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Don't Try This at Home
Last night was a good night. I whipped out my neglected Japanese cooking tutorial (which apparently they have in English in Europe. C'mon! Bring it out in America tooooo!) and made some potato salad. I'm really picky when it comes to my potato salad, there are really only about 3 or 4 kinds in the world that I will eat. But Japanese potato salad is one of them. And now I can say I have made it from scratch. It has potatoes, mayo (J-mayo, since it does taste a little different) ham, hardboiled eggs, cucumber and onion.
So now I've made 4 dishes with my tutorial. And I have to say that I always make it through the recipe with good results. But that it regularly pwns me along the way. I'm not a bad cook. Really. But watching me while I play this game is a lot like an exercise in 'what not to do.' Like when I realize that the tutorial assumed I'd already hardboiled my eggs. Or when I was trying to cut the onion into tinier pieces. Or when I realized I no longer had a potato masher (I swear I had one when I left Dayton). The tutorial had you mashing with a thick wooden stick, so I actually ended up mashing my potatoes with the handle of a cleaver.
No Anns were harmed in the making of this potato salad. But it had more to do with the grace of god than anything.
So now I've made 4 dishes with my tutorial. And I have to say that I always make it through the recipe with good results. But that it regularly pwns me along the way. I'm not a bad cook. Really. But watching me while I play this game is a lot like an exercise in 'what not to do.' Like when I realize that the tutorial assumed I'd already hardboiled my eggs. Or when I was trying to cut the onion into tinier pieces. Or when I realized I no longer had a potato masher (I swear I had one when I left Dayton). The tutorial had you mashing with a thick wooden stick, so I actually ended up mashing my potatoes with the handle of a cleaver.
No Anns were harmed in the making of this potato salad. But it had more to do with the grace of god than anything.
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so long as all your fingers are attached, and the food was tasty, you can count it as a success! TEH WINZ!
I too would like a potato salad recepie that doesn't make me sad. I can rarely eat the store bought kind. It all creamy, or worse, has relish in it. :-P
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you need:
2 potatoes
1-2 seedless cucumbers
1/4th an onion
hamsteak
1 hardboiled egg
1/3 cup mayo (kewpie if possible)
salt & pepper
1. peel the potatoes & cut into thick slices.
2. put them in water on medium heat until soft.
In the meantime...
3. cut the cucumber into really thin slices (I acutally used the side slot on my grater)
4. cut the ham into little strips about 3 x 4 mm
5. cut the onion the same way.
5. cut the egg into little pieces.
6. When the potatoes are soft, put the potato in a bowl and mash.
7. Add the onion & ham.
8. let cool to room temperature (took surprisingly little time)
9. Add the egg & mayo
10. Salt & pepper to taste.
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SWEET I'M CLAIRVOYANT!
... but is that how you spell clairvoyant?