Category: Makin’ Stuff

Jun 27

Mini Cupcakes were a hit!

Thanks Powers for helping me!  I couldn’t have done it as well w/out your degrees in math and physics!

Jakey eating a cupcake with a frosting hat.

I used the recipes from the Good House Keeping cookbook for rich choco cake and vanilla butter frosting.

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May 12

Korean Cucumber Kimchee

cucumbers

hello.  I made cucumber kimchee today which was very easy!  This is one of my favorite Korean side dishes and I’m surprised its taken me so long to get around to making this.

basic recipe:

a bunch of  kirby cucumbers

cut the ends off the cucumbers, and separate them into 2 inch long chunks.  then cut them quarterly while leaving one end of the chunk intact so that you can essentially stuff this entity with flavor later

mix 1/2 cup of sea salt and 1/2 cup of water then pour over the cucumber chunks.  leave for 1-2 hours, mix then leave for another 1-2 hours

pour out the salt water.  the flavor mix entails: red pepper flakes, 1/2 inch cut chives, garlic and mix all together.  The measuring of flavor mix is up to you – this is YOUR dish!

stuff the salty cucumber chunks w/ flavor mix and pack into a glass jar.  when all the flavor mix and/or salty cucumbers are used up, pour about 2 cups of water in the bowl of leftover flavor mix and boil!  then let it sit to room temperature!  then put a little more salt in it then pour into the glass jar filled with cucumber chunks!

seal and let sit for about a day and half.

chill and enjoy.

follow this recipe or just study the two photos above really really hard!

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May 03

A visit to my parent’s house

In case you weren’t sure what was in the vodka bottle:

ginseng

My mom loves ginseng and my dad loves to drink.  I’m glad to see they have a nice little compromise here.

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Apr 07

Diorama Lodge!

Yesterday Model-002 and I went to Freddie’s Bar and Back Room to do some nifty arts and crafts work.  It was a lot of fun!  They give you a theme (Search Party) and about an hour to create something ingenious which then has to be presented in front of others explaining how your diorama pertains to the theme.  We came up with the idea of getting lost in the plastic ball playpen at McDonald’s.   I actually thought we had a pretty sweet little thing going, despite the fact that we spent a bit of time just finding and eating food, but I mean, Come ON!  a search party at Micky D’s for a missing kid? ?  that’s FUNNY!  and has metaphorical value! although I didn’t mention that in the presentation of our work, so people just took the diorama kind of literally, I guess.   The semi scary part of all this was “defending” your diorama in front of many others who are somehow very well spoken.  I mean, these people knew how to talk about their work like it was their freakin’ MFA project.  Jesus Christ.

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