Turkey slider patties

It's been a while since I posted a cooking recipe. I was inspired to recreate a Turkey slider recipe when I watched one of Wong fu Production's "Lunch break" episodes where the Wong Fu members cooked lunch for the other members.

I decided not to follow a recipe and "wing" it with things I got from the last grocery run and whatever was in the fridge.


Here are the ingredients:
- cumin spice powder
- ground black pepper
- low sodium soy sauce (or your choice of soy sauce)
- cooking wine

- 1 lb of organic ground turkey (from Trader's Joes)
- 2 large chicken eggs
- half of a white onion, diced
- 1/2 lb mushrooms, diced
- your favorite vegetable cooking oil
- dinner rolls (or whichever type of bread you want to put your sliders in)

white onion and mushrooms

Procedure:
1. Marinate the ground turkey with a sprinkle black pepper, cumin powder and drizzled a small amount of the cooking wine and low sodium soy sauce. I put enough sauce to just flavor the turkey meat, but not enough to drown the meat in it. Add more or less, depending on how saucy you feel.

2. Let the meat soak in sauces for about an hour or so, or whenever you're ready to cook the meat.

3. Prepare the vegetables: dice white onion and mushroom into small squares.

4. Beat the eggs in a large bowl.

5. Combine eggs and diced vegetables and mix well together. Add in the turkey meat as you go. Mix all ingredients until they are about evenly distributed.

6. Heat a frying pan and drizzle in a small amount of cooking oil (I used grapeseed oil).

7. Use a spatula or spoon to place a small meat on pan in a flat, round shape. You can place multiple "patties" on the plan, depending on how large or small you want the patties to be, or how large your frying pan is.

Like so- I placed 3 "patties" in a pan to save some time and cook more at a time

8. Heat turkey meat and turn over on other side when they start to brown or become well cooked.

9. Prepare dinner rolls: slice dinner rolls in half and toast bread if you like.

10. Place 1 cooked patty in between a dinner roll. Add condiments, other vegetables as you wish.

I already had vegetables in my patties so I chose not to add extra vegetables to my patty and the meat was flavorful enough for me to not add condiments. Present your sliders nicely as you wish and you are done!

 This was easy to make and something I'll do in the future, though I might try to invest in some type of flour, which might make the patty stick together more.

from 2016 to 2017

I had some time so I decided to jot down from my memory what happened in 2016. I made a video with snippets of events that happened in 2016. I know I missed some stuff but there were too many pictures to sort through. I failed to edit the photos because that would just make me procrastinate on finishing this project more.

Video clip link

 A lot of things has happened this year. I started off the new year in San Francisco (what better way than being in my favorite area of cali). After the new years vacation, I went back to school in full force. Completed my 2nd year of optometry school, including finishing up my big practical. I finally finished completing retakes and remediations that year. I also attended the OEP conference in March in Chicago. I made my first birthday dinner event that year and I cut my hair above the shoulders for the first time in a long time.

At the end of 2nd year, I attended the school's practice symposium and also went to a social networking event for dinner with docs.

That summer, I also transitioned from 2nd to 3rd year and was flung into clinic independently for the first time.  During the summer, 3rd years also have to take classes and one of the most difficult classes for the summer was "retinal diseases". After 10 weeks of suffering, finally passed that course! I also went on random food adventures, checked out food trucks in chicago during the summer, because we gotta have some fun after working hard right?

Each year as 2nd and 3rd years we have to attend at least one vision screening in the community. For 3rd year, I went to a screening in Chinatown during the summer to get it done with sooner. It was an interesting experience because there was probably about 10 or so students plus 1 attending doctor signing off on each patient. Most of the patients were Chinese (primarily Cantonese speaking) and there was 4 of us who could speak Chinese only (and only 1 could speak Cantonese) so the Chinese speaking students ended up doing case histories and directing patient flow while the other students did the other non-verbal tests.

The American Optometry Association (AOA) was in Boston during the July 4th weekend some friends and I went to Boston then as well. It was my first time in Boston and I had a lovely time there during the summer.
-went to Summer House Santa Monica in Chicago
 -went to New York City as a last minute trip decision.
-attended the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Anaheim and met up with friends in the area during that week.
-bought KMK prep books to study for boards, which I need to start seriously doing soon.

A day of exploration...

Crissy Field, San Francisco, CA: my favorite city in the US <3

Grant Park, Chicago, IL:

End of 2nd year!

I will write up a post about my 2nd year experiences in a bit.
But for now, I can't believe we just finished our 2nd year of optometry school. We are halfway to OD!

 Now I'm off to California for a one week summer break and next week we will start independent patient care 2x a week plus a specialty rotations. For summer quarter, I will have 5 weeks of cornea and contact lenses in the 2nd half of the quarter. I'm excited to start seeing more patients in clinic because this is what I came here for.

But to start off summer break, let me just say it is SOOO bad for me to come back to California. Because all I do is eat food. -__-

Here are some of my latest photo adventures along with some of my personal touch up.

Optometry School Break Adventures

After winter quarter, I decided to stay in Chicago during the break week. I had my clinic and dispensing shift on Monday and I was redoing my practical on Wednesday. After finally passing my retake my Wednesday, I decided to do some exploring in the city.  That night, me and my roommate went to visit Palmer's House in Chicago. We had a early dinner/high tea at Potter's Lounge inside the hotel. 

Palmer's Hilton House

At Potter's lounge, we made it in time for Happy hour! We tried the cheese and meat platter, tacos, and a dessert with brownie and ice cream! We also got apple ciders to top it off.

After that, we walked to Harold Washington Library and explored the 11 stories in the library. And then we walked back up to North side of Chicago to grab more desserts at Eataly before meeting up with other friends to watch Deadpool at the AMC theatre. 

At Eataly: 

On Saturday, we went out to get dinner at Shake Shack and then got more tea at this fancy cafe called Pierot Gourmet!

Day 5 in Seattle

We got brunch at Countryside Cafe, which is close to the airport. It's a pretty small restaurant in a small part of town and a lot of seniors tend to go there. I got Banana rum french toast because it sounded interesting-- but the whole thing basically just tasted like banana syrup lol.

We dropped off my dad at the airport because he flew back home a couple days earlier and then we headed up back to Seattle to check out the Space Needle and Chihuly Gardens. (It costs about $42/person for the combined package. It's a little cheaper if you go early morning or late night but we went during the mid-day).

Chihuly Gardens ------------->

Up in Space needle (only 40 floors)--------------------------->

^^ View from Space needle ^^

We then walked around Myrtle Edwards Park because it was nearby Space needle:

We headed to Kirkland where our hotel was for the night. We decided to get some food early since we had made a sushi reservation super late at night @ around 9:30pm.

^^ or meal at Kirkland Pho House ^^

Dinner time!
Shiro's ------------------------------>

^^ expensive Sushi at Shiro Sushi ^^

There's always a long line at Shiro's sushi. We got a small sushi platter, a dinner combo for $60 and a 17 piece sushi chef's combo for $80.

 We had to wait a little outside the sushi place so I took some pictures outside:

Day 5 is done! One more full day in Seattle! Hope you've been enjoying reading about my trip :)