Chicken and veggie Spring Rolls

Posted on November 10, 2009 | 6 comments

I finally made them..
It took me long enough, but I finally made them…
And they were good…

What you’ll need:

For the meat/chicken part:

  • 2 small Chicken breasts or 300 gr of ground chicken
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp light Soy sauce (Kikoman)
  • 1 tbsp Chinese five spice

For the veggie part:

  • 4 Chinese dried mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes and drained
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 cm piece ginger, grated
  • 75g bean sprouts
  • 2 large sping onions, finely sliced
  • 1 medium carrot, finely sliced (or grated)
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp Chinese five spice
  • 12-16 spring roll wrappers
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 750ml groundnut oil, for deep frying

  1. Fry up the ground chicken or the finely sliced chicken breasts in oil and then add chinese five spice and light soy sauce.  When done put it to the side to cool.
  2. In a large bowl, mix the mushrooms, garlic, ginger, beansprouts, spring onions, and sliced carrot. Add the cooled chicken and stir well to combine everything together. Add the spice and oyster sauce and stir some more.
  3. Place two spring roll wrappers on top of each other, and spoon two tablespoons of the chicken filling in the centre of the layered sheet.
  4. Mix the cornflour with the water and use to brush over the wrapper edges – this helps stop the spring rolls from bursting open while frying. Fold each of the opposite corners in, over the filling, and roll the wrapper into a cigar shape.
  5. Deep fry the spring rolls in hot oil, over a medium heat, until golden brown – about 3-5 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper before serving with sweet chilli sauce.

I served mine with rice, and I thought the were absolutely delicious!!!! They really surpised me.
It’s meant that you’ll get 6 spring rolls out of this recipe, but I ended up with 8… and they were fairly fat ones too 🙂

It takes some time to make them, but they are totally worth it.
And I didn’t really use 750 l of oil to fry them… I used a pan large enough to put two in and had enough oil to cover them half way… worked like a charm… and seeing as you have to turn them over anyway.. might as well… save oil and stuff…

Hope you enjoy…

ITADAKIMAS!!!

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Omg… another Sunday/Monday Round-up.. jeesh…

Posted on November 9, 2009 | 2 comments

Mood: Great
Listening to: A guy talking.. on TV.. Houston SPCA on Animal Planet…

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on, to be honest.
I was going to write yesterday, but I think I just forgot… lol
So yeah… Last week and weekend.

Monday was fine… Can’t say I remembered anything happen…
Tuesday went fine… Don’t think anything exciting happened… Well, Jan went to Germany with a pal.. that’s about it…
On Wednesday I was sick, so I didn’t go to the course.  And Jan came home…
Thursday I went back to the course… still felt a little blah… but I was ok… baked rolls and stuff for the course….
Friday I went to the course…. last day… we didn’t really do much that day… we talked and ate cake.. then we went home.
Raija from the course, great lovely Finnish lady, drove me home. And we got to talk… that it was good to get out of the house to meet people and stuff… and the days went fast… and I said well, most days… when the woman course leader was in charge the days went slow… and Raija agreed. And I said I didn’t like the way she acted. That when you got a job application thingi from her you felt you HAD to apply for it, weather you wanted the job or not.
And again Raija agreed. She said that she was upset with her for yelling at one of the course attendees…
Well, I can only speak for myself, and I do agree that I didn’t like her aggressiveness…

So yeah… I’ve had a lovely relaxing weekend. Made more rolls/buns yesterday because we didn’t really get to taste the ones I made for the course.

Oh, and one day I made spring rolls FINALLY…
They were delicious… I’ll post the recipe and picture in another entry. I have to shrink the picture etc. and I can’t be bothered to do it on my tiny laptop…

G is still being an enigma… I have no idea what’s going on with him
And it is hard to send out an apb on a guy you know basically nothing about.
“Yes, American police? I want to report a guy missing. To b honest, I don’t evn know if he lived in America, but I think he does. And he’s been missing for at last two weeks. I don’t know him, like really… but I have talked to him online and now he’s gone… he goes by the name G… and I know he works with shows… ”
I’m sure they’d comb America for me…
*turns to camera*
Please, G. We miss you, please come back home…

so yeah… that was my week…

Lene

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Sunday Round-up on Monday

Posted on November 2, 2009 | 2 comments

Mood: Good
Listening to: Tiny Dancer – Elton John…

I compleetly forgot about the round up. I think I need to set an alarm or something.

