food corner#4 dorm cooking

Mama Chicken Green Curry flavor noodles

Hello everyone. Welcome again to food corner.

This time I am proudly to present my easy cooking in the concept “Dorm Cooking” This weekend I didn’t go back to my grandma’s home, so I thought I should find easy cooking recipes that appropriate to my dorm space to do. I looked around my room and I found that there were 2 packs of instant noodle left, so this brought the idea to do Mama Chicken Green Curry for the blog.

I went to nearby supermarket to buy ingredients with 100 bahts of budget.

Let’s see what I got.

Coconut palm tip 18 bahts
Chicken tenderloin 32.50
Mixed fresh vegetables 20
Roi Thai green curry soup 27
Total 97.50 bahts

We already have ingredients and electric pot so let’s cook!

Preparations

1. Bring the coconut milk to the boil until some oil has surfaced.

2.Pour mama’s seasoning into the pot to make it spicier.

3.Add Chicken tenderloin into the pot.

4.Then add coconut palm tip into the pot.

5.Add sliced long green bean, chili, and sweet basil into the pot.

6.Add instant noodle into the pot.

Now it’s ready to serve.

I used to cook mama chicken green curry once before this and the taste came out so salty.

I did mistake because bought an infamous green curry paste which is cheaper than Roi Thai one.
I am satisfy with the taste so much. I should give this credit to Roi Thai and
next time I will buy others taste for sure. I like this style of cooking.

It’seasy and quick because I don’t have to slice or chop things.

All of ingredients are ready to cook. You can prepare your meal like me as you prefer.

Just go picking ingredients at the convenient store near your location and adapt it
with your instant noodle, I guarantee you will find the taste that you liked.

Thank you so much for following.
See you next time. BYE!!

Review: ‘Tangled’ (2010)

WARNING - Spoiler Alert

           Have you ever heard about a pathetic long-long hair maiden who was locked up in the tower? I guess most of us used to read about her story, Rapunzel. This time I will introduce you all to the parallel world, with a comedy-fairy tale style.

           ‘Tangled’ is another version of Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm. This film is a product of Walt Disney Animation Studios. As what we can expect of the fairy tale from Walt Disney’s, the female leads must have an ability to sing, talk to animal, and are a princess (or become a princess anyhow, like Tiana in ‘The Princess and the Frog’ from the same production group). This film is, too, but our heroine is a bit different. Rapunzel is not a ‘damsel in distress’, but is a strong will teenager who grown enough to try to resist parent’s order and follows her dream.

           The story tied up well. Even if this is the first 3D-animated film from Walt Disney, it is well made (and for your information, this film is the highest cost animated film that Walt Disney has ever made).

           Along the story line, I kind of don’t agree with Rapunzel's decision. She escaped from her mother to follow her will (quite the same idea from Ariel in ‘The Little Mermaid’, who abandoned her father in order to live with somebody she love). And for the end, even if Mother Gothel is not her real mother, Rapunzel should not be that harsh to someone who raised her up. The right or wrong is one thing to be concern, but morality – about to repay indebtedness to the benefactress -- is important, too.

           However, the others may think in difference points of view, such as the witch is a bad person who ought to be received that end, and she live long enough (or maybe too long) to finally face the death.

           About Eugene (as known as "Flynn Rider"), the male lead character, I think his role is not as shine as Pascal and Maximus, a royal dog-liked horse. His personality, same as Rapunzel’s, does not follow the protagonist traditional character’s style. I don’t really like his slippery personality, but he surely is suiting our heroine well.

           I also like how they make a credit part to a drawing version of the film, kind of summing up entire story. Simple yet beautiful, right?

           All in all, I would rate this film with 4 out of 5, especially for the breathtaking flying lantern scene.

 6 Summer Must-Have Items inspired by Gossip Girl 

Hello everyone,

I bet you all know 'Gossip Girl', an American series which is very famous in many counties all over the world. Fashions in this series is such very significant and amazing. I guess some of you have ever dreamed of wearing clothes of Gossip Girl and walk beautifully with your families and friends. The lead characters of the series are very famous and pretty, one is Serena Van Der Woodsen and another one is Blair Waldorf. Both of them always wear nice outfits, including other actors in the series. So I think many people would like to be like them because they ROCK the world!

Today, There are several trends come around all the time. One things we have to focus on it is spotting how those trends go. Mostly trends are taken from apart of the world we live, so we should know how do we deal with it. For sure, cultures are different, weathers are different, routines are different, etc. Therefore, The most important things for us are picking the trends which are suitable for ourselves and don't forget adapting them to own styles. Okay now, modern people won't wear just simply clothes for sure, so today I will show you 6 items that you shouldn't miss in this summer. 

If you are ready, go on reading below.

