RUDY!

Oh my bowels!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:26:48 GMT

Not sure what did it, the tasty but spicy South Indian cuisine at Mysore Woodlands or the single 10+ year old Flutie Flake I ate from an old dusty office at UR:

Tomorrow I'm having an all soup dinner party. Think about that for a second.

It. Is. A. Logistical. Nightmare.

Not enough spoons, not enough bowls, not enough anything, how does one pull it off?

I'll find out tomorrow.

Oh hai.

Hello World

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:30:11 GMT

Just what are the limits of TXTLJ?

A Header?

A link!

Road Trip Post

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:39:00 GMT

I went on a circuit (Anywhere but Pittsburgh...) a few weeks ago. I've hesitated making the post, not because I did not enjoy it, but because I wanted to relax and now that the 6-hour long breaks between my classes has commenced, the post is due. First, the circuit (prolonged stays at the yellow tags):

Now, the food highlights:

Toronto, Canada -- King's Cafe, in Kensington, where the dish named Tofu Faith featured tofu rolls stuffed with--I kid you not--yum. How can one pass on yum!? The proportion of yum was liberal and good.

Cincinnati, OH -- I ate a lot of home-cooked meals, including, but not limited to, GardenBurger riblets. We did go out to a place called Dewey's Pizza, a chain, but nonetheless good. I had an Edgar Allen Poe (foreshadowing) and Green Lantern. Tasty with a very subdued crust.

Williamsburg, VA -- I CouchSurfed with a young lady who provided a wonderfully spicy Coconut Stir Fry. Then on T-day, my imaginary friend Eileen cooked some imaginary pasta with imaginary veggies and her mom's secret--and imaginary--pecan pie, the recipe in my pocket journal is the only evidence, but evidence of what? An overactive imagination? Or an overactive imaginary friend?

Baltimore, MA -- Scrambled tofu burrito with veggie sausage at One World Cafe. The tofu was prepared in this secret dust, the portion was hefty and kept me going all day long. The Polenta Breakfast at Golden West Cafe was a delight. Blue and white corn polenta sautéed and served with green chile sauce, salsa, a couple of fried eggs, and veggie sausage. I downed several cups of coffee from Zeke's while waiting for GWC pumpkin seed, chocolate chip, and walnut cookies to bake. The waitress hands me the cookies, waits for me to taste, then asks, with a mock-frown, you don't like them? How could I not? Amazing.

A Little from Column A, a Little from Column B

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:01:16 GMT

Vegan Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies from the Post Punk Kitchen. Believe it or not, they have tofu in them. What?

A Worthy Sunday Brunch

Scrambled eggs with chopped onions, sautéed rappi, and smothered with melted shredded asiago cheese.

An Unworthy Outing

The restaurant: Alexandria's Mediterranean Cuisine

The ambience: Nice, but leaning too much towards the upscale cafeteria vibe.

The starter: A tasty, fresh salad, with bits of feta cheese, kalamata olives, and light dressing.

The meal: Feta and spinach stuffed ravioli, in a yucky Ragu-like tomato sauce.

The verdict: Ugh! Too salty, the flavor jumped all over the place. Pick a side and stick with it.

Preparing for Winter

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:05:53 GMT

Three Things I Can Do with Three Baked Sweet Potatoes

Add butter, marjoram, and eat whole.

Slice and sandwich between sharp cheddar, baby spinach, and toasted whole wheat bread.

Mash with soy milk, freshly ground dried chipotle peppers, and a little Braggs amino acids.

A Sauce Unlike Any Other Sauce

This sauce is simple and delicious, assuming you like spicy arriba-type sauces.

one bunch of garlic, roasted at 450 for a good 20-25 minutes

chopped mayan sweet onion

seeded (save the seeds--vary heat by amount of seeds used) and chopped up red jalapeno pepper

28 oz of crushed tomato sauce
lots of marjoram, some oil, and a little sauce

Saute onions in oil for a bit, add chopped jalapeno (and seeds), let it sizzle, stir in the roasted garlic and mash it up into the saute, add the marjoram, add the tomato sauce, bring to boil, reduce to simmer, let it go for a while.

Analysis: spicy, but the sweetness of the onion, roasted garlic, and marjoram calm it down. Good on a pasta with large surface area, works as a quasi-hot sauce in a pinch.

