Less is More

“Less is more” is famously the motto of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969). The idea is to reduce design to its necessary elements. Less famously, Mies picked up the phrase from his teacher, architect Peter Behrens, in Berlin around 1910. Behrens is considered to be the first industrial designer. In the 1930’s Mies…… Continue reading Less is More

New Culinary Heights

Achieved new culinary heights: assembled Spam Musubi, a fusion food popular in Hawaii. Minnesota: Spam (fried). The can makes an excellent musubi mold. Japan: soy sauce and nori. California: sushi rice. Next time we’ll add mirin to the rice to make it stickier.

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Onions, Carrots, Celery

After a lot of chopping, reduced 8 pounds of onions, carrots, and celery to mirepoix. Most of it goes in the freezer to ease the assembly of future meals.

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Early Sign of Spring

I’m optimistic, spring is just around the corner. Assembled a natural gas grill while plows cleared last night’s snow. There were no parts left over when I finished.

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