1. Wedges - These will provide you comfortable steps when you are walking on the street during the warmer time. They don't pain your feet and legs but they give you hight and style. So wedges are a nice choice to dress up with a pretty dress.

2. High Waisted Skirt - This old-fashioned style is back popular again because it can show your sexiness on the casual day. It is very easy to match with other pieces of clothes plus let your hair down casually on the easy day.

3. Neon Bag - Don't look over a little item like a bag when you go out because it makes you look outstanding among lots of people, especially when you are carrying a neon bag such as lemon green, aquatic blue,very fresh yellow and orange, or bright pink, I am sure you will look more splendid then others and your friends.

4. Wayfarer - This style of shades is having thicker flames. They look classily sexy on the casual day as well. This style of shades is becoming very popular this time, not only square wayfarer, but also circle style are very hot nowadays. I know some of you are not confident to wear wayfarer because it doesn't have nose pads which made Asian's flatter nose looks better when wearing it.

5. Mini Skirt - When it becomes hotter in summer, girls should show their skin a little bit. For flawless-skin girls, it's the best time to show your beautiful legs. These girls are lucky because they choose skirt to wear easily, it means they can wear every style.

6. Attracted dress - whatever body you have, you all can enjoy fashion unlimitedly in summer but one thing you have to worry is choosing the thing that shines yourself. 

 


Enjoy your summer! 
XOXO

D.I.Y.# 3 Ladder shelves

Hi everyone!

Welcome to my D.I.Y. blog.

While I was searching for ideas to write my blog, I found this picture of ladder shelves. I don't know whether  you guys seen this before, but I thing it's really awesome!!

Make a bookshelf from ladders? Can't imagine right?

I think these ladder shelves are easy to do. First, you must have 2 ladders of course. Second, the splat depend on how many layers you want to have. Third, books to put on, vase, or etc. Make sure that your shelves strong to prevent it from sliding and your bookshelf goes mess. 

In my opinion, the materials are simply and they are easy to find. You can find it at any construction store. There are many sizes of ladder you can choose. If you don't like its aluminum outlook, you can paint. You'd better keep the two sides of the ladder shelves in balance, so they won't collapse. Personally, I like this D.I.Y because it look modern, simple, and new. The aluminum ladders make the whole shelves look hard and inflexible, so it should be in the modern room that decorated in the black and white tones. So, don't put it in the baby room ok? Because your babies will get hurt while trying to climb the ladders.To me, it looks difficult to pick a book from it, so be careful. Also, I don't think it belongs to the bedroom too. It looks hard and at some point it make uncomfortable, so I recommended you not to put it in the bedroom if you don't like a hard furniture. Except putting the books you can also use it as a general shelves. You can put it outside your house to be your bonsai, orchids or other plants. Maybe you can put them in your work room to keep you electronic tools in order.

On another way, you may thing that it would be easier to buy a bookshelf than these ladder shelves. Yes, I think it easier and it cost is absolutely lower. But if you like it style, do it and tell me if it's work. 

Last, I like this D.I.Y. ladder shelves because it's strange compare with ordinary bookshelf, but I think it costs more money than the ordinary one. Also, I think this furniture doesn't fit every room, but you can adapt it to make it looks softer and neater. 

Enjoy!

Review: "Kang Fu Panda 2" (2011)

WARNING - Spoiler Alert

           Hi, there! Welcome back to the animated film review. 

           This time I would love to review about the film with Chinese martial art style, the warrior of the dragon, and his great duty to protect the entire country from the evil leader…..all in ‘Kang Fu Panda 2’.

           ‘Kang Fu Panda 2’ (2011), the continued episode in the series of ‘Kang Fu Panda’ which first released in 2008, is the success animated production from DreamWorks. Comedy genre film, suit for all of us after the midterm exam, right?

           I like the way they build the intro story of the antagonist, lord Shen of Gongmen city, in the beginning of the film. The production team used technique that makes the picture seems like a shadow play, and we can also see the shadow play (which literally played by some minor characters) in many scenes. Remind me of Thailand’s southern shadow play.

           The antagonist is a bad guy with deeply pathetic problem toward his family, feels that his parents didn't love him. I think his parent made a good choice to chase him out of the city. The one who made lord Shen to have this bad circumstance is his ambition, not the fault of the others.

           And as expected, for the protagonist and his gang, they still are the same as the first episode. Po improves a lot in his Kang Fu skill, comparing to the past. On the other hand, I still wonder why people in the village cannot fight to protect themselves, when in the end of the Kang Fu Panda (2008) they had learned Kang Fu from Po!

           Fighting scene is fantastically interesting. I like how the sound effects played smoothly and harmoniously with the actions on the film. The animation is perfectly done, and the camera shots are well placed. I can see details in the scene and feel the excitement with the character’s actions.

