Purchased ice cream offsets at the farmers market.
Category: Home Living
Balancing Act
The relative sweetness of the shinshu miso was nicely offset by the bitterness of the Asian broccoli.
Miso Ingredients
Next on my list: learn how to make dashi broth and miso soup. For me, Covid-19 restrictions present opportunities to learn new things. If I can’t go to Japan, I can bring Japan to me.
Kare Raisu
Made kare raisu, Japanese curry, for lunch, one of the most popular dishes in Japan. It can be traced to early British influences over 100 years ago. Now, a Japanese curry chain is opening restaurants in India.
G4 LEDs
This week is the end of the line for incandescent bulbs in our home. Until recently the light quality of G4 LEDs was not good enough. Now, $2.00 1.5 watt G4’s have a high color rendering index. We’ll have 100% LED lighting once I replace two halogens lurk
Home-Made Ramen
I couldn’t go to Japan this month, so brought Japan to us: tonkotsu ramen. I cooked the Hakata-style cloudy/emulsified broth for 26 hours, saving most for another day. To my gaijin taste buds it was pretty good, I was transported.
Minimizing Duplicate Pantry Ingredients
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Minimizing Duplicate Pantry Ingredients
I read food labels, but try to avoid foods which have labels. I’m struck by how the same ingredients show up over and over again in different products. I looked up five McCormick spice mixes online for comparison: The mixes contain ingredients we already have in the kitchen, apart from outliers like Yellow #5 and…… Continue reading Minimizing Duplicate Pantry Ingredients
Webcam
Upgraded to a Webcam that can handle backlighting better–there are windows behind me. Webcams are in short supply and I’m not willing to pay an inflated price, usually double list price. After waiting several months, got this at list directly from Logitech.
Pumping Iron
Bemasked Dwight stayed indoors to pump iron, as I headed out to walk in prematurely Fall weather.