Party for Jiaozi

First time to hold a party, first time in the States, first time for the foreign friends--it was somehow awesome! We cooked a set of dishes, and of coz, Jiaozi which were favored by everyone.



Furthermore, the CCTV spring festival performance seemed sensitively to be quite different from what I used to watch years before.

Tired to tidy up though.

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The Primary Cook

學會做飯，是來米國的目標之一，看來這個目標是實施最早也是較爲成功的。原因在于做飯是每天的必須，並且，我也有這種天賦。

通常情況下，在米國自己燒中國菜不是件容易的事情，原料比較貴而且不易買到。Chapel Hill這個人傑地靈的地方可不一樣，除了有一個小亞洲農貿超市之外，不遠的地方還有物品更爲齊全的大亞洲超市，傳說中的中國人的巨型菜市場。

結果昨天第一小分隊的同志們攜同房東一起去了那裏，不僅買了夠兩周量的肉類、蔬菜和水果，還帶回來了湖南辣椒醬，某湖南小朋友開心的不得了。

炒飯的精髓在于變“廢”爲“寶”。“廢”出現的原因是房東獎飯煮的一半幹一半濕，無法入口。而炒飯就能很好地化解這個問題，同時這也是大廚Daniel的拿手菜式之一。今天這道Daniel's Fried Rice，將半幹半濕的米飯用中火不斷翻炒二十分鍾以上，再選用了米國本土生産的胡蘿蔔與新鮮雞蛋作爲輔料，最後加上Daniel的神秘香料配方，美味至極，連正在減肥的山小貓也忍不住吃了兩碗。



Olivia也是一名才華橫溢的廚師，她今天用獨門的秘制香料熬成了自創的Olivia Sauce，淋在用新鮮豬腿肉和蔬菜手工制成的meatball上，無論是色、香還是味，都令人無法抵擋。晚上還用它來加了面包，這種創意無限的fusion菜式也只有在大廚Olivia的手中出現。



以後爭取把每一頓的照片都留下來。

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Chapel Hill - Life Get Started

After a week adjusting different lifestyle here in Chapel Hill, we've been following the pace with its peace and harmonious. Life seems more than simple and regular--jogging in the early morning, making breakfast, going to campus by bus, having classes in both morning and afternoon, discussing and working together with the dinner, blogging... Lei says she's more like to have a grandma's daily life, so do we.



The Weather

It seems so changeable, the difference in temperature at night and noon is also big. Yesterday the lowest temperature was -3 degree but the highest temperature today is above 18 degree. But fortunately warm enough indoors, no need to be aware of dressing.


I can't even figure out which season it belongs to: fall, winter or early spring?



The Food

Usually, we make breakfast, lunch and also dinner together by our own. Permutation and combination of food materials proceed to make dishes no second same taste. But for only several food stocked in the refrigerator, there could be more choices to make. We've got these dishes of this weekdays:

• sliced pork lib with carrot in curry sauce
• fry pork piece with celery
• roast chicken
• chicken soup
• lettuce with dried shrimp
• tilapia in soy sauce
• tilapia soup
• scramble eggs in sweet and sour sauce
• fried rice with apple dice

Making dishes together should be quite exciting and impressive, maybe we'll hold a banquet for our classmates after coming back.

The Courses

We've got four courses all considering multimedia theories and practice, so it is required to have classes in computer lab all the time. There's a lot of homework and projects and designs to cover this semester, reviewing's also a prior work. We might be able to have a basic view of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign till the end of this month.



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