Guess The Flavor of Potato Chips

potatoes, oil, maltodextrin, salt, onion powder, whey, buttermilk, sugar, garlic powder, sour cream, modified food starch¹, green bell pepper, citric acid, spice, sodium diacetate, nonfat milk, lactic acid, jalapeno pepper, natural and artificial flavors, corn syrup solids, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, lime juice solids, vinegar solids, yellow 5 lake, blue 1 lake, extractives of paprika, silicon dioxide.

Go on, I dare ya.

¹ Where the flavor of the main ingredient of the flavor's title must come from because it is otherwise absent from this list. But then again, do I even taste that missing ingredient?

Pictures II

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:09:24 GMT

Food From Home

Homemade plum bbq sauce on tofu served with wild greens and super potent provolone.

Tandoor lentil burgers with cucumber-yogurt sauce coupled with E's freshly bake rolls.

French brie, baguette, and my mom's homemade fig jam (she has a large fig tree in her backyard in Texas, it is simply amazing!).

Taco salad with my mexican mush, brown rice, and greens.

Heirloom tomato omelette with sharp cheddar. Heirloom tomato from my landlady's garden.

As seen in Eat me, Delicious, Mexican wedding cookies. For a twist, these were made with whole wheat flour and lemon zest.

Pictures I

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:08:49 GMT

Some Reviews

Sticky Lips (625 Culver Road, Rochester NY)
I went here with my sister and her boyfriend on Sept 12th. They are avid carnivores and I did not want to subject them to my vegetarian diet so we settled on this place because they have a couple of vegetarian items on the menu. I've been here before and back then my neighbor was working here as a cook. He came out of the kitchen, greeted us, and asked me if he could make me anything special. I told him I wanted a tofu bbq sandwich, which wasn't on the menu. It was tasty and dripping with bbq sauce goodness.
I did not have this luxury now. I ordered a tofu plate with a spicy bbq sauce, a side of mac and cheese, a side of sweet potato fries, and a piece of sweet cornbread. The best part was the side of sweet potato fries, the rest was short of disgusting, but hardly worth a damn. Ouch.

Moosewood Cafe (Dewitt Mall, Ithaca, NY)
Moosewood's daily menu changes can be a gift and a curse. On one hand, you can always try something new, on the other hand, you always have to try something new. Maybe this doesn't ring true when you live nearby and see repeated dishes more frequently. I long for some of the dishes I've had here, but I seldom come across the same dish twice.
Today, Sept 21st, I started with the ginger-lemon-honey tea, warm and frothy. Then I had the summer vegetable lasagna: roasted summer squash, fresh spinach, crumbled tofu in a tomato-wine sauce and topped with parmesan and ricotta cheeses. I would have preferred a bit more earthy-savory flavor to balance the bright-zesty flavor of the sauce and squash, perhaps some mushrooms could achieve this end. Still, a delight.
For dessert, I had a slice of the Peach 'n' Cake, a rich and moist torte that was more cake-like than other tortes I've had - is that the proper way to pluralize torte? The peaches were glazed and permeated throughout the cake, leading to a peachy-keen bite down to the last sliver. Mmm.

(clears throat...)

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:35:10 GMT

It has been a long time... (taps microphone) I said, it has been a long time.

That isn't to say I haven't been eating. Mmm-hmm, that's what this journal was used for.

The fact of the matter is that I have been eating on many continents.

Sadly, all these continents were near large bodies of water and hence seafood heavy. (Me and seafood are like oil and water.) Nevertheless, I did try about a hundred variations of the multi-cheese pizza during my travels. The best would have to have been on the island of La Palma. This particular four cheese variant featured some of the island's favored goat cheese, aged to an olfactive pleasure fest, like a really good feta. The crust for this particular pizza was an odd choice, it was almost pastry-like, but not flaky. The sauce subdued by the pungent cheese and its oozing fat. Mmm.

I did not leave the islands without trying some more of the local flavor. I had this cheesy, roasted pepper, Gomerian sauce used for cooking as well as a dip for chips and crackers. When I tried it in the Wine and Cheese shop it was great. But upon sampling my newly purchased jar, I was disgusted.

