Making oreo truffles

Hi!

I made ahanhbarbie34's oreo truffles! Been wanting to make them since the start but forgot to. Then saw a whole box of oreo cookies untouched my mom had bought and thought why not.

Things I need to change if I make them another time:
1. put more oreo cookies
2. not crush them as much
3. try to make the truffles smaller
4. use better quality chocolate for the coating.

Goodnight!

Making an omelette

Hi,

Today (we were April 22th) I made my first omelette... I had eggs and since I'm moving out of the dorms on the 24, I had to eat them. Also I had just watched a Youtube video on making an omelette and it looked good.

Instead of taking pictures I arranged a video. Quality isn't that great, sorry!..

Finished school~

I finished school! I sent my last essay to my teacher 15 minutes after the deadline. My fault.
I overestimated the time that was left and underestimated the things left to do.
Also half of Word's fault because 30 minutes before sending my work, it asked me if I wanted to save my file and I thought it was asking to save another file I was closing and didn't really care about, so I said no but actually it closed my (annotated) bibliography without saving the new changes, like 3/4 of my content, so I had to restart it. I guess I could have handed it maybe 5 minutes late instead of 15 I don't know. This is the first time something like this happens with Word, very bad luck. I've never been in situations where your printer doesn't work or your computer shuts down when you're about to hand in a paper, but what happened still sucked lol.
Anyway that taught me a lesson. Such a nice way to end the final year and my bachelor.

But now that school is done (for this year hah), I'll post some pictures of a cake I did on April 16th.

I used a cake mix ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It smelled really good.

Melted old weird-tasting chocolate for the icing.

The cake was really good when it got fresh off the oven. But I put it in the refrigerator and I think that I shouldn't have because after the taste wasn't really good.

By the way, I changed the pictures' watermark cuz I changed my blog's name. Kinda regret it because it's so long now ;_; If you're wondering, the font used is Pacifico on textcraft.

:)

Turning a Pill Case into a Cute Eyelashes Case

Hi,

I had been thinking for quite a while on buying an eyelashes case to carry my false eyelashes with me. Like not the big case I would bring if I were to go on a trip, but just a small one to carry in my bag.
I used to have these small individual pill cases the drugstore gives you with your pills, but since I have different styles of eyelashes, I found it annoying having to carry 4-5 pill cases (and I didn't want to put them all in the same case) ᕙ(ಠ_ಠ)ᕗ
I searched on the internet and was inspired by quite a few bloggers who had made/customized their own eyelashes case. I hope this article can give you ideas.
There are more pictures than it needed to be, but.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And sorry for the orange lighting on some pictures, it's because it was late (so it was dark).

♥ ♥ ♥

Starting with this clean round bead case found at Michaels.

I don't know why I keep calling it a pill case.

The setup. No idea why I have so many pliers.

Never used one except the one on the far right.

code credit

I had this idea of designing a donut which would have been cool,

but I decided to do something else instead.

A spider web....!

You can see I put pearls in each 'corner'.

I would have linked pearl to pearl with the little diamonds 'garland' (the sames as the ones forming the cobweb), but it would have blocked the compartment cap from opening.

sigh.

Finally decided to put the pearls in the middle instead of the corners.

Just some progress from pic to pic. Click to enlarge.

Top done (￣▽￣)ノ

Sorry for my hand, although on this picture the lighting is better.

But I still needed to do the sides of the case. (≧▽≦)

Also, I don't know if you had noticed, but I had put another 'layer' of diamonds over the first layer (I'm talking about the diamond line separating each pill compartment; the first step of the cobweb.) Well, it looks really pretty, but it's definitely not convenient; the diamonds would come off whenever I opened a compartment lid. So I had to remove the second layer and only keep the first one.

This is what the sides look like. Just random pearls and gems.

Random pics of the case in different angles/lightings. Sorry but I love pictures. (click to enlarge)

Not only it looks cuter than before, but it's as functional as it was before decorating it. So I think it's great. (˚▽˚)

I just cooked ground meat by myself!! ...

Omg, my cooking skills have again increased.

A unforgettable day in my life, so let me show you a couple of pictures. Can't believe I'm in my last semester in the bachelor and just learned how to cook meat. Honestly I don't know how I survived the last years without eating meat at all.

The ingredients: green bell pepper, taco seasoning, lean ground beef-pork mix

Thanks cquek.com for giving me the code to arrange my pictures horizontal

Some pictures... sadly the flash makes the pictures look less appetizing... ( ;︶︿︶;)

Just put the ground meat in the pan.

Added green bell pepper.

Added taco seasoning.

I'm aware this is not the fanciest dinner you've ever seen, but still it was really good (and simplier than I thought it would be.)

I definitely want to cook more meat and explore other ways to season it (cuz I know taco seasoning is not a regular option even though it's so good.)

And of course, thanks to my mother who answered all the questions I asked her.（≧▼≦ ;）

Have a nice day~

Sammi & Soupe Dumplings

Today, my sister and I went to Sammi & Soupe Dumplings to eat xiaolongbao 小笼包 (or soupe dumplings.)

She had been there one time before and told me it was good. I'm no xiaolongbao expert, but I thought they were indeed excellent!

We took steamed chicken and coriander xiaolongbao (classic but so good anyway). They also have appetizers, soups, and fried dumplings.

It was my first time eating xiaolongbao. From what I've read on the internet, you're supposed to take it with your chopsticks, dip it in the sauce, put it on your spoon, take a bite and suck up the juice, and then just eat it normally.

Look at all that juice. Mmm~~

Also, the place looks really clean. We can actually see the kitchen and the workers making the dumplings because it's just a big transparent window. For more pictures, you can go there.

Fortune cookie

Great.

Cooking Beef~~

Heya,

Since I started this blog and posted some recipe experimentations I did, you may have read numerous times I don't dare making meat dishes cuz I'm scared to have food poisoning.
But tonight I finally decided to cook meat at the rez (aka the school dorms).
I've been thinking about that for a while after I ate some fried rice a Taiwanese student gave me (and made herself). It had beef in it and it was really good.

It doesn't look that good-looking on this picture, but it was delicious nonetheless.

And I'm just really tired to only eat pasta dishes and rice.

Not really an interesting nor useful post, but still marks an 'important' time in my dorm life. haha (and in my life in general cuz it's the first time I'm cooking meat by myself) >o<

My mother told me to buy beef strips like this so

I just listened to her advice.. haha

The setup (without the knife).

I started to cut the strips but then I saw it was brown-grey on the inside...

Asked my mom about that; she told me it's only because they were stuck together in the packaging. But nothing to be worrying about.

lol if it seems like some pieces are missing it's cuz

I ate some while they were cooking owo

It was so simple to cook... I was really surprised. And so easy to cut and just put in a frying pan.

But the taste was.. bland. And sadly it did not taste at all like the beef in the fried rice made by the Taiwanese student. Maybe she cooked her beef with sesame oil? (I used butter).

And now that I look at her fried rice on the picture, I think she had bought smaller beef pieces/cut the beef pieces smaller. I really don't know. But it's still edible (although I guess I can only confirm this tomorrow after a couple of hours of digesting this lool) so I will obviously eat it and enjoy eating meat. Just next time I'll probably try with sesame oil and cutting the strips in thinner pieces.

Bye!

11.02.2016: Didn't got sick. ;D