Monday, September 25, 2006

.: Hot and Sour Soup :.

Ingredients
2 chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
3 or 4 carrots, cubed
around 5 cups of cabbage, cubed (a little more than half the cabbage)
3 or 4 mushrooms, cubed
3 tbs sugar
1 1/2 liter water (about half a pot in a big pot)
4 chicken boullion cubes
3/4 cup corn starch
3/4 cup white vinegar
1 tbs soy sauce
1/2 tbs pepper
1 tsp salt
1 egg

Preparation
1. Cube the cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, and cut the chicken into strips. Stir 1 tbs of sugar into the carrots to preserve their color and flavor.

carrots with 1 tbs sugar

Mushrooms Chicken cut into strips
 


2. Put the water on high and add the carrots. Heat until about to boil and add the cabbage.
Carrots in the water Cabbage being added
 


3. Seperately, add the corn starch, vinegar, soy sauce, pepper, and 1 tbs of sugar in a bowl and mix up.
Corn starch / pepper/ soy sauce/ and sugar mixture

 

4. After the cabbage and carrots have boiled for a few minutes, add the mushrooms, boullion cubes, and the chicken. Return to a boil and cover. Boil for 5 minutes.
mushrooms being added Boullion cubes crushed up Chicken being added

 

5. Now slowly put in the corn starch mixture, while stirring the soup.
corn starch mixture

 

6. Taste the broth for salt, and salt to taste, about 1 tsp. Then add 1 tbs sugar to sweeten broth.
salt


Almost done!



7. When you are about to serve the soup, beat one egg and add it to the soup, stirring briefly.

Enjoy!


To make this soup authentically hot and sour, add the following to the soup when eating.

Chili Sauce
2 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon ketchup
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper

Chilies in Vinegar
cut green chilies and put in a bowl with vinegar, a little salt and 1 tbs of sugar.

I forgo these additions and the soup is perfect for me!

Monday, August 14, 2006

It's been so long since I wrote on this blog, like all my other blogs it went unnoticed for too long. I guess my life was very unsettled for a while, and I didn't feel 'in the zone' as I once did.

But things are a little settled now. I feel like I can begin again.

So much has changed since April, it's not even funny. We moved across the country, Farhan got a job, we semi-closed our business, a close family friend died, Farhan's mom has been here, we were faced with a lawsuit, settled the lawsuit, my sister got a job and so much more. I guess this is partly why I didn't feel like writing.

On a more personal note, I've been dieting and I've lost 20 pounds. I am proud of myself for loosing that much, but the truth is that I need to loose 20 more. I've been doing Weight Watchers and it really does work. The weekends, when Farhan is home, are harder, I tend to splurge a bit on those days. I like to have drinks with him on the weekend, and boy do those add up quickly! But during the week I am pretty good about not going over my daily allotment of points.

Dieting is hard, very hard. But I feel accomplished that I've been able to loose 20 lbs. I'm kind of at a plateau though, I haven't lost any in a week or so. I need to be exercising, and cooking Weight Watchers meals every night. But with Farhan's mom here, she likes to cook and what she cooks is very oily and fatty. It's very challenging to stay on the diet with the food that she cooks.

But I will preservere, I would like to loose at least 20 lbs more. That weight I would feel much more comfortable with.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

I've gotten a job. An outside the house job. I am working at an Insurance agency and it's ok. We need some money so that's why I've done it. It's going ok but my boss doesn't explain what I'm supposed to do. That's a bit challenging. Tomorrow is the start of my first full week, so I am going to bed early so I can wake up all early and junk.

I have 2 hours of workout to do tomorrow after work, I'm looking forward to that. I had to go out and get some work clothes and had to go up yet another size. That's a bit depressing seeing as I've been working out for a month, but I have lost 4 pounds. I hope it starts coming off quicker though!

It's been beautiful here, 80 degrees and sunny. We were going to put the jetskis in the water today but my dad's truck had some problems so we didn't get to that.

My sister is on spring break and it's great to be able to spend time with her. She's home for weekends but it's hardly enough time to do anything.

Anyhow, it's time to take a Unisom and get relaxed, I have to get up at 7 and be at work by 8:30.

Byes!

