College Cooking Adventures

So this year, there have been quite a few mishaps between the kitchen and me... I can't entirely blame myself either since most of the time, these mishaps happen because I don't have the right utensils or ingredients. *insert rant about being a broke college kid here*

Since I made a new friend who share my same nationality, we have almost the same taste in food. So we have been making traditional Indonesian food. We made bakwan jagung (fried corn fritters), fried rice, Indomie (the best brand of ramen noodles ever) with all kinds of veggies stirred into it, and of course, beef rendang (without the beef...).  But today, we decided to challenge ourselves by creating a whole knew taste! Ok, maybe it's not a "whole new taste," but it's pretty good.

We cooked spaghetti noodles, cut up 12 hot Thai peppers, and mixed the spicy rendang seasoning with coconut milk, and ta-da we have rendang spaghetti noodles!

BEHOLD! OUR MASTERPIECE!

Maybe I was too brave about the spices because after this plateful of deliciousness, I was teary-eyed, red-faced, and almost deaf in both ears! Nonetheless, this is a 10/10 would recommend thing, at least to me.

If anyone wants to try, all you need are:

eggs (how ever many you want)

spaghetti noodles (how ever much you want to eat)

1 pack of Munik's Spicy Beef Rendang (you can get this at an Asian supermarket, usually)

1 can of 400mL coconut milk

Enjoy :D

Finally Braces Free!

So, some time during my sophomore year of high school, I got braces.  I got braces because my right canines (both top and bottom) grew out of alignment (as in they grew all the way at the very end of my gum line behind my lips).  Not only that, but my mouth was completely overcrowded with teeth, I mean my teeth are gigantic.  During the three-year process, I had to get six teeth extracted (two of my top premolars and all four of my wisdom teeth, since they all grew at 45 degree angles...).  What else can go wrong with my teeth right? :D

Well, thankfully, I got my braces off just two weeks ago.  When I first got them off, I honestly felt like my teeth were so slimy that I brushed them three times before I realized that teeth are just supposed to feel like that, smooth and not going to tear up the inside of your mouth.  I have to say, getting my braces off were both exciting and scary.  I was excited because, I mean let's be real, why wouldn't I be excited?  I'm getting those damned metals out of me!  It was scary because I expected to see wild stains all over my teeth, leaving the bracket-covered spots completely white, and that I'd look so weird with stained teeth.  It turns out that I actually took care of my teeth really well during the process that my teeth came out beautifully :)

God, my teeth are gigantic...