Thanksgiving Holiday

So I am now officially 24 years of age. I have had a reasonably good life with no real bad altercations. The dinner that I cooked for my friends was considerable. It is probably something I won't do for a long time. The prime roast was such a headache to make and the mashed potatoes didn't come out quite the way I wanted. So I had basically two Thanksgiving dinners. One on Wednesday to celebrate with my friends on my birthday and another with my family.

Wednesday night dinner was pretty good. Conversation was good until the end of the party. It was a five course meal:


Spring Cucumber Shrimp Salad - Was much easier to make than I thought. It wasn't too bad without the raw tuna. Next time I think I will add something to crisp it up. The cucumbers didn't add the right texture. Maybe bacon bits added at the end.


Tomato Vegetable Puree Soup - Traditional and reminded me of my trip through Europe and the many tomato soups I had to keep me warm in the winter.

Mashed Potatoes - Definitely not as creamy as I had hoped it would be. I didn't have enough butter to mix it properly.


Prime Rib Roast - I cooked it for about 30-40 minutes too long. All of the insides were practically cooked with no pink flesh. Much tougher than I had wanted.



Chocolate Domingo cake/Pumpkin Gooey Cake - Chocolate cake was delicious like before, but the Gooey Cake didn't fare so well.


Thursday night we had hotpot. I love having my sauce of satay, soy sauce, rice vinegar, raw egg yolk, scallions, cilantro, sesame oil, and sugar. Meat was good. Tofu was good. Too bad there weren't and taro.

Avenue Q - It Sucks to be me

Musicals are funny things. I've only seen the ones produced by my high school and some other comedy ones at the Pantages and Ahmanson. I wanted to see this one. It looks really funny and entertaining.

Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner

So this is kinda like birthday/pre-thanksgiving dinner/every weekend get together/??. It is happening in two days and I am kind of nervous about the amount of people here. What the hell is with up with these people wanting to invite all these anonymous people? People meaning this rumor I heard that Ms. Wu was gonna try and set me up. I am in no mood to be hooking up. And no physical state either. My face has gained back the fat I lost in Europe and my 'irritation' on my face never seems to go away.

The guest list so far is John(me), James, Richard, Anna, Mirna, Cindy, David. This what I know. Then I have to make extra for my family. Mom, Dennis, grandparents, Dennis' TW friend. This is a dozen people. I think they'll have to be happy with scraps. haha.

So the menu so far is:

• Tomato Vegetable Puree Soup
  (I am going to try to replicate the soup that Jenny made two years ago. We got the recipe incidentally at Costco while flipping through a cookbook and now I can't find a recipe online. Maybe I should pour over the cookbooks we have at home.)


• Potato Salad w/Cucumbers and Apples cubes
  (Hopefully I can replicate Angel's recipe pretty easily)


• Tuna Tartare
  (I really wanted to make use of all these fucking avocados around our house. Tuna tartare seems like a good choice. Now I just have to find some fresh sashimi grade tuna.. G'luck John. This the second hardest dish in my menu)


• Prime Rib
  (Easy to do. I've done it twice. Both times with great results.)


• Sides: Mashed Potatoes and Bacon Corn
  (Should be fairly easy to do. Hopefully)


• Pumpkin Butter Gooey Cake
  (This should be the hardest dish to pull off. Cakes and baking are always so unpredictable with my track record.)

I'm pretty excited and apprehensive about this menu. Everything besides the tuna tartare and the Pumpkin Cake should be easy to pull off.

Dizzying games!

There are some games that just make you nauseuous after a certain amount of time playing them. My first encounter with those types of games was with Duke Nukem. Or was it Doom. I don't exactly remember. Well, I was playing with Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and boy am I dizzy now. My god why do I even play these games. Stupid games. I just wanted a break from Final Fantasy XII but I didn't want to be sick.

Two days until I celebrate 24 years and I have a weird varied life to celebrate. Hopefully, my guests won't make too much of a hullabaloo. The dinner is keeping me on my toes. Sick. Hopefully, this nausea will pass very soon.