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Comments (7)Good morning to all! Lucy, I love that color of cosmos. When I sowed some poppy seeds in a long rectangular pot, I put a piece of lattice on top because I knew the birds would be having a field day eating up the seeds! Of course you can't cover up the ground when you scatter wildflower seeds so don't know what the solution would be. Hope more flowers are just slow starting for you....See MoreHappy Valentines Day & Chinese New Year!
Comments (18)Al, actually, I made those a few weeks ago before I got sick. Like Dcarch mentioned, those lasts a loooong time! Back during the prehistoric time when refrigerators weren't around yet, many of our New Year food were made in a way that it wouldn't spoil and lasted as long as they could. The rice cakes, when done right, would lasted for weeks without refrigerating. Many New Year food were made a week or 2 in advance. This way, food were always ready for unexpected visits of family and friends during this busiest time of the year. My family has lots of memories making rice cakes. Because of its looong period of cooking (6-8 hrs.), when we were little, we would all begging my mom to let us stay up at night to keep on the watch for the fire. When we made rice cake back in Vietnam, we didn't just made a few. We would make at least 40-50 to give out as gifts. A gigantic pot was a must in order to boil that many rice cakes. That means, an outside camp fire was needed to accomodate this gigantic pot. Someone would have to stay up to keep the fire going. It was like sitting around a camp fire and chit chatting, telling ghost stories and having a good laugh. In case you were wondering why we didn't cook them during the day, that was because it took all day to prepare and wrap those rice cakes. By the time they were all done, evening approached. What I love about our New Year vs. Christmas is the gifts. Our New Year gifts are mostly consisted of food, fruits and flowers/plants. LOL.... It's hard to disappoint anyone with these gifts, don't you agree?...See MoreHappy Crab Day!
Comments (32)Crab cakes are not super common in the PNW. I usually make them with lump crab, and try to get a loose patty that is mostly crab and barely holds together. These Krabby Patty types were an experiment and not my fave. I don’t know if we’re going to have any more mono-ingredient raves this holiday season. We have prime rib for NYE, they are salted and dry-aging in the fridge. After that I kind of feel like eating kale, egg whites, and protein bars for a couple months. Among the 2020 things I’d like to leave behind is about 20 lbs . . . If anything, probably going to get back into Japanese dishes. DS got a bunch of Japanese cookbooks from Santa and DD and SWMBO plan to go back on keto in the New Year. Ms Bao is a Himalayan that our friend in Eugene found as a stray. She was so matted that they had to shave much of her fur off. It grew back, obvsly. She was declawed in front, sadly. When Eugene went into Covid lock down early in 2020, DD was stuck living alone in her college apartment so our friend “loaned” her “Missy”. Missy was renamed Ms Bao and became DD’s permanent cat, and moved to our house with DD. Unfortunately she has taken over the house and dominates my cat - which is interesting, since my cat has a full set of claws, but Ms Bao doesn’t seem to realize her lack of fighting power, and she has a rather terrifying personality when she’s angry - maybe it comes from growing up on the street. The two seem to be ever so slowly coming to terms, finally. At the end of this school year, DD will go to California to work at the Berkeley Echo Lake camp again, training the new staff and developing recipes and processes for the 2022 reopening of the big Berkeley Tuolume Camp that burned down in the Rim Fire several years ago. In fall 2021 she’ll go to France to teach English in the TAPIF program, assuming she gets accepted - if not, she’ll probably go anyway to travel around, visit our friends in Brussels, Marseille and Poland, and check out schools. When that’s over in spring 2022, Berkeley will hopefully hire her to run the food operations when the Tuolume camp reopens. Then she wants to go to art grad school in Europe, maybe. All that is by way of saying that I’m going to be stuck with Ms Bao for a while. That’s fine, she is very cuddly and has an interesting personality, even if keeping up with brushing her coat is a pain in the you know. She likes to sleep in cute places and don’t mind wearing hats. Our theory is that she is actually an Ewok spy, altered through plastic surgery to look more like a cat, and sent to earth to investigate our defenses. Which explains her lack of front claws (Ewoks don’t have claws, they kill stormtroopers with spears and slings), her cuddly cuteness (she’s been trained to infiltrate our household), her fierce side (the Ewoks would only choose their fiercest for this mission, and she’s pissed at the plastic surgery), and why my cat was so afraid of her (“miaou miaou that’s not a cat can’t you tell miaou miaou” and “hiss spit if you blow my cover I’ll freeze you in Carbonite you worthless earth cat hiss spit”)....See MoreOh, Happy Day! New baby!
Comments (61)Congratulations to your family! What a beautiful baby. Safe travels! (For some reason, I thought they lived in St. Louis?)...See Morebbstx
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