*gasp* do you dare! The Kat cooked!
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elusivekSo, as i had planned, I did cook on Tuesday night, tee hee hee!
Following my friend's advise, I did simply water down the soumen sauce (in place of dashi) and added that into the eggs. I also read somewhere that I'll need sugar, but I cut the sugar by half (the recipe asked for 3 spoons of sugar for 4 eggs... I used 1 spoon sugar only)
As you can see the top one was the first one, and a disaster.
My Dad, a chef, looked at me trying to roll up the egg and laughed. Then he asked me if I had already added dashi in (the bugger KNEW how to make it, yet he kept quiet all the while), and showed me how to roll up the egg (bottomest one). Then he asked me to make one final egg with the remaining egg mixture we had (the middle one). Obviously, the one the Chef made looks the best, with a bit of color, and nicely shaped.
I'm quite happy with how it came out. I will make sure I practice a lot. I couldn't roll the egg like they do in Youtube, with a pair of chopsticks... so I had to use a spatula. And I figured that the rectangle pan I got from Daiso is a little small. The tamagoyakis I see people make on Youtube are HUGE.
Taste-wise though, I guess I should have used all 3 spoons of sugar, and use the soumen sauce as-is, or not dilute it as much as i did. But it was still good :D
My Dad said, "since you're standing at the stove, you might as well cook dinner". So I cooked dinner. The steak was yummy. Simple things you never notice until it's taught or explicitly spelled out for you: You grill the steak in one direction and then turn the steak around to make that criss-cross pattern on it (from the grill pan).
Dinner was glorious, especially with that nice mustard to go with the steak. I like pesto sauce but in this case, I think it doesn't go well with zucchini. But it was a nice try :)
In other news, last night during my Italian Desserts class, I dropped a pan of melted chocolate. Aside from the annoying cleaning work I had to do, the chocolate has somehow missed my apron, but gone all over my work pants and my beautiful (and expensive!) pair of Oxfords... darnit!
Following my friend's advise, I did simply water down the soumen sauce (in place of dashi) and added that into the eggs. I also read somewhere that I'll need sugar, but I cut the sugar by half (the recipe asked for 3 spoons of sugar for 4 eggs... I used 1 spoon sugar only)
As you can see the top one was the first one, and a disaster.
My Dad, a chef, looked at me trying to roll up the egg and laughed. Then he asked me if I had already added dashi in (the bugger KNEW how to make it, yet he kept quiet all the while), and showed me how to roll up the egg (bottomest one). Then he asked me to make one final egg with the remaining egg mixture we had (the middle one). Obviously, the one the Chef made looks the best, with a bit of color, and nicely shaped.
I'm quite happy with how it came out. I will make sure I practice a lot. I couldn't roll the egg like they do in Youtube, with a pair of chopsticks... so I had to use a spatula. And I figured that the rectangle pan I got from Daiso is a little small. The tamagoyakis I see people make on Youtube are HUGE.
Taste-wise though, I guess I should have used all 3 spoons of sugar, and use the soumen sauce as-is, or not dilute it as much as i did. But it was still good :D
My Dad said, "since you're standing at the stove, you might as well cook dinner". So I cooked dinner. The steak was yummy. Simple things you never notice until it's taught or explicitly spelled out for you: You grill the steak in one direction and then turn the steak around to make that criss-cross pattern on it (from the grill pan).
Dinner was glorious, especially with that nice mustard to go with the steak. I like pesto sauce but in this case, I think it doesn't go well with zucchini. But it was a nice try :)
In other news, last night during my Italian Desserts class, I dropped a pan of melted chocolate. Aside from the annoying cleaning work I had to do, the chocolate has somehow missed my apron, but gone all over my work pants and my beautiful (and expensive!) pair of Oxfords... darnit!
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Date: 2013-01-31 04:11 (UTC)I'm going to say that you'll get better at the cooking of the yaki. You kind of have to now. I mean...your dad laughed at you! You have to show him up =P
I rarely ever eat Zucchini. What did you pair it with this time? The mustard?
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Date: 2013-01-31 06:31 (UTC)