April 24, 2013

• More Pictures.. of FOOD!

  Since I’ve officially become a housewife, I try to be a good one by cooking!! Every recipe is my first time because I’ve never cooked prior to living with Won! 

  

  I made Quesadilla! Wish I took some pictures of the process because it was surprisingly really yummy. Portabello mushroom with spinach sauteed with steak! Inside a cheesy quesadilla!! <3 <3 

  
  Chicken wings in Char Siu sauce and honey. My sister in law taught me how to make this back when I used to bum around at my brother’s house. With boiled broccoli! So happy I did not over cook it, my first time too!

  Last night I was craving some clam boil,  and remembered how yummy the crawfish etouffee I had in San Francisco last week was. So.. I decided to make it cajun night!!

  
  I normally do not like corn but it is one of my favorite ingredients in cajun food. The sweetness is so yummy in the spicy hot dish!

  
  LOTS of little ingredients. Anyone want half an onion, half a jalapeno, half a bell pepper, half a parsley, half a celery, half a garlic? The leftover ingredients is so annoying! BTW, I cried the WHOLE time. Sad me!! I hate onion.

   
  Simmer with shrimp shell for 1 hour to make stock. It’s a lot of work for what it’s worth, I’ll tell you that much. BUYING cajun food from the restaurant is well worth the money for your time. That is the ingredients being strained to get the stock.

  
  That’s the pot of stock in the back. Voila!! And in front is the etoufee! Etoufee is flour mixed in lard (I used butter) and the 1000000x little ingredients and your previously made stock. It’s kinda like a seafood gravy.

  
  Pretty fresh flowers from Jenny’s mom’s garden. Fresh flowers help brighten up the kitchen and not make me feel like I am slaving away. And Pinky, who follows me every single step of the way, waiting for me to drip or drop a morsel for her to help “clean up” with her tongue. 

  

  Last ingredients are shrimp and tobasco sauce for a kick!

  
  Butter, the main ingredient in Cajun. At least I’m not using LARD!!! 

  

  Our crawfish and clam and sausage boil with butter, garlic, orange juice, and Zatarains!! 

  
  Over boxed mashed potatoes! I would have made it from scratch with real potatoes and all but Won INSISTED on how much he loves boxed potatoes. 

   

  All plated!! YUMMY!!!! 

  And to make you drool some more… Jenny came up to visit her family and they took me to casino buffet for King Crab night (for free)!! AHHHHHHHHHHH YUMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was my first time going to a casino. I lost $10 gambling Nevermind it was Jenny’s $10 I lost. At least $5 was given to us for free from the casino. Do you know for $10 I could bought a ticket to go oyster farming ALL DAY at the Oyster festival. Yet here I threw away $10 by pressing a button for 2 minutes. I hate gambling. 

  
  I ate soooo much I spent the rest of the evening concentrating on not throwing up.

  
  Never before seen, Won’s custom wedding band!!! Very simple, very unique! This is the picture we got back from the CAD, which I am assuming is some computer program that uses your specification to design the mold for the ring so they can make it! It’s a ring jacket to match MY wedding band. What is a ring jacket you ask? Imagine two rings fused together but with a space in between for my engagement ring, like a.. jacket!! Get it?! For my ring, we ordered two diamond bands and going to have them bridged together around my engagement ring! And so I wanted Won’s to reflect the double band too, that is how we came up with his design. VERY excited to see it all come together! And more excited to actually get to wear it!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

  And here is an obnoxious kiss to end the post!   

  

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