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[recipe] Chinese hot pot

Posted on November 21, 2015November 22, 2015 By admin

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Hot pot soup broth

Soup bones
Chicken
Carrots
Celeri
Ginger
Onions
Tomato slices

Cut the chicken into large chunks. Clean chicken chunks, and pig bones. Cut ginger into slices, tomato into slices, scallions into sections, carrots into cubes and celery into small section.

Prepare a pot or wok with enough water. Bring the water to a boiling. And add chicken and pig bones in. Turn down the fire and cook the blood water out. Transfer out and wash with warm water.

Clean your pot or prepare another one.  Add enough water. Return the chicken and pig bones back. Add ginger slices, carrot cubes, scallions sections and tomato slices in to. Add 3 teaspoon salt or as needed.

Bring all the content to a boiling and then turn down the fire to simmer for around 40 minutes to 1 hour.

To make a spicy hot pot broth:

1. Follow the steps above to make a clear version of hot pot broth.

2. Prepare a small piece of ginger, 1 teaspoon of Sichuan Peppercorn, 1 tablespoon dried chili pepper or sambal oelek, several star anise, several chunks of cassia bark, 1/2 teaspoon of fennel. Cut ginger and garlic into slices.

Prepare a wok, heat up some cooking oil. Add ginger to stir-fry for about 2 minutes. Then add other spices in.

Pour the clear version soup base introduced above to the wok. Turn down the fire to simmer for about 20 to 40 minutes until you can smell the aroma of the spices. Then start our lovely hot pot journey.

We put in:
Homemade meatballs
Sliced cod filet
Sliced beef rump steak
Sliced chicken breast
Sliced Chinese cabbage
Corn on the segments
Quick cook ramen noodles

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Word of the day

Posted on November 20, 2015 By admin

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Pavel is a dumbass cat

Posted on November 15, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin

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Katy is sweeping the cat. Not small prods, but full-time brush sweeps. Cat just stays there, seems to enjoy it…

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Vogue! Strike a pose!

Posted on November 15, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin


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The most wonderful time of the year

Posted on November 15, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin

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Animatronic reindeer singing Sinatra…. Need more gin.

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[recipe] Frozen coffee and Baileys

Posted on November 15, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin

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Must try this!

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Late night in Lausanne

Posted on November 13, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin

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It’s the bean’s birthday and we went to dinner at Da Carlo’s. Nice walk on the way back to the car.

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Blue sweetie or red sweetie. Choose wisely.

Posted on November 13, 2015November 16, 2015 By admin

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Just remember, the first hit is free. The rest is pay for play :)

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Martin Beaupre in Morges, take 2

Posted on November 13, 2015 By admin

For the second time in as many years, I had the privilege to meet Martin Beaupré last night at the Midnight Sun gallery, in Morges, where he was doing another live painting exhibition. Whereas last year he did the two-handed upside-down painting demonstration, this year he presented how he started his works, with 3 blank canvases.

More things I learned:

  • He never runs out of ideas because he never has any ideas on what his paintings will be like to begin with.
  • He never paints while he has any negative emotion. He might do some side borders, or go running.
  • Once he has a formline, he’ll turn the canvas until he sees something that works. Maybe it’ll be a geisha, maybe it’ll be a landscape.
  • He never throws out a canvas. If something doesn’t work, he’ll paint it black and do a night scene.
  • He’ll start with acrylic and paste, then switch to oils.
  • He works on so many canvases at once because he finds it difficult to know when to stop. The interrupt required by letting layers dry and moving on to another painting helps him decide when it’s “done”.


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Our classy cats

Posted on November 12, 2015November 13, 2015 By admin

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I mean, come on, you’re not even attempting to be dignified here…

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