1.19.2009

Some Kind of Yakisoba

I have this habit of buying those little cookbook magazines that you find in store checkout lines. My most recent one is "Chinese Favorites", which included a recipe for "Soba Stir-Fry". I've been wanting to find a decent recipe for yakisoba and, despite the fact that it doesn't contain Worcestershire sauce or tonkatsu sauce, this one is actually pretty good.

Like most recipes, I modified this from the original to fit my tastes and what was in my kitchen. The original calls for shiitake mushrooms, red peppers, and bok choy, none of which I like. It also calls for tofu, which never turns out right when I try to cook it. Add whatever meat and vegetables you want, it's still good. :)

Tasty noodles!
The Recipe:
- 8 ounces uncooked noodles (I used two blocks of ramen)
- assorted vegetables of your choice in whatever amount you want
- 1 Tbsp. cooking oil
- 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp. minced garlic
- 1/2 c. chicken broth
- 2 Tbsp. tamari or soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp. mirin
- 2 tsp. corn starch
- 2 thinly sliced green onions

1. Cook noodles as you normally would. Drain and set aside.
2. Heat the oil in a large pan or wok. Add the vegetables, red pepper flakes, and garlic. Cook until the vegetables are tender.
3. Combine chicken broth, tamari, rice wine, and cornstarch in a small bowl. Stir sauce into the vegetable mixture, and cook until thickened (about 2 minutes).
4. Add noodles and stir until coated with sauce and heated through. Top with green onion slices.

1.12.2009

The Corg


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1.02.2009

New Year, New Title, Same Outlook on Life

I can't believe it's 2009 already.

This blog now has a real title instead of the lame placeholder one: "I Make Stuff." Because... well... that's what I do. Jewelry, lunches, hats, drawings, I've always been happiest when I'm making something.

In addition to the usual New Year's resolutions (eat better, exercise more, lose weight, continue to not chew my fingernails), I'm starting a year-long project of taking at least one picture every day. It's good practice, and by the end of the year I might have gained the ability to look at the world with a photographer's eye.

Sadly, though, I considered today my "first" day of the new year and my resolutions since all I did yesterday was sit around on my butt and play Dokapon Kingdom. Oops.