Hiroshima Soy-Glazed Burger

Just thought I'd share one of my favorite recipes made by ... ME!

Seriously, try it!

INGREDIENTS:
[Soy Mix]
6T sugar
2T water, hot
6T soy sauce [Kikkoman preferred]

1 lb. ground beef [80% lean]
1 lb. ground pork
3/4C crumbled bread [Panko]
8T dry sake
1 medium yellow onion, minced
1 tsp. garlic, minced
1 egg
pinch of salt
pinch of pepper
peanut oil

DIRECTIONS:
In a small bowl, mix water and sugar until sugar dissolves.
Add in soy sauce. Set aside.

Mix ground beef, ground pork, crumbled bread, 3T dry sake,
onion, garlic, egg, salt and pepper in a bowl. Prepare meat
in rectangular shapes; dimensions: 4” x 2½” x 1”. Set aside.

Heat pan over high heat until hot. Add oil and, when hot,
add meat. Sear for 1 minute [do not flatten or else you’ll
squeeze out the juices]. Turn over, add remaining sake and
cook over low heat. COVER. Cook for 5-7 minutes [for medium
rare] and 8-11 minutes [for medium well to well-done]. Remove
from pan and set aside. Clean pan.

Heat pan over high heat. Return burgers to pan. Add in soy
mixture and cook until it coats the burgers in a nice velvet
consistency, around 1 minute. Remove burger from pan. Pour
remaining soy mix from pan on burgers. Serve burgers on top
of stir-fried veggies or w/ mashed potatoes. Enjoy.

bitter.weekend

They call him, "The Prodigy." 13 wins - 4 losses ... at least before his complete beating from Georges St. Pierre. And what a beating it was ...

BJ Penn. 13 wins and now 5 losses. It's taken me 3 days to digest that my idol [who was so confident coming into this fight] would not only get beat, but gave up after 4 rounds.

"To the death George", he said. Pfft, whatever. All the hours of training, all that sweat and all that trash talk came down to ... well ... nothing.

cutting.hair/weight

I feel 10 lbs lighter after getting this haircut, LOL.

20 lbs more to go.

twilight.

The title would indicate that this is about that book or movie with that British actor (Robert Pattinson) every tween girl (and guys?) would want to violate (if given the chance to). But no it's not about that. I just like it to attract would be readers via manipulated search engines ...

So I've been having these weird dreams lately where I'm a vampire ... and in it I'm not as invincible as these Hollywood vampires are made to be. In fact, I can die from a gunshot wound and even AIDS (yes ... one of my "victims" had the HIV virus and it affected me too. WTF right?).

My dreams take its usual course: I roam the night and day (I'm one of the few that can walk in daylight) looking for some purpose in what a vampire life should be like. I'll feed every other night. Mostly rich business men and women (I also hunt bad people - murderers, rapist, thieves, etc. but in another dream I stopped because they taste like rotten cheese). And then right before I wake up, somehow I am struck with some sort of life-threatening injury/disease ... and I die.

I'm going to stop talking for now.

Until my next dream.

Home and Landscape Design Ideas

After 2 weeks of planning, brainstorming and countless caffeine pills later ... the Home and Landscape Design Ideas site is now live on the web. It's still under construction though and will be completed in the coming weeks ahead.

If anyone is interested in learning something new or getting some information regarding Home Design then feel free to browse through. We will continue to update the site for your reading/viewing pleasure everyday so check back for more goodies later.

Enjoy - http://www.home-and-landscape-design-ideas.com

stomach.flu

So my stomach hurts after consuming a rather tasteless pizza from a pizza delivery man who came by the office earlier this afternoon.

"$5 PIZZA!", he yelled.

Normally I would ignore the calling since I am on my new and improved diet ... yet another failed attempt at dieting went underway. I gave him $5 and I received a lukewarm large pepperoni pizza. Hooray!