Quail eggs, lemongrass chicken, Nabisco Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps
Note: My perfect LJ lover / which LJ friend hates me / which LJ friend is an undercover hooker / which LJ friend is in love with me / LJ friends suffering from a mental disorder / my LJ friends in the ghetto / LJ friends starring in the movies / what my LJ friends really think about me / what's in store for my LJ friends this fall blogquizzes. (by Tremaine, Sharie, and Melissa)
When I went into Eric's car this afternoon, I was laughing to myself, so he wondered if I was okay - OF COURSE! We discussed blogs, spoiler tags vs. spoiler sites, sending emails to my sibs, promises, hockey losses, Pho, Nathan getting him dinner but with no time to eat, Sunday practices, and seating plans for the day. At church, he showed me how car flags worked: ah, so you put it in the window! Got it, haha. Talked to Steph since I saw her outside the church, and told Uncle Patrick that there was a stupid penalty which led to Dallas' goal yesterday. She said that Karen was at Pho, so I joined her / Dawn / Vivian / Andrea / Jen. We talked about hilarious restaurant typos (Lamp for LAMB / COCK for COKE), cars, cruises, changing diapers / breastfeeding, girly TMI stuff, bras, smoking, noodles, my checking to see if Eric needed anything (turned out that Jeremy did too - lemongrass chicken for both to eliminate confusion!), hockey (Karen wondered if my sister MADE me watch the games - no! :P), quail eggs (#21 for childhood memories!), paying the bill, guys discussing refreshments and more. Pretty good dinner, heh. Vivian saw some toddler going to cross the street on Kingsway / Joyce (very busy six-lane intersection) today with no parent in sight - SO SCARY, since the kid's parents didn't know she'd gone! Heh, the kid was just waving at Vivian's mom when she asked where her mommy was, too. Rich did stuff with electronics, Andrea's brother Sherman coasted a car down neutral on a hill, and there was this case of a five-year-old driving a car somewhere since he was mad at his grandma! Yikes!
Got back to the church, where I gave Eric and Jeremy their dinners - they were pretty hungry! Jon and Nathan had their dinner taken care of courtesy of a Fellowship decision to eat at Boston Pizza, phew! By the time I made it upstairs, Randal had returned the TV tape - I gave it to Jon a bit later. Eric thought I wanted to have the pizza which was our refreshments, but I was too full after Pho... it turned out that my sister gave me some leftover pizza from BP, so it would have been pizza overkill even with the leftovers from our talk! (musical accompaniment provided by the Chinese praise and worship night which Henry told me about last week) Andrea and Dianne helped me with green tea, and Alan talked about Hon for a bit. Chung asked me how things were going, so that was also nice of him. After the talk, Jen wondered if Jeremy could book stuff for her birthday celebration: Gastown / Foundation / the Whip / drinks and food? Guess we'll see!
Jeremy recounted a story about how the Pipe Club had said that he and a group of people could smoke a LITTLE in a certain room. As soon as the person gave them permission and left, everyone busted out their cigars and pipes! (not the Cigarette Club, for sure!) Raymond and Martin had to leave to do a 30-Hour Famine with Grade 7-9 students somewhere, so they couldn't help clean up. Karen wanted me to take some leftover pizza home, but I didn't feel like it: as I told Eric, I felt I shouldn't have any since I had a cough. He even asked why not: uh, it might make it WORSE? After saying bye to various people, Eric and I headed downstairs, but not before Andrea and Lesley tried wearing his guitar pack on their shoulders! (a tap on the shoulder is much more efficient than calling "Hey, hey, hey, hey! BYEEEEEE!") Discovered Vivian on her cell in the office - okay, we won't bug you then! Talked to Stanley and Nai Chiu while Eric played doorman for various people in the Chinese fellowships: getting pissed at someone is better than them being pissed at you, confusing wording, Awana, meeting people for the first time, Caucasians going to our church, weird kids like Bowen with his underwear song, feeling old since the kid's almost as tall as he is, being "on strike" and not cleaning, guitar straps as belts, and my brother's role were all conversation topics. It's good when I can talk to people in the Chinese congregation about things, which is something I don't do often enough! Found out that Vivian was talking to Vania, and wouldn't do it at home since it would tie up the phone line... then Eric used my head to balance his blue Starbucks water bottle! Lovely. :P
Eric and I also looked through various magazines while waiting for Jon and Steph to show up: BEATLES copyright violation of album covers? Sure, if he says so! Once they showed up, we went home! Mishearings seemed to be the theme of the night: "he spent a fair amount of time cleaning up" does NOT equal "he spent a fair amount of time CONSUMING ALCOHOL," haha! "Boy initiate" doesn't equal "avoid issues," either! Then again, Steph was telling people earlier that she HAD to lead Floodlight on Game 6 night tomorrow, and hoped that didn't sound too terrible! Melia didn't hear the "leading" part, and suggested going up to the balcony: that wouldn't be possible while leading it! Jon will stop by Green Village after Floodlight since Holly's having her "friends" birthday party there - of all the places to have it! Makes sense since Peter (her boyfriend) lives ten blocks from the church, heh.