But yeah… things have happened the past week.

There was the whole ugly swine flu incident and misunderstandings on my behalf. Unless they put “numbers accurate because of people in country” how am I supposed to know? I am not a mind reader yet…. as I have said many times before.

And I applied for a job… and yesterday, around 18.15 he called me and said he was very interested in the application I sent him.
I have to admit it was very good, and it did seriously not take me long to whip it up =P
But he did have some concerns… like why I have a fork lift license…
Well, I was talked into it… I got it only because I didn’t get any compassion from anyone… No one in my family said “I totally understand that you don’t want to drive, and if you don’t want to you shouldn’t…”
But instead everyone went “GO FOR IT!!!”  where upon I cried… well, not really… but I wasn’t happy…

But yeah…. I took a Carma reading..
Not a real one, but a “click on a number” Carma reading online…

Your Carma today: Decisions


You wish to do something else than what you are doing right now, or you’re in a relationship where you’re not yourself.

Action:
The time has come to make a dissuasion in your heart about what you really want to do.
Something wonderful is heading your way and you ave to trust your intuition to grasp it when the time comes.
Visualize what you want, what you wish

Earlier you have lost what you really want to do because you didn’t believe in yourself enough.
Maybe this is the new job thingie??
Maybe I’m meant to work in whatever I’m meant to work in at the job I applied for? Media? Sales? Media sales??
I don’t know… We’re having a talk one of these days. I’m just waiting for an email from him.
Oh, I saw Zombieland on Saturday..
I was very surprised that I liked it, but I did.
I didn’t think I would… but it was good…
Makes me want to kill zombies… XD
Lene

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Our boys in Congo…

Posted on October 30, 2009 | 17 comments

Mood: My head hurts… D=
Listening to: nothing, my head hurts…

It’s been a while since I wrote about our two boys in Congo.
Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland.
The appeal has started now, because they were given life for espionage, murder etc.
Lately both of them got sick with Malaria… and they had to wait a few days before getting the medicine they need.
Moland snapped, poor thing. When he was in court last week he had serious mood swings, laughed one minute and started to cry the next. And he tried to leave several times, but he was brought back by the guards or French stopped him. They, Moland and French, also had a fight in their cell, and Moland moved out after that. He also was taken away to the hospital to see if they could do something about his erratic behaviour.
The newspapers say he’s getting better, but I don’t know. I think he’s still in the hospital. And hopefully they aren’t making him sleep all the time.
We haven’t really learned anything new of late…
Well, that’s not all true.
The murder weapon the driver was supposedly killed with was found in Norway, in the National Guards possession. It has never left Norway, and even better, it’s a softgun. It shoots rubber bullets.
A letter was sent to the Foreign department naming three congolese soldiers for killing the driver.
My guess is that Moland and French might be MAYBE, HIGLY UNLIKELY get pardoned for the murder, but they’ll make sure the espionage bit, the conspiracy to commit robbery and whatnot… all of those charges will still stick. They might get a lighter sentence… however, I doubt it..
My other guess is.. they’ll blame it all on Norwegian spies and throw out any evidence that says the guys are innocent.
Heck, even Foreign Department guys are being accused of giving Moland a drug that made him crazy.
the judge ordered Moland checked out by three different doctors to figure out what’s wrong with him… and three different doctors are hard to find, I guess.
So the court is adjourned till the guys are well enough to come to the courtroom.

