tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58188056881655310812011-10-14T07:29:44.610-04:00Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-61822641591703659952010-10-16T17:14:00.006-04:002010-12-11T18:25:22.379-05:00

...but not for their pork!Just a quickie, my lunch today, a caprese salad. Fresh Mozzarella from The Pork Shop, located across the street. Styling courtesy of my room mate. Caprese Salad for 22 vine-ripened tomatoes, sliced in wedges1 bunch of fresh basil1 lb ball of fresh mozzarella cheeseExtra virgin olive oilsaltpepper~Slice the mozzarella to an appropriate size in relation to the tomatoes

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-44142760597955097132010-07-14T13:35:00.002-04:002010-12-11T18:16:49.721-05:00

It's been a busy week of baking...First there were vegan chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting, for a playdate my sister had with a friend who was allergic to eggs... plain for the adults... ...rainbow sprinkles for the kids!...and then a peach blueberry pie... OMNOMNOM...and last of all, a lemon-thyme shortbread, recipe courtesy of Elissa of 17 and Baking. I made these with my sister,

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I think everyone has figured out by now that I have a baby sister. She is 3 years old, small, Asian, and adorable. Strangers who see us together seem to automatically assume I am a teenage mom. Guests who come to our house are only too quick to mistaken my baby pictures for photos of her. Everyone who meets her loves to hug her, talk to her, and play with her. Except me.Is that horrible? Probably

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A lunch request from my mum: Crab Cakes. An Alternative to Fish Sticks1 lb can of lump crab meat, drained1 egg, well beaten1 tbsp mayonnaise1 tsp salt1 tsp pepper2 tbsp whole milk1 tbsp baking powder1/2 cup chopped scallions1/2 cup diced onions1 clove of garlic, mincedpanko bread crumbs1 lemon~Mix all the ingredients except the panko in a large mixing bowl. Salt and pepper to taste.~Form the

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MONDAY Contents: Rotelle-cheese pasta with shredded carrots and broccoli, watermelon and mango fruit salad, corn, kidney bean, and chickpea salad, and three cherry tomatoes.Verdict: She ate some of the pasta, most of the fruit salad, most of the corn salad, and one tomato.TUESDAY Contents: Seven cucumber and cream cheese heart sandwiches, one crab cake, bottle of dressing, corn, kidney bean and

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For the last two weeks of my little sister's preschool class, the students are required to bring a home lunch. She's been enrolled in the school lunch program for most of the year because my parents can't be bothered to pack her a lunch every day, most of which she won't eat anyway. I have no clue what they serve for school lunch, except for one day when she informed me that they'd had pizza for

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-50760647124423097722010-06-02T02:21:00.001-04:002010-06-05T03:25:04.188-04:00

Do you know the muffin man,The muffin man, the muffin man,Do you know the muffin man, Who lives in Drury Lane?Yes I know the muffin man,The muffin man, the muffin man,Yes I know the muffin man,Who lives in Drury Lane.var page_note_ratio = 1; Lemon-Poppyseed MuffinsAdapted from Dorie Greenspan's recipe in Baking: From My Home to Yours1 cup sugarGrated zest and juice of 1 lemon2 cups all-purpose

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Okay, so I'll be honest, I'm not really much of a salad-y person. I know that salads are healthy (if you use a darker leafy vegetable like kale or spinach instead of just iceberg lettuce, and hold back on the creamy dressings. I do my homework) and I'm supposed to be trying to eat healthily. But while I have nothing against salads, exactly, I'm much more of a meat-and-potatoes person. I would

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-78270330706694778452010-05-20T19:40:00.023-04:002010-05-26T05:01:43.336-04:00

So I've been back in P-town for 3 days now. And have spent the 72 hours in transcendent bliss. No essays to write, no tests to study for, no projects to pull consecutive all-nighters to complete. It was a revelation. Even though I did have that nightmare about a project that I just couldn't complete because it wasn't coming out right.But with all this relaxing, I'm beginning to grow slightly

