Cabbage and Pork gyoza
My husband and I love gyozas, and sometimes have cravings to eat it, the ones we purchased often taste like they have a lot of MSG in it, so after I learnt how to make it, I decided to make my own version of the fillings :)
I made gyoza skin/wrappers from this youtube tutorial by ochikeron.
The fillings for the gyoza I made this time are cabbage, carrot, minced garlic, shallot, salt (to draw out the moisture) and pepper. I will be readjusting the amount to see if more vegetables would work out.
I used the food processor we got last year to grind the pork, I used 2 pieces of pork chop loin (I think?) I may reduce the amount of meat and see if it works, as husband remarked that more vegetable will be better. Read more
George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
On a cold winter afternoon after our Japanese class, my husband decided to take us to George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, see his take on the trip here. Jade came along with us as well and exercised her extraordinary animal photography skills :3
Bird watch continues…
So the bird watch continues, I try not to be by the window too much so as not to scare the birds off ^^; There’s actually other types of birds which comes by but they tend to fly off way faster than Chickadees…
I think the bird on the lower branch could be a white crowned sparrow…
Happy 2013!
Wine and cheese party to send off 2013!! Happy new year everyone!
Usually year end is a busy busy time with family and friends, lots of cooking and cleaning lol!
Cheeky Chickadees
Photos in this post are taken on different days, after we got some seeds and bird feeder and I did some home work on the internet to see how to attract these guys… Currently our main downfall is that our cats Ginko and Yoshi are a bit too interested whenever they spy the Chickadee(s) checking out the seeds I scattered around as “advertisement”~! XD
Clear Winter day
I biked out for an errand last Wednesday, it turned out lovely after the grey looming clouds in the morning was blown away. It was still really cold out, I had to wear two hats under my helmet, gloves and wind breaker under two layers of clothing to bike out on my Strida Mini, but you know looking at the beautiful blue sky, it was worth it lol!
Fujiwara Yukino standie
Click picture below for a larger view ^o^/
My mascot puppy jumped into the standie for some reason ^^;
My friend’s dollfie dream Yu chann, with my artwork of her is made into a standie… She looks like she’s interviewing the SAO standies here~ ^^; my puppy mascot jumped in like a photo bomber ^^;
Photo by Alvin (thank you~!)
If you had a photo taken with Yu chann, please show me! I wish I was able to attend AFA, have to save money to go sometime ^^;
Pumpkin carving 2012
I almost ran out of time! :P Well it’s already halway into Halloween in some countries ^^; But here just started half an hour ago :P
Can you guess what I am going to carve? ;) This year Yoshi is my helper ;P