Darn swine flu…
it’s taking the focus away from the guys…
I hope, if they are given lighter sentences, that they are allowed to serve the time in Norway.
I don’t think the environment down there is good for them… if they are to serve their time there, they won’t last long…

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Happie

Posted on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Happie

Mood: HAPPIE!!
Listening to: Nothing…

So yeah…
I wrote yesterday that I was going to look at shoes today… shoes and slippers…
I found some really cool shoes I wanted to try, and did so today… but they were a little pinchy, so I decided not to..
And then I looked at slippers… I wanted some that I had seen on the shoestores website.. but they didn’t have them..
Instead I got the same I had before… pink and fluffy.. =D

They are really lovely and fluffy and pink ^_^
My old ones are sad… they got holes in them and look pretty tattered. It’s about time they get retired.
Retirement is here, guys… You have been lovely and all, but it’s time for me to say thanks and goodbye…

I think I need to look elsewhere to find winter shoes…

Lene

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More Swine flu hysteria

Posted on October 29, 2009 | 4 comments

I’m seriously getting pissed of at the Norwegian press!!
In the Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, we can read that Norway is on TOP when it comes to mortality rate when it comes to swine flu.
We’ve lost 13 people, and even though I’m not taking it lightly, THE NORWEGIAN PRESS HAS GOT TO STOP THIS NONESENSE!!!! Or at least if they are going to scare people, GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!

Yes, we do have many deaths, but Great Britain has a total of 130 deaths…
and Spain 54. We’re on third place, so to speak, with 13… closely followed by Ireland and France with 9 deaths.
Or am I wrong in thinking that Great Britain and Spain are countries in Europe? Did they get thrown out??  Were they eradicated??? It can’t be.. I’m talking to my English friend right now… the country must still be there.

The swine flu virus has shown itself to be rather bad at killing people in general. The last update given by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control tells us that so far 5542 people has died…
A regular seasonal flu kills, according to World Health Organisation on a yearly basis 250 000 – 500 000 people.

Personally I’m not afraid of getting this swine flu…
I wasn’t afraid of catching the bird flu either, which is much more aggressive than swine flu… I didn’t get bird flu…
I doubt that I’ll catch swine flu…

To the Norwegian Press
STOP FUCKING SCARING PEOPLE!!!!!

Lene

P.S. So Ed was right and it was per capita…
But I stull think it’s fucked up scare people…

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Harry Potter vs Twilight

Posted on October 27, 2009 | 7 comments

Mood: Great
Listening to: Nothing at the moment.

Is there seriously any contest?
Wizards vs sparkling vampires??? Seriously???
1. Harry Potter has much better gathering of actors/actresses (no, I don’t mean Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson (dear god. The actress that lets her eyebrows do all the acting) and Rupert Grint (the only one I see that will have a solid acting career after the whole Harry Potter thingie is over with) like Maggie Smith, Richard Harris (rip), Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrain, Julie Walters, Emma Thompson and not forgetting Alan Rickman.
2. There are no sparkling vampires…
3. There are NO sparkling vampires…
And then there’s Twilight… and as for actors they have… The only one I recognise is the guy who died in Harry Potter. The one who’s full of himself.. But the rest…. Bishonen… and Bishojo… basically… not not all that, either.
And no, I’m not saying that th young people in Harry Potter are all that either. They aren’t. But at least they don’t sparkle.
And I’m not saying that I’ve ever read Twilight… but I doubt it oh so very very much that sparkling vampires will manage to hold my interest for very long.
So… In conclusion… Harry Potter rules, Twilight drools… End of discussion..
And in other story…
I should seriously NOT have watched the Paranormal Activity trailer yesterday… Just the trailer scared the shit out of me.. so yeah, I’m pretty tired right now… I didn’t sleep well, or at all, last night.
At least I know I won’t be watching that movie when it comes out… never ever…
There was one more thing, but I can’t remember now.. so I guess I’ll be maybe adding something later.
But for now…

Don’t sparkle, it’s lame…

Lene

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Swineflu hysteria

Posted on October 26, 2009 | 11 comments

Mood: TOPS!!  XD
Listening to: Sweeney Todd – A Little Priest

Yes, I am at the course, but it doesn’t stop me voicing my opinion.
On October 23rd the Norwegian population was urged to get vaccinated against swine flu.
I still don’t think I’ll get vaccinated. There are numerous reasons why… Shall I? *hand gesture*
1. In Norway between 1000-1500 (yes, there are more people than that in Norway) people die of your regular, garden variety flu every year.
2. I hardly ever, or I have never, to my knowledge, been sick with the flu. Heavy colds, yes, but I hardly get those either.
3. I HATE NEEDLES!!!!!
4. The chances of me getting swine flu are slim at best.
Usually young people get ill. This is usually because they hug, kiss, drink from ach others bottles etc. They all huddle in herds and the illness flourish like mad in these small groups. Which is also why illnesses have such massive outbreaks in kindergartens etc.

