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How to make Pork liver Pate - modified from Breton Pate

2010-08-07T10:44:00.027+10:00

When James and I visited Damien's parents place in Brittany in France, Damien's mum offered a delicious pork pate for entrée. Not like commercial pate in Sydney, it had some chunky meaty bits inside and the herb fragrance stimulated my taste. So I wanted to make a similar pate. Yes, similar! It's similar because I can't find the same ingredients, oh well, I didn't want to use a certain ingredient*.

Ingredients:

500g of pork liver
300g of pork rind
400g of pork (shoulder)
400g of bacon strips
100ml of white wine
1 egg
a half bunch of thyme
a half bunch of parsley
1 big onion
salt and cracked pepper
3-4 bay leaves

1. Blanch the rinds for 10 minutes in boiling water and chop them finely.

2. Chop the all the meats! - Actually I was trying to use a knife, but it was so bloody. So I ended up using a blender. Time you're going to do depends on how fine meat you want to have, but I think the liver should be finer than the flesh meat, otherwise chewing the texture of liver won't be pleasant. After grinding the liver, don't be surprised at the colour** and smell.

3. Add the chopped onions and parsley into the chopped meat mixture and add the white wine and egg. Using egg is not necessary, but I'd like to have firm texture. Season with salt and cracked pepper. (You can add peppercorn if you want to have a strong flavour). If you're not sure about the taste, cook a little bit on the fry pan and taste it. - Don't put much salt as you will have the bacon strips outside of pate.

4. Line a terrine with the bacon on a bread tin (My one was medium sized). Sprinkle the thyme on the bacon. Put the mixture in the tin and place the bay leaves on top.

5. Cook 10 minutes at 240C degrees, then for 1.5-2 hours at 110C degrees. The top of the pate should be golden brown. Allow to cool and keep for 24 hours in the fridge before serving.

Enjoy this pate with baguettes and Cornichons. Bon Appétit!

* : The ingredient is a pork CAUL. The caul is used for covering the pate mixture. According to Damien, you can put any parts of pork. On the original recipe for Breton pate, it has a pork trotter as well.

** : It was pinky & strawberry-ish creamy colour, but the smell was....... you know.

UTS competition

2009-06-09T22:31:00.011+10:00

Now it's time to release the concept design submitted for the UTS competition. Even though this work did not get in the final round, I'd like to share a few images with others. Basic concept design is based on "Binary code" as the building was designed for the IT and engineering faculties. Binary code is a base-2 number system which represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. The building form was started from a 3x3x3 cube volume and each cube was positioned in or out as "0" or "1" was coded as a position.
The building form is created according to the user size and flexibly formed as per the purpose of spaces.

Grand opening - Digital Origami with Chris Bosse & UTS architecture students

2007-05-19T12:37:00.000+10:00

WOW!! It was a great and successful opening. Thanks to many visitors and many special thanks to Chris Bosse& my UTS friends (Sam, Eunsung,Yan, Zaharr, Harry, Jess, Ciara, Natalie, Phillip, Ali, Andrew etc) who worked really hard for this project. Good labor experience but once is enough:-)!!The project management was not organised very well upto this point. It will be another good lesson for everybody for a future project. I sold the molecule shape brochures for $5 each, it ended up almost $115. Good(?) contribution to some student's parking fine. There are more pictures from the opening.
Ah, James family was there at the gallery today. They also helped me to carry away the cardboard rubbish stuff even though they were there as guests. Many thanks to them. Mwah!!

Digital Origami with Chris Bosse

2007-05-17T22:33:00.000+10:00

Yes, it was an exciting collaborative project with other students and Chris Bosse.We spent lots of time on this exhibition. I skipped some lectures to work on this, got sore neck from making hundreds of molecules, got painful muscles from installing the big molecules, burnt fingers from the hot melt glues and smelt horrible toxic glue. When we finished all the installation today, I just decided to forgive(?) Chris Bosse because the result was so impressive and fantastic. (Well, almost :-))We're having an opening tomorrow and pretty exciting for that.

http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/news-events/architecture/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=7589

Project1 final pannel

2007-03-27T13:54:00.000+10:00

Developed "SPIKY MASS II"

2007-03-15T13:43:00.000+11:00

Research Concepts

2007-03-08T17:26:00.000+11:00

"Let them eat cake!"

