Jan-chan’s Tidbits

Over the weekend Al and I went shopping for qi pao (Chinese dress/gown). Aside from the traditional designs, the have lots of different style now which I don’t really think it’s all that pretty. We went to Richmond as well as Chinatown to look for them. The ones at Richmond didn’t offer that much selection and are more expensive. Out of the two in Chinatown, the ones at K.K. Boutique has more variety and offers the custom made option, which is nice because qi pao looks very weird if it’s not fitted.

Since I’m buying one for the wedding, I have to wear one that is red.  I tried to cheat and picked one that is a darker shade of red and has black dragons on it but was told it wasn’t appropriate for weddings. The sales there made me try on ones that are in bright red and I looked like those red Chinese sausages… Read More

The first time I’ve made this meat sauce was during cooking class in high school. I remember it was in Gr. 8 and I hated cooking back then because it seems like there are so much work. Look what happened in less than 10 years?! I’m writing about my kitchen experiments.

This tomato meat sauce is really easy to make. So easy that I don’t even have a recipe written down for it (I think I threw away my notes from cooking class already). There is minimal chopping and all you really need to know is how to use a can opener. Read More

Alright so for Valentine’s Day I made lasagna (see Lasagna Battle) which I’ve practiced before. It turned out pretty nicely with ground turkey instead of ground beef. For dessert, I attempted to make vanilla poached pears (picture above). Read More

Alright here is the picture of my glasses as promised. And here’s a photo of the side with the little sparkle thingie I was talking about in the earlier post. Read More

Well CNY is almost over (or maybe it is over, I forgot how many days the celebration lasts) but Valentine’s Day is almost here. I’ll be making the lasagna and the cake earlier so I don’t have to fuss over it after work on Thursday. A little nervous as I haven’t really cooked for Al’s family but meh, if they don’t like it, it’s even better. That means I won’t have to cook for them…again. :3

Anyways, a few interesting thing had happened since the start of February. Read More