Cooking Mama: Tempura Time!

Last week I decided to make tempura for the boy wonder, the mom, and little sister.
It was extremely easy and made even the vegetables that I hate taste AMAZING!~
てんぷらで、嫌い野菜がおいしくなります！（笑）
So peep a few pictures of my tempura adventure, and speaking of which I'm making tempura tonight with a side of edamame that I picked up at Wal-Mart. Who would have thunk - Wal-Mart has got a decent healthy food hook-up :)

 I used green peppers, onions, asparagus, sweet potato, and eggplant for my tempura. I didn't get around to using the carrots or brocolli- but tonight I'm definitely trying them out.
Although I didn't have the usual dipping sauce, soysauce mixed with a little sugar and olive oil made it a more authentic tempura experience :)

Have any of you tried making Japanese dishes at home?
Love to hear about 'em.

Till next time!

La Tenoli

Cures for Insomnia

Cooking. A solution to many simple problems in life.
"How can I productively procrastinate?"
"... I'm hungry."
"I can't sleep."

See what I mean?
However, this is what happens when cooking actually succeeds at making you sleepy (With the help of some Billie Holiday and 2 o'clock discovery channel programs on mute, of course):
result? 5 cookies, 50 minutes in the oven.
Not a pretty sight & smell or taste for that matter. (Is it wrong that I tasted it?)
Burnt chocolate chip cookies? Sorry Cooking Mama, there's no way to save these round charcoal chips.
Hey, there's always the other 22 cookies the made it out alive and delicious :)

Till Next Time!
Paprika