Inspired by Holly's plans after dinner, we listed a bunch of reasons why Steph wouldn't want to go clubbing, adjusting the rank as we went along: getting shot / stabbed, perverted dirty old men hitting on her, not liking clubbing in the first place, GHB and other date-rape drugs, not wanting to buy drinks for 16-year-olds who don't have ID, not wanting to pay to get into a venue in the first place, overpriced drinks, not wanting to get all sweaty and nasty except in a sports context, etc. Also discussed high-pitched stuff and Danielle's James Blunt imitation ("POUR WATER ON ME!") last year. She forwarded a picture of that to everyone on Committee - Daniel and Steph checked their email from work, and immediately thought that it could be misconstrued as porn. ("NO! MUST CLOSE IT NOW!") Especially bad for Daniel since he's a teacher!
As soon as I got home, Jon called me on his cell: uh, go away now and stop making limo jokes before I say something I'll regret! I just hung up on him, and that's what he deserved! Eric H. was online, and claimed not to know anything about the "hi" message he sent me yesterday - he was hanging out with Nate all evening, apparently. Most weird... then he wanted to know if I wanted to hang out next weekend and update his blog! Depends on the playoff schedule IF we advance (still not a sure thing), and on that concert next Saturday! Plenty of time to schedule something, though. Jen wants to book something for her birthday fairly soon, since she wants to invite people: as of this coming Wednesday, it'll be a week till her birthday! Time sneaks up on us all, I tell ya! Eric's not sure he wants to go out to dinner on Monday, which I can understand! We touched on that in the car, too - what if a game coincides with the 24 finale or any of the other remaining episodes? We'll just stay at the townhouse till the bitter end, haha! Good thing Mom keeps the tapes for conversion / historical purposes!
Nabisco Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps
Nabisco's version of this old favorite cookie may not be as big a seller as its much-cloned Oreo. Heck, it's not even close. But if you're a ginger snap fanatic, this recipe will give you a killer clone of the cookie giant's store-bought version that you can whip up in a... uh... snap. And if you're watching the fat, four of these cookies check in with a total of around 2.5 grams of fat.
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup shortening
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 cup water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream together the sugars, molasses, shortening, butter, egg, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
3. In another large bowl... combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, salt, cinnamon, and cloves.
4. Pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture and beat while adding the water. Continue to mix until ingredients are incorporated.
5. Measure a heaping teaspoon of dough at time. Roll the dough into a sphere between the palms of your hands then press the dough onto the cookie. Flatten to about 1/8-inch thick.
6. Bake cookies for 10-14 minutes, or until edges begin to brown and cookies are crispy when cool. Makes 120 (10 dozen) cookies.
When I went into Eric's car this afternoon, I was laughing to myself, so he wondered if I was okay - OF COURSE! We discussed blogs, spoiler tags vs. spoiler sites, sending emails to my sibs, promises, hockey losses, Pho, Nathan getting him dinner but with no time to eat, Sunday practices, and seating plans for the day. At church, he showed me how car flags worked: ah, so you put it in the window! Got it, haha. Talked to Steph since I saw her outside the church, and told Uncle Patrick that there was a stupid penalty which led to Dallas' goal yesterday. She said that Karen was at Pho, so I joined her / Dawn / Vivian / Andrea / Jen. We talked about hilarious restaurant typos (Lamp for LAMB / COCK for COKE), cars, cruises, changing diapers / breastfeeding, girly TMI stuff, bras, smoking, noodles, my checking to see if Eric needed anything (turned out that Jeremy did too - lemongrass chicken for both to eliminate confusion!), hockey (Karen wondered if my sister MADE me watch the games - no! :P), quail eggs (#21 for childhood memories!), paying the bill, guys discussing refreshments and more. Pretty good dinner, heh. Vivian saw some toddler going to cross the street on Kingsway / Joyce (very busy six-lane intersection) today with no parent in sight - SO SCARY, since the kid's parents didn't know she'd gone! Heh, the kid was just waving at Vivian's mom when she asked where her mommy was, too. Rich did stuff with electronics, Andrea's brother Sherman coasted a car down neutral on a hill, and there was this case of a five-year-old driving a car somewhere since he was mad at his grandma! Yikes!
Got back to the church, where I gave Eric and Jeremy their dinners - they were pretty hungry! Jon and Nathan had their dinner taken care of courtesy of a Fellowship decision to eat at Boston Pizza, phew! By the time I made it upstairs, Randal had returned the TV tape - I gave it to Jon a bit later. Eric thought I wanted to have the pizza which was our refreshments, but I was too full after Pho... it turned out that my sister gave me some leftover pizza from BP, so it would have been pizza overkill even with the leftovers from our talk! (musical accompaniment provided by the Chinese praise and worship night which Henry told me about last week) Andrea and Dianne helped me with green tea, and Alan talked about Hon for a bit. Chung asked me how things were going, so that was also nice of him. After the talk, Jen wondered if Jeremy could book stuff for her birthday celebration: Gastown / Foundation / the Whip / drinks and food? Guess we'll see!
