When am I going to actually bake a cake for IW?!
Many of you remember my post for International Wota’s Cake Day last year, in which I created potato sculptures of the admins and Ray along with a yummy flan! That post is obviously gone now, but the photos are floating around somewhere; you can also see them if you look in my Google Reader RSS cache thing, I think. Anyway, I wanted to make it a tradition for me to not bake a cake on Cake Day, because I have to be a ~nonconformist~. This year, I decided that IW is in its developing phase and it is downright unhealthy for it to eat that much cake!! You guys probably think of maiZe as the motherly figure of IW, but now that I’m an admin, I must take care of my baby! So, I made IW some delicious curry to give it a proper meal to go with all these desserts!
I went out with my mom to get the beef, potatoes, onions, and carrots (sidenote: I saw a classmate! always strange when that happens, you know.) and as you can see here they are all chopped up and ready to go! It’s surprisingly difficult to cut up carrots (I was afraid of hurting myself D:) and I almost cried because of the onions. IW I hope you appreciate the pains I took for this meal! Also, my mom prepared the meat because she didn’t trust me ._. at least we know it’s safe!
eeeep, I wish I could make curry from scratch .___. I could have asked my mom about how to make Vietnamese curry from scratch (she does all the time) but that stuff isn’t as good or attractive and this is Japanese curry! So I just grabbed a box of curry mix instead of making it myself. Ahhh I’m a cheater, sorry IW!
I didn’t take too many photos of the process because I was too concentrated on making the curry, but for those of you who are wondering about how to do it (I basically followed the back of the curry box though), here’s what I did:
- Cut up all the vegetables; you can use carrots, potatoes, onions, celery (I didn’t because I hate celery
), or basically any vegetable you think of. Then cut up the meat! Be careful of mixing your meat bacteria with the vegetables, THAT’S VERY DANGEROUS. ABUNAI DESU~! lol I’m such a weeaboo I don’t even. Anyway yeah just be careful, but I think you all know kitchen safety, right?? My mom also washed the meat with salt but I have no idea wtf she was doing or how she did it so uhh I can’t really elaborate on how she prepared the meat.
- Put the meat into a pot (similar to mine?) with the onions and let them cook for a bit until they look good. (honestly I just let it sit for a while without really timing it or having a reason for when I thought they were ready. I’m a really bad cook because I don’t follow measurements or timings at all, I just do what I think is right ._.)
- Once the meat is cooked (it doesn’t have to be COOKED, since it’s gonna heating in the curry for a while after), pour in all the vegetables you cut up and add as much water as you think you need (lolol yeaaah I don’t measure. I get a bowl and pour it in :I). Get half a box of Golden Curry (there are two packets in each box. use one packet.), break it up (it’s separated into four blocks), and put it in the soup.
- Stir it and let the blocks of curry mix melt.
- Now you just wait and let the curry thicken (what I was doing when I took the above photo, it took forever to have the right consistency!!) and serve it with rice! Enjoy!
And that is the finished product! Does it look delicious? I didn’t have any fruits or poultry but yay for vegetables, meat, and grain! IW needs to chow this down before getting started on all those delicious cakes! OM NOM NOM NOM!
Ahh this was after I started eating .___. I forgot to gather my idol photos around to take the photo like a true wota! So umm yeah that’s half the curry ._. anyways, I’ll explain each item from left to right because they’re each very important to me!
- That card right there is something that siggy from #wotachat and Conflict Productions mailed to me on my birthday back in October. Yes I still have it!! I keep that card with all my photos and CDs because I’m a bit sentimental ;_; I look at that card and think of all the memories I’ve had with #wotachat and how much I adore them and everything they’ve given me, physically and otherwise. Thank you siggy!! Also, the card says Happy Birthday in Japanese (…I think? I can’t read Japanese, man.) so it’s appropriate!
- Ah it’s not very noticeable but that’s Nanchatte Renai! maiZe mailed that CD to me for my birthday and I ADORE it. I’m so grateful to her for sending me the CD, I was really touched by it. I love the single and I was sad I couldn’t buy it, but I’m really glad that I have it now along with my SYO CD. #wotachat spoils me too much, there are no words<3
- That Airi photo is the first idol photo I have ever received and it’s from Bryan of Hello!Ranking fame. I wasn’t expecting at all, but when he visited Japan he ended up getting me the photos! Airi is obviously my favorite idol OF ALL TIME so I’m really happy that that photo was the first photo I received, ahh I’m getting bawwwful.
- It’s a bit hard to see, but that Aika photo is the autographed one I received at Anime Expo!!! I still can’t believe I met them and received autographs, it seems a bit surreal. I didn’t write about my experiences but one detail I’ll never forget* is secretly carrying a letter for Aika and delivering it to her and seeing her holding it while autographing everyone’s merchandise. The security was taking everyone’s gifts to give to the girls later, but since I only had a small letter underneath my stack of photos, they didn’t notice me! So I’m really happy that I was able to deliver it to her and see her smiling, it really made my entire weekend. That weekend, I met so many bloggers and had such an incredible time, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget the memories I made at AX with everyone.
- er this one is just another Aika photo. I have always adored Aika’s hair from Resonant Blue (GIVE. HER. BANGS.) and Misa bought me a set of her RB photos since I gave her my autographed Sayumi photo :3 I just wanted to include some of the gifts I’ve received from IW so yeah uhh moving along.
- That one’s a Maimai photo CK bought for me at a concert. The photos were randomized but I’m glad I got Maimai! This one’s just another gift inclusion; not much to say about it besides the fact that I am VERY grateful to CK for giving me so many CDs and photos, ahhh you guys are the nicest people in the world.
What I’m trying to say here is that I love IW and #wotachat. If I ever need someone to talk to, I always have you guys. Even if I’m not the greatest admin or friend, I’m the luckiest person in the world for being able to depend on you guys. It’s been about two years since I met you guys and I haven’t regretted a minute of this. I’m really happy to see the community grow and change and even though I’ve been obsessed with K-Pop lately, Japanese music is closest to my heart and you guys will always have a home there. Before I get too mushy I’m just going to end this post simply–Happy Cake Day, IW! I do love this site too much and I’m not as good a staff member as I should be, but please accept this post as an apology as well as a celebration. To many more years of celebrating Japanese music!