Saturday, September 12, 2009

I should have made a wish-Apricot Ginger Glazed pork tenderloin with bread salad

New semester started, Taking T comes back to my daily life. I never mind commute by T and I can always do reading , the funny part is I am more concentrated :) Reading a Chinese novel on the T is like putting a label on myself: I am an awesome Chinese ! Maybe one day, I could get to know some new friends because of it, but it has to be Milan Kundera's big fan.

He wrote : there is a very expensive grocery store, so for the people that do shopping there: it is more important to pay than to eat. It reminded me the whole foods and Market basket.

I admit the meat in whole foods are almost the best, but for the vegetable, it is also pretty fresh in market basket, because there are so many people shopping there so the one on the shelves are always fresh. It can't be guaranteed in the whole foods sometimes. But I just love to shop in the whole foods, I remember one of sK's friends said 'the whole foods along the river' is a very BEAUTIFUL store and it is. I do enjoy shopping there or just hang out there to check out each item.

Weekend depression, so sad, it is a Friday again, and it is raining, nothing could be worse than this for me. So I have to do big cooking to help me get over it.
Apricot Ginger Glaze, I used it for chicken wings in Duncan’s BBQ. People liked it which was one of the few things that could make me happy during that time.
(apricot preserve, ginger, soy sauce)

I wanted to do pork tenderloin again, because I wanted it to come out really tender, 10F lower, it will be raw , 10F higher, it will lose the juicy. It said it should be took out of the oven when it reaches 140F and let it cook by itself. 350F , 15min, I checked, it about 120F, then another 5mins, it got almost 140F, then I boiled it, and didn't take it out from oven until the glaze layer was formed. so you know, it didn’t come out what I expected it to be.

The salad is bread cucumber grilled heirloom tomato with basil. I got the new cast iron pan , and it really can be a grill only without the smoke flavor. I was in a rush , so didn’t remove the seed of tomato, and it was a little messy. Bread is cubed sourdough bread, dipped with garlic butter then bake until crispy.
Lovely heirloom tomato, it has the flavor of the ones in my Dad’s garden during my childhood. I will make it again, love grilled tomato J

Summer is just gone, for me it was a very special summer , and I grow up one year old with a very different birthday. I watched one EP of Grey Anatomy, it was Izzie’s birthday, Alex asked her to make a wish and I just realized I didn’t make a wish on my birthday. Actually I did not have any wishes at that moment, but maybe I should have made a wish for nothing to be changed…

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