Another Gomerian staple are these slow roasted potatoes in a zippy and spicy tomato sauce. I don't know what was in the sauce, but I confirmed that it was vegetarian. I also had fresh tropical fruit: papaya, mango, and avocado, separately, but all fresh. I also prepared a large mushroom (not this one, but probably a similar species), I'd never had this type of mushroom before, it was very smooth and tender, like chicken(?).

Morocco abounds with vegetarian food but they were mostly variants of vegetables and cous-cous. I can't complain. The tajine prepared vegetables were so tender and moist. Most dishes were flavored with a turmeric-based curry, there were few tomato-based sauces, which I found surprising.

Spain and Portugal were also seafood heavy. Most of the time I would purchase a roll, some cheese, and various fruits from the tiny grocery stores that line the European streets. I treated myself to a ritzy restaurant in Barcelona one night. The only item on the menu I could eat was a plate of roasted summer vegetables (carrots, squash, eggplant, corn, poblano peppers, and mushrooms). Coupled with a large dark beer, I was satiated and staggered to my room full of bubbly french teenagers.

...and then...

Wed, 09 May 2007 17:07:27 GMT

Happiness is a warm buffalo tempe sandwich made by Skippy.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:02:24 GMT

Since my last post, on the consumer end:

At the OpenFace Sandwich Eatery - a delightful concoction of celery and bartlett pears to form a bold, amorous (yes, it was sexual), savory soup. I mentioned it in my random comic, which was then featured at Cruelest Month, wherein the celery pear soup peaked the interest of the author, and eventually led to the award of free books, including the delicious poems of Zbigniew Herbert. The soup is like having a good conversation with an old friend while out on a brisk night-time walk under a full moon with a cool breeze blowing.

New Health Cafe - a new vegetarian restaurant in the Rochester area. (For those keeping track, in my Rochester-lifetime, which is about 3-4 years, this is the sixth vegetarian restaurant--unfortunately, it doesn't look like this one is going to stick around long.) I went there with a group of eight people. We had a variety of dishes, I think we all felt the food was generally bland. However, the tofu in my BBQ tofu plate was very good. I could tell it was fresh and homemade, hence the scrumptious, spongy resilience that is a pleasure to bite into and a feature lacking in most commercially available tofu. The cooked vegetables were bland, which I would not mind if they were in the peak of the season, when the flavor holds its own, but this time, they could not. A little Braggs can go a long way while retaining the health.

At the Rochester Public Market, from one of the bakeries, not Richport, and not Di Paolo, the other one, anyway, they had a sweet potato cobbler, it was very good, even despite the burnt/crispy edges that must have oozed out during baking. (I cut them off.)

I recently discovered Boylan's bottled drinks (vintage soda pop). The red birch beer, in particular. They use cane sugar, the only way I'll drink pop. Their prices are considerably less than my other favorites: Hank's and Virgils, but I haven't compared Boylan's root beer, yet.

On the homefront, it has been kind of slow:

I just made some banana bread muffins with Jules as my audience. She was pestering me for the recipe for a while, but I told her I didn't really have a recipe. I do have a recipe, it just doesn't have all the annotations that are necessary to acheive the end product. So she watched as I made them and took notes as I detailed key points in the process. It is all needlessly complicated, but sometimes obfuscation can be fun.

I made an egg-less quiche. I think that is pretty phenomenal. It was a steamed broccoli and sharp provolone quiche made with Ener-G Egg Replacer and a homemade crumbly pastry crust. I was very pleased with the outcome. It only lasted for about two days. I tried to invite others to have some, but by the time I got through to them, I had eaten it all!

A kale-onion tofu stir-fry with rice wine and soy sauce. The kale was a little undercooked, it didn't wilt as I hoped it would. Maybe I need a wok for better results.

During Jesse's visit, we bought fresh berries and mesclun to accompany our tortillas and cheese while walking about the Chimney Bluffs but forgot the berries and mesclun in the car, classic! Eating tortillas with cheese while perched on the edge of an unstable sheer cliff made it okay.

Revision History Of a Sandwich, Or Making a Sandwich Bite By Bite

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:11:18 GMT

Purchases at the public market today that spawned the idea of making a sandwich for lunch: fresh kale and super sharp provolone cheese. (I've never had super sharp provolone, I've never had sharp provolone, I've always thought the essence of provolone was it subtlety.)

