Settling into a comfortable routine.

Pass few days have been busy, but i'm quite happy with it. I'm more busy now cos I've been finding work much more enjoyable this term, and I'm trying to do as much of it as possible.

A look at my calander for the week:

Sunday 220106
StAG;
Had Dinner with Choon Howe;
Followed the Portuguese Mathmos to Trinity to watch Macbeth. (Totally couldn't understand what was happening in the show!)

Monday 230106
Met Probability Supervisor at Trinity;
Attended talk by Career Services;
CCCF;
Trinity Maths Society Talk

Tuesday 240106
N&S Supervision;
Focus at StAG.

Wednessday 250106
DEq Supervision;
History of Math lecture;
Tried Cooking beef stew.

Thursday 260106
Blue Chips Fair held by Career Services;
Now stewing the beef in the thermal pot for dinner...

Friday 270106
Having steamboat at for Cell, CNY Celebration!

Saturday 280106
CNY Celebration at Kenny's place, with the steamboat I brought over! Hope Kenny makes pineapple tarts :P

A log of my experiments in the kitchen

1) Carbonara

Recipe:
- Debone Chicken,
- Fry Chicken, Mushroom
- Add in premade Carbonara Sauce
- Pour Sauce over Pasta

That easy!
And the chicken was very very tasty, and frying it produced very a fragrant aroma in the kitchen.
But felt that the pasta was quite plain as there wasnt enough sauce... Maybe I should fry the pasta in with the muchroom and chicken, then mix in the sauce, the way I cook my spghetti.

2) Chicken Soup

Recipe:
- Chop Potato, Onion, Carrot, Mushroom
- Boil Water in thermal pot
- Throw in the above mentioned Vegetables, and Chicken
- Add a little Sauce
- Leave to boil in thermal pot.

The chicken turned out quite dry. Guess chicken isn't a good meat to boil in the thermal pot for prolonged periods of time...
The best way I cooked chicken so far was in the curry made with Prima Deli Packets, and I boiled it for around half an hour.... Think that's the optimum time for cooking chicken.
Also heard that cooking chicken soup is not as easy as throwing chicken in water and boiling it... So what else is there to chicken soup if not the chicken and the soup??? :O

3) Beef Stew

Recipe:
- Dice Potato, Onion, Carrot, Mushroom
- Chop up beef
- Marinate Beef in Soy Sauce
- Boil Water in thermal pot
- Throw in Potato, Onion, Carrot, Mushroom, Beef
- Leave to stew...

Sampled the beef at intervals after stewing it in the thermal pot... Didn't seem to vary very much. Perhaps cos I only cooked it for 2 hours. Trying again now, intend to leave it stewing for 6 hours. Will report if there's any difference. But the potato was certainly softer after leaving it to stew for 1 hour. So if anything, the thermal pot is good for boiling potatoes!
Also marinated the chicken in too much pepper the last time, leaving the pepper out this time round.