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Finals week. It's a time of dread for most college students, a period of cramming, sleepless nights, endless rounds of coffee, and meals of limp cafeteria french fries.For us Parsons students, of course, it's nothing of the sort. All-nighters are a normal part of our weekly routine. Most of us count ourselves lucky if we manage get to bed at 4 am. It is not unusual to have been awake for a solid

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-17190035199370268032010-02-14T06:01:00.004-05:002010-02-21T20:36:37.973-05:00

Let me let you in on a little secret. Lately I've been trying to develop healthier eating habits. Me, championer of Hot Pockets and Shin Ramyun, bacon addict, lover of cheesecake, donuts, and anything containing chocolate. I'm 5'3" and at this exact moment 107.5 lbs, have always more or less eaten anything and everything I've wanted, be it 3 times the recommended serving of Totino's Pizza Rolls

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-3124283558043337772010-01-23T22:45:00.006-05:002010-01-23T23:32:22.078-05:00

"Is there anything better than butter? Think it over, any time you taste something that's delicious beyond imagining and you say 'what's in this?' the answer is always going to be butter. The day there is a meteorite rushing toward Earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here is my final word on the subject, you can never have too much butter." -Julie Powell,

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Yes, I actually did cook food for my family's Christmas dinner. Real cooking, none of that pansy toss-together-a-salad-out-of-a-bag or shove-some-rolls-from-a-tube-in-the-mini-oven stuff. In the process of my epic journey of real cookery I dirtied no less than 1 saucepan, 2 large pots, 4 mixing bowls, and 2 pyrex baking dishes. And that's not counting all the utensils I used. It took over 4 hours

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-40910074554368161382009-12-05T23:49:00.007-05:002010-02-14T08:24:02.265-05:00

A weekend home means oven access, which I intend to take full advantage of. In addition to churning out a few cheesecakes as per my parents' demand (not without mistakes, I forgot the eggs, but they turned out great anyway), I decided to try something new.As you might have guessed, I'm not the most careful of cooks--eggs forgotten, 1 1/2 cups of lemon juice added instead of 1/2. Baking, a science

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-51363469373859916762009-11-10T16:30:00.004-05:002010-02-14T08:23:21.893-05:00

After two months of night-class caramel macchiatos and premade roast beef sandwiches, the $225 in my school account to dwindle down to a measly $2. I take this opportunity to be more frugal with my money and start making myself a boxed lunch to take to class instead of spending $7 at Valentino's. Here's how that's going...var page_note_ratio = 1; This is my first bento that I made for lunch when

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Long time no post. Sorry! In case anyone worried, the lack of post does NOT mean I have gone on a crazy crash-diet where I don't eat anything. As if. Rather, I have just been very, very, very busy. Insanely busy. You have no idea. I don't think I've gotten more than 3 hours of sleep a night since September. And that's on a good day.This is a baking post! As some of you may know, my

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Okay, I'll be covering about two weeks' of food and events in this post, as I've been so busy lately I haven't had any time to make a post until now.First, the cheesecake I froze weeks ago: turned out great. I like to eat it frozen, like strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Sans the ice cream. I've been trying to make it last, because between buying the sour cream and the cream cheese it's a fairly

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-87247126145784442832009-09-28T01:06:00.010-04:002010-02-14T08:34:56.526-05:00

Fire Alarm Count: 31One of these was at 4:30 am. Seriously? Seriously? Who the fudge (it's censored because my mother reads this blog. Hi mom!) is cooking badly/smoking at this hour? If it were up to me, I would demand to know the identity of the guilty culprit and then cheerfully beat them to death. Which is, of course, why it's not up to me.All ranting aside...so the past week has been fairly

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-8277437067916403112009-09-20T22:36:00.013-04:002010-02-14T08:27:20.479-05:00

