Mac & Cheese?

Today my dad bought me two boxes of mac & cheese from Pizzahut. Man I hate mac & cheese! It always taste so cheesy. I hate cheesy stuff. I think I am allergic to them. Anyway whenever I have too much cheesy food my nose just goes itchy and my stomach just growls. Ewwwww. But hey it's my dinner for today. So sad.....I had to swallow the cheesy noodle thing. The only good things were the chicken strips. But there were like, only six of them on each tray of mac.

I only finished half of the mac & cheese. Then I gave the rest to my dad. Don't worry he doesn't mind. I give him left overs all the time (my left-overs that is). I just had some green tea and it tasted refreshing. It really helps getting rid of that cheesy taste.

Burgers+Fries+Drink=Ugh

Ugh. Fast food makes me want to vomit. I hate to say this, but I use to be so addicted to them. The funny thing is, I eat fast food every Friday and I am not obese (weird!) I stopped for several times because I started to feel so grossed out about them. Yeah, for people who doesn't eat fast food very often it tastes yummy, but for me who consumes them on a regular basis, it's not okay. I am fed up with them. For some reason they don't taste yummy anymore. The fries taste bland. The burger tastes gross, but the drink is not too bad. Where's all my desires for fast food?! Yep, they must be hiding somewhere deep inside my brain, a place where nobody can disturb them. Today I had two medium fries, two burgers and one drink. I ate one medium fries, one burger and drank the root beer. The taste was horrible. And do you know that fries taste ridiculous when they are cold? And do you know that bacons make the burger taste bad? Well, I have experienced all of that today, and I would never want to experience it again. I am going on a diet next week. No more fast food for the next three months!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Whew! The stuffing is finally DONE! After a day of preparation, our early Thanksgiving dinner was really successful, even though it was our first time putting a turkey in the oven and first time to make home-made stuffing. We have got all the ingredients from the supermarket and most of them were for the stuffing. I made the rice and raisin stuffing using cooked rice, chicken broth, raisins, onions, carrots, bread crumbs and seasonings, and believe me, it tasted WONDERFUL. My mom was worried about the turkey, since we have no experience whatsoever about cooking a turkey. However, the turkey was nice done and it was DELICIOUS with a coating of melted butter and honey on its crispy skin. I also made butter-coated baked potatoes for our entree and it went well with our home-made gravy. The whole Thanksgiving dinner was absolutely FABULOUS. Too bad our guest was unable to come and missed this wonderful meal. Oh well, he had still got a chance to taste our amazing cooking on Christmas Eve!

Thanksgiving Shopping

Thanksgiving is on Monday and but we have decided to invite a friend over for turkey dinner on Sunday. Today me and my dad went to Safeway to buy ourselves a nice frozen turkey and other ingredients to prepare a turkey dinner. I bought bread crumbs, raisins, butter, poulet seasonings and chicken broth to make the stuffing, and a meat thermometer for the turkey's temperature while we bake it. I also purchased a measuring cup. We didn't need a very big turkey, so my dad chose this turkey which is less than 7kg (Heavy!) When we had everything we need purchased, I ran to the fresh produce aisle and bought two boxes of raspberries because I haven't tried them in two years. The raspberries turned out to be very nasty and I truly regret choosing them. Tomorrow we are going to marinate the turkey with butter and spices, and prepare the stuffing. However, we are not going to stuff the stuffing inside the turkey's stomach, because it kinda turns my appetite down when I see a turkey with stuffing oozing out of its bum (Gross), so we are going to bake them separately. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that we also bought a beautiful pumpkin pie for our Thanksgiving dessert tomorrow. Right now I am just drooling at. Man, temptation sure is hard to control!

Tunas!

Have you ever tried the fruit of a cactus? Well, I have, and it does not taste bad at all! Today I saw some tunas( fruits from a cactus plant) in the supermarket and I thought maybe I could try some to see what they taste like, so I bought a box containing three tunas. The skin of a tuna is green when it's almost ripe, and red when it's completely ripe. I was being extra careful when I was skinning a tuna, because even though the skin looked completely smooth and not prickly at all, you never know when there's a little thorn sticking out somewhere on the tunas. I put an oven glove on my left hand while holding the knife on the other hand, and quickly peeled the tunas skin clean. The flesh of the fruit was an amazing color of purple and it looked so delicious that I couldn't help but to take a big bite at it. As my teeth dug in the fruit, purple juice oozed out, giving me a taste which I could never describe. There were lots of black little seeds in the center of the tunas, but I swallowed them anyway. Tunas is a nice fruit that you should give a little try on. Who knows? You might like it!

Udon---Hmmmm

I have never tried Udon before, and I have heard that it is absolutely delicious, so today my mom bought me some frozen Udon to cook for dinner. She has no experience of cooking Udon, so she simply guesses how to cook it. I suggested her to put some mushrooms and Chinese cabbage in it, because these two are my favorite veggies to put in soups (the mushrooms are not veggies, though. They are fungus). As soon as the Udon was done,  I picked up my chopsticks and helped myself to some Udon, but it didn't taste as good as I thought it would be. The Udon noodle itself was tasteless, even though the soup was salty. I am not very sure if this is how they cook Udon in Japan (Well, I guess they probably don't cook it this way), and I am not sure if it will make a pleasant dish which we will enjoy very much. We still have four packages of frozen Udon in our fridge, so I guess my mom will experiment with them until she finds the right recipe.