Grace’s parents stayed with us this Thanksgiving and did most of the cooking, more or less making everything from scratch. I pitched in with some pumpkin pie making (mainly because I wanted to give the new KitchenAid a spin in crust making) and cranberry sauce. This is basically a post-mortem on how everything [...]
This past Saturday evening, we went to Cleveland’s annual tree-lighting/carriage parade. This was for the million-or-so holiday lights strung around Public Square as well as the tree just in front of the Terminal Tower building. Here’s the Plain Dealer article on the event, as well as the American Legion parade that took place [...]
This past Sunday, Grace and I went to FoodTV’s Great Big Food Show at the IX Center near the airport. Tickets buy entry to the floor, wine-tasting vouchers (which we didn’t really use and had remainders) and a reserved seat in the “Celebrity Theater” for one of the shows. The celebrities there included [...]
The new television led to a cascade of upgrades as older A/V equipment turned out to be not up to snuff. As noted, the receiver was actually replaced during the summer, before we got the TV, because the older Yamaha RX-V393 wasn’t really built as a modern A/V receiver — it didn’t have S-Video, [...]
Exit poll results released on Wednesday indicated that a plurality of voters considered “moral values” to be their top concern in this election. Democrats immediately seized on this as the main explanation for Bush’s victory: it fits their pre-conceived notions about the red states being populated by ignorant Bible-thumping rednecks, easily led against their [...]
I meant to put this up yesterday, but was busy and distracted, and had the mild fear that no one I know will ever talk to me again. The man I voted for won, but I feel no particular joy or despair over the outcome; Bush was not the man I would want in [...]
The typical recipe for Japanese-style curry (on the side of a box of S&B Golden Curry, for example) is basically a spiced meat stew: say, chicken or beef with onions, carrots and other vegetables. This variation is for a less liquid mix of onions, cauliflower and tofu:
1 onion, chopped
1/4 cup ginger, chopped
4 cloves garlic, [...]