Sudden urge to deep fry stuff

Okay, I just spent the entire day reading notes for my multiphase fluid flow class. It was going really slow but I thought I understood stuff. And then I read the homework. It's much shorter this time. No big story to read through. But it's definitely testing my understanding of the material. Namely, I have no clue how to do any of the problems!! Argh! Why did I purposely choose the hardest class I could find? I'm not exaggerating here either. There were several easier classes I could've taken... Sigh...

So in conclusion, I haven't been very productive today at all. However, I did develop an urge to deep-fry everything I can imagine. I think sometime this weekend (probably Saturday), I will be doing some serious deep-frying, including mantou. I used to love deep fried mantou. The ones that come with sweetened condensed milk. Yum... I'll invite people if it's a success. If not, I guess I will end up with just steamed mantou... hm... no so exciting...

Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

Definitely can't tell by looking or tasting that these are made with half whole wheat flour. So good! I amazed myself. I made 24 rolls. I was a little worried at first because I didn't think I used enough yeast. I was being stingy and used only 1 package but doubled everything else from a recipe that was meant for 12 rolls. Anyway, they're amazing. Can I go and start a bakery now??

Food!

Pork + eggplant + peppers on rice. yum! This was lunch. I made a big pot of it so I'll be having this for the next few days. I marinated the pork with teriyaki sauce overnight. I think I will attempt to make some dinner rolls later tonight. No homework due next week so I spent some time this weekend cooking, cleaning, and reading geotech-related books. I think I must have 20+ books checked out by now from 3 different libraries!

Bread!

The long awaited pictures of my homemade bread! There's more than this. I actually ended up with 2 big pans of bread. I don't have any bread pans so I just used 8x8 and 8x12 pans. I should have rolled them into balls so that they come out to be like dinner rolls. Oh wells, next time. The bread turned out to be okay. It smells like yeast and is very heavy. I used 2/3 all purpose flour and 1/3 whole wheat. I don't think I let it rise enough the first time. Not exactly something that I can proudly invite other people over for sharing... Anyway, it was fun and now I have lots of bread to eat. Looking forward to finishing it all and making the next batch!