The world is a vampire
…and here is my quiche.
Category : Cooking, Food
Sense of taste
*sigh*
Arts and vegetables
We go to the farmer’s market today for the first time. It is hot, and I buy three peaches, three zucchinis, baby bok choy, and a giant purple onion.
We then slog through the heat for our little Riverside museum day.
The Riverside Municipal museum has stuffed birds, an orange packer, and a display on the internment of a local Japanese family during the war.
In the Riverside Art Museum, I run across this and can actually feel my life being enriched. I am not an art connoisseur by any means, but as they say, “I know what I like.” And oh yes I do like “The Curious World of Reynaldo and His Twist of Lime Shirt” by R. Mike Nichols. It’s the bird. Curt likes the dogs, but he is wrong, for it’s most certainly the bird. For those who prefer art that doesn’t include dogs and birds, the museum is also currently displaying pieces by some fellow who paints with coffee grinds and glitter.
The UCR Museum of Photography has a very shiny first floor, as can be seen. We see an exhibit of photographs by blind photographers and a camera museum on the first floor, and an exhibit on the effects of Agent Orange on the third floor. The pseudo-tiling on the second floor (which is see-through and creaks) is suspect, thus I am too frightened to venture far into it. So I don’t know what’s on the second floor. Something about expectation. Or construction. Or deconstruction. Or maybe unicorns.
Tomorrow we go to Long Beach for fun antiquing. Happy Sunday. ;)
Coconut Curry Chicken Soup
From Cooking Light / Photo: Randy Mayor; Styling: Jan Gautro
This soup was very yummy. Der recipen is here.
Tooerkey, tooerkey!
Hello, and here is our turkey this year!
This year, we’re going with Giada de Laurentiis’ Turkey with Herbes de Provence and Citrus. We’ll see how it turns out! ;)
Foodstuffs: Hummuses!
Hummus: it tastes like it could almost be bad for you, but it’s much better than cheese.
Not that cheese isn’t freaking awesome.
I usually eat it with unsalted saltines. Which is fun. Should I call them unsaltines? Or just ‘ines?
Anyway:
1 (15.5 ounce) can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
1 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 teaspoons cumin
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup water
Salt, to taste
Hot sauce, to taste
Put all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
(This recipe is modified from the allrecipes.com “Curried Hummus”)
Foodstuffs: Homemade Pizza!
We made our first pizza on Friday night! Made the dough in the bread maker, which I will probably not use for that again, as it was hard to deal with out of the well since the dough was very wet. Used some “heart-healthy” spaghetti sauce, light mozarella, ham, mushrooms, and garlic. Well – garlic salt, actually. That made it a little saltier than I would have liked, but it was still pretty good.
Foodstuffs: Sigeumchi Namool
A very yummy Korean side dish, famous in all Korean BBQ places: the sesame oil spinach, yum!
The Clever Financier
The teriyaki pork chops I put in the oven are making the apartment smell very good indeed. I’m using this pre-made marinade called “Soy Vay” – purportedly created by a Jewish boy and a Chinese girl, using no preservatives, and probably with some sort of soy product in it. Mmm.
Curt is not home yet. I’m playing hooky from homework for a few minutes so I can blog about the latest harebrained thing that’s come to my head: in an attempt (oh, yet again, and ever after) to save money, I am going to only purchase the bare minimum for the next few weeks, and blog everything I WANT to buy, every day, and compare it with everything I ACTUALLY buy. This exercise serves two purposes. No, no, it serves three:
1. It’ll help me to keep track of what I’m buying, so that I can have a more transparent (and therefore, more shameful [remember, shame is a motivator!]) record of what I’m spending my money on.
2. I’ll be more inclined to wait before I purchase something, since I am a notorious “MUST HAVE THAT THING RIGHT THIS INSTANT” type of buyer (read: no better than a three year old).
3. I have something to blog about every day for the next few weeks. Which is good because to start off my list of things I want:
Things I Want To Buy
- A book of things to blog about when I’m too lazy and/or empty-headed to think up something on my own
- Yogurt
Things I Bought
- A bunch of bananas
- A box of Cutie Clementines
Okay, enough slackery. Back later with the picture of the day, etc. Here are the thingies of the day:
Gar!
Dez, beholding the Beholder.
I have solved the mystery of the un-like RSS titles! That’s the good news. The bad news is that it is too much trouble to fix them, so they will remain like that, wretched scars on my otherwise perfect web-self. Ah well.
Prompted by some fun work discussions, I have decided to try my luck at NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month (again). This time, at least one of my co-workers is participating too, so hopefully we will shame each other into sticking it out to the bitter end (we are both Asian, so shame is a powerful motivator). If you will kindly direct your eyes to the upper-ish right hand portion of the site wherein my navigation menu lies, you will see a new link for the soon-to-be-written masterpiece. There’s nothing there now. Rules are I can’t start ’til November. Anybody else want to be writing buddies? Hrm? :)
Sometimes Curt drives me crazy. Right now, I’m squinting irritably at his silly red head, waiting for him to turn around so I can resume imagining that huge red boxing gloves are pummeling his BIG SMUG – he’s turned around now, and he’s squinting back at me. GrrrrrrrrrrrrARARRRR.
He fried bacon in my kitchen tonight. Bacon, in case you all don’t know, leaves a stinks. Of the dead pig. And there is greasy animal fat splattered all over my nice. clean. stove. The bastard was even surly when I asked him to clean it.
/BASH BASH BASH!!
That’s me smashing (or, more precisely: BASHING) his face in, Batman-style.
Relationships are hard when you (I) don’t get everything your (my) way.
(/BASH BASH BASH!!)