Answers to the Challenge #14
Enjoying cooking for others and myself is psychologically and physically good for me.
It energizes me. It makes me feel excited to try new methods and ingredients and imagine the final look and the taste.
I’m happy when the appearance of the final product is close to my imagination and when the food turns out to be delicious. The time I spend making anything makes me work on something in the kitchen. The action of cooking something leads me to take a break and move here and there in the kitchen, which I think is good physical exercise. I usually cook and clean to avoid leaving too many things on the kitchen counter.
Then, of course, having my kind of tasty food is good for me physically and probably good for my mind, too.
What I made these days were: Deep-fried dumplings, Eggs with green onions, Sweet & spicy sauce.
Deep-fried dumplings
There are many kinds of dumplings, from potatoes and pumpkins to regular ones and vegetables only. Since there were some dumplings, I tried some of those. I fried them using just a small amount of oil, which was olive oil, in a small pan. I tried twice.
First time I patted some cone starch around and deep-fried them.
Second time I did not use anything and just placed some dumplings into the pan after the oil warmed up (drop a small piece of the dumpling skin in and see many small bubbles coming out). The first one: the skin became very crunchy and yummy. The second one: the skin was less crunchy, but it brought the juicy flavor out somehow. Yum!
Eggs with green onions
The dish, eggs with green onions, was super simple, but I haven’t made it for some time. I used scissors to cut one long green onion into small pieces. The rest was easy.
Beat an egg around 30 times, Drizzle a tiny amount of soy sauce onto it, and Microwave it until the egg becomes medium-firmed.
The smell came out when I opened the microwave, and it tasted so good with rice.
Sweet & spicy sauce
The last one, sweet & spicy sauce, was another time-efficient one to make and very useful for almost anything I cooked, such as vegetables, meat, rice, and pasta. I found some dried red chili peppers, so I grabbed four, quickly rinsed them with water, ripped off the top part, and made each one into three or four pieces.
I let the seeds out.
Then, I put soy sauce (about a tablespoon), olive oil to cover those chillis, a tiny sesame oil, and a little syrup.
After stirring it and warming it up in the microwave for about 30 seconds to one minute, and done!
It became a good sweet and spicy dressing for almost anything. I also tried a different version by putting a few cloves of garlic, which also turned out great.
These easy and yummy foods made me smile when I ate.
Anything made you smile when you had them these days? I hope there were at least a few.
Ok.
It is time to reveal the answers!
There were FIVE differences for you to spot in my last post.
Did you get all of those?
If you haven’t tried it, try it now and see how many you can spot.
Ready? Answers to the challenge: #1 The two pies are different. #2 The middle tin can above the counter has been moved inward. #3 The crunchy sweets in the Kintsugi bowl are different. #4 The rectangular dishes are rotated 180 degrees. #5 The teapot is rotated just a little.
This story is written by me.
Hi, I’m the author, Kaori Mitsui. I create 3D objects and output those (PNG format) using Blender, and post them here on Medium.
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