#ayli tries cooking

[tears-n-stars]

Tom Yum Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Tom Yam)

It's been a while since I posted here so the first thing I'm posting is a recipe lmaooo. Since the Notes app in my phone is getting too messy for my liking, I guess sharing the recipes here wouldn't hurt plus I get to ensure the recipes I used are never lost and forgotten (by me lah sebab I jenis senang lupa). This recipe is adapted from Marion's Kitchen Tom Yum Fried Rice so go to the link in case my wording here gets confusing plus to refer to any number change. I tweaked a few parts because I found them to be tedious but I'll explain more on that in later parts. Here we go!

Ingredients serves: 2-3

3 cups day-old cold rice

neutral oil

any choice of protein

1 egg

a few slices of galangal

1 lemongrass (bruised, cut into big pieces)

2-3 lime leaves (chopped)

1 small onion (diced)

1 tomato (diced/sliced)

1 tbsp nam prik pao/tom yum paste

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

a pinch of sugar

a squeeze of lime juice

Steps

Pound a few slices of galangal to a paste before adding the chillies to the paste. Pound the mix until fine.

Heat some vegetable oil in a large frying pan. Add the galangal + chillies paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and diced onions. Stir fry for 20 seconds or until onions turn translucent.

Add protein of choice (chicken, prawn etc.) to the pan and stir until cooked.

Add egg and let it set before breaking up the egg to chunks, similar to scrambled eggs. You can omit the egg here if you want, I usually omit it if I want pair the fried rice with a fried egg but heck, do both if you want haha!

Add tomato and sauce condiments; nam prik pao, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, and lime juice. Mix well all ingredients in pan. I like to make sure the tomato have been cooked soft.

Add the day-old rice and stir fry everything until rice is evenly coated.

Turn off heat and serve.

[wyldervane]

Vindolme

Title(s); Vestige, Eye of the Queen, Undaunted, Mage Adept, Briar

Race/Age; Altmer male, approx. 200 to 210 years old Specialization; Templar (though he prefers 'light mage' or 'rogue') Skills; Cooking/provisioning (expert), Alchemy (adept/expert), Enchanting (Apprentice), Crafts (Woodworking, blacksmithing, clothier....ing?) (adept), Jeweling (Novice), Legedermain (lockpicking, pickpocketing, sneaking, etc) (adept/expert), Dual Wield (daggers, specifically; expert/master), Archery (adept/expert), Medium Armor (expert), Magic (expert/master), Speech/Barter (adept/expert)

Alliance; Aldmeri Dominion, though he aids the others in non-war related things from time to time Guilds; Thieves Guild, Assassin's Guild, Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, The Undaunted, The Psijic Order, The Briars, The Eyes of the Queen

Companions/Mounts; Ticks, a reprogrammed Dwemer spider; Laolan, a massive nearly-black wolf; Briadlhea, another massive wolf with pale white stripes; Aylied, yet another wolf but with fox-like markings that are swirled at the edges; Sisilien, a massive golden she-wolf. All the wolves are mounts, though he typically travels alone or with Laolan for long distances.

Personality; Very tired, and skittish about friendship/companionship, a great deal of trauma related to promises and the breaking of them so he clams right up if they're mentioned, but always willing to help. He has a strong moral compass and spares everyone he can, even if they really do deserve to die. Utterly devoted to Queen Ayrenn, and gets incredibly irate if anyone tries to imply he's disloyal or that he ought to follow them instead. He enjoys teaching people, especially when those people are actually interested in what he has to say- and even more so when they don't pry about his past more than he's willing to say. Can seem aloof and distant, but only because he doesn't want anyone getting too close. He actually cares very deeply.

Appearance; He's on the shorter side for Altmer, just under 6'0". His eyes are hazel-green, and like most elves, one can barely see the whites of them. They're also slanted slightly, again like most elves. His skin is a golden-tan shade, darker than most of his race, and he also has sharper teeth than the typical Altmer. His hair is very dark brown, and is just starting to silver at the temples. While originally he kept it incredibly short, lately he's taken to wearing it longer, down to his mid-back, in an effort to look more distinguished- though he'll tie it back if he has time before a fight. He has war paint only slightly darker than his skin in curving stripes along his cheekbones/just under his eyes, with thumbprint-dots just under it in the same color. He also has a 'van dyke' beard style. Typically he stands very straight, and with a hand resting on the hilt of one of his daggers if he has them with him.

