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water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
Summer's heat has started to rage furiously over Massachusetts, drawing us down to the Cape the last two weekends. The first was for a seven mile hike on Great Island, and the second for a smaller walk at Lowell Holly Reservation. Both times we pitted the healthiness of walking against the consoling warmth of eating local chowders and fried ( Read more... ) -
Korean Feast
On Tuesday evening we were invited to have dinner with Jiseon and her husband David. She made an astounding Korean feast and various bowls and dishes literally covered the table. There was soybean paste soup, similar to but in my humble opinion superior to miso, a main dish of kalbi jjim beef shortribs stewed with dates, mushrooms and vegetables, ( Read more... ) -
Westward Ho!
We are spending a cool and rainy weekend indoors after emergency birthday week and our rushed drive to Michigan for our friend Melanie's wedding. It was emergency birthday week because I picked up, as the cheapest 30th birthday party decoration, a police-emergency type cordon to go around the apartment, saying "Danger! 30th birthday in progress." ( Read more... ) -
Bisteeya and Getting Fit
Today marks the end of a decade: my last day as a 20-something. I spent the morning catching up on shopping for food and supplies. I found meringue powder, a necessary ingredient for various icings at a local party store that sells Wilton brand supplies. At the same time I also picked up a set of gel based food colorings and my birthday balloon. ( Read more... ) -
Couscoussier
We're long overdue a journal entry after a period of hectic programming on a tight release schedule for Julian. In Februrary, we celebrated Valentine's Day by visiting the Museum of Fine Arts to tour the Egyptian section. We spent several hours engrosed in Old Kingdom artifacts and for dinner made River Cafe lobster with spaghetti. We gifted ( Read more... ) -
Water spinach and banana blossoms
Although daylight is finally getting noticeably longer, winter is still holding Waltham firmly in its icy grasp. There hasn't been much notable snowfall but we have had bitterly cold days with strong winds that seem to blow straight through the thin apartment walls ( Read more... ) -
Be Seeing You
We've been exploring Vietnamese food lately, taking recipes from "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treatured Foodways, Modern Flavors" by Andrea Nguyen. Tonight we supped on crispy catfish with onions and ginger. Despite a very humble flavor set (catfish, oil, onion, ginger, fish sauce and cilantro) I would have to say that this was the best catfish I ( Read more... ) -
Christmas in England
Our travel plans to get to England for Christmas were very nearly cancelled this year. The day prior to leaving, our flight from Boston was changed from late afternoon to morning due to early weather warnings. We woke at 4am to get our taxi to Logan at 5am. Weather reports started to come in of a severe and record-setting storm front, dropping 16 ( Read more... ) -
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This year we were hoping that for Thanksgiving we would be giving thanks to our futon-maker for getting our replacement part to us expediently. This not being the case, we instead gave thanks for my parents both making it over to visit and their coping with a futon mattress on the floor. Kudos also to Costco for selling un-injected fresh turkey. ( Read more... ) -
Rattlesnake Hill
On Wednesday we invited one of Julian's friends from work, Matt, over for a pot roast dinner. Matt brought four samples of his home brewed beers for us to taste. All were very unique and well balanced in flavor.
For a bit of Friday evening frivolity we decided to tackle a board game that had been sitting around unused. Calgary Stampede is the kind ( Read more... )