Cooking and FFXI!
Aug. 25th, 2006 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserFirst, cooking! Amazingly, for the first time ever, I cooked something and it didn't suck! The sweet and sour sauce I was planning didn't come out 100% perfect, but it was interesting and good enough to eat. Next time I'll try a little less vinegar (I might have added a little too much this time, I thought I remembered you couldn't put it in metal, and the only measuring cup I had of the right size was metal, so I used my next smaller (plastic) one and estimated the difference), and a whole lot more cornstarch (it was hardly thicker than water, and I wanted it thick like... um, oh wow. I totally forgot to put the ketchup in. Heh! I wonder what sort of difference in taste that would have made.
There's so much of the sauce left! I wish I could figure out something to do with the rest... The oddest thing about it though: The taste made me think of meat with every bite! So strange! I kept looking down to make sure someone hadn't slipped steak onto my plate. :P I have no clue at all why it had such a meaty taste -- my tastebuds must be totally out of wack. Sugar, white vinegar, pineapple juice, soy sauce, and cornstarch. Nothing in that should taste meaty, I think...
Oh, and I almost bought white wine vinegar instead of just white vinegar. I couldn't find it without the "wine" in the name, and had no clue if there was a difference between them or not. Then I spotted a bottle!
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FFXI: Eeee! Awwww! Baby chocobos are just too darned cute! They look up at you and waggle happily! Or they sit up and look at you! I took mine for a walk, and don't we make a funny pair? A cute little tiny baby bird and a guy dressed in black metal with a sword as big as he is. Hee!
I was hoping it was going to be born a girl, because I had the perfect girl-name picked out (Melody Dancing), but it turned out to be a boy, so I went with the porn star-esque:
We had two level one Besiegeds today, and the undead one was so so so much fun! We had a LS party, and kept taking advantage of each other when someone was charmed. (So happy PLDs have MP! I aspired so much! Heh heh heh!) One of the PLDs tried to get revenge for me stealing his MP, but he failed because he sucks!
Amusingly, I was attacking friends in LSs we work with. I hadn't even known he was here, then next thing I see:
Hee!
I had FIVE PC kills tonight! Woo!
Totally not my fault (done while I was charmed), which makes it "okay". :D I don't know what it is about PCs, but I almost always crit on them. Woo! Such a powerful feeling to kill people. Heh!
Aurian waiting to pounce on the first unsuspecting male to pass below her~.
And last but not least, I noticed that my wallpaper turned a year old yesterday! o.O I don't think I've ever used the same wallpaper for a whole year before! But the colors are so pretty and the hat looks so good with my armor! (Warning: Larger than usual screenshot.)
Edit: Oops, digging. I did it at lunchtime today, which was somewhat better. (Because ha ha, no one plays during EU primetime~! Joking, joking.) Not much better, but somewhat. Got two gold beastcoins, then had to go to a different zone to get my last 30 items. Bah.
Edit again, because apparently baby chocobos have melted my brains: Was a little worried about soloing four mobs at the same time (two BLMs, two PLDs) for the end of the Jaeger Mantle quest, but did just fine! Love my NPC so much, he's so handy! (level 63, set to the advanced healer mode. Prot4, haste, cure5? Yes, please! I was only ~100 HP down when he cure 5'ed me, but I guess it's the thought that counts. :P )
There's so much of the sauce left! I wish I could figure out something to do with the rest... The oddest thing about it though: The taste made me think of meat with every bite! So strange! I kept looking down to make sure someone hadn't slipped steak onto my plate. :P I have no clue at all why it had such a meaty taste -- my tastebuds must be totally out of wack. Sugar, white vinegar, pineapple juice, soy sauce, and cornstarch. Nothing in that should taste meaty, I think...
Oh, and I almost bought white wine vinegar instead of just white vinegar. I couldn't find it without the "wine" in the name, and had no clue if there was a difference between them or not. Then I spotted a bottle!
---
FFXI: Eeee! Awwww! Baby chocobos are just too darned cute! They look up at you and waggle happily! Or they sit up and look at you! I took mine for a walk, and don't we make a funny pair? A cute little tiny baby bird and a guy dressed in black metal with a sword as big as he is. Hee!
I was hoping it was going to be born a girl, because I had the perfect girl-name picked out (Melody Dancing), but it turned out to be a boy, so I went with the porn star-esque:
We had two level one Besiegeds today, and the undead one was so so so much fun! We had a LS party, and kept taking advantage of each other when someone was charmed. (So happy PLDs have MP! I aspired so much! Heh heh heh!) One of the PLDs tried to get revenge for me stealing his MP, but he failed because he sucks!
Amusingly, I was attacking friends in LSs we work with. I hadn't even known he was here, then next thing I see:
Hee!
I had FIVE PC kills tonight! Woo!
Totally not my fault (done while I was charmed), which makes it "okay". :D I don't know what it is about PCs, but I almost always crit on them. Woo! Such a powerful feeling to kill people. Heh!
Aurian waiting to pounce on the first unsuspecting male to pass below her~.
And last but not least, I noticed that my wallpaper turned a year old yesterday! o.O I don't think I've ever used the same wallpaper for a whole year before! But the colors are so pretty and the hat looks so good with my armor! (Warning: Larger than usual screenshot.)
Edit: Oops, digging. I did it at lunchtime today, which was somewhat better. (Because ha ha, no one plays during EU primetime~! Joking, joking.) Not much better, but somewhat. Got two gold beastcoins, then had to go to a different zone to get my last 30 items. Bah.
Edit again, because apparently baby chocobos have melted my brains: Was a little worried about soloing four mobs at the same time (two BLMs, two PLDs) for the end of the Jaeger Mantle quest, but did just fine! Love my NPC so much, he's so handy! (level 63, set to the advanced healer mode. Prot4, haste, cure5? Yes, please! I was only ~100 HP down when he cure 5'ed me, but I guess it's the thought that counts. :P )
