppose I'll know by tomorrow...*twiddle*




I really need to buy some sauce or learn how to cook Chinese veggies (well, I think I do, but I have no confidence cooking alone) to go with that because it was seriously just kinda dry. I poured soya sauce on it but it didn't help!


Anyway, I have to do my tutorial questions tomorrow at like 5 am so I'd better go get some sleep. Night!

posted by FluffyRed @ 1:09 AM

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