I got kinda bad at this!

Late Update, Incoming!

Well I don't know what happened to me this month... maybe laziness? I haven't exactly been sitting still the whole time though, I swear! I've made food and done a few crafts, but nothing major enough that I felt the drive to make a posting. Time to rectify that with a gathering of crafty or delicious things I've accomplished lately.

Egg rolls, Anyone?

The first image is of the egg rolls before I fried them, and the second is the egg rolls after I friend them. I'm sure you could have figured that out, but I like typing.


In these egg rolls I put chicken, red and green bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms. I think they could have used a few more mushrooms, but hindsight is 20/20. The chicken turned out great, I marinated it in the marinade I usually reserve for fish (approx- 1/3 c soy sauce, 1/3 c brn sugar, 1/3 c H2O, 1/4 c oil. I might have the oil and water backwards, not sure!). Then I sliced it very thinly and painstakingly laid each slice out on a frying pan to ensure that they all cooked evenly.

Everything else I just sauteed till they were at a done-ness that I liked. Then I rolled them up and dropped em in oil! They were freaking delicious. Too bad even though I said there was enough for everyone in the house to have 4, Ryan and Cuyler (boyfriend and his cousin) ate the rest of my share the following day (I had saved 2 that I wanted to take to work). Jerks.

Dinner at a Friend's

Some of you might know I went up to San Jose to visit a couple friends of mine! One thing we did was make a tasty salmon dinner. She had never made salmon before and seemed to be a little intimidated, so hopefully she will make it in the future, it turned out great! We used Alton Brown's citrus glazed recipe, it was super good. Sweet with a nice tang to it. We also made broccoli with cheese sauce and rice. It was all excellent.

Next, a Necklace!

Personally, I like to bring some sort of small gift when I'm going to be staying with someone, and since I'm broke it's usually something I've made. I made this necklace for my friend with some stuff that was waiting to be pulled together with a nice pendant. A few posts ago we went to the beach, this is one of the shells I picked up. It had some great ridges for the wire to pick up, I don't have the right drill bits to drill a hole in the shell quite yet. Anyways, it turned out very nice and I'm quite happy with it.

Something I made a While Ago...

I follow threadbanger.com for crafty ideas, and I saw this scarf in an episode a while ago. I really liked the idea of the scarf, so I decided to make one of my own. It looks pretty sweet, but I'm not 100% sold on the idea. Part of the problem might be the color. Maroon isn't something that you wear everyday, I suppose. It was an old work shirt that I saved for cloth scraps (you never know!). If you have any suggestions on how to wear this, let me know, otherwise I'm just going to throw it on randomly until I love it, I guess!

One last thing! I just want to say how frustrated I am with the way this website works. It's a pain in the ass to add pictures, and then they all end up at the top. If you upload more than one they don't load in the correct order, so you have to spend a lot of time putting them in the right order (they don't move from the spot they are in very easily). Then every time I'm making a new paragraph, it goes back to the default text. I like Verdana, and I wanted to use Verdana. If I have to change the font back every time I hit enter, something is wrong. I might have to check out the 'edit html' section and see if I can just type my thoughts in there and if it will be any easier! Good lord!

Night night,
Janiece

Dessert-o

Long time, no post!

I feel like I haven't been up to much, but I swear that's not true! I guess I haven't been doing anything super crafty. I did work on my embroidery project for a bit but stopped... I have been cooking, but I didn't feel anything was nice enough looking to post.

Today for dinner I made oven roasted sea bass, broccoli and cheese, white rice, and corn on the cob. Everything turned out pretty good. I have to admit, I forgot to take a picture, but my plating was not very picture worthy anyways. I did, however, take pictures of dessert.

Dessert was strawberry shortcake, from scratch. I almost over baked the biscuits, but luckily I caught the smell of caramelizing sugar and whisked them out of the oven with time to spare. Go me. Some of you might know this, but I don't like strawberries, so I put chocolate sauce on mine. We sadly did not have any vanilla ice cream or whip cream, but it was still pretty darn good.

Well, until next time!
Janiece