Apr
17
2010

Crummy day, but with fancy ingredients

Ugh, what a crappy day. I’ve had some ingredients lying around for a couple weeks to make rose truffles. I was going to make them for the Anime Boston staff dessert contest, but I ran out of time. I also got some other stuff that I wanted to mess with, including bamboo rice and Meyer…  Continued »

Mar
25
2010

The Great Shoe Search of 2010

It’s time, once again, to search for a pair of warm-weather shoes. I have an ongoing battle with plantar fasciitis. It was dormant for a while thanks in large part to not being able to walk for very long distances due to my gimpy-ass legs, but as my legs have been more capable of walking,…  Continued »

Feb
25
2010

FuLoon = I’ll go back

Doug called Christian last night wondering if we wanted to get together for dinner tonight, which we figured sure, what the hey. Doug’s request was for Chinese because he wanted pork fried rice. In thinking about places to go, I read about a Szechuan place in Malden called FuLoon. It got a Best of Boston…  Continued »

Feb
15
2010

I know how to do something new!

Last week at work, I learned how to make WordPress themes. Yeah, cutting-edge. Bleeding-edge, I daresay. Anyhow, I may try to apply this knowledge to this blog. That nobody reads but me. SIGH… The things taking up the majority of my time aside from work are the Anime Boston program guide and preparing for a…  Continued »

Jan
17
2010

Samgak Kimbap in Korea, Onigiri in Japan, rice balls to foreigners

[flickr]photo:4282342442(medium)[/flickr] We had some hamburger cutlet curry last night, making use of the last of the curry I cooked earlier in the week. As often happens, we had a bunch of rice left over, so I whipped up some rice balls, aka onigiri, aka samgak kimbap, using one of Maangchi’s fantastic recipes. Maangchi has yet…  Continued »

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