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.
Category: Home Living
Old Man River
Old Man River drained the spring melt to the Gulf while we barbecued chicken and veggies.
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.
There Is No Road
Traveler, your footprints
are the only road, nothing else.
Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back you see the path
you will never travel again.
Traveler, there is no road
only a ship’s wake on the sea.
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.
Tax Refund
Filed my taxes, I’m owed a Federal refund: it’s time to make an all-expense-spared impulse purchase.
A Suitcase Finds New Purpose
My old suitcase headed for the exit. It now belongs to a friend and her daughter. They make felt mittens they’ll display in the open suitcase at shows. I posted recently about this vulcanized fiber case needing a new home.
Unwanted Electrical Outlet
“Disappeared” an electrical outlet. There’s an outlet behind the pillar, but the developer had added an outlet to the middle of this wall. Today I removed it and Dwight painted a cover plate. (Minneapolis building codes don’t allow drywall over a live electrical box.) Now, the wall, the plate, and the Guthrie Theater all match.
My Inner Marie Kondo
Channeled my inner Marie Kondo
Office Supplies
Filled a backpack with office supplies we will never use. Walked to a teachers’ union hall which has a room where teachers can stock up on supplies for their underfunded schools. Walked home, 30 pounds lighter.