Jeremy recounted a story about how the Pipe Club had said that he and a group of people could smoke a LITTLE in a certain room. As soon as the person gave them permission and left, everyone busted out their cigars and pipes! (not the Cigarette Club, for sure!) Raymond and Martin had to leave to do a 30-Hour Famine with Grade 7-9 students somewhere, so they couldn't help clean up. Karen wanted me to take some leftover pizza home, but I didn't feel like it: as I told Eric, I felt I shouldn't have any since I had a cough. He even asked why not: uh, it might make it WORSE? After saying bye to various people, Eric and I headed downstairs, but not before Andrea and Lesley tried wearing his guitar pack on their shoulders! (a tap on the shoulder is much more efficient than calling "Hey, hey, hey, hey! BYEEEEEE!") Discovered Vivian on her cell in the office - okay, we won't bug you then! Talked to Stanley and Nai Chiu while Eric played doorman for various people in the Chinese fellowships: getting pissed at someone is better than them being pissed at you, confusing wording, Awana, meeting people for the first time, Caucasians going to our church, weird kids like Bowen with his underwear song, feeling old since the kid's almost as tall as he is, being "on strike" and not cleaning, guitar straps as belts, and my brother's role were all conversation topics. It's good when I can talk to people in the Chinese congregation about things, which is something I don't do often enough! Found out that Vivian was talking to Vania, and wouldn't do it at home since it would tie up the phone line... then Eric used my head to balance his blue Starbucks water bottle! Lovely. :P
Eric and I also looked through various magazines while waiting for Jon and Steph to show up: BEATLES copyright violation of album covers? Sure, if he says so! Once they showed up, we went home! Mishearings seemed to be the theme of the night: "he spent a fair amount of time cleaning up" does NOT equal "he spent a fair amount of time CONSUMING ALCOHOL," haha! "Boy initiate" doesn't equal "avoid issues," either! Then again, Steph was telling people earlier that she HAD to lead Floodlight on Game 6 night tomorrow, and hoped that didn't sound too terrible! Melia didn't hear the "leading" part, and suggested going up to the balcony: that wouldn't be possible while leading it! Jon will stop by Green Village after Floodlight since Holly's having her "friends" birthday party there - of all the places to have it! Makes sense since Peter (her boyfriend) lives ten blocks from the church, heh.
Inspired by Holly's plans after dinner, we listed a bunch of reasons why Steph wouldn't want to go clubbing, adjusting the rank as we went along: getting shot / stabbed, perverted dirty old men hitting on her, not liking clubbing in the first place, GHB and other date-rape drugs, not wanting to buy drinks for 16-year-olds who don't have ID, not wanting to pay to get into a venue in the first place, overpriced drinks, not wanting to get all sweaty and nasty except in a sports context, etc. Also discussed high-pitched stuff and Danielle's James Blunt imitation ("POUR WATER ON ME!") last year. She forwarded a picture of that to everyone on Committee - Daniel and Steph checked their email from work, and immediately thought that it could be misconstrued as porn. ("NO! MUST CLOSE IT NOW!") Especially bad for Daniel since he's a teacher!
As soon as I got home, Jon called me on his cell: uh, go away now and stop making limo jokes before I say something I'll regret! I just hung up on him, and that's what he deserved! Eric H. was online, and claimed not to know anything about the "hi" message he sent me yesterday - he was hanging out with Nate all evening, apparently. Most weird... then he wanted to know if I wanted to hang out next weekend and update his blog! Depends on the playoff schedule IF we advance (still not a sure thing), and on that concert next Saturday! Plenty of time to schedule something, though. Jen wants to book something for her birthday fairly soon, since she wants to invite people: as of this coming Wednesday, it'll be a week till her birthday! Time sneaks up on us all, I tell ya! Eric's not sure he wants to go out to dinner on Monday, which I can understand! We touched on that in the car, too - what if a game coincides with the 24 finale or any of the other remaining episodes? We'll just stay at the townhouse till the bitter end, haha! Good thing Mom keeps the tapes for conversion / historical purposes!
Nabisco Old-Fashioned Ginger Snaps
Nabisco's version of this old favorite cookie may not be as big a seller as its much-cloned Oreo. Heck, it's not even close. But if you're a ginger snap fanatic, this recipe will give you a killer clone of the cookie giant's store-bought version that you can whip up in a... uh... snap. And if you're watching the fat, four of these cookies check in with a total of around 2.5 grams of fat.
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup shortening
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 cup water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream together the sugars, molasses, shortening, butter, egg, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
3. In another large bowl... combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, salt, cinnamon, and cloves.
4. Pour the dry mixture into the wet mixture and beat while adding the water. Continue to mix until ingredients are incorporated.
5. Measure a heaping teaspoon of dough at time. Roll the dough into a sphere between the palms of your hands then press the dough onto the cookie. Flatten to about 1/8-inch thick.
6. Bake cookies for 10-14 minutes, or until edges begin to brown and cookies are crispy when cool. Makes 120 (10 dozen) cookies.
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