Rarely do I look forward to leftovers, but this is one of my favorites! #NexusOne

I think this is probably my favorite leftovers breakfast.  It's fried rice, which is usually leftovers, but my favorite is making it with my left over meat jun plate from Yoon Cy Korean BBQ in Kapahulu.  I seem to purposely order too much and not eat a lot in order to have lots of leftovers!  Hehe.

 

I'm really disappointed with the photo quality that my Nexus One is producing.  Although, in these food shots, it could be because I forgot to take off the cracked lens on the battery cover.  After, I took another shot of my Nexus One battery cover with the cracked lens, I don't think the lens is making a difference.  The photo still doesn't look right.  I officially need to buy a camera to get over my frustrations with this phone's camera!  Why??!!?  Why couldn't HTC just install better camera hardware on their phones?  :-|  I am happy with everything else about this phone.

 

I took out my Nokia N82 and took another photo of my Nexus One battery cover and phone in the shot just to see what the actual difference in photo production would look like.  Grrrrrr.....  I doubt I even need to point out the photo (even though it's obvious because my Nexus One is in the shot taken with the Nokia N82).

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2 Dessert Recipes from Food Network

Repost because it was missing the photo.  :-/

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From: "Rick Nakama, R GRI" <ricknakama@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2010 6:44 PM
Subject: 2 Dessert Recipes from Food Network
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We had some friends over Saturday night for a little dinner & socializing.  I started cooking from the night before to be sure I could make enough dishes for our guests. 

I decided to make 2 simple desserts that I just found by searching  foodnetwork.com. 

The first one that I chose was http://foodnetwork.mobi/quickPage.html?page=24236&cc=recipeDetails.html%3Frid%3D16530%26tn%3D%26p%3Ds%26s%3D0%26kw%3Dvanilla%2Bmousse%26rs%3D a "schiumone" or frozen vanilla mouse.  I doubled the egg, sugar & cream amounts.  Instead of using all vanilla extract, I scraped in the insides of 1 vanilla bean to the egg whites while heating them as instructed.  I also didn't add the almonds, but did add some of those bitter sweet chocolate "chip" shaped things from Trader Joe's (I crumbled them in).  It was extremely simple to make and tastes like a nice lite ice cream.  I'll definitely make this again and try various flavors or things to add in!

After making that, I was wondering how to use the 4 yolks I had leftover.  I searched for a custard recipe and found this one http://foodnetwork.mobi/quickPage.html?page=24236&cc=recipeDetails.html%3Frid%3D273373%26tn%3D%26p%3Ds%26s%3D0%26kw%3Dcreme%2Bbrule%26rs%3D.  It's a blueberry creme brulee tart by Paula Dean -y'all!  The egg yolk requirements were perfect!  I also had frozen blueberries on hand too.  I added the vanilla bean pod (that I scraped the beans out of earlier for the mousse) to the cream in addition to some vanilla extract.  I didn't use the blueberry preserves or the candied blueberries.  Instead I just added the frozen berries into the pan just prior to baking.  I didn't add the extra layer of sugar at the end to caramelize because I didn't have my kitchen torch.  I also added a few sprinkles of salt to the crust for added flavor.  The recipe for the crust didn't call for any and I thought that would be rather boring.  I baked it in a square pan and cut it into little squares after refrigerating.  This also tasted great and I'll probably always make this when I need to use yolks.    

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2 Dessert Recipes from Food Network

We had some friends over Saturday night for a little dinner & socializing.  I started cooking from the night before to be sure I could make enough dishes for our guests. 

I decided to make 2 simple desserts that I just found by searching  foodnetwork.com. 

The first one that I chose was http://foodnetwork.mobi/quickPage.html?page=24236&cc=recipeDetails.html%3Frid%3D16530%26tn%3D%26p%3Ds%26s%3D0%26kw%3Dvanilla%2Bmousse%26rs%3D a "schiumone" or frozen vanilla mouse.  I doubled the egg, sugar & cream amounts.  Instead of using all vanilla extract, I scraped in the insides of 1 vanilla bean to the egg whites while heating them as instructed.  I also didn't add the almonds, but did add some of those bitter sweet chocolate "chip" shaped things from Trader Joe's (I crumbled them in).  It was extremely simple to make and tastes like a nice lite ice cream.  I'll definitely make this again and try various flavors or things to add in!

After making that, I was wondering how to use the 4 yolks I had leftover.  I searched for a custard recipe and found this one http://foodnetwork.mobi/quickPage.html?page=24236&cc=recipeDetails.html%3Frid%3D273373%26tn%3D%26p%3Ds%26s%3D0%26kw%3Dcreme%2Bbrule%26rs%3D.  It's a blueberry creme brulee tart by Paula Dean -y'all!  The egg yolk requirements were perfect!  I also had frozen blueberries on hand too.  I added the vanilla bean pod (that I scraped the beans out of earlier for the mousse) to the cream in addition to some vanilla extract.  I didn't use the blueberry preserves or the candied blueberries.  Instead I just added the frozen berries into the pan just prior to baking.  I didn't add the extra layer of sugar at the end to caramelize because I didn't have my kitchen torch.  I also added a few sprinkles of salt to the crust for added flavor.  The recipe for the crust didn't call for any and I thought that would be rather boring.  I baked it in a square pan and cut it into little squares after refrigerating.  This also tasted great and I'll probably always make this when I need to use yolks.    

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