I recently bought~~

I went back to the Asian Grocer and bought the following:

~ Ube Wheat Cakes

~ Ube Jelly

~ Cashew Rolls

~ Buckwheat Noodles

~ Pineapple Gummies

~ Lychee Gummies

~ Hot & Spicy Banana Sauce

~ Peanut Sauce

~ Yakisoba Sauce

~ Aloe and White Grape Juice

~ Aloe and Peach Juice

~ Mango Calpico

~ Pineapple Extract

Sooooo~

I certainly did not just buy all of these things and not do anything with them! ^-^ I'm going to tell you what I've done so far~

Sunday~

I boiled some buckwheat noodles and drained them.

Then, I tossed in some soy sauce and pineapple extract. It resulted in a salty flavor with a sweet pineapple after taste!

And, I've tried the Ube Wheat Cakes. They are amazing.

Here's a photo, closest thing I could find to mine on google. So I suppose this is almost what they look like, but I will take a picture of mine and post it soon~

Until then, I found this picture on yahoo image search of something close to them:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaneza/2450595802/

Also, the Cashew Rolls are too.

Shii doesn't like the Cashew Rolls.

They taste great though so whatever! Lol!

I made some onigiri recenly, not just for myself but some friends were requesting it! Plus, I really wanted to make one for Shii!

So, I made the following:

For the short grain rice, I decided to add a little color and [I hoped it'd add] some flavor too! I used some pineapple extract in my rice. It certainly turned my rice bright yellow but I must not have added enough because the flavor was barely there.

Anyway, I used ube jelly to fill two of them. One was Shii's. He likes more filling for his onigiri then rice. So I had a ball about an 2 or 3 cenimeters thick and a little coat of rice around the bottom two thirds of it. The other rice balls looked normal though. Haha.

One of the others was made also with ube jelly. That went to my friend Wendy. And I made one with pear slices that were sturated in sugar for a night and that one was supposed to be for my friend Sami, but she came late. I thought she wasn't coming, and I gave it to my other friend Teresa.

Haha. Wow. Now, I have to make Sami another. So when I do, I will take pictures. It should be Sunday night or Monday morning.

And, so far that's really all that I've done. I was pretty lazy last week. Haha.

I'll likely be back soon for more posting~

Yumi

Creme Brulee Coffee

It's flavor of the week at my second favorite local coffee shop! ^-^ Oh it was so good! It had a really great flavor and it smelled very strongly of carmel. Just the smell made me want to drink it. 8D
I wish I had that coffee.
Seriously.
It was good!

Blueberry Muffins and

I'm at the coffee shop with Shii, we came here at an early time this morning. All Summer we have been trying to get here kind of early.
Finally we are here.
And Summer ends in 4 days. Well, we got here.
So, I had a blueberry muffin and a Cafe Au Lait.
Cafe Au Lait is love. Just in case you don't know, Cafe Au Lait is just coffee and steamed milk. It's not sweet but it is definatly amazing.
Anyways~
Shii ordered a Chai Tea Latte [iced] and a Raspberry Scone.
I'd say the blueberry muffin was alright. Not my favorite muffin but it was okay. And the scone, I took a bite, it was not bad. I didn't really taste enough to know.
But,
I'm still sitting here.
The atomosphere is really calm here. It's enjoyable. Unlike my grandmother's house...that's where we'll be heading when we leave here. o__o

Yumi Hates...

Frozen pizza.
-_-
I'd rather bake and make one by myself. Last night, there was nothing else to eat and I was stuck with DiGiorno.
Pepperoni and cheese~
>_>
Well, I'm sorry this is absolutely short, but Shinji is about to show up. So I have to go. But, I will post more very soon!

Quiche.

It's Yumi. I just want to say I love quiche. And I wanted to make it, but my grandmother decided to make it for me for my birthday, which was very recent. So, I took pictures while she was making it because I wanted to tell you guys about it. [I hope someones reading. 8D] Anyways,

somethings I noticed was the fact that she started out with a lot of eggs. That was something I learned while I was there. The fact that quiche is mostly eggs. =] You learn something new everyday.

I should have known that. xD

Anyways, the pictures I've put with this are the two pie crusts sitting on a pan covered in foil, ready for baking,

the white bowl of beaten eggs,

and lastly, the plate of spinach. [Yes, it was frozen spinach.]

In a few weeks, she's making quiche again. But, I'm hoping I get to help her next time.

Next time: Broccoli and Cheese Quiche.

Yum~ so much more exciting and tastier than Spinach and Cheese Quiche.

But still, the Spinach and Cheese Quiche was delicious.

I'm a Food Slacker...as usual...

Well, I recently posted a blog about all this wonderful food that I wanted to cook. [Yumi again, I have no idea when Shii's going to post. Ughh -_- I love him. lol] Okay, well, anyways, the only thing in that blog that I've done, is make pizza. It was okay. It's not like I had time though to actually have fun cooking it. Plus, Shii was supposed to be over that day but, he overslept and ended up never coming. So I didn't cook the pizza with him. Just me. And I had to hurry with it because Mom was hungry. No time for pictures or anything.

Anyways, it was okay. I bought some pepperonis to go on the pizza. I'm not a fan of them but...my mother is. So, I got some of those too. And worst of all about the pepperonis, they were not thinkly sliced. Ugh. Oh well.

The cheeses I used were AMAZING though. I think all cheese is amazing. ^//^ I used almost an entire bag of shredded Romano [one of my favorites] and I used a bad of three Italian cheeses. I can't seem to remember what cheeses they were though. =[

The pizza cooked fairly fast, at any rate. It almost scared me. I thought, "I'll check on it. There's probably a good ten minutes left since I just popped it in a few minutes ago." Well, when I checked it, the cheese on top was bubbling and the crust was an amazing golden color.

That was the best part of the whole pizza.

The crust.

I love a good pizza crust.

The crust was crunchy and very flavorful.

Before I put it in, I thought of lightly brushing it over with some melted butter but Mom was rushing me, so I just put it in. I wonder how that would have turned out. =]

I'll attach some pictures from google of the products I used since I couldn't take pictures.

Asian Grocer

In my town, I've had to shop in the Asian food section in WalMart. That's about, 3 feet wide. It's almost nothing consisting of Cup of Noodles and short grain rice. The basics. And so, I've had to travel about 45 minutes away to get to a Korean store. But finally, just the other day, I passed a small place on my way to go out and eat and I saw "Asian Grocer" on a sign. You do not know how happy I was.
I wanted to be there right then. But, I had to wait for Shinji. So, on my way home that night, I stopped by the store to look at their hours and then, I was even more pleased. They are open til 8 pm!! I was so happy. That makes it all the easier to get there!
Eventually I did get there. But it was without Shinji. =[
Anyways though, I got E-5, red beans [because unfortunatley, they had no red bean paste], Lily Bean threads, and Wasabi [of course the powder]
I didn't buy much because I wasn't expecting it to be so inexpensive. It only came out to ten dollars. So, I'm going to head back soon. I want to pick up Tonkatsu sauce and some more E-5 and hopefully a couple of other things.
But, that store is a life saver!