Taro Taro Goodness

Weather: Dark, clear sky, and it's hot.
Feelings: Tired
Mood: I wanna shower

I did something for the first time today. No, not cook taro for the first time. I bought something with the intention to sell. Well, I bought things to sell a couple times already but those are different. Those were cheaper and I know for sure I'll make something out of it, if only 10 or 20 bucks but I know for sure. This time it's a lot of money and I initiated the purchase myself. Oh well, I have 14 days to sell it otherwise I can return it and get a refund. So no risk at all. That's why I bought it in the first place. ^_^  <-- Does that make me look...ummm...what's that controversial term? LOL

I cooked 3 things after I got out of work today. Took me a whole 1 hour and 40 minutes. That's including preparing, cooking, and cleaning. I'll post only one of those dishes today and maybe I'll post the other dishes tomorrow or the next day, if I remember. It's basically a taro soup.

I call this dish: Taro Taro Goodness
Recipes:

About half a dozen taro

About half a cup of dried shrimps

Salt, sugar, pepper, mushroom powder or MSG if you prefer that

Directions:
Add the dried shrimps to water and cook them in a pot.* This will be the broth.
Peel the taro, wash, and cut them into small pieces or any size you want.
Add the taro to the broth.
Season it and wait til the taro turn soft. Season again if needed.

This will make about 4-5 portions. Cooking this alone, preparing, cleaning and all that junk, will take approximately 20 minutes. Enjoy!!

Dang! Took me longer to post this than to cook that taro. Ok, time for that shower!!

*****Tips*****
I like to cut up my dried shrimps and leave it in a hot cup of water for a while, while I peel and cut up the taro. This will ensure your broth tastes better.

Some people like to add "rau om" or whatever it's called to the soup. I admit, it does make it tastes better. I would buy a bunch of it and only use about 5 of them and then throw away the rest. It's cheap but that is such a waste. It's not "that" much better anyway to be wasting like that.
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Mi Tum Lum

Weather: Nice and sunny, probably hot outside, haven't gone out.
Feelings: Don't know, lazy I guess, not bored but lazy.

The usual lazy sunday...slept til noon, woke up do nothing, eat, watch stuff online (south park this time) and waste my day. Oh, I did manage to iron my jeans and my shirts today though so that's a big plus.

Stupid fruit fly flying around. Makes me wanna chase *slap*, damn missed!, it and kill it.

 

Eating this right now. It's not that good and it supposed to be seedless but it has all these small seeds...very annoying. And I pay 6 bucks for it too!!

Damn, this blog thing sucks, all twitchy...like it has to buffer before it let me do anything.

Made that yesterday and still eating it today...and tomorrow too, still have, maybe, 3 more portions left.

I'll call this dish: Mi Tum Lum
Recipes - broth: :

One package of pork bones

Two carrots

One giant turnip

One onion

One can of quail eggs

One can of whole straw mushrooms

One dozen shrimps*

One dozen pieces of chicken gizzards*

One optional can of chicken broth

Recipes - veggies, others:

One bunch of lettuce

One package of bean sprout

Cilantro, chives, lemon, chilli, etc...look at the pictures

Any veggies you like to eat

One bag of egg noodles

 

Directions - broth:

Cook the pork bones for a long time..around 1.5 hrs, longer if you want.*  I like to add about 1 teaspoon of salt, sugar, mushroom powder, and some pepper to cook during this time. To add a little flavor to the meat/bone.
Cut the carrots and turnip into little pieces, like the picture, and put it into the pot with the bones...cook some more. Don't forget the mushrooms.
Put the chicken gizzards in as well. Cook for another 30 minutes.
At this time put the shrimps in. They don't take long to cook.
Use whatever ingredients you like to flavor the broth...I usually only use 4 things...mushroom power, salt, sugar, and pepper.

Directions - Veggies:
Wash carefully any part you wish to eat.

Directions - egg noodles:
Bring a pot of water to boil.
Put in the egg noodles.
Stir it occasionally so it will go soft evenly.
When it's almost how soft you like it then dump it out into a meshed container.*
Wash with cold running water.
Let it dry up, occasionally mix it up so it doesn't stick together like a blob.

******Tips******
For any type of meat, wash and pre-boil it. Meaning put it into a pot and bring it to boiling point and take it off the stove and wash it with cold water. This takes off crap on/in the meat.

Preparing any type of noodle, when you leave it in the pot up to the point of softness you want then it's too late. It'll always be too soft when you take off the stove. So take it off when it's a little hard.

When cooking any broth, make sure you occasionally get rid of the crap that gathers on top of the broth. This makes the brother look clearer at the end.

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Time for me to do something else...maybe to go the mall or swimming. Maybe a little cooking too. I need food to eat for the next few days.

P.S. Don't criticize my cooking too much. I am a trial-error experimental cook after all.