Oh gods I need sleep

[yuuago]

Wow. What a day. Hockey gold for Canada, and the end of the Olympics. That bottle of Baileys I was saving? Gone - as Minni knows well. (Good gods, I'm glad I accidentally closed the window halfway through talking to her. That log is likely just... embarrassing)

It'd be a lie if I said I wasn't actually kind of relieved it's all over. Now things can get back to normal, haa. It's great when exciting things happen, but stability is good too! (As well as following a regular schedule). So hopefully this week will be a turn-around for me. I've spent so much time watching hockey in the last week that I haven't been doing much else. (Really need to do laundry, argh)

I have so much to do tomorrow, it's crazy. WELL. I'D BEST GET ON THAT. It certainly doesn't help that I've been having issues with sleeping lately because my radiator keeps waking me up at around 6 AM with... issues. Lots of really loud banging noises. Seriously, radiator, what the hell're you doin'? I wish there was a way I could make it... stop... doing that because it's really inconvenient. I end up falling back asleep and staying in bed until noon. NOT GOOD.

Since I don't have anything else to say - because I haven't been doing much - here, I'll share a simple recipe for breadcrumb chicken thighs that I made the other night, a variation on what my mum makes, 'cause it's delicious. Very simple, buuut I know there are people on my flist who are as incapable in the kitchen as I am, sooo yeah.



Mum does it on stovetop, but I prefer to bake it. It's quick to make, which is good for inexperienced persons like myself. (When I think of it, I still can't believe that I didn't know how to cook a single goddamn thing until I moved into my apartment. Yeesh.)

-Preheat oven to 400F.
-Mix up in a bowl or plastic bag: 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, 1 tsp each of paprika and chili powder and oregano and salt, 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
-Take 1 package chicken thighs (6 or 8, must be boneless/skinless). Coat each with the breadcrumb mixture thoroughly.
-Place on a nonstick pan, put in oven to bake 20 minutes. Remove and turn them over, then bake another 20 minutes.



And now, to BED.

Comments

[minninen.livejournal.com]

Don't worry

I saved the log

[yuuago]

D:

Ohhh dear.

Well. I guess you'll always remember my... interesting... ways of expressing affection.

[minninen.livejournal.com]

I will. Oh, I will.

To quote

"YEAH EXACTLY don't shut up becuase i love you
rather like if i didn't love you i would want you to stop talking
does it make sense now"

[yuuago]

.....

Well, it does make plenty of sense.

[chikotori.livejournal.com]

...are sure it's 400C?

I didn't know how to cook until I started living on my own either. I still remember all the really silly mistakes I made when I started cooking.

[yuuago]

FFFFFFFF

O Chai. Thank you. FARENHEIT. Arrrrgh. Canada is so dumb. 8| We use C for almost everything, except cooking, and I always get mixed up in that case (Luckily my stove only has F written on it)

[chikotori.livejournal.com]

Why would you use C for everything then use F for cooking, that's so weird. Do you guys use measure in cups or grams?

[yuuago]

We use cups etc, usually. Most measuring things have both the metric and imperial on it, but generally people use the imperial system for cooking/baking.

I don't even know why it is. It's just how it is. ;p

[moaamo.livejournal.com]

Wait don't you have home economics as a subject in school there? You know a course where you learn how to wash dishes and laundry and make simple meals and bakings?

[yuuago]

No, we didn't have it. We're expected to learn all that at home (then again, I suppose that is a reasonable expectation). Though I did go to school in a remote area so that might be the reason too.

My mum taught me how to bake, but she didn't teach me how to cook, so when I ended up living alone two years ago I didn't even know how to make pasta. *facedesk*

[moaamo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that it is kind of sad that they have to teach that kind stuff in school, but when thinking about how helpless some of my classmates were when that course started, I can't see it as a bad thing. Here's two obligatory courses of home ec for everyone in 7th grade, if I remember right.

Man, that sounds like it'd be kind of a hard thing to learn suddenly. You have a huge bunch of cookbooks somewhere, don't you?

[yuuago]

You're probably right. Having it taught certainly wouldn't be out of place... but when I think of the state of things when I was still in school (not to mention the clusterfuck that the school system is now), there probably just wasn't the money available, considering we didn't have a lot of other necessary things (like proper history courses....)

Ahaha, actually I don't - I have one or two, and mum wrote the instructions for cooking some things on the inside of the main one. But mostly I use the internet. I find with books everything that they have in them is too complicated for me to even want to bother, and I'm always worried that if I substitute/simplify things it'll get screwed up. My family never follows recipes anyway, we operate on the "throw it in a pot and it's finished when it's finished" sort of principle, so it feels so weird to use any sort of book.

[moaamo.livejournal.com]

It's kind of weird to hear about things like that, since here haven't never really been problems with not having proper courses (one of my German courses had four students in it and it still wasn't cancelled), but with the actual buildings. I think there's right now no a single school building completely without mold in the whole Jyväskylä area.

Haha we do it pretty same way too, except really lately because I've been trying new recipes. But yeah, using cookbooks has been quite odd.