Lanny
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
07:51 BS 8.8
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
JUST finished munching breakfast & posting! 😛
I’ve decided I don’t fancy any cake for my Birthday this year BUT, I AM indulging & ordered an extra tesco shop on Monday & moved my usual shop to Wednesday. I ordered the not long out Christmas party food & “MY Goodness” it’s really gone up in price now EVEN with the 3 for 2 offers on most of them particularly the finest range! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE gyozas, the Japanese meat or seafood even both together sometimes dumplings, & ordered the new for this year’s finest whole prawn ones at a WHOPPING £5-50 for a pack of 10: already tried ordering them as soon as they were available 2 weeks ago; didn’t get any the 1st week & got 3 on Monday so, know they taste GREAT! Albeit they’re a bit gimmicky in that the pastry doesn’t cover the while thing leaving the tiny bit of shelled tail of the prawn sticking out: not as good as they COULD be because of 2 things: REALLY tesco didn’t think this one out properly before doing this; a) this means the prawn is whole, not chopped up, with the other veg, & stuff, rattling around separately inside so, the prawn is already a tad overcooked before you even reheat it to eat & it’s a bit rubbery: eating it cold is better & that’s fine as it already cooked & b) leaving the tail poking out means it’s not watertight which causes problems when reheating as suggested on the pack & less of a problem steaming it as I always do, the traditional bamboo steamer is iconic but, mine is a stainless steel one of 2 perforated tiers over the bottom pan of water! 🙄 There’s 2 main ways of cooking gyozas depending on how you like them: method on the pack is shallow fry in a bit of oil to crisp & caramelise the bottom a bit before shallow poaching them in a couple of inches, JUST enough to cover them, of water & they become very sticky with a crisp bottom & why they’re known as “pot stickers” in the US; the way I like them is to steam them & they’re more like dim sum! Tesco has always done them already cooked with the caramelised bottom so, you’re only reheating them anyway so, I decided eating these cold are best given the gimmicks of these dumplings that don’t really work! BUT, after a couple of years of the TERRIBLE Rainbow gyozas these whole prawn ones are MUCH better: tesco HAD a Wonderful pack of 5 chicken & 5 prawn ones for a few years before the Rainbow ones came out that were just PERFECT; why did they change them to the TERRIBLE Rainbow ones?
Ordered some more party food of breaded butterfly prawns, chicken tikka samosas & chicken katsu curry rolls so, that’s an indulgent Monday, actual Birthday, & Tuesday before normal food service resumes on Wednesday next week: IF everything comes; CAN be difficult to get some depending on popularity?
😛

I ordered this yesterday after posting & definitively deciding, only thinking about it before then, on no cake! 😛
😉 So, I’m marking my Birthday a bit differently this year!
The rest can be skipped, if you wish?
Little Miss Frustrated was me for most of yesterday as it turned out there were no new episodes of the contemporary drama & I don’t know why: maybe it was a Chinese holiday I don’t know about; episodes 19 & 20 will have to wait until Monday now & I’m left on a bit of a cliffhanger!
I DID semi wonder about the little bit of a surprise cliffhanger at the end of episode 18 on Thursday given it wasn’t at the end of the week: now I know it WAS the end of the week!
I wished I’d followed my instincts at the start, before watching, of waiting for the whole lot to finish airing & all episodes subbed & ready to watch before starting to watch at all so, I see it at my own pace! 🙄
I’ll do that next time as I’ve rather spoilt myself watching these dramas at my own pace & don’t like the frustration of waiting for a TV schedule I don’t know! A Duh! Hitting My Head emoji or what you lot call a Face Palm emoji!
😉
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
JUST finished munching breakfast & posting! 😛
I’ve decided I don’t fancy any cake for my Birthday this year BUT, I AM indulging & ordered an extra tesco shop on Monday & moved my usual shop to Wednesday. I ordered the not long out Christmas party food & “MY Goodness” it’s really gone up in price now EVEN with the 3 for 2 offers on most of them particularly the finest range! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE gyozas, the Japanese meat or seafood even both together sometimes dumplings, & ordered the new for this year’s finest whole prawn ones at a WHOPPING £5-50 for a pack of 10: already tried ordering them as soon as they were available 2 weeks ago; didn’t get any the 1st week & got 3 on Monday so, know they taste GREAT! Albeit they’re a bit gimmicky in that the pastry doesn’t cover the while thing leaving the tiny bit of shelled tail of the prawn sticking out: not as good as they COULD be because of 2 things: REALLY tesco didn’t think this one out properly before doing this; a) this means the prawn is whole, not chopped up, with the other veg, & stuff, rattling around separately inside so, the prawn is already a tad overcooked before you even reheat it to eat & it’s a bit rubbery: eating it cold is better & that’s fine as it already cooked & b) leaving the tail poking out means it’s not watertight which causes problems when reheating as suggested on the pack & less of a problem steaming it as I always do, the traditional bamboo steamer is iconic but, mine is a stainless steel one of 2 perforated tiers over the bottom pan of water! 🙄 There’s 2 main ways of cooking gyozas depending on how you like them: method on the pack is shallow fry in a bit of oil to crisp & caramelise the bottom a bit before shallow poaching them in a couple of inches, JUST enough to cover them, of water & they become very sticky with a crisp bottom & why they’re known as “pot stickers” in the US; the way I like them is to steam them & they’re more like dim sum! Tesco has always done them already cooked with the caramelised bottom so, you’re only reheating them anyway so, I decided eating these cold are best given the gimmicks of these dumplings that don’t really work! BUT, after a couple of years of the TERRIBLE Rainbow gyozas these whole prawn ones are MUCH better: tesco HAD a Wonderful pack of 5 chicken & 5 prawn ones for a few years before the Rainbow ones came out that were just PERFECT; why did they change them to the TERRIBLE Rainbow ones?
Ordered some more party food of breaded butterfly prawns, chicken tikka samosas & chicken katsu curry rolls so, that’s an indulgent Monday, actual Birthday, & Tuesday before normal food service resumes on Wednesday next week: IF everything comes; CAN be difficult to get some depending on popularity?
I ordered this yesterday after posting & definitively deciding, only thinking about it before then, on no cake! 😛
The rest can be skipped, if you wish?
Little Miss Frustrated was me for most of yesterday as it turned out there were no new episodes of the contemporary drama & I don’t know why: maybe it was a Chinese holiday I don’t know about; episodes 19 & 20 will have to wait until Monday now & I’m left on a bit of a cliffhanger!
I wished I’d followed my instincts at the start, before watching, of waiting for the whole lot to finish airing & all episodes subbed & ready to watch before starting to watch at all so, I see it at my own pace! 🙄
I’ll do that next time as I’ve rather spoilt myself watching these dramas at my own pace & don’t like the frustration of waiting for a TV schedule I don’t know! A Duh! Hitting My Head emoji or what you lot call a Face Palm emoji!