Anime Expo Today

Going to AX today. Getting ready. Gotta pack camera gear. I’m going to test out my new lens on people today. It’s been mostly landscape and rabbits before, but today it’s going to be people! Woohoo! I gave up helping my cowoker with a wedding to go to AX so I better get good pictures! ….

Cleaning Up the Bunny Room

So the bunnies have been very naughty, chewing and tearing up the carpet. They do it in areas where I won’t notice immediately, like behind large objects or the door. Naturally, I’m not happy about this, but it’s not behavior that I can easily control. However, I can do something to keep their access to the carpet to a bare minimum. So this past Saturday/Sunday, I covered the floor with heavy duty canvas cloth and weighed the corners and edges down with 6“ octagonal bricks. At first, Hoji and Sen were a bit bewildered at their new surroundings, but I think they’re getting used to it. I haven’t noticed any attempts to chew up the canvas yet so that’s a plus.

San d’Orian Tea!

Final Fantasy XI inspired drink called San d’Orian tea. It’s really just black tea, sage, maple sugar (substituted with maple syrup), and half & half creamer. The tea came out tasty and rather delicate.

Ingredients
– fresh sage
– black tea
– half and half creamer
– maple syrup

1) Put sage and tea in tea pot. Add hot water and let seep.
2) 1 tbsp creamer and 1 tbsp maple syrup into each cup
3) Pour tea into cups.

Hot!

Abandon room! Abandon room!

I’m in the living room on my Macbook trying to escape the heat of my room. Gah.

I’ve been making my parents the negi buta muffin. They’re liking it. Success! ^_^.v After my third (or is it forth) attempt I finally got the cooking temperature right and it wasn’t super burned like the previous ones were. There’s a new Kyou no Ryouri magazine out, so I need to see if Kaede Shobo has any yet.

Food Combinations

A few weeks ago I bought ume flavored sake. I thought, I love plums, I love sake. This ought to be good. Yea, well, unfortunately for me, the ume flavored sake doesn’t go very well with foods in my opinion. I’ve tried it with other things before, and they didn’t go very well together. Tonight I tried it with the pork and green onions muffin. The muffin is very good. Tastes like gyoza. But pairing with plum sake was no good. :\ I ended up washing down the muffin with Roots Aroma White Latte drink.

MGS4

I bought Metal Gear Solid 4. Installed it, and then shut it down to play FFXI instead. >.>; I’ll get around to checking out the art and stuff in MGS4 this weekend…

Hyper Game still didn’t get any copies of Wii Fit. :\ I might have to buy from Best Buy or something.

Negi Buta Mafin (Green Onions and Pork Muffin)

Negi Buta Mafin
Green Onion and Pork Muffin

Ingredients

  • 4 English muffins

A:

  • 200g ground pork
  • 6~7 green onions
  • 40g pizza cheese
  • 1+ tbsp soy sauce
  • 1+ tbsp sake
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp corn starch
  • 2 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tsp oyster sauce

Time 10 minutes.

1.) Cut English muffins into half.
2.) Cut the green onions finely. Add all the group A ingredients into a bowl and mix with your hands.
3.) Partition the meat into 8 and spread each onto 1 muffin half. Wrap and freeze.

When ready to cook:
Additional ingredients

  • Sesame oil

Estimated 180 kcal for 1.
Time 15 minutes.

1.) Remove the wrap from the frozen green onion and pork muffin.
2.) Add sesame oil to the fry pan. Place the muffin meat side down onto the pan and cook on low heat for about 7~8 minutes.
3.) When the meat has a good cooked coloring to it, flip it over. Cook for another 1 minute. Remove from heat and serve.

I haven’t made these yet, but they sounded yummy so I’m making a pre-emptive translation. ^^