Shrimp Risoles

After tasting veggie risoles from the new Indonesian restaurant - we decided to make our own -better ones, with shrimp. Here is the recipe - copied & modified from Mrs Herti's recipe:


Ingredients:
The wrapper (skin):
100 gr flour
1 spoon salt
1 egg
175 ml milk

Filling:
Shrimp (as much as you want)
1 big potato
6 carrots
2 onions
3 garlics
4 chilies, cut (if you like to eat spicy)
salt, pepper, sugar to taste
1 spoon flour, mixed with a little bit of water

Coating:
1 egg, mixed
bread crumbs

Steps:
Skin/wrapper: Mix all wrapper/skin ingredients until smooth (no clumps). Then make each skin/wrapper by pouring one ladle at a time into a hot greased frying pan. Cook until they are firm, then put them aside.

Filling: Fry onion and garlic until they turn brown, then add chilies, carrots and potatoes. When all the veggies are soft enough, add shrimp, and wait until the meat cooks. Then add the flour which was previously mixed with water.

Fill each skin with a couple of spoons of the filling, and fold it like an envelope. Dip it into the egg then into the bread crumbs. Deep-fry until it turns brown.

Brule/Eagle again

Last weekend we went to clear a trail again - this time the Brule lake trail. Yup, a cold weekend to be doing outdoor activities, especially camping/hiking. But this time we were lucky, since we did not have to camp out - we stayed at the forest service cabin. Nice temperature to stay inside or to eat our food inside, instead of freezing our butts outside. Still camping, guys ..... just warmer.

The trail clearing was a bit different from last time - this time we went with completely new people except the leader (total crew: 9 people). The people were older so the conversations were different, too - much more adult talk such as relationships, commitment, etc. etc. Learning interesting things about love and everyone's problems/issues in love.

There is only 1 room in this cabin, and 6 of us stayed inside the cabin while the other 3 wanted to sleep outside in the tents. We somehow were chosen to stay inside the room which another person - and V was nice enough to pick sleeping on the mattress on the floor, while me and the other person each got our own bed. At this point we didn't know what would happen to us at night.

We went to sleep, and in the middle of the night, I was awakened by snoring noises (really loud ones and continuously), so I thought it was V's, but I had never heard him snoring that loud. The next day, all the mystery was solved - 3 of us went to the bed at the same time, while I was still talking to V - the mystery snoring came back, and this time was non-stop for 2 hours before it went to the quieter one. Poor V - he could not sleep for 2 days and he was blamed for all the snoring in that room since no one would think the other person could snore that loud...the snores were two different types mixed together... man...it sounded like two people snoring.

I guess you cannot judge people from their appearance - the other person is a girl. Dang, I thought they were lucky nights for V but actually they turned out quite the opposite.

This time we also climbed up Eagle mountain (same as last time), and most of the trees lost their leaves already. On the top of the Eagle mountain, the view was different from our last visit (summer) - but still beautiful as always :)



We got a new recipe for apple dumplings - delicious and not too sweet, from one of the campers... Thanks K---!!!!
We will try it soon (once we have a new oven).

Happy Diwali guys!!!!!!!

Laskar Pelangi

I am so curious about this movie (adapted from a novel) - I googled it during work and found the entire movie in Youtube and also the scanned novel (yup for entire novel). But could not read/watch during work (ya ya ya I am ethical person at work, doesn't like to get paid for pleasure)

And when I got home from work (2 days later, totally forgot about it), I could not find any movie in Youtube and even could not find the scanned novel.

Hiks hiks hiks I could not believe this : ( where where I can find the entire movie again??????

Just want to know how good this movie is......

Oberg Mountain

After the kitchen disaster last week, we finally got a chance this Saturday to drive for Fall colors. The trip was planned Friday night with a phone call from Jal, asking if she could come along to our trip. That time we didn't have a plan yet, so any suggestions were welcome. She sent me a link about north fall drive favorite locations, and I just had to plan everything. First time, everything was blurry - I was not sure where we should go since our last year trip was not as good as we thought. So I read the website while reading my manga (Dang I am so good in doing 2 things in parallel), so I saw the link to fall colors gallery, and that gallery was becoming our plan : ) Sooooooo we planned to go to Oberg Mountain (I know it was not a surprise anymore since I mentioned the name on the post).

We should have left at 9 AM, but we decided to drag Pra with us -- she actually didn't want to go since she would have to run for marathon next day, but we were sooooo good at persuading her, but we left around 11.30.

We got to Duluth around 1 PM, got our lunch at BK (as usual - Mocha Joe, no ice) and stopped by 2 spots - Lake Superior and Rocky piers (we don't know the actual name for this place), and drove through this scenic drive which later we found out that nothing scenic about it - the website had fooled us. But at the end we got to Oberg Mountain (around 4 PM) after making a U-turn around Lutsen.

Hiked up to the top with soooooo many stops for each photographer to take panoramic pictures. The scenery was beautiful, all the trees were different colors - red, yellow, green, brown. Made everything looks like bunch of raspberries - really hard to describe how beautiful what we saw there.

We definitely will come back to see Fall Colors next year but maybe not going to the same place.