Fire Alarm Count: 28And let it be known that two of last week's alarms had me tramping down 11 flights of stairs in 5" stiletto heels. Don't ask me why. Just know it happened.Sooooo...this past weekend I went camping for the first time ever. With a bunch of Russian people. Make that a few hundred Russian people. There was a lot of singing and smoking and drinking and wasp-catching. And there was

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-12386410995436526342009-09-13T23:53:00.015-04:002010-02-14T08:29:43.511-05:00

This is what I had for dinner last night:E made it for the two of us--chilled oriental-style noodles with scallions, seasoned with sesame oil and soy sauce. Simple, but delicious. Simplicity is good.Simple Sesame-Soy Sauce Noodles2 servings of thin oriental-style noodles1 tbsp scallions, chopped1 tbsp soy sauce1 tbsp sesame oil~Cook the noodles in boiling water. Drain and rinse quickly in cold

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It's been a while since I posted. Class has started, and the workload is ridiculous--I get the feeling that the professors are trying to keep up the 51% dropout rate of the graduating Fashion Design (which is what I'm going for) students.Fire Alarm Count: 23Tonight, Esther cooked dinner for us. She made a popular Korean dish, essentially rice with mixed different vegetables, meat, and a spicy

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Grilled cheese and tomato soup, that is. I just described it as "deconstructed pizza" to get The Boyfriend interested in it. And that's what I made for dinner tonight.Of course, no meal preparation in this dormitory would be complete without a fire alarm interruption, of which there were 2--one just as I was about to get started, and one just as I was almost finished with the soup.Fire Alarm

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-8596528208409075102009-08-31T23:05:00.009-04:002010-05-26T02:42:24.466-04:00

I made banana bread in a microwave!! I'm really pleased it came out as well as it did. It's a cheater recipe, because I used a cake mix as a base, but whatever. I don't have any flour or sugar to make it from scratch. Besides, more importantly, I can bake in a microwave!! I think I've mentioned that the dormitories I'm in don't have ovens (if I haven't, there ya go). This greatly disappointed me,

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-16151909856669831462009-08-30T21:25:00.002-04:002009-08-30T21:47:44.014-04:00

Fire Alarm Count: 13Today we had 2 fire alarms literally within 30 minutes of each other. This is getting absurd. Yumi is not pleased.Furthermore, it has interfered with my cooking. E asked for my chicken teriyaki for dinner today. I can't tell you how happy I was that someone actually liked my cooking enough to specifically request something.But after the second fire alarm today, the dorm room

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-16223927985562359612009-08-30T03:37:00.009-04:002009-08-30T04:29:29.311-04:00

I would first like to congratulate the other inhabitants of my building for not setting off the fire alarm today.Second, yes, I am indeed making a post at 4 AM. The reason for this is because I am staying up atrociously late to boil water.Yes. That's right. Boiling water. Not even with an egg or two in the water. Just water. To drink. Because I have personally always felt that buying large

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By frying and adding butter. Yes. While I am not one of those people who cringe at the mention of leafy greens, fried food appeals to me so much more than rabbit food. You may remember that on the day I made linguine, I had some leftover okra and pasta...and today, since it was just The Boyfriend and me for dinner (Mi went home to beg her mom for more rice, and E went out to dinner with a cousin)

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-52663914509914003572009-08-28T10:32:00.015-04:002009-09-02T10:00:44.318-04:00

Okay, so I realize it's unusual for me to be making a post this early. You can blame this on the morons who live in my building, who managed to set off the fire alarm at 9 in the morning.Fire Alarm Count: 10On to the food. After trudging down 11 flights of stairs first thing in the morning, when I returned to my dormitory I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich. The simple grilled cheese is

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-27581335339764908522009-08-26T19:54:00.017-04:002010-05-26T02:46:57.642-04:00

Fire Alarm Count Thus Far: 6.In case you couldn't tell, it's really starting to piss me off. I mean, is it really so difficult to turn on a vent fan and open a window? Let me answer that for you. No. No it is not. Better yet, don't burn anything in the first place. I'm sure at this point, the NY Fire Department, who has come down every time the alarm has sounded, hates us and wishes we were dead.

