Friday, April 29, 2011

[Food] New England Clam Chowder

The potatoes puree, or the blended potatoes. You may added a carrot into it too.

Voila, the smoking hot New England Clam Chowder is ready. With my own planted coriander for the refreshing taste.

Created my own modified version of New England Clam Chowder.
It's inspired by what Victoria Station served, my favorite soup, the New England Clam Chowder.
I hereby included my own recipe, which is simple and everyone can do it.

Recipe: New England Clam Chowder
Ingredient: 3 Large US potatoes, 2 Holland Potatoes, 1 can of Clam in Soy Sauce( available in Jusco), half cup of fresh milk, Chicken Stock, 2 Large yellow onions, Butter, 2-3 Carrots, some cream cheese or thick cream if you have.

1. Stir fried the sliced yellow onions with butter and a pinch of salt until it turned soft and brown.
2. Cut the potatoes into cube, and the carrot into the bite size. Cook in boiled water until soft. Let it cool and blend only the US potatoes in blender to get the smootie smooth potatoes puree.
3. Add the Holland potatoes cube to the yellow onions.
4. Add half cup of water.
5. Add in the clam without the soy sauce.
6. Add in the US potatoes puree and cook for a 3 minutes.
7. Add in 4 bowls of water, the chicken stock for soup and the soy sauce from the clam.
8. Wait till it boil, add in some cheese or thick cream for creamier taste and then pour in the milk.
9. Voila, that's it. the clam chowder is ready to be served.
If you are a fans of bread you may add in some bread crouton ( can be prepared by toasting bread on frying pan, best cut into bite size before toasting it.)

The creamy soup together with bread crouton, life just can't be anymore better. Like i said, coup is a soul comforter.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Special

Surprised came from far far away(or according to someone, it's just 24 hours away).
I have lots to say but really having difficulties in putting them into words. It was specially made for me for my birthday. Although i couldn't really eat it or even touch it( it is at very far away), but it will stay with me as a super sweet memory forever. Alright, i should just let the pictures say it all.



P/S: I love them very very much. Thanks a lot.
Photos originally posted from HERE.
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Part 2:
Surprises just like to come in pair or more than pair perhaps.
Received other gifts from friends, here they are.


Specially thanks to YC and JF. Love you all.....and of course, love the birthday presents too.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Test shot-Night

Test shot again with LX3 + UV filter. It was taken around 8.25pm today. Love the view where the dark clouds were sort of hovering that area with magical enchanted blue sky as background.

Movies: Sniper Reloaded Vs Sniper Inside The Crosshairs.

I am a big fans of action and war movie. The title of this movie was the reason i watched it. I was hoping to see a lot of sniping action by US Marine Corp sniper, but i was kind of disappointed. That was probably because i had watched a documentary about sniper"History Channel Sniper Inside The Crosshairs", with the record of longest shot in the history up to year 2010 at the time of that documentary was made. The real snipping action as they recreate the situation of Vietnam War and some situation of Baghdad. This documentary tells you a lot of information and how powerful and devastating can a sniper be. Shooting at 1367 yards(~4100 feets) away from the target but still get the deadly. The enemy really just couldn't see where the bullet was coming from. With the speed of the bullet, you will just jerk and drop dead on that instant.
For this genre of movie fans, i recommended you all to watch the documentary by History Channel as it has no other can be compared with.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Lx3 with filters test shot.

Test shot 1 with UV+ ND + PL filter on my cilantro

Test shot with UV filter and PL filter at night.


Camera accessories

Bought some accessories for my LX3.



These are how my LX3 looks like after using the UV PL filter and lens adapter.


This was what my LX3 looks like before accessories.


Monday, April 11, 2011

My cute nephew



Love these photos a lot......

Saturday, April 9, 2011

小品分享:萝卜开会

记得不久前在电视节目里看了介绍中国已故笑星赵丽蓉的小品,其中《打工奇遇》这部小品给了我比较深刻的印象, 就因为有一句台词:“还群英荟萃,我看就是萝卜开会”。 单看这一句台词是领悟不了其中的幽默的。
乘今天想起了这一段话, 就来分享一下小品里有关这个萝卜开会的一小段。


赵丽蓉:这是啥菜?

巩汉林:群英荟萃!

赵丽蓉?皇上吃的?

