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Archive for January, 2009
A read on where the republicans go next.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Skills to learn
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009How to sharpen a knife. I’ll need to get a two or three good waterstones. And also a good knife.
Cranberry and walnut salad
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Ingredients:
Mixed salad greens or baby spinach
Sweetened dried cranberries
Feta cheese
Walnuts, halves or chopped
Red onion if desired
2 T balsamic vinegar
1 T honey
1-2 t Dijon mustard
1/4 t ground black pepper
1-2 T extra virgin olive oil
Instructions:
Combine the balsamic vinegar, honey, dijon mustard, black pepper, and olive oil in a small bowl; mix well with fork.
Put your preferred serving size of salad greens (and possibly red onion) on a plate and top with 1-2T each of the cranberries and walnuts. Sprinkle with feta in a “reasonable” amount (check out the nutritional info for feta if you care, it’s actually really good for a cheese.) Add your desired quantity of dressing; the quantity defined above takes care of at least two peoples’ worth of salad, in my experience.
Home Pride Butter Top Wheat
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009There is no longer any Home Pride Butter Top Wheat in San Diego. I must now find a new favorite brand of bread. WTF, every store just stopped selling it, but when I was up in San Fran, the Ralphs still had it.
Ginger Mojito
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Ingredients
- 3 slices fresh gingerroot (thumbnail sized)
- 12 fresh mint leaves
- 2Â ounces white rum
- 1/2Â ounce fresh lime juice
- 1/2Â ounce sugar syrup
- 5Â ounces ginger ale
Directions
- Muddle ginger in base of shaker.
- Add mint and lightly muddle (just to bruise mint and release their essential oils).
- Add the next three ingredients and shake with ice and fine-strain into a glass filled with crushed ice.
- Top with ginger ale.
- Garnish with a sprig of mint.
Buy stuff
Saturday, January 10th, 2009I need to buy some more pants. I also need some razor blades, a maglite, a new computer battery. Maybe a hard drive. A juicer. A webcam for my linux machine.
Kitchen Gear I need
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Knife set.  Really I just need a really nice chefs knife.
Jigger. Muddler. Juicer. A matching set of forks/knives/spoons.