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What have I been doing?
Nov. 15th, 2009 10:31 pmOver the past week I have done the following in my free time:
Written 10 pages of my story.
Made 2 batches of mushipan in a makeshift steamer(burning myself once)
Given Secret Wonderland Koron a boil perm(burning myself again, ouch!).
Rooted rooted rooted. On head 4 of 6. I bent 2 needles already.
Played Super Paper Mario.
Watched some more episodes of The Mighty Boosh. I am displeased that Electro has a glitch in it. Also, am I really willing to pay $60 for a figure set if I only want the Howard Moon one?
Exercised for approximately 280 minutes.
Made friendship bread with lingonberry jam in it.
Knitted a lace scarf for myself out of Manos del Uruguay merino/silk yarn.
I think my problem is that I have no short term goals, only long term ones. No wonder I am plagued with feelings of uselessness. I want to try making wagashi. Maybe I'll use my flower petit four mold to make flower wagashi. ::is not authentic:: Hope I can find the right kind of mochi flour! Hope I can find a use for 2 lbs of anko(both white and red) I decided to give up searching for mail order anko and just make my own, but the recipes produce vast quantities of the stuff. I know I can eat the red kind straight(and get mega-fat) but the white might be a stretch. I found a recipe that uses giant limas. I like giant limas.
The mushipan was an...experiment. I found a recipe for cheese mushipan(with cream cheese) on http://www.cookpad.com and I tried using butter instead of oil, but I think I'm going to need to measure the flour and baking powder, then sift it into the batter. The batter had lumps that refused to dissolve. Hopefully, sifting will help. I know that sifting before measuring will throw off the measurements. ^^; It's sad when you peek on the mushipan before they're ready and they shrivel up. It's like you scared them or something.
I have a hankering for kashipan like I had in Japan but all the recipes use a bread machine to make the dough. =_= And the non-dessert recipes on Cookpad are scary. Italian-themed nabe with kimchee? Frightening usage of mayonnaise? It's enough to make me go crying back to Christopher Kimball. Maybe I should stick to mushipan.
Written 10 pages of my story.
Made 2 batches of mushipan in a makeshift steamer(burning myself once)
Given Secret Wonderland Koron a boil perm(burning myself again, ouch!).
Rooted rooted rooted. On head 4 of 6. I bent 2 needles already.
Played Super Paper Mario.
Watched some more episodes of The Mighty Boosh. I am displeased that Electro has a glitch in it. Also, am I really willing to pay $60 for a figure set if I only want the Howard Moon one?
Exercised for approximately 280 minutes.
Made friendship bread with lingonberry jam in it.
Knitted a lace scarf for myself out of Manos del Uruguay merino/silk yarn.
I think my problem is that I have no short term goals, only long term ones. No wonder I am plagued with feelings of uselessness. I want to try making wagashi. Maybe I'll use my flower petit four mold to make flower wagashi. ::is not authentic:: Hope I can find the right kind of mochi flour! Hope I can find a use for 2 lbs of anko(both white and red) I decided to give up searching for mail order anko and just make my own, but the recipes produce vast quantities of the stuff. I know I can eat the red kind straight(and get mega-fat) but the white might be a stretch. I found a recipe that uses giant limas. I like giant limas.
The mushipan was an...experiment. I found a recipe for cheese mushipan(with cream cheese) on http://www.cookpad.com and I tried using butter instead of oil, but I think I'm going to need to measure the flour and baking powder, then sift it into the batter. The batter had lumps that refused to dissolve. Hopefully, sifting will help. I know that sifting before measuring will throw off the measurements. ^^; It's sad when you peek on the mushipan before they're ready and they shrivel up. It's like you scared them or something.
I have a hankering for kashipan like I had in Japan but all the recipes use a bread machine to make the dough. =_= And the non-dessert recipes on Cookpad are scary. Italian-themed nabe with kimchee? Frightening usage of mayonnaise? It's enough to make me go crying back to Christopher Kimball. Maybe I should stick to mushipan.