Clothing; usually black with dark grey or blue, and gold accents. Almost always wears medium armor; usually a jack, bracers, and boots, as well as a padded set of pants and a warded shirt. Sometimes, he will also wear a hood and mask, or a cloak, depending on the nature of his mission. (He also has a variety of outfits for missions to specific provinces, but I am not going to list them all here.)

Magic/fighting style; he tends to use a pair of daggers, wielding them with acrobatic moves and swift strikes to outmaneuver enemies and slip through their guard. He will also use a longbow, particularly for long-distance silent takedowns, or supporting an ally from above- or dealing with other mages before they know he's there. His magic is very bright, almost blindingly so, which works to his advantage when facing opponents alone; the light doesn't affect him as much, considering he's the one casting. It works less well when he's fighting with others, as he hasn't perfected keeping the blinding effect to his enemies rather than everyone who isn't him. Usually, this magic takes the form of a spear or staff, and burns to the touch of anyone but the wielder; however, he is also fond of hurling fireballs at enemies' faces and calling on benevolent magic in his surroundings to heal himself or others (though others are far more difficult for him to heal, and he can only do so when not in combat). Occasionally, he conjures a brilliant bow, but he uses this sparingly- both because it drains him, and because it is rarely of tactical advantage. He can also call down a burning well of magic from the sky, which sends out waves of heat and light that damage anyone within a certain radius, at the cost of most of his magicka reserves.

Artist's rendition of Vindolme (please do not repost, this is my original artwork and it would make me very sad);

[rhcdesx]

— ❆ task three: 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐄 !

mother : freya davenport-rhodes † [ elizabeth hurley ]

(would be aged 42, passed at age 35) she was always happy, kieran would swear that he’d never forget her laugh. thankfully the home movies help, but she really did always have a smile on her face at least to the outside world. most of her smiles were reserved for his older brother, which of course still bothers him to this day...but that’s his mother. she devoted most of her time into cooking, maybe that’s why kieran had so many friends. they’d go over to his house and the snacks wouldn’t stop coming. her most famous recipes were copied, laminated and kieran turned them into a cook book after she passed, though that fact still remains anonymous, unless you’re named aylie, the boy wouldn’t want that getting out to anyone else.

father : oliver rhodes [ nikolaj coster-waldau ]

(aged 43) owner of a multi-million dollar hotel/casino chain. long time business partner to miguel ortiz and that’s how kieran and cleo first met and have the relationship they do now. oddly enough his father supports kieran’s dreams, the lawyer dream that is. if he ever got into any trouble he liked the fact that someone in the family would be able to bail him out of it, or he hoped anyway. family matters would get to stay as they were, for family only. their relationship isn’t the best but it could be worse, they mostly ignore each other’s presence unless it’s at a family meal or he royally fucks up, after all kieran did crash his porche.

step mother : katherine rhodes ( née mccoy ) [ natalie dormer ]

(aged 38) retired model. katherine tries her best juggling mom life and now running a fashion blog. she has a huge amount of instagram followers that look to her for knowing what’s hot right now/ magazines love having her guest write for them. she hired a cook knowing she wouldn’t be able to take freya’s place in any of the rhodes’ hearts but on top on that she just never has the time to do it herself anyway. she tries reaching out and including kieran as much as she can, noticing that oliver mostly ignored him unless the boy was in serious trouble she wanted to be able to offer him some support. 

siblings : ezra rhodes [ hero fiennes-tiffin ]

(aged 24) kieran’s older brother. the golden boy. the boy who could do no wrong. baseball star. easily there’s a lot of tension between kieran and ezra, they both made plenty of mistakes but ezra was known to be their mother’s favorite. he once got a girl pregnant and still their parents fixed it with ease and didn’t bat an eyelash, they didn’t want anything getting in the boy’s clear focus for success. the rhodes brothers are a match in egos, kieran has even stolen a date right from under his nose. the two of them are pretty alike and always competing even though kieran knows he’ll never win in their parents eyes, so he tries to win any other way he can. the sibling rivalry is strong with these two.

step siblings : theodore mccoy [ joshua bassett ]

(aged 19) the boy with a heart of gold. you wouldn’t believe theo belonged to this family of chaos. straight As and being the school’s photographer left him to be the shy one, but he still continues to take photos now that he’s graduated and trying to figure out his future. he thinks of kieran and ezra as he true siblings, to theo the family wouldn’t be complete without them. 

half sibings : isabella rhodes [ madeleine mcgraw ]

(aged 6) full blown sass master. kieran tries his hardest to not like her but the girl adores him. she got her sass from kieran there’s no doubt about it. she’s always the one in the family that will ask about him or beg to give him a call. it got so bad that they just gave her own cell phone so she could just do it herself.