           The film reveals Po’s background. As we audiences always notice, Mr. Ping, Po’s father is not our protagonist blood-related father. I, at first, did not think that Po will be a special person because of the fact that he is a panda. Even if in the first episode there is no another panda in the village, the state of being the panda is not important (or anybody told us that the panda is became extinct).

           I like Po in the present more than when he was a little boy. Even if the younger Po is so cute, I think his appearance is a little bit weird. And, yes, Po in the first episode is chubbier than in the second episode. Some of my friends stated that the little Po is cuter than the grown-up Po, at least about his voice. However, none of all of these changes of time can effect on Po’s behavior and personality.

           All in all, I would like to rate this film with 4.5 out of 5. I recommended for a family to watch together in weekend, and this film is for all ages.

BEAUTY IN THE RAIN

It's coming the rainy season. All of modern women should pay more attention to fashion, especially when rain is coming. Today, I got many ideas for you to dress if you find yourself don't have any ideas to dress when rain comes.

Tips & Tricks for Rainy Seasons

Colorize Modern women should not be worried to wear colorful clothes, especially in the rainy season, because nasty weather can make you feel gloomy easily. Therefore, wake up yourself by wearing beautifully colorful clothes and it will make your day livelier. 

A pretty umbrella There are many pretty and cheap umbrellas in markets, so leave your black with steel handle umbrellas at home and get a few new cute umbrellas but don't forget to buy only lively and colorful umbrellas which suit to you.

CUTE umbrellas for kids but CHIC umbrellas for elders Besides umbrella is small and cute, it's perfect to use just only one like you. So that, don't be shy when you carry it and walk through the rain alone.

Don't buy pricey if you are a forgetful person No need to buy an expensive umbrella if you usually forget or leave your umbrella anywhere. It's better to buy an cheaper one and buy it again next year if you find yourself like something new or always be forgetful. 

Raincoat it sounds unpopular nowadays but it will help you lots to protect you and your loved clothes from wetness, drizzle or humidity. If you want to buy a raincoat, please buy it a nice quality one but cheap and weak because it will belong to you longer.

Pay more careful attention whatever you are wearing in the rainy season, pay more careful attention to them by preventing and keeping them in your bag if they are precious for you. 

Rain Boots it's not accustomed and well-known in thailand, is it? Don't worried, Rain boots will help you lots as well. There are many styles of rain boots to buy currently, not just boots for farmers and gardeners. Come on, you can see new style of rain boots and you will find them cute on you.

IDEAS FOR RAINY DAYS

IDEA 1

If the day is not too much rain and has a bit sunshine, why don't you take a walk in the park with your friends? Choose a softly t-shirt and a denim shorts. You might also wear scarf and a nice jacket if you like. Don't forget to protect your eyes by wearing sunglasses and keep yourself dry by carrying an umbrella.

IDEA 2

Do you have any plans to have brunch or dinner with friends? Unfortunately, it could be rain that day. Then you pick the chic raincoat from your wardrobe, wear it over your beautiful dress and don't forget to bring a pretty umbrella to protect your beautiful hair and your friends will see your umbrella. Make them praise at your clothes and the umbrella.

IDEA 3

When you have to wear more gentle and formal, do you think of black and gold? Personally, I like this tone very much and I think women will look elegant when they are wearing classic colors like that. If you find your clothes and accessaries are too simple, why don't you look for a funny color umbrella such as a leopard umbrella and bring it out when the rain is falling outside. 

IDEA 4

This idea is very perfect when it rains all day long. The jacket is also really perfect for the rainy day and it protects you from the rain. Match the jacket with simple color boots; I suggest to choose the black one; and a cute umbrella when you have to go outside on the rainy day.

Let me know if you the ideas!

Thank you.. :))

D.I.Y # 3 decorate your stationary desk

Hi everyone. Welcome to my blog!

I’m thinking about some interesting and inspiring D.I.Y project today and I found website about home decorates and it was very interesting.

This D.I.Y was done for propose to save a space around your stationary table and to make your wall look amazing.

First, let’s look at the table.

You can use any table you like or maybe you can transform your old dressing table to this awesome table. In the picture the legs of table were cut out to have only a tidy console. If you prefer a console, make sure that the technician or the carpenter makes it strong. The technique is using the L-shaped brackets to secure the desk to the wall. 

On the desk, you can see the D.I.Y. pencils boxes. I think it’s very cool by using an old stuff and I don’t know what was it, but it looks amazing together. To do these pencils boxes you have to find something hard and strong to be a center of the 4 pencils boxes. I suggest you to use a wooden block. You can paint your wooden as you like or keep it as original—I think this is sound so vintage. You can use a can to make your pencils boxes or use the old colander to make it look similar as in the picture.

Second, the memo on the wall, I like this the most. It’s very clever to make the memo board from the stuff you might think it’s useless.  If you have the net you don’t use anymore, make it worth. You can make the frame from your old mosquito wire screen or wood from your bloom. Now, cling it together to make a frame with nails. Then cling the net to the frame, you can cling it together by nail the nails at every corner of your frame and tied the net to the nails. Finish!

