modifying recipes

if you haven't cleaned your keyboard in years, it's probably time to do so. my keyboard was finally stripped today, and just look at the dirt in there...
and that's only one key pried out. imagine all the keys pried out. *gasp*
so now my keyboard is noticeably whiter than before. no more grime and dirt.

cooked dinner for everyone while 奶奶 was around for mahjong. made meatballs again, but this time all-pork, because 奶奶 doesn't eat beef.
mashing the meatball ingredients. (now) i rather like the feeling of squishing my fingers through stuff to shape them into smaller pieces, and see the fishcakes below. with all-pork, the meatballs seemed to not hold together as well, compared to pork-beef.
the shortcut/cheating ingredient of the day was stromboli pasta sauce, which i felt, after eating, wasn't a very good choice. but heck, it was on sale. i went through the process of adding milk, diluting it, and boiling to thicken it again, just so that i could make myself feel that i put in more effort into the (making of the) tomato sauce instead of just buying it ready-made and on sale.

now, the double haddock fishcakes. adapted from nigella's recipe in feast, i dub mine 'nondescript-fishcakes'. this is because i don't know what haddocks look like, and where to get them, and so went instead to buy some cheap frozen nondescript fillets that i knew to be nice when cooked.
and these are the fillets, thawed and baked (and stealthily eaten). forked them into fish flakes.
and then mashing the fish with the other fishcake ingredients.
setting up the assembly line to mould the fishcakes, dredge them in ritz cracker crumbs, and lay them out for baking.
baked fishcakes. these were quite nice, a whole lot healthier than the salmon fishcakes - no added butter, oil, no frying. but they turned the ritz crumbs rather soggy. and the mashed potato-to-fish ratio was too high for my liking.
dinner. i cooked the rice in too much water.