I've moved Faeriebell's Blog to a new address. It can be found at http://faeriebellworld.blogspot.com/

Why? Because it was penalized. I've gone though old posts and removed some things that might have been pissing Google off, and hopefully the new address will mark a fresh start for my blog.

Joy!

Monday, March 27, 2006

My Blog at Adoppt

If you were wondering where this blog went for a few days, we were moving servers. Now this blog is all transfered to another host! I'm happy I was able to do that semi-quickly, what with all the other things I've got going on. Anyhow, we're back in business, yays!

Monday, March 20, 2006

Can you believe some parts of the country has gotten a foot of snow, on the first day of spring? The midwest is buried with up to 18 inches of snow in some places!

It was cold and rainy here today. I only went out once to get some chinese food, and decided I wasn't going out any more for the day. LOL

I skipped pilates and kickboxing today. We had to work on a deadline and get Farhan's presentation slides ready so we worked until quite late on that last night. Then we didn't get up til late and then had to again devote some time to getting the slides prepared. It was after 5pm when we ate for the first time! Needless to say 2 hours of working out after such an odd day didn't seem like a plan.

Wednesday I won't be able to go to kickboxing either, we are giving another free computer class at the Lavonia library. I am glad we can help people out by teaching them some rudimentary computer skills. The people there last time couldn't even use a mouse! It was elightening, simply becasue I think things like knowing how to turn on a computer and how to use a mouse are common sense, but they are not. Last time we taught them about starting the computer up, using notepad, opening files, saving files, making a new folder, opening programs, clicking, double clicking, opening the browser, navigating to Yahoo!, etc. And we signed the people with no email addresses up for a yahoo email account. Then we showed them how to compose and send emails, how to add people to their address book, and things like that. They enjoyed it, I guess. This week I'm not sure what we'll cover. We'll improvise it. We're doing this because we like the library and are members of the Friends of the Library.

Anyhow, I'm not going to be updating Faeriebell's Blog for the time being, and will be focusing on getting some linkage to Relevant Perspective and Faeriebell's Favorites. I will start to link authoritatively. ^_^

Friday, March 17, 2006

I've been so busy lately. Really busy with getting Adoppt finished and semi-launched. Now we're moving servers and consolidating things from two servers to one. It's a tough job, but it will be for the best right now.

I haven't blogged at all this week. I am used to posting at least 2 blog entries on Faeriebell's Blog a day, and at least one on other blogs I maintain. But I have had to put that on hold for a while, at least until we get some things set up.

We went to Clemson today. It was fun. It was spiritual to find a thriving mosque in the upstate of South Carolina. It was packed! We were very happy we could go to Jumma prayers. Afterwards we went to Kabob Korner for their buffet platter, and it was delish.

I want to blog more, but I am bummed because Faeriebell's Blog is certainly penalized by Google at this point. I think it's because I have not linked properly to other websites, only to Technorati. Which Google I guess has taken offense to.

I will most likely be switching over to Relevant Perspective and blogging there primarily once I start blogging full time again. I have much to say about what's going on these days, just no time.

Anyhow, now you know why I've been somewhat MIA this past week or so. I miss my blogging, my thoughts are itching to get out.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Finally updated my MySpace profile to a St. Patrick's Day theme. Will have to update it again soon!

If you want a MySpace profile designed, I can do it for a donation of around $15. Just let me know. ^_^

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Off to Kabob Korner again! yum We are so lucky to have a South Asian food place so close, and that is so affordable. We went to Toccoa yesterday to get our computer fans replaced and found out that the woman at the Toccoa Computer Store loves Indian food, and has actually traveled all over India and Asia. We told her about Kabob Korner, she was excited to hear there is a place to eat Karahi Gosht and Kabobs in Anderson.

OnlineCityGuide:

Kabab Korner
2704-A North Main Street
Anderson SC, 29621

864-231-5999
Guaranteed fresh food, mildly spiced. Cooked everyday. Authentic Indian food.


Took 2 hours of exercise last night, one hour of Pilates and one of Kickboxing. I feel great today, I'm only a little bit sore. My calves hurt. My arms are sore, but we did less lower body stuff, and my abs aren't dying.

It's House MD night!!!

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