The thing is with those who have died… Some of them were oldish and some were young… some had underlining illnesses that didn’t get better by getting swine flu… and those who had seemingly no underlining illnesses… well… Usually the Norwegian press don’t put things like this in their articles. And it’s sad because it only adds to the hysteria. I believe that all of them had some kind of underlining illness.. something they might not even have known about.
And no, I’m not saying that I’m the perfect picture of health, far from it… but I refuse to join in on the bandwagon, joining the hysteria, getting sick from the vaccine and maybe dying from IT instead of surviving swine flu. Because that’s the thing… If you get swine flu, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed. It doesn’t mean you’ll even stay in bed, sick, for 14 days. Who knows.. maybe I’ve already had it and it didn’t let me know.

Of course it’s all up to you, but I’m taking all this hysteria with a grain of salt.
In my eyes it’s basically paying to die.
And of course not everyone dies from getting the injection of vaccine. But you might get ill from it… Even more so than from the flu itself…

Lene

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Sunday Round-up

Posted on October 25, 2009 | Comments Off on Sunday Round-up

Mood: Great
Listening to: Still “In the House – In a heartbeat” from 28 days later..

So yes…
I almost forgot that it was Sunday.. how sad is that.. lol
A lot has happened this week… well, not a lot.. but some…
There’s the course…
Monday – went fine
Tuesday – went fine
Wedensday – went fine (and Jan told me he had been at the place I had applied for a job that I wasn’t sure I would take, and he had seen a new chick there. So appearently she’s hired someone.. and now I don’t have to worry.. *relaxes* )
Thursday – went out handing out open applications, which went shit, to be honest, but at least I got out one.. and that’s one more than I would have handed out if I hadn’t gone..
Friday – boring day.. I don’t know what went on with me on Friday, but my heart wasn’t in it… so Luckily I had msn and Camilla and Ellie to talk to.

All last week I also lived on asian inspired foods.. mmmm… well, on monday I had fish thing… baked in the oven.. very good. but on tuesday I made something REALLY tasty with minced beef and asian condements and stuff… well.. not that monay condements… it had oyster sauce, soy sauce and Kecap Manis in it.. with eggnodles.. broccoli and spring onions… so good.. I’m so making it again… didn’t have time to take a picture.. I was hungry and it was too good…
And then I had japanese curry.. and everyone knows how I looooove me some japanese curry…
Next week I’ll try to make springrolls with chicken.. I found a recipe I just HAVE to try…

And I made pizza yesterday… Lene’s good old home made pizza… I think I have a picture of one I made a while back, but it’s basically the same thing, so…


I usually have green peppers on it too… or started too not too long ago.. I usually make them like this. With the sauce all made in one pot.. with the meat, shrooms, onion and tomatoes… this is left to bubble for.. well.. basically, the longer it stands the better.  In the meantime I make the pizza base, top it with the sauce and put loads of cheese on top… and then put red and green peppers ontop of that with onions… bake in the over for 20 min on 225 C
it’s delicious… ^_^

Oh, and I found a picture of myself while I was looking through my photobucket…

It was taken in 1997…and I haven’t changed all that much… shorter hair, I’ve lost the bangs… But no wrinkles and that’s about it.. haha…

Erm, what else… hmm…
Oh, right.. Jan and I made a counter for the garage.. for him to store all his tools.. and after he finished it.. woah.. the garage is stunnigly clean… Totally proud of him.

And I guess that’s about it for this week… Not alot has happened this week. Well, apart from G gone missing. His sight is not there… He must have been locked in his vault… or his hell hounds got really hungry…

So I guess I’ll write more when I have more to write about.. ^_^

Ciao, Lene

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I’m bored (Kinda a 28 Days Later movie review.. but my heart isn’t in it)

Posted on October 24, 2009 | 6 comments

Mood: Bored
Listening to: 28 Days Later soundtrack. More specifically “In the House – In a heartbeat”
I knew I had heard it someplace before when I heard it in a Resident Evil fan thingie on youtube… And I couldn’t remember WHERE I got it from… but I wanted to watch 28 Weeks Later, and couldn’t find one that works… So I tried to listen to some music on youtube instead and there it was…  =3=  *wobbles*

But it doesn’t diminish my boredomness…. and seeing as I love to hear my own voice, I thought I’d type a little.
That’s one of the problems when I’m bored..
I get all nonsensical. And try to expand on my vocabulary.