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-39856890652329156312009-08-25T20:10:00.014-04:002009-08-28T21:20:50.325-04:00

It's been a few days since I've made a post. No, that does not mean I haven't eaten anything since my last post. I took the train back to my house to pick up a few things and slept over at The Boyfriend's house with a few friends, and my diet on those days consisted mainly of Philly's cheese steak and Papa John's pizza.I would like to take this moment to crown Papa John's as the best restaurant/

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-76674126653832445412009-08-23T00:48:00.006-04:002009-08-28T21:31:02.296-04:00

I can see this is going to become a regular thing. All the better.Today after Orientation ended, Mi, E, and I stumbled upon a farmer's market on the way back to our dormitory. It's an odd concept for me, chancing upon vegetable/foodstuffs stalls in the middle of the city, because...I mean, would you expect to find people hawking fish and produce in the middle of NYC?Well, maybe you do. I suppose

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-14009860828308808492009-08-21T22:04:00.006-04:002009-08-28T21:21:31.593-04:00

Super-quick post, and I have no photos...sorry. I forgot.Today, Mi, E, and I went to Koreantown. No, not Chinatown. Koreantown. Yes, I know, I was surprised too. But apparently it exists. Anyway, we went to stock up on essentials--laundry detergent, dish soap, and the like. We also picked up some basic food supplies--eggs, butter, scallions, soy sauce (we're Asian, okay?), sesame oil, and kimchi.

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...NOT. In my defense, I would have eaten like a college student today, had my mother not forgotten to pack the Top Ramen I had been meant to take with me to college. As it were, I was left with a bag of rice and limitless options. In the end, my suitemates Mi and E and I wandered out to the Japanese & Thai restaurant on the street corner and bought a miso-glazed salmon steak for $15. Kind of a

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-10081864656596521662009-08-18T11:03:00.029-04:002010-05-25T02:39:55.494-04:00

Alright, so...originally, this was not supposed to be a picnic day. My friends N (the same friend that didn't make it for D&D), C, and I were supposed to go to the aquarium today. I made an Event for it on Facebook and everything. But through a series of incidents (read: we couldn't get the car for the day) that wasn't able to happen. So we're having a picnic by the Fountain of Freedom (better

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-59926493583163956912009-08-08T07:42:00.028-04:002009-08-18T13:56:39.299-04:00

Okay, so first I would like to say...I've been lazy. I should have posted this yesterday, which is when I made these. In fact, I was so determined to have some baked goods on Friday's Dungeons and Dragons meeting (Hurrah for nerd pride) that I dragged my ass out of bed at 7AM during my summer vacation (I'm still a student so this is a big deal--I've been sleeping on a nocturnal schedule since

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-18450188653041590162009-07-25T00:26:00.009-04:002009-07-25T02:02:09.592-04:00

Okay, so I actually got some pretty good food today--homemade Philly cheese steak, courtesy of my dad. Of course, I was too stupid to take a photo of it before I consumed it in a manner that can only be described as "voracious"; I was hungry, dammit! Oh well. There's some leftover steak filling in the fridge, so if I manage to get to it before my brother I'll attempt to re-create the

Yumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706919572988917430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818805688165531081.post-27986648858655461772009-07-21T21:06:00.000-04:002009-07-22T20:54:12.678-04:00

The creation of this blog stemmed entirely from my discovery of Tammy Donroe's blog Food on the Food, which I loved because it gathered together some of my favorite things--food, dirty humor, and food, just to name a few. From there I branched off into various food blogs, which eventually took up enough space on my browser toolbar that I relegated them into their own folder. I am always open to

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