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Right now I am suffering from sweet rashes on my gum and it is painful to eat. It started two days ago, I am craving for ice cream the other day but lazy me wouldn’t like to got out and buy one. I am able to survived my craving for one day but the next day I can’t resists it anymore my husband keep teasing me with the word ice cream and I keep hearing ice cream on the TV show he is watching, imagine the torture. So I went out instead of buying ice big container of ice cream I got parfait, ice cream in the sticks and chocolate oreo ice cream one of my favorite. I ate them just on one night, lol.

The next evening I feel a familiar craving again so I went out and buy this ice cream in the stick which I called ice cream cake, it really tasted good on my tongue it has dairy,  chocolate chips and a caramel syrup in the center. On my first pack I already felt something strange on my mouth, it felt sore every time I had a bite. As much as I want to stop eating I can’t so I keep eating until I ate the last pack but I am extra careful though, I have to eat on the side of my mouth being careful not to touch the sweet rashes on my gums.

Tonight I am craving for more but no matter how I like it I can’t have it. I have to wait until the sweet rashes on my gums left and have to wait until I have more money to spend, I spend all my coins last night. Oh by the way this ice cream cake it buy 2 take 2 so it is really addicting.

The other day my husband asked me to buy black ink cartridge for our printer so he can print the lonely planet guide that we need on our next summer vacation. I also went to Daiso to look for can opener because our old can opener is already useless this is what I saw after going to Daiso a truck with a lot of craps, by looking at it you might thought it is a garbage track but I think it is not because around this truck there’s two ladies who are stopping by passers by giving a large book because I saw it when one of the lady stop one passer by in front of me.

I don’t know what is the book for and I can’t read what is written in the truck, do you?

Most of us love dogs and everybody loves puppies. Who can resist a cute and lovable puppy?  They brought a lot of fun but gives a lot o responsibilities because you can’t just adopt or buy a puppy without caring for it.  You should know that puppies are born deaf, blind and a very little sense of smell so you have to make sure they are properly nourished with milk from their mother,  they should stay with their mother for at least two months, there are times that when some people  adopt a small puppy they used milk droplets or nipple bottles.

Below is my sister’s dog, she got it when he is still a small puppy.  The owner gave it to her immediately to avoid other people asking for it. As the puppy don’t eat solid food yet my family bought him a milk and a feeding bottle and you see he enjoys being feed in the bottle.

I went out today to buy black ink cartridge for our printer and a kitchen utensil. Few minutes after I arrived home our doorbell rang thinking it is the mail man because my husband told me he is expecting a packaged from Canada, probably vitamins and supplements but when I opened the door it is our landlord holding something on his right hand I greeted him and he gave what is holding to me while saying Tteok, I accepted it and say my thank you and he left.

When my husband arrived from school I told him that our landlord gave us tteok and recalling that he might be the one who doorbell early morning which we didn’t answer because are still sleeping.

Tteok is a class of Korean rice cakes made with glutinous rice flour by steaming and it considered as celebratory food like on New Year’s Day or wedding, but plain-flavored tteok is used in home cooking. Some common ingredients for many kinds of tteok are red bean, mung bean and sweet red bean paste, Korean mugwort, jujube and other dried fruits, sesame seeds and oil, sugar, and pine nuts.

I am quite busy last night because I decided to cook chicken macaroni soup with a thought that the boiled chicken will spoiled if I wait few more days before cooking a  soup. I boiled few pieces of chicken on water with garlic, onion and salt just too bad I don’t have chicken cubes left.

My Ingredients:

Macaroni, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, chicken, salt, oil, ginisa mix, onion, garlic, pepper, cream powder and water

My Procedure:

• I first boiled the chicken with onions and garlic, then strip the chicken into pieces. I keep the broth for later.
• I sauteed garlic and onions and when it is little brown I add the cut carrots and zucchini I sauteed them for few minutes
• When it is mildly cook I add the water, chicken broth, chicken strips and the cream powder (in exchange of  evaporated milk)
• Then when it starting to boil I added the macaroni which I already boiled separately
• I add salt, ginisa mix and pepper to taste
• I let it boil and then add the cabbage and let if cook for few minutes

Last Wednesday when we shopped our daily supplies I didn’t forgot to buy liquid yoghurt as well or probiotic milk or let just simply called it Korean Yakult. So today this is what I got a strawberry juice, I have learned it when I bought fruit juice in the market.

I blend two Yakult, 4 strawberries as I have no liquid sugar I just used white sugar and add a little water. After blending it for few minutes I add three cubes of ice and is ready to drink. Yum, not just delicious but healthy too!

After gym I went to our favorite canteen to buy Korean street foods the people are happy to see me and one of them started to ask me again in Hangul and as usual all I can say is Mulayo Hangul. Anyway I just pointed out what I like and how many pieces by showing finger sign and when it was total I have samchon left but my husband asked me to spend all the money he gave me so I sign of getting more twigim (friend fritters) and mandu. The owner add more twigim and it she referred it as service so I said my thank you.

The photo photo below is butter and deep fried stuffed pepper twigim and Sweet Potato Twigim or Goguma, twigim means fritters.

And of course we had mandu, the long one are made of vegetables and noodles while the round one is kimchi flavored.

I happened to see corn as well 3 pieces for samchom (₩3,000)

Yesterday before shopping our daily supplies we first shop for my husband pants that he is going to wear in school. The principal want him to wear nice formal pants instead of wearing his black cotton pants. After buying the pants we happened to pass by in a fruit store and the old man called our attention to buy his strawberries  I tried to count my money in my pocket as I want to buy but  my husband told me to buy it later after I picked up the pants which we left  in a tailor shop for reduction, it is too long. We are also going to shop in a supermarket they might thought I stole it from there if I bought one already.

So when I returned after one hour I went to the fruit store I don’t know if the old man remember me, the old woman was the one who accommodate me because there’s also other buyer, I just point the sign written in a small piece of carton, little did I know that ₩5,000  ($5.47) is for two box of strawberries I thought it is for one box only. So when I went home I have a lot of strawberries to eat, some Koreans called strawberry as spring fruit I mean fruit that grow on spring season.

Anyway as what I have read online the strawberries produced in Korea are separated into summer and winter varieties.  The Winter strawberry is not only a domestic consumption but it is also for export to countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and other South East countries.

My husband’s daily meal is white eggs with variety of anything like Kimchi, onion or chicken strips.  I always copy his meal and cook my own food after cooking his meal. So this is what I got, I chopped some onions and sauteed it with Kimchi and instead of using just white eggs I add two yolks and scrambled it, I also added green onions as it is present in our fridge.