I wanted meat skewers, but they’re too expensive outside, so I ended up making them myself.

Crucian carp and tofu soup is a pretty simple and quite nutritious… dish? Or soup? Whatever you call it, it goes down well with rice. The method isn’t complicated either, and the ingredient list is short: Crucian carp (the small kind is fine, don’t get a big one; one small or two small depending on how many people are eating) Tofu (however much you want, usually one small block is enough) Cilantro (a small bunch) White pepper Salt Scallion (one stalk) Oil Ginger

Soy sauce fried rice is a dead simple dish, but it tastes way better than it has any right to. The stuff you’re frying is basically just rice — day-old rice is best — and then whatever else you feel like throwing in. Boiled corn, lettuce, shiitake, shrimp, bacon, whatever you’ve got, just dump it in. The soy sauce is the point.

A few nights ago, out of nowhere, I got a message on Line from the female teacher: “Help… I… I’m starving to death…”

Hey kids, I’m back making cookies again. This time it’s bacon and scallion cookies:

Made two dishes recently. Neither really worked out — one was sauerkraut fish, the other candied banana fritters.

I’ve always made sweet cookies, so this time I figured I’d try a savory one. Finished product first:

Back when I ordered takeout at noon, I always got chicken cutlet rice. But the meat never felt like enough, and it wasn’t even good meat. The cucumber inside was limp and soggy too. Worst of all was the sauce — literally a蜻蜓点水 dab, absolutely no flavor at all. Then the scummy vendors, to save money on meat, would drizzle a little sauce over the rice so it tastes like something when you eat it. I posted a photo of my takeout on Twitter and got roasted hard. Everyone said it was garbage meat, garbage veggies, that cheap stuff is cooked in gutter oil, no question it’s junk food… I know it’s junk food, but it’s cheap, and more importantly… I actually think it tastes great! So to avoid eating garbage, looks like I’ll have to make a bowl myself. Not just make it myself — I’ll also make up for the takeout’s shortchanged portions and customize the flavor to my own taste.

While everyone else was eating chicken, I went with shrimp. This isn’t my first time baking shrimp in the oven, but this time I went with something more direct: fresh shrimp, marinated straight up, then straight into the oven, with a sauce on the side. Tastes pretty fresh.

First time making this. Never done it before, because I only skimmed the recipe and then just went for it. In the end it tasted okay and it looked the part, but it’s nowhere near a success.