頑張ッてま～すゥ　ハイッ　ｖ（＾＿＾）ｖ

tagged by squallina

RULES:
-Copy to your own journal, with all twelve months under a lj-cut
-Pick your birth month and copy it above the lj-cut
-Strike out anything that doesn't apply to you
-Bold the five-ten that best apply to you
-Tag friends

JUNE: Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite and soft-spoken. Having ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly (SOMEWHAT). Knows how to make friends (I HOPE SO). Able to show character. Easily hurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious (not really). Executive (????). Stubborn.


( Click for all 12 months )

TAGGING:
Anyone who wants to have a go :D

So today I cooked meatballs.
There was quite a bit of minced meat leftover in my fridge and I didn't want to keep it any longer in case it'd spoil.
(I had to throw away a packet of gyoza the other day cause it grew mould even though I put it in the fridge all the time)
I've never made meatballs in my life but I figured it can't be /that/ hard, can it? 


Plus I love Hee Peow Soup (Fish Maw Soup; pictured above) a Peranakan dish that basically has fishballs, meatballs, fish maw, bamboo shoots (or turnip? I think Bamboo) and cabbages. The meatballs usually have finely chopped mushrooms inside and sometimes turnip (or bamboo shoots I'm not sure) and taste chunky and are a whole lot of yum. 

Anyway, I googled and found some meatball recipes, the spaghetti kind, and most say to put breadcrumbs and egg and milk and stuff. (I pretty much winged it when I cooked mine.) So I brought the egg down and my mushrooms and the meat and the other stuff for cooking. Here are the meatballs I made:


I don't like fried stuff right now because my throat is pretty much dying and frying things make me cringe. Cooked it in miso soup. I've been having soups/non deep fried things for the past few days. I had about 1/2 (or slightly more, maybe 2/3) of the packet of minced meat left in the fridge. It made about 13 rather big meatballs. (Roughly 4cm in diameter) And they're yum yum.

Here's how I made them:

Ingredients:
- Minced Pork (I always buy pork cause it's the best value for money at the supermarket)
- Garlic (finely diced, how fine depends on your preference or Garlic Powder)
- Pepper (I used black pepper)
- Soy Sauce (I guess Salt would be fine, but I just like soy sauce) 
- Basil (the finely chopped dried ones in bottles; I think you can just use whatever herbs you like)
- Shiitake Mushrooms (diced [no need to be too fine], I chopped up two, depends on how much meat you have/how much you want)

Mix all the above together. In a bowl is best, but I just mixed it on the styrofoam tray the minced meat was packed in. I used my hands to mix cause it's more fun/easier. Try and mix the garlic and mushrooms as evenly as you can into the meat so that each meatball will be equally as yummy as the other! 

I cooked the meatballs in Miso Soup. You can just use chicken broth or whatever. Before mixing the ingredients you might want to start heating up the soup/broth you're cooking the meatballs in.
Anyway, next, using your dominant hand, squish/scoop up a fair amount of the mix into your hand.
Roll it on the palm of your other hand into a ball. Drop into the soup/water. Do the same for the rest of the mix till it's gone. 
The meatballs will more or less be done when they start floating. I ate a small one to check when it was done. Bigger meatballs take longer to cook, be sure to check or the outside will be cooked and the inside uncooked and icky. 

I bit into one and the basil is yum yum. Would be great for cooking with spaghetti. (Just cook them in spaghetti sauce, tomato IMO is best, though cream would be yums too) My meatballs turned out pretty round and awesome. 8D

Here is a not so yummy picture of my brunch, Soumen.

I bought my ticket today. 18000yen. 



Marked in red is my seat. It's not the worst seat, but it's not the best either. 
Does it look quite far away now??? 
:( Idk if I should ask around for binoculars
3 MONTHS TILL MOON SAGA!!!!

EDIT: I'm pretty much going for the 26th August, 18:30 Show. IT'S SOLD OUT. I'll prolly go on the 19th then. And watch 24 Hour TV the next weekend. 

Okay so.
I really wanna go for Gackt's stageplay, MOON SAGA.
To go for the 19th August 1st performance in Osaka or to go for the 26th August last performance of the play itself...? Tickets are 8000yen, 13000yen and 18000yen :(
I'm probably getting the 8000yen one. Heck, let's go for 18000yen. the 8000yen ones are horribly far behind and require binoculars.
It's at the Umeda Arts Theatre about 10minutes from Hankyuu Umeda Station. MOON SAGA is listed on their website.

Anyone wanna go too? Idk if it'll be worth it to splurge more just to be able to see Gackt more clearly.... (I'm kinda leaning toward watching the 26th August final show)

More info: http://www.dmm.com/moonsaga/
Ticketing: http://l-tike.com/play/moonsaga/