It’s one of those grey days with the weather that has more bite than mist but more mercy than drizzle. Chilled, but not cold. In response I’m making veggies and dumplings, it’s like chicken and dumplings but without the chicken. I am out of mock duck and tofu and don’t feel like making seitan right now. So veggies and dumplings. Good for us.
The other night for dinner I marinated some canned mock duck and onions in garlic sesame oil, franks hot sauce and lime juice, cooked up some rice, seasoned black beans with garlic, lime juice and special secret seasonings. Fried the mock duck and onions and served the whole thing with molé sauce (david got all the onions, i hate onions). Fantastic!
The molé that Lily brought me requires you to mix 3 parts water to 1 part molé. So, I don’t 2 quarts of molé in the fridge, I have what amounts to 2 GALLONS of molé in there! Happy eating! I made up the sesame seed variety (ajonjola? Lily is that right?). God it was good. I’ve had good molé but damn.
Dang
Work is coming along with the new site, hopefully I can go live soon. I’m bringing over each post one at a time. The funny thing is that the halfway point was reached at a post just over a year ago. I’ve been going since early 2001. I’ve really ramped up production around here. I use the term production loosely, in the same way a bulimic might ‘express her creativity’ into a toilet.
SO, while David practices his guitar and the dogs snooze and chew things, I will wander off into the kitchen and do my best to maintain the illusion of a productive human being.
Also, to those of you within breakfast radius, I’m taking a break from coordinating breakfasts for a while. If any of you want to take the baton and run with it, i will gladly pass it over. Otherwise you’ll have to wait a bit until I get things back under control again.
Category Archives: Doogles
Nice/Not Nice
Nice: Spending the afternoon with your dogs and splitting a bag of rice crackers with them.
Not Nice: Whne one dog horks up a blob of rice cracker and the other dog eats it.
They’re monstrous creatures, these dogs of mine, but they are mine and they reflect their owner.
number 1
#one
I renamed the dogs again, Top Speed Banana and Molasses Face Piggytail. I think Maddie misses being The Right and Good Princess Boombalatty, but she’ll learn to accept it. Ghengis doesn’t mind as long as I pay attention to him.
Busy busy day. Been working on lots of futzidy things at work. I get bedevilled by the little things, I hate to do them, they build up. This is my week to get them done.
Tonight is laundry night. Fascinating.
Tonight is also investigate other web host nights. I am discovering something very surprising. It is NOT HARD AT ALL to find reliable, reasonably priced web hosting that has in-house tech support. I was starting to get worried for a minute. Every domain I contacted I asked clearly if their tech support was based in the US and what is in-house or contracted to a second party tech support company. Answers are splut, BUT there is no wild variation in cost. People, listen to me, you can get in house tech support from people who speak english and actually have access to the machine in question for comparable prices.
It’s raining, I’m doing laundry, David is at class.
Okay, this is the schedule for the Official Lily Visit:
Friday: Lamb night, Owen and Shawn will also be in attendance.
Saturday: Cupcake, Mercado Central, Mall of America, Honk Honk Noodle with Dena and Levi, watching David perform at Balls.
Sunday: Maria’s Colombian Cafe, ….other stuff to be determined! Maybe we’ll do the Mercado on Sunday and have dinner there.
How excited am I to have lily here? Too excited for words.
Honk Honk Noodle!!
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1. Big news about Lily!! Lily has made a big, foolish, impulse purchase!! Dang, girl! I think that’s the sweetest impulse purchase I’ve ever had the honour of being part of. So, weekend of the 14th, if you have nothing better to do and you would like to ride the rollercoaster at the mall or eat rack of lamb or go to Cupcake (is Cupcake the ‘it’ place for me to take out of towners? I think so) or chill with the chica, stop on by (provided you’re not batshit crazy or allergic to lamb).
2. Spent a couple days wondering if I was suffering from heat sickness and excess dust inhalation or if I was truly sick. Vote goes to sick, I think we’re at ‘cold’ not ‘flu’ which usually bodes better for me, the queen of walking pneumonia.
3. So the boy makes me a cheese/salsa/chocolate chip quesadilla thingy the other day and most people would say ‘eeeeeuw’ and I’ve got just enough problems in my head to go ‘damn! good! more!’ (apparently, stuff like this makes me caveman-like). Now I want them all the time. I’ve got problems.
4. I am the last person on the planet to see ‘The Office’. I am just now catching up on this pop-culture phenomenon. I got it off netflix and loved it, bought the series and the special. Just finished watching the special, and I know I must be pms-ing because I totally wanted to cry when Dawn came back to the party for Tim. I did not cry, but I did pet the dog. Petting the dog is a culturally accepted alternative to crying at the television. True.
5. The dogs will NOT settle down. I do not know what the deal is but my head hurts, my body hurts, my nose hurts and they won’t stop moving.
just trust
When you have jarred mol� and the instructions say “mix 4 parts water with one part mol�” trust the damned instructions!!! Don’t mix the sauce and the water together and think “this is too dmaned thin!” or go ahead and think that, I’m not the boss of your thoughts. Whatever you do, don’t double the amount of sauce! It thickens as it cooks! It heats up and gets thicker. THICKER. Too thick and strong and you will end up adding that much more water.
On the other hand you will end up with 8 million buttload of mol� which tastes great on everything. Also, make more tofu than you think you need since you will end up with all this sauce. The sauce is delicious and you want to eat it on everything and you wonder what it would be like on ice cream. I’m a total mol� whore. I’m gonna go buy me an abuelita to make me wonderful mol� all day every day.
Let’s see…what else…
I love love love love the tech support at MovableType! I really really do. I am being assured every step of the way that I am not functionally retarded and that it is not necessary for me to beat anyone or anything with a sledgehammer! She defines the problem, tells em what needs to be done and then summarizes everything into exactly what I need to ask my host’s useless tech guys. Amazing. I should send them cheesecake and tequila!
A week to Texas! WOOOOOO!
I absolutely need to stop watching all the videos of the animals being saved and in danger in New Orleans. I am forced to picture Ghengis or Maddie in these situations and it kills me. I imagine Ghengis when he gets sad and he lays down and puts his nose between his paws and watches the room using only his eyebrows. Maddie is so loving and trusting it would kill her to think I abandoned her. I don’t want to think about those poor, sad, confused dogs and cats with no good way to survive and no good way to understand what’s going on.
but let’s not talk about things excessively depressing…
Dammit, i wish I didn’t make my anniversary weekend with David a secret because I want to ramble on about it. I want to tell you all about it and say “dating me is an adventure” and you will agree! Okay, I will continue to give him clues and when he figures it out I will share it with the world.
today…it’s an amazingly good day!