boozeday toozeday #9 – Asahi, potato mochi and Easy Teriyaki Chicken Wings

Disclaimer: Here Comes the Food Boozeday Toozeday posts are intended for responsible adults of the legal drinking age. If you are under the legal drinking age (Drinking kills; Ninja-robot-dancing skills) please cover your eyes and scroll down until all the ‘bad stuff’ has gone from your screen. We DO NOT smile upon underage drinking, drinking and driving and alcohol abuse unlike our mascot (but he smiles at anything -__-). Please drink in moderation and with caution and most importantly, enjoy ^^!

For those who don’t know already, I love everything Japanese (well almost everything) and I shout it loud and proud. I am a Japanese-wannabe. From their cuisine to their anime and manga and their extreme fashion trends to all their weird and wonderful inventions (Chindoogu). I think you guys will agree with me that whoever came up with butterstick is a genius! Then there is their world of electronics and technology… say hai to R2-D2s alcoholic twin – the Asahi BEER ROBOT! A robot that stores and serves your a cool and refreshing beverage on demand, I want one! Hee hee but this brings us to good old Asahi Super Dry. Here Comes the Booze Read the rest of this entry »

Boozeday Toozeday #6 – Bunhae Bokbunjajoo and Korean pancake

Disclaimer: Here Comes the Food Boozeday Toozeday posts are intended for responsible adults of the legal drinking age. If you are under the legal drinking age please cover your eyes and scroll down until all the ‘bad stuff’ has gone from your screen. We DO NOT smile upon underage drinking, drinking and driving and alcohol abuse unlike our mascot (but he smiles at anything -__-). Please drink in moderation and with caution and most importantly, enjoy ^^!

Sorry for the lateness and simplicity of this post but due to crazy amount of uni work (why they like to give you all the work in one go I have no idea) I have have not been able to take some proper photographs and try out the recipes I had in mind. Then good old Optus decided to cap me (yay) so uploading and importing photos have at least tripled in time required. However I did manage to squeeze in some “research” time with a good Korean friend of mine. No, not Simon but Bohae Bokbunjajoo. Here Comes the Booze.

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Home Cooking: Risotto with Scallops from Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Heaven

When was your first time cooking risotto? How did you feel after standing over the hot stove for over 40 minutes showing it the same amount of tender-loving-care you show one of your loved ones? How was the first spoonful of your final creation?

I had always thought risotto was ones of those dishes that take years and years of practice to just scrape up an edible version so I had not even thought of attempting it. But the truth is you don’t really know what something is like until you actually try it. Therefore I entered the battlefield, armed to the teeth with a recipe book and necessary (and unnecessary) ingredients, Here Comes the Food. Read the rest of this entry »