Saw a guy on Reddit making popcorn chicken out of potato chips, so I gave it a shot too. And, well… it turned into a landmine dish. First you need some potato chips. I grabbed the cheap ones on sale at the store, and they were all fuckin’ cucumber flavor.

Cooked again. This time it was egg curry. Calling it egg curry basically means there’s no meat in the curry — the eggs are standing in for it. Carrot, potato, onion, diced. Then get the green peas ready, the curry, and the eggs.

Lately I’ve been on a cooking kick, and my efficiency’s been creeping up, so I’ve started trying everything — the easy stuff and the not-so-easy stuff. This time it was udon. Flavor turned out fine in the end. The presentation… not so much. I used the pre-made udon from the supermarket. Obviously I can’t make the noodles myself — you can’t reinvent the wheel every day when you cook.

Haven’t cooked in a long time. It’s been a while. Recently I’ve started trying to handle the whole shopping-and-cooking routine. Picked up shrimp at the supermarket — actually a “green peas and shrimp” combo pack — and also grabbed okra, cherry tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumber. The last three are for a fruit salad. The weather was nice today, so I made the shrimp and the okra. The okra is dead simple: chop the garlic, drop it into medium-hot oil, stir it around, take it out. Make a dressing with light soy sauce and a spoonful of sugar. Blanch the okra in boiling water for 1 minute, and after taking it out you can run it under cold water to make it crisper — I didn’t, because I forgot. Then plate it and pour the dressing over. Done.

Cooked again — last week was spent at a wedding in Luoyang, after all. This time the results were salted egg braised tofu & salt-and-pepper shiitake, recipes from Xiachufang.