I'm the kind of person that orders milk with desert at restaurants and confuses the waitresses

I love milk with a fiery passion. It is my favourite drink. I order it nearly every day from my school's canteen and have done so so many times that they have started ordering more milk, just for me. I know it's just for me because I have never seen anyone else buy milk and when a new canteen lady is confused by my want for milk, the other canteen ladies say "She's the only one that buys it." That is how I have distinguished myself among the other canteen users at my school.


At one of those excessively chocolate shops, my mother and I decided to get some desert after a lovely dinner of sushi. She got a hot chocolate and I got what they called a "Chocolate sphere", which was like a sphere of chocolate filled with white chocolate with a teapot on the side with fudge sauce. Yum.

After consuming this delicious masterpiece I thought I was going to die with the sensory overload of the richness of the chocolate, so I asked for some milk. They were like "Just cold milk?? That'll cost like 60 cents..." I got my milk and it was delightful and dirt cheap.


I don't understand why it's weird to buy milk with dessert, it's perfect with chocolate or anything rich and it's easy to come by, if you make coffee you'll have cold milk, so why not serve it as well? It takes way less work than coffee does anyway!



On a side note, I've been watching far too much anime as I'm thinking Japanese, but it's not like I know what's going on, the sentences are just there and I vaguely know the meaning of them...but I don't know why they're floating around in my brain.

Baked goods make things less awkward

I love baking with a fiery passion and I love giving people my baked goods and seeing them enjoy them, but I have now just realised that baked goods also make social events less awkward.

I'm meeting my Dad's girlfriend's kids in 18 minutes and I'm a bit nervous. However! I just realised that I have baked goods to give them and thus the standing in the doorway awkwardness will be averted! Now I will need to set down my cookies, offer people cookies, people will eat my cookies and we will converse about baking, etc. etc. It will all just be generally less uncomfortable.

I tried to make star cookies, but they don't really look super star shaped...oh well! I decorated them with Christmas themed items to be more jolly.

In other news, I'm bird sitting for my lovely friend, Meg.

...I don't think she likes me very much

Creamy garlic prawns turned soy sauce garlic prawns

So I made myself an interesting dinner tonight, it started off as being creamy garlic prawns and then quickly turned into soy sauce garlic prawns (Benihana shrimp style?) after I had added the garlic.

I was a little dubious after I added the soy sauce, it smelt a bit strong, but it turned out freaking awesome, so definitely try it!

Recipe
Prawns (can be cooked or uncooked, I used cooked, if uncooked just fry them in the soy sauce for longer)
Soy sauce
A small amount of butter
Garlic
Ginger
Rice, or whatever your preferred side dish is

1. Peel your prawns, leaving the tails on, ick, my least favourite thing about prawns, they taste damn good, but their beady little eyes creep me out.
2. Heat some butter in a frying pan over fairly high heat, wait until it all melts
3. Add 2-ish cloves of garlic, minced, depending on how garlicy you like it, I like it very garlicy, add a small amount of ginger, we're talking like a pinch of minced ginger, and stir
4. Add your prawns to the pan and stir them around.
5. Fry the prawns on high heat, leaving them to brown a bit for a minute or so and then flipping them, doesn't have to be specific, just kind of stir them around
6. Once the prawns are crispened to your liking add some soy sauce, about 2 table spoons, more or less, once again, depending on your preferences, and stir them around
7. Leave the soy sauce to reduce a bit and eat!

The finished product

This is my prawn heads bag

Plum pudding is my favourite thing on the planet

My faux grandma makes a mean plum pudding, I've been eating it since I was a young in' and I am so hooked. I get so excited around Christmas time for plum puddings (I am far to lazy to make it myself), and it's finally that time of year!

Christmas seems to continuously come sooner and sooner each year, this year Myer is already selling the puddings that I seek (I bought four today) and they have all of the christmas trees and decorations for sale already. Last year they had a train, I hope they have a train again this year.

Why does orange with red splotches equal banana?

Jelly Belly jellybean company, I will never understand your strange flavours.

Here are the flavours on the back of the "tropical mix" variety box

What.

Mango?
Top Banana?
Berry Blue?
Why are there like three flavours that are all very similar shades of yellow?

And Tangerine/Pink Grapefruit (not sure which) tastes like watermelon, STOP CONFUSING ME, JELLY BEANS!

I have been searching for a while, but have yet to find a single Strawberry Daiquiri, I don't think they actually exist and this makes me sad.

Same goes for Island Punch.

Also, I want this bag. So greatly do I want this bag that I am considering spend $225 on a big red travel bag. Damn you, marketing, you crafty bastard.


And I think I figured out why orange with red splotches is banana, I think it's yellowish with brown splotches...like bruises on a banana. I guess they had too many flavours that ARE ALL FREAKING YELLOW. WHAT?

People's strange aversion to things

I do not understand people at all.

I thoroughly enjoy Vanilla Coke, I drank it as a youngin' and then it wasn't (appeared is if it wasn't, who knows) around for a while and now suddenly lots of places have it and I'm all excited, I love that stuff, reminds me of my childhood and such (even though I'm not that far from my childhood times anyway. Whatevs. WHATEVS), but apparently people don't like Vanilla Coke and they think it is weird for me to drink it and it's not even that they don't like it, it is like an aversion, like they think I am seriously strange for even considering ordering it.

People are so confusing. Not sure what their deals are, Vanilla Coke is da bomb. It is legit good. Maybe I have weird taste buds...actually I think that I do. Probably to do with my upbringing, vegetarian, gluten intolerant mother, you tend to try some weird foods. Also I'm really interested in Japanese culture and language, so that could indicate something too.

So anyway, I think I have weird tastebuds because my number one favourite foods are inari and tofu sushi (but only from a specific shop). I friggin' love tofu and a lot of people think that tofu is weird/gross and they have such an aversion to it that even when they try the deliciousness that is inari, they will still not like it because they so can't even imagine liking it, which is kind of impossible because it's so damn delicious.

I kind of get it though, for people not raised by a vegetarian, it has a weird texture, taste, smell, kind of everything actually, but it's so good!

People that have never eaten inari before or think that they won't/don't like it, you must try it again, but don't think of it as tofu, because it is so different to what people associate the word "tofu" with. It's sweet, fried, has rice in the middle, just damn delicious in general.