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10 March 2004 - Dinner with An Asian Flair Today was my day off from work (I love days off now that I am actually working again) and I spent most of it cleaning the apartment and trying to make marzipan turn black without black food colouring. Don't ask...really. But if you simply must know, it is for the cake I'm going to make for my dad for his birthday this weekend. I thought a marzipan black lab would be a nice added touch. Let's hope it works out! Anyway, by the time S. got home from work (and drove me to the library to drop off a rather large load of cookbooks I had borrowed a few weeks ago) I was pretty tired. Though, needless to say I did want to actually cook something so that I could have another entry -- an entry that didn't include cake, that is. S. was also willing to help me out and he came up with the idea of making the veggies for the side-dish. Since I was making Wasabi-Crusted Chicken for dinner he thought it would be nice to have Tempura Vegetables, which I thought would be a perfect side-dish. He set out everything I needed for the chicken and and cut up the veggies while I rested for a little while more on the couch, watching Oprah...ah, that is the life! Dinner was pretty good -- Anglicized food with an Asian-flair, I think...but not all that Asian, to be honest. The chicken was good, but hardly qualified as Japanese, even with the Wasabi-powder and breadcrumb coating. THe veggies were quite good, although I think mostly what they caused was a severe craving for sushi...oh well...better luck next time, hmm? |