slow cookin’ to a tee (14.52)

Posted: February 21st, 2011 | Author: Olivia | Filed under: go52, oDays, oFoodie | No Comments »

i think i had a pretty productive weekend. more or less.

friday – hung out at the wong/pang residence playing buzz and just chillin. ate a lot of blueberries, strawberries and pretzels… that’s the kind of junk food you’ll find at our place…

saturday – woke up at around 10:30 am, took a quick trip to kroger to get some ingredients and started to make a recipe from williams-sonoma’s essential of slow cooking book. i decided to start off on one of the simpler recipes – the chicken adobo which is a filipino dish. i took some photos of the process of using our crockpot for the very first time:

slicing two yellow onions – key to the dish

garlic cloves & ginger

trimming chicken thighs of skin & excess fat

additional flavor – white wine vinegar, soy sauce, pepper, salt and sugar

layering ingredients into the crockpot and cooking it for four hours

the finished chicken adobo & my two guinea pigs…

during the four hours that the chicken adobo was cooking, g, z, varun, asif and i decided to try our hand at playing a 9-hole golf course. first time ever doing this and i thought i was going to be terrible. turns out i was average, coming in 3rd out of the five with a score of 46! not bad, i think, for my first time. g was close behind me with a 47. the guys wanted to be cute and take pics with each other… awwwww.

after feeding g and z, we went out to meet up with christine + friends for card games and karaoke. haven’t seen them in SOOO long and it was a blast hanging out with them again.

sunday – took it easy since yesterday was so hectic. picked up around the house, laid outside in the grass with the dogs, watched the social network with g and went out to eat at king’s bbq in arlington with g’s fam.

monday – had the day off for president’s day. drove g to the airport at 5:15 am and happily went back to bed to sleep longer than i usually get to. jess came over to hang out and we went shopping at h-mart and ate lunch there. all in all, enjoyable and relaxing day off.

now, back to the grind. :]

14.52: played an actual course of golf

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