巩汉林:恩!

赵丽蓉:那个白的呢?

金珠:白萝卜。

巩汉林:多嘴!什么白萝卜,到了这了就不能叫白萝卜,这得叫 宫廷白萝卜

赵丽蓉:那绿的呢?

巩汉林:宫廷青萝卜

赵丽蓉:这红的呢?

巩汉林:宫廷水萝卜

赵丽蓉:那这黄。。。黄的我认识,是宫廷胡萝卜。这盘萝卜得卖5块钱吧?

巩汉林:哪儿呀,80

赵丽蓉:吆喝,这这这这卖80

巩汉林:昂

赵丽蓉:那得买多大一堆萝卜呀

巩汉林:我不跟您说了么?在这不能叫萝卜,就得叫群英荟萃!

赵丽蓉:还群英荟萃,我看就是萝卜开会,哈哈哈哈


有兴趣的话, 还可以看看这小品的VIDEO.


Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Coriander/ Cilantro plant dairy 2

Picture taken on 5th April 2011
From one to many, planted on 8th March 2011 on my own compost soil.
I can assume they are growing happily with all the care that i have given.


Close-up to my cilantro, a.k.a coriander leaves or Chinese Parsley

Monday, April 4, 2011

[Food] Soup and salad

Celery soup with dang gui and wolf berries

Sharing my own simple do-it-at-home recipe.

Recipe 1: Healthy- meatless comforting soup.
Celery(4 long celery stalk) , "dang gui", wolf berries and some soup stock(may be chicken stock)
Immersed 3-4 dang gui slices and handful of wolf berries in water. Cut the celery stalk into 7-10cm length. Boil 5 cups of water in the pot then put in the soup stalk. I prefer the Konbu Dashi soup stock. Then just add in the celery stalk, wolf berries and the dang gui slices. High heat for 5-10 minutes and then turn into medium heat for another 5 minutes. Voila....The very comforting soup that is absolutely healthy. You many remove the dang gui slices if you feel the taste is strong enough as they tend to show bitterness if you cook them too long. Salt may be added if you want saltier taste.

Preparation time:10 minutes
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Serving size: 3-4

P/S: This soup will bring you energy and comfort. Best to have it when you are stressful and tire.

Recipe 2: Potato salad with Feta cheese
Ingredient: 3-4 potatoes, Feta cheese, salt, coarsely grinned black pepper and mayonnaise
First, remove the skin of potatoes, cut it into bite size cube, then cook it in boiled water until it turned tender. Then remove the water. Allow the potatoes to be cooled in room temperature or in the fridge. Taste the feta cheese, if you feel it is too salty for your taste, immersed it into a mixture of water to milk in ratio 1:1 for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Crumbled the feta cheese and mix it with the potatoes, sprinkle pinch of salt according to your taste. Then add 6 table spoon of mayonnaise and mix them well.( you may even add 1 soft boiled egg, crumbled it and added it to the potatoes, taste really different although mayonnaise is a lighter version of substitution, i like them both together) Lastly, sprinkle some coarsely grinned black pepper to give you the exotic flavor. I usually add a lot of black pepper.... ^^. Voila. The feta cheese potato salad is best served chilled. If you cannot finish it, just keep it refrigerated and it can last for 2 days.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time :15 minutes
Serving size: 3-4

翻转婆婆家

快六个月的小家伙可以说是翻转婆婆家了。
有的时候会让大家忙到头都冒烟。

用力的在翻身

Friday, April 1, 2011

Books


The can't miss Popular 70-90% book fair was here in Penang again. I was there, just like everyone there, carrying a red hot basket and search through piles of books and from selves to selves. Manage to get something that wanted very much. First victory was getting the hardcover version of Chasing Harry Winston, a novel from the bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada with RM5. Super happy, then i got another hardcover version of Princess Masako for RM5. A book that talks about the Japanese Princess, from a very successful diplomat to the princess of Japan. Saw it once before at Borders and really like to have it, but the price was very high.

The next super satisfaction came from getting a deluxe collector's version of 于丹《庄子》心得. A hardcover collector's version in a thick paper box that fit it nicely. The price was the shocking.....RM3.80. I bought a Disney story book and some other just for interests and worthiness. The most disappointing was, i have to queue for one hour to pay all these. Worth it or not, you tell me.

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