zucchini pancakes- the front and back

OK I’m really excited about this. Seriously. It’s yummier than it sounds… or looks.

I’m still in the process of finishing off raw materials mum bought from the market… Of the stuff I have in the fridge, is a bag of zucchinis… it’s been a while. It was gonna go bad! I’m not a big zucchini fan (Eat it, but i dont LOVE it). In fact in my 2.5 years here I’ve NEVER bought zucchini because I have this voice in my head telling me I won’t like it. But surprisingly, was really yummy when cooked this way. I’ve never actually tried it, but I remember mummy telling me sometime ago about ‘zucchini pancake’ she was having for dinner… Never found out exactly how to make them, but here’s my rendition of it.

1 zucchini, grated
2 eggs
a splash of milk (about 1/4 cup)
some self-raising flour… a bit less than 1/4 cup
some salt

mix all together… and cook as you’d cook pancakes. (adjust amount of milk and flour to your preferance… if you like fat pancakes then maybe you can add more flour~)

Trust me, you should give it a go! Even my bro didn’t complain about it. Haha.

I’m gonna be a little more hardworking next time and maybe add in more ingredients… its a little plain.

(and now I’m going to sleep… and study MCBT tomorrow morning. ><)

23.08.09

What the fish.

1 week I’m moody like Alastor. The next day I’m happy like the penguin’s feet. What is up with the crazy mood swings??

Then there’s the problem with concentration. I’ve constantly got songs stuck in my head so I’m singing along to songs rather than actually reading my notes. But every time I sit down I feel my head spinning in circles anyway which makes it impossible to concentrate. And then there’s the problem of always wanting to CHEW something. Strangely enough, nothing seems to satisfy that need to eat. I’ve tried biscuits, fruits, chips, gum and even chocolate! And nothing works… I feel like a mad woman. =.=”

I got tests coming up. Seriously. Start concentrating already Pleeeaseeee!

supposed to study before work tonight.

but the library closed earlier than i thought it would. Came home and couldnt concentrate anymore

ended up playing music, cooking and youtube-ing…

and now it’s time for work!

see y’all tomorrow…

I had planned to go to Qantas office on friday. but friday i got lazy so i said i’d go on monday. Today’s tuesday and I still haven’t made my way there. I BETTER GET MY FLIGHTS BOOKED SOON!

But you see… the rain wont stop. it’s cold and windy and RAINY. So I try my best to stay indoors and not walk all the way to the qantas office.

Actually no. That’s not the only reason (technically i could hop on a 99C bus and it’ll take me there…) But i also don’t want to take up my studying time to go to qantas. not that im using that time very wisely.. but someone like me needs a long time to really start concentrating. either that, or i start strong then 3 pages later I’m staring into blank space again. =.=” So basically i need time to study.

Bah…

I need to book my return flight, I need to study pharmaco mcbt and ap, i need to respond to MASCA’s emails about MC, I need to plan our meeting, and i’ve got work.

matiler…

Oh ya… and guess what? Now not only MUM is on facebook. PAPA IS ON FACEBOOK TOO! What’s happening to the world…

After class today at 5pm, I went for cake with YS. Something we said we wanted to do since the last time we were at scoozi together with Ek and BS way back in uhm… May?

We were eating and chatting when YS spotted a couple of his friends (a couple of sporean adults actually…) and they were really friendly people and talkative too and they were going to have dinner there so somehow they joined us and sat at our table… it was a little round table! so the seating was me, the man, ys, the lady…  it was weird! Anyway, like i said they were quite talkative so we talked about random stuff including Osteoarthritis (!? strangely enough… we JUST had an OA lecture today) cuz YS was doing research in bone growth and development. o.O anyway, so after YS and i finished our cake and sat for a while with them, YS had to go for dinner with his friends, and I had a movie to go to at 6…  so sad lah. my little evening out with YS got interrupted… you know, theres some friends we have that we dont hang out with very often so its nice to meet up to have a nice chat with them once a while. And when thats interrupted its um… well, i wont say it was unpleasant, the couple were very nice, but its just not really nice.

Anyway, after that i went to watch a movie with the guys from work and Vishal! who just came back from Uluru after being there for about half a year. We watched Inglourious basterds. Which Rad convinced me it was going to be a good movie, and brad pitt was in it… so i went but I DIDNT LIKE IT! movie about ppl who hunt down nazis who go around killing jews and arh.. i dont know. i got a bit of mixed feelings about the movie. it’s really gripping, and really good in a way… but its really gruesome! And its the whole tension and knowing people are going to die and all that that I hate in a movie. So it was a good movie, but i didnt like it.

Then Rad went off to work, and the rest of us went for dinner at cafe primo and sherry joined us after a while.

And that was my day.

agh. darn you. wasted my quota. was a 57 slide lecture!

I needed some sort of therapy on Wednesday…

I happened to be flipping channels on TV and came across this guy who was showing us how to cook this… thing. I kinda missed the beginning, so I don’t know what it was called. I swear I heard him call it ‘tart’ once but I dont see how it’s a tart… Since it looks like a quiche to me, that’s what I’ll call it. Mushroom and chicken quiche!

Mum bought fresh basil when she came, and we had about half a packet left in the fridge, so when I saw the chef using the fresh basil, I figured, what better way to use up my basil right?? Plus i had almost all of the other ingredients~ Plus cooking is pretty therapeutic! (on top of that I get to go shopping for some ingredients and shopping is therapeutic too!)

So i started with this:

Ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, mushrooms, chicken, fresh basil, shallots(?? spring onions? the label said shallots but i thought shallots were those little red onions~) and parmesan cheese.

The chef on tv used frozen pastry sheets, but Woolies didn’t seem to have shortcrust pastry… So I pulled out my recipe book and randomly used one of their recipes for the crust for quiches~ (strangely enough there’s a number of diff ones but i dont know what the difference is)

And I ended up with this!

chicken and mushroom quiche

But um… I think I didn’t have enough pastry. So the bottom was quite thin… and I guess that made it a little soggy (juices from the chicken and mushroom and stuff) and it STUCK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAN!

Which resulted in this…

crumbly crust... broke when I tried transferring it :(

 Oh well. Overall, I’m quite happy with it

You see, the truth is- I don’t care.

I know it’s not easy on your side. It’s not meant to be easy. I made it even more difficult. Obviously. I think we all know that.

I’m not a big ‘apology’ person. If you knew me well enough you know I hate being wrong. So therefore I’m always right. And if I’m right, there’s no need for me to apologise. Unless I really cared about you of course, then I’d go against my nature and really apologise. When I say I’m sorry I really meant it. I don’t like saying things I don’t mean.

So for someone like you, chances of getting an apology from me is pretty damn slim. Too bad. You just gotta live with it.

Everything- by Michael Buble. It’s such a pretty song.

Here’s a cover by singindork888. He’s amazing, especially on the guitar. He’s one of my favouritest people to watch on youtube… not that I’m on youtube very much. But here: Enjoy.

<3

Have I mentioned this guy is a pharmacist?

Why don’t they make guys like this at UniSA?