I wasn’t planning on making this a movie review.. so I won’t put it as one.. but seeing as I’m in the 28 Days Later mood, I might as well, right?
It is a must see movie…

What would you have done if you woke up in the hospital one day and no one was around. You can’t remember anything, well hardly anything… well, except that you lost an argument with a car…
Honestly. Even though it is a good movie… well… there are things that makes me think a little..
The guy, Jim, wakes up after 28 days in a coma, yeah? Well… if everyone turned into zombies, how come he didn’t die of dehydration? Well, Lene… Not everyone turned all at once, so there would have been some people left to treat people in hospitals and stuff…
Then, why wasn’t he evacuated with the other people?
Could be that his condition were such that he couldn’t be moved? Seeing as he had massive head trauma.
well… Anyways.. Jim wanders around London, screaming HELLOOO?!??! getting very upset… Which I can totally understand. I’d be out of my mind had I woken up and no one was around, anywhere.
But he eventually meets a priest who tried to beat his ass, a guy, on fire, who wants to beat his ass… so I guess he thinks everyone hates him.. until he meets Selena and some other guy… the other guy gets bitten after they go to Jim’s parents house and they find them dead… Oh… btw.. SPOILER!!!!
So Selena killes him and they both agree that if either one gets infected that the otherone will kill him/her.
They, Selena and Jim, soon spots Christmas lights and finds people… Mr Mad Eye Moody and his daughter.
They find,on the radio, a call thingie that tells people to get their ass to someplace fast and stuff, and they all leave.
Well there they met military people.. or what’s left of a unit, I guess.. but best of all =3= Christopher Eccleston <3
The most handsome Dr Who… The Doctor… but not THE Doctor… THE Doctor is Tom Baker…
So yeah.. anyway… they find out that everyone, but the girls, are expendable… and seeing as Mr Mad Eye gets killer before they met the soldier people, that only leaves Jim to be sorted. However, he has a cunning plan… as a jet flies overhead he lies down and plays dead.
And after that Selena gives the daughter girl drugs so she won’t feel anything.. and Jim comes to save them… and he goes crazy bat shit on their asses. But he gets shot as they drive away… as those of the soldiers who doesn’t get killed by Jim gets killed by soldiers who’s been infected.. or ragefied.
There are two endings to this movie.  One where Jim dies and one where he wakes up and they are all far far far out in the country where the zombies can’t get to them without starving first.
So, if they meet a zombie with a well packed backpack they are in trouble.
OH, I almost forgot… Selena almost killed Jim because she thought he was infected.. but then she hesitates and he says “That was longer than a heartbeat” which is where this melody comes into the picture.. it is such an amazing melody…
Makes me all goose pimply…
So… in other news…
Jan rented a dumpster thingie.. huge ass dumpster thingie where we can throw all the trash we have in our house…
So already we’ve cleaned out all that’s not being used from the garage (including my bike.. bye bye XD *waves happily*) and a lot of trash that we found while taring down the old out house… things that we didn’t have room to throw last time we rented one of those dumpster thingies.
And I’ve thrown out loads of toys belonging to the kids.. and more to come tomorrow…
And I made pizza for dinner today… mmmmm… twas good.. Haven’t had it in ages and ages…
*yawns*
And there’s a Torchwood Marathon on TV… Of course there is now when I can’t watch it.. *sighs*
Well, I can, but I choose to stay on my computer. I prefer to watch Torchwood when I’m alone. That way I don’t have to listen to stupid comments from others.
*sighs* I’m so restless… I hate it when the movie site is down… Even if he hasn’t uploaded a movie, there is always something to do… or talk to.. or comment…
What’s happened??? D=
At least I know it isn’t my fault this time… lol
Meh, I’m going back to youtube to look at cool stuff… :3

Lene

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