2006-09-13T21:44:00.000+10:00

Currently, I am working at a construction company which is a contractor of the Department of Housing. One of the areas that we manage is Waterloo, notorious as a high crime area.
Australia has one of the best welfare systems in the world. Australia has a very high rate of personal taxation. People pay tax as it is unavoidable. They expect to get benefits from the government in return. They expect that their money will go towards the running of government and the salaries of government employees. Also, they expect the government to provide welfare payments for the poorer members of the community.
On my way to work, I pass a high rise building which is a property of the department of housing. When my manager saw the building from the city, he thought that apartments in the building would be very expensive. The building looks modern and attractive. In Korea, apartment prices are higher than house prices.

Recently, I visited this high rise apartment building with my manager to do an inspection. I was surprised when I saw a studio apartment which was under renovation. The studio apartment was tiny, but it was being converted into a one bedroom unit. I went inside the bedroom to see the size of the room. The room was the size of a single bed. Although the room had a small built-in wardrobe, it would not be possible to use it when a bed was in the room.

At that time, there were a few people from the Department of Housing present. They seemed satisfied with the floor plan. They even commented, “This lounge room looks bigger than before.” I was surprised by their comments. I think that even if they lived alone, they would not want to live in such a tiny place. It reminded me of a jail cell.

I know that the land in Waterloo is quite expensive as it is close to the city. However, the tiny apartments would not be big enough for people to live in comfortably. Somewhere, there is an architect who should feel guilty for designing such tiny apartments.

Who were the apartments designed for? They were not made for the tenants. When the department of housing representatives said “Make one more bedroom”, it sounded like Marie Antoinette’s proclamation: “Let them eat cake!”
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are just my personal opinion.

How to make Kimchi!

2006-09-03T19:26:00.000+10:00

On the way home from the church today, James and I dropped by an asian grocery shop to buy Kimchi. A little jar of Kimchi (350g?) was $4.50, so expensive and I could have finished that amount of Kimch in a day. For me, Kimchi is a necessary food as most of Korean people eat Kimchi. Anyway, I decided to make Kimchi by myself. Here are ingredients for making really simple Kimchi;

- 2cabbages
- 3cup of salt
- 2heads of garlic
- Half head of ginger
- Half bunch of shallots
- 1 onion
- Shrimp paste (100g)
- 3 table spoons of fish source
- 2/3 cup of glutinous rice flour
- 1 and 1/2 cups of chilli powder

1. Make salty water and pour it into the chopped cabbages.

2. Leave it for 5hours at least to make the cabbages dehydrated. (This process is very important for the Kimchi taste. After the salting, the cabbage should be crunchy.)

3. Crush the peeled garlic, onion and ginger together. (It is very smelly.^^)

4. Boil the hot water (3cups) to make rice flour water. This water would reduce the unique cabbage smell. Dilute the rice flour in the cold water first and pour it into the boiling water.

5. Wash the salty cabbages in the cold water if it’s too salty. Make sure that the cabbage shouldn’t be so wet.

6. Let’s put the all the ingredients in a big bowl and mix all together.

Now you can have delicious and fresh Kimchi. James loves the Kimchi with Sesame oil. The taste is quite nice. But remember Kimchi is a kind of preserved food. If you want to add extra sesame oil, don’t put it into a whole Kimchi. It’s going to be yucky after few days. ^^

This is me!

2006-09-03T09:56:00.000+10:00

Congratulations for my new blog!

2006-09-03T09:40:00.000+10:00

I opened a new blog as my boyfriend pushed me to make a new blog for my English practice^^;;
Anyway thank him !! Please fix my incorrect English in the comments.