Accidental Cooking

When you have leftover ingredients, what do you do?

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Eggplant was on sale last week, so I stock up.  Then days after I cooked them, I still had a leftover eggplant just lazing around in the fridge.  The internet is indeed an excellent source of recipes! However, most of the eggplant recipes required ingredients that I do not have and money is a challenge.  Time to improvise!

Content: 

Black peppercorns (freshly crushed)
Oregano (Dried)
White Cooking wine
Olive Oil
Salt-free pepper mix.
All Purpose Whole Wheat Flour
And of course, our lazy friend, Eggplant.

First diced the eggplant into desired pieces.  Then put all the other ingredients and mix into a bowl.  Take each piece of eggplant and hand dip into the mix of randomness.

Steam for 8-10 minutes depending on the strength of your microwave. I used the Microwavable steamer from Tupperware.  I added a little bit of olive oil to the water on the bottom tray.

Enjoy!

Lessons from Tetris

"If Tetris taught me anything, it is that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."


Source: pandawhale.com

Artist Block

So the Ancient Mandala Designs etc has been on stop for quite some time now. There are four major reason:

1. Lack of Time.

2. Lack of Money.

3. Lack of Space. (In my current living arrangement)

4. And fourthly (this word doesn't make sense.) Lack of inspiration and motivation.

My inspiration depends on my environment and what is going around myself. If I am around other creative people regardless of their mediums or creative trades, I am more likely to be motivated to do creative things.

Stinky Trick

This week I was sent away for platform training in Attleboro. If first impressions of a city influences your judgement, this city is weird! There are these tiny parking lots with a machine at the entrance. It doesn't accept cards therefore, you can only use quarters and notes. Seems like old technology? No, the receipts printed come out after the time is calculated digitally. Yet it cannot give you change for a note.

Next, the city is so busy and congested with bittersweet traffic. Yet, there are no tourist attractions nearby nor any seriously developed commercial areas. Finally, after you park your car, you see the city worker carrying a ticket making machine who had just finished harvesting a gold mine of vehicles marked by orange envelopes with typed text, "City of Attleboro Parking Violation." It look like a scene from the AETV's television series, "Parking Wars."

Training is very interesting. We learned more about how various Government laws as well as Company polices are applied during various procedures as well as how to process procedures in the computer program.

Since there are no safe deposit boxes in my building, I never have to deal with anything related to it. Regardless, everyone has to learn now. So our instructor when through the policy of what customers are forbidden to put in their safe boxes. "Explosive, firearms, flammables, currency (any nation). And what is the last one? Perishable items." Now that's just foolish. Why would anyone put food in a box?

There was one company in someplace far, in which one individual was angry with the company. The individual terminated the contract and never returned the keys to the box. Days and even weeks passed when the staff members and other customers noticed a foul odor coming from the box room. None of the staff could location the box that had the odor nor do they have the keys to the occupied boxes. Drilling all the boxes would cost the company thousands and thousands. To pin point possible boxes, they call in a cat to smell the odor. The cat managed to narrow which row and column. After drilling a few boxes, the source of the foul odor was found. Someone had left a dead fish in the box.

Moral of the story, apparently rules are in place because there are some people out there enjoys putting fish in boxes.

Source of photos. Safe Depsosit Box Room KeepYourAssets.net

Cat Picture cherrystreetcats.