I think this is easy to do or in another way, you may find the easier way than mine to do it. XD

At the memo frame, you can hang you photos, notes, calendar, keys, letters and others. For all the girls, I believe that you must have many of accessories such as earrings and necklaces. This frame is very useful to hang your earrings and necklaces to prevent them to become messy.

In my opinion, I like this decoration desk it looks old and vintage, but I think the frame at some point it doesn’t fit the room. I think if it’s neater it’ll look more beautiful than before. What do you think?

I also think that the memo frame is very helpful to a person who has a short memory—like me. Just put your notes their before the exam week, every time that you look up you will see it. And I will do this memo frame soon in the nearly future. Hope you like it XOXO

food corner#3 family cooking

Hello everyone(≧∇≦)/

It's me Fern, welcome again to my blog!! Since I have a long holiday this week so I went back to my hometown in Nakhon Sawan. I went to the temple with my family to make a merit and gave food offering to a monk because it was Asarnha Puja Day and Buddhist Lent day which is important for Buddhist. It helps lessen my stress to do good things. Now I'm ready to fight with a tough and rough time of the study again. (^_^;)

Mom and I usually spent time together in our kitchen when we have a holiday. For this time after we went marketing and found that there were a plenty of young tamarind ,mom suddenly had an idea to do young tamarind paste for us.

Here is ingredients

young tamarinds 200 grams

minced pork 100 grams

shrimp paste 3 tbs

garlic 1/4 measuring cup

guinea pepper 20 seeds

sugar 1/4 measuring cup

oil 1/2 measuring cup

fish sauce 2 tbs

++other's recipe may add dried salted prawn too++

preparations

1.mash garlic, young tamarind and guinea pepper throughly with mortar.

2.add shrimp paste, minced pork, stir it together.

3.add oil into the pan, use medium hight heat, put all of ingredients into the pan, fry it until browned and cooked.

4.flavouring with fish sauce and sugar.

5.serve with cucumber or others fresh vegetables.

Finish （＾_＾）

You can keep the remains in refrigerator for about 1 month. Mom said fried tamarind paste is one method of food preservation by using heat.

In the evening,my family have dinner together at home and everyone in my family love this menu because it is not too spicy and fulled flavour.

For me, young tamarind paste made me asked for more cooked rice. ^^

Nutrient from this menu: young tamarind contains fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A,B1,B2 , niacin. Rich of vitamin C that prevent you from bleeding gum.

Next menu is prepared by me. It is "steamed egg dressing with fried chopped pork and vegetables" or in Thai we called "kai tun song kreung"

mom choosing eggs

Mom gives the tips of how to choose eggs; use your finger smear on egg's peel,if you feel a bit rough that is a new egg.

Let's prepare ingredients! I'll start with steamed egg's ingredients.

egg 3

chicken stock 1 cup(I use knorr instant chicken stock instead)

light soy sauce 1 tbs

white pepper 1/2 tbs

steamed egg's preparations

1.crack eggs and put in a bowl,stir it well then add chicken stock,stir it gently for no bubble,seasoning with light soy sauce and white pepper.

2.foil it (if you have)then place the bowl in steamer,use medium hight heat for 10-15 minutes and leave it cool.

dressing's ingredients

minced pork 100 grams

diced onion 50 grams

diced chinese mushroom 50 grams

diced tomato 30 grams

chopped garlic 10 grams

tomato sauce 2 tbs

chicken stock 2 tbs

oil 1 tbs

salt 1 tbs

white pepper 1/2 teaspoon

parsley

dressing's preparation

1.heat up the pan then put oil and wait until it hot.

2.put diced garlic fry it until you smell the fragrance then add minced pork,fry it well.

3.put all of vegetables, add tomato sauce, chicken stock.

4.seasoning with white pepper and salt.

5.put it on the top of steamed egg, dressing with parsley.

now it's ready to serve

it looks delicious isn't it?

I experienced 2 of problems from preparing steamed egg.First,I used Knorr instant chicken stock instead of real chicken stock and the result is its color become deep yellow.I think it should come out to be light yellow but luckily the taste is still good.

Second problem is,I didn't use foil,so it made the surface of steamed egg uneven and its texture has a bit heavy and dense because steamed egg is directly exposed to steam.Next time I think I should use foil.

Before saying goodbye, I want to tell you that this is my most favoutite blog since there are 2 blogs previously because this is not only me do cooking but there is my mom who is the advisor. I love the time when we went shopping at the local market together and most of all I also had dinner with my family at home. It really was a good time and I would try another occasion do the family cooking again,may be you will meet the rest member of my family too.

Thank you for following this blog

See you next time BYE!!