January 7, 2013

• Iron Chef Van

  For my mom’s birthday my older siblings voted for me to cook since they got this idea in their head that I’m some wild chef in Seattle and they were feeling left out. For the last 24 years of my life, I have never once cooked for my family because they are picky and not  nice and have high standards because my mom is a bomb ass cook. And it’s not like I can make anything that they have not already eaten a real version of (unlike in Seattle where my cuisine is different than theirs). 

  So I brainstormed and decided to cook Hot Pot! 

  
  I made sure to buy the best ingredients! I did not skimp or go for the cheap stuff. I went for the break the bank ingredients. Pea shoots, spinach, mushroom, bok choy, jumbo shrimp, salmon, clams, wild scallops, pre sliced beef, onions, and garlic, ALL FOR LESS THAN $50. LOL Asian grocery store shopping win. Enough for 6 grown adult to stuff themselves for dinner plus for mom and I to eat again the next day for lunch. 

  It took me maybe 1.5 hours to THOROUGHLY wash and cut up everything. I was soaked up to my shoulders in cold water. But worth it! No one came out right to compliment me (bastards) but they did make comments about how different the scallops tastes than usual, and ate tons of it. I think everyone ate until they could not breathe anymore. The next day my mom finally said I did such a good job with the vegetables because they were so fresh and clean. 

  The only thing I needed help with was my mom had to make the broth and the dipping sauce, which is like practically the whole meal -____- Lol  baby steps okay!? 

  The broth was just onions, garlic, chicken broth powder, and water. 

  The dipping sauce is a  ”fish sauce vinaigrette.” Sounds fancy huh?! Lol fish sauce, sugar, lemon juice, vinegar, and water. 

  Oh, and apparently you’re not supposed to wash the beef slice. Who knew? Lol

  Afterwards, we had cake and I made everyone take pictures with my mom. They act tortured now but I bet you they’ll be so happy 20 years from now to have pictures with mum. 

   

  As you can see we have plenty of living room space that we clutter up with junk. All of my shit. My sewing kits, my christmas tree stuff, my home office equipment, I bet there is nothing you can’t find if you needed it at my house. Poor mommy always cleaning up after my “projects.” Lol once in high school someone described my house as homely. As in everyone feels at home at my house. : D

  Oh yea, for Christmas I took my mom to do a mother/daughter photo shoot with a professional photographer who specializes in women. And it turned out SOOOOOOOOOOOO bomb! I’ll share the photos with you guys later!! 

  I think that’s all the cooking posts I will have for a while. I am happy to not cooking anything for a long time. 

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