Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
La Boulangerie Menu
Favorite Youtube Videos, Movies, and TV Shows
Have a laugh or two to relieve stress and increase the efficiency of your immune system.
1. Zombies Vs Kids Prank (4min 26sec)- Three adroable Japanese kids are forced to attack a "Zombie". This video was shown at many schools within Japan, to teach children about the importance of teamwork... (funny)
2. Zombie Kid Like's Turtles (18sec)
3. Monkey Finger Sniff (16sec) - Monkey touches butt hole with his finger, sniffs it, then passes out
4. Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys (3min 21sec)
5. Fainting Goats (1min 19sec) - goat that faints when it's over excited or starttled
6. Dog Humping Old Lady (45sec)
7. Bride Falls in Pool (44sec)
8. Senior Citizen Takes on Hip Hop (5min 12sec)
9. Baby Doing The Samba Dance (2min 54sec)
10.Don't Ever Scare Black People (13 sec)
11. Jam Packed Train in Japan (1min 36sec)
12. Soldier Turns Into Chewbacca When Hit With A Taser (27sec)
13. George Bush Top Ten Moments on The Letterman Show (2min 13sec)
14. Newcaster, Texas Rat Snake, and A Curious Lizard (1min 2 sec)
15. TSA Harassment (2min 7sec)
16. Kids Say The Darndest Things (1min 21 sec)
17. Japanese Human Tetris (2min 5sec)
18. Adorable Smart hard working Chimpanzee and His Dog Companion
19. Best Emmy Moment Ever-Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
20. House Diagnoses Conan O'Brien
21. Lost Parody
Favorite Movies-
a combination of psychological thrillers, dramas, chick flicks, animated films, independent films, and foreign movies, and classics. These movies are my favorites that I watch over and over again.
1. City of God
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Chinese Movie)
5. Gattaca
6. Gran Torino
7. Goodwill Hunting
8. The Goonies
9. Fight Club
10. American Beauty
11. Dead Poet's Society
12. Big Fish
13. Kinsey
14. Requiem for a Dream
15. Donnie Darko
16. Memento
17. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
18. Edward Scissorhands
19. Mannequin
20. Back to the Future
21. Thor
22. X-Men
23. Iron Man
24. Captain America
25. Spider Man
26. The Incredibles
27. Toy Story 1,2,3
28. Finding Nemo
29. Cars 1,2
30. Ratatouille
31. Wall-E
32. Up
33. Monsters, Inc.
34. The Godfather
35. Forrest Gump
36. American History X
37. Waitress
38. Young and Dangerous Series (Chinese Movie)
39. Spirited Away
40. Ponyo on the Cliff
41. Howl's Moving Castle
42. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
43. The King's Speech
44. The Lion King
45. Scarface
46. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
47. A Time to Kill
48. How to Train Your Dragon
48. IP Man
49. A Beautiful Mind
50. The Little Mermaid
51. Avatar
52. Aladdin
53. Mulan
54. Cinderella
55. Lord of the Rings
56. Coco Channel
57. The Green Mile
58. Into the Wild
59. Kill Bill
60. Hotel Rawanda
61. Blood Diamond
62. Sweeny Todd
63. Million Dollar Baby
64. Oceans Eleven
65. E.T.
66. Attonement
67. 200 Pounds of Beauty (Korean Movie)
68. Hocus Pocus
69. The Parent Trap
70. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and all of the others
71. Twilight
72. Shakespear in Love
73. The Other Boylyn Girl
74. Napolean Dynamite
75. Knocked Up
76. Juno
77. White Squal
78. Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day
79. Little Women
80. Great Expectations
81. Planet of the Apes
82. The Italian Job
83. Baby and I (Korean Movie)
84. 300
85. Gladiator
86. Crash
87. Rules of Attraction
88. 40 Days 40 Nights
89. The Jane Austin Book Club
90. Becoming Jane
91. Devil Wears Prada
92. Georgia Rule
93. Step Up 2
94. enter the dragon
95. Indiana Jones
96. Beastmaster
97. 127 Hours
98. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
99. Inception
100. The Royal Tenenbaums
101. Top Gun
102. Troy
103. The Faculty
104. Motorcycle Diaries
105. A Christmas Story
106. The Nightmare Before Christmas
107. My Sassy Girl (Korean Movie)
108. Old Boy (Korean Movie)
TV Shows -
My husband and like to watch two shows at a time. When he has short breaks (and not enough time to go out), we'll stay in and watch an episode or two. Loads of fun!
Game of Thrones
True Blood
The Walking Dead
Fringe
House
Dexter
Lost
The Sopranos
OZ
Man Vs. Wild
Spartacus
Mad Men
Six Feet Under
Comical News
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Anime Series
Death Note- the Anime that got me hooked
Code Geass
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Chobits
Ranma 1/2
Asian Dramas- You can Watch them all HERE for free. Descriptions included on site. Most of them are uploaded on YouTube as well (preferred, loads a lot faster)
Boys Over Flowers
Prosecutor Princess
Dream High
Protect the Boss
Heartstrings
You're Beautiful
Cinderella Man
My Girl
Oh! My Lady
Secret Garden
Hana Yori Dango
My Queen
Monday, August 22, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
the Green Banana that refuses to turn yellow
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| unraveling the mystery to the green banana |
Three weeks after, the bananas were still green hahaha. It boggled me so much that my prior knowledge of bananas went out the door. I know that normal bananas ripe faster in hot temperatures (check!) and even faster wrapped in paper bags (checked, three of them)+ in hot temperatures. I started saying to myself, "hey, they ripe slower here on the island."... I was delirious. They look exactly like the banana I know so I didn't bother looking them up online. I waited one more week until I couldn't take it anymore. I googled "green fig banana" and found out that they're used more like a vegetable instead of a fruit. ahhhhhh.
"Fig" is synonymous with banana here on the island. It has no relationship at all with the fig that we're all familiar with. Back in the day, locals started using Green Figs as a means of survival, but now-a-days, it has become part of their everyday recipes they have come to love the most.
As time passed by, the bananas softened little by little. I decided to leave them out for as long as I could before they started showing signs of spoilage. I cut off the ends, peeled the bananas, and gave them a try. I was pleased with their taste and texture... firm in feel with the taste of a not so sweet, on-the-verge of being ripe regular banana. Based on their taste, I just know they'd be great in banana's foster on top of ice cream, or on top of a egg custard.
Bottom line: I love green fig. they're cheap, can be used in savory dishes or made into dessert. the best thing is, they have the longest shelf life ever!
Common ways green bananas are prepared:
-boiled, diced, and made into a salad (like potato salad)
-boiled, grated, and made into a savory pie (along with potatoes)
-boiled, diced, and cooked in butter and nutmeg
-boiled and made into a smoothie
-used in curries
I have yet to experiement with them so for now, I hand you over to the experts. Follow the links below.
Links to Recipes:
Green Fig Banana Pie
Green Fig and Saltfish
Green Fig Salad
Green Fig Punch
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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