The Gist of The Sandwich: grilled super sharp provolone cheese sandwich with some shredded kale.

First Revision: Didn't need to take a bite to know that the kale was going to be tough, fiberous, chewing so the first revision was to blanche the kale to a softer world. I took a bite; the cheese was more potent than I thought, my goodness it is so sharp. Even now my lips sting with the serrated goodness of this oft-mild cheese. Hence...

Second Revision: Let's add something sweet to balance the edge. Dried Cranberries would be ideal. Don't have any. Raisins? I don't have any raisins, but I do have dried currants. Ooh, perfect, one intense extreme deserves another. I take a bite. Delicious! I keep the currants in a recycled POM Tea container along with other containers full of other dried items I like to call my fixin's, one such fixin' are slivered almonds...

Third Revision: While I am putting away the currants, I might as well add some yummy almonds. Oh Nuts!

Mmm... balance.

Son été un long temps*

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:46:05 GMT

I thought when I got the internet again that I would be updating this journal regularly. Not that people would WANT to know what I am eating--there is a book on blogging entitled No One Cares What you Had For Lunch afterall--but because this journal had served as a very interesting personal reminder and repository for gastrointestinal accounts that I often referred to. It did not happen. This is largely due to the fact that I've been so busy and so the meals get redundant, but I've mentioned this here before... also, I doubt the lastest fad, which is Nayonaise on everything, would be interesting to anyone nor would it be something I would want to be reminded of in the future. Some dietary periods are best forgotten and swept under the proverbial rug. I did however neglect a few choice and not so choice items. These follow:

Moosewood Restaurant (Ithaca, NY), wherein I had a delightful Moroccan soirée who's beguiling red sauce packed a potent punch of East African spices that were fried into an olfactive frenzy. 'Twas followed by vegan chocolate cake, who's richness I could hardly stand, but knew I couldn't live with myself had I left it behind. The baked pears were disappointing because I expected them to be piping hot, but they were room temperature if not chilled.

Magnolia Cafe (Park Ave., Rochester, NY), where at I grabbed a late lunch of their Mac 'N Cheese with a house salad. The M'N'C was very uninspired. It lacked punch. Sure, it was creamy--something my own Mac 'N Cheese lacks since I do not cook with creams or milk--but the cheese flavor was subtle, subdued to silence and not worth the skrilla. The salad was good though, though the four cheese dressing was deceptive. I am reminded of why I do not frequent this establishment, even though they are the only place I know of that has the infamous Racko card game.

Wegmans Green Bar (Pittsford, NY) is a relatively new establishment. They have a very limited menu but a surprising variety. I've had several items and the best would have to be the Thai Vegetables I had today. A bunch of vegetables (young sprouts, squashes, bell peppers, celery, fresh soy beans and mushrooms) simmered with a mild thai sauce and served on a bowl of brown rice. I like that the thai sauce was not overwhelming. It supplied a suggestion of thai while allowing the vegetables to show that they could hold their own.

* I love Babelfish.

Friday Night

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:28:30 GMT

What to eat, what to eat?

Sunday Hungry Sunday

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:50:48 GMT

Breakfast at the Cinnamon Works near the Public Market (I go to this place everytime, they have vegan pastries, not that I am vegan, but hey where else can you get a whole wheat sticky bun?)

Brunch at Cafe Flora (Spinach Scramble - scrambled eggs with spinach, leeks, onions, asiago cheese and with a side of cheesy grits, four cranberry and cream ben-YAYs.)

Dinner at Thai Ginger (Pad Thai tofu)

Sleepytime.

Seattle, Laundry In Tow

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:13:56 GMT

It seems like everytime I am on a trip on someone else's tab, I eat less exciting food. On this trip, I have a 40 dollar per diem for food and I was thinking about this while riding the bus in Seattle, WA. I pondered the last meal I had. A boring rendition of Pad Thai Tofu. Did I say boring? I meant gross. A Trader Joe's passes by on the left and I think, maybe I'll just get off at the next stop, buy some supplies and make my own meals, like I normally. Before I know it, the bus stops, I look out the window and see the resturant I was heading for. Whoa, that came out of no where, I get up and get off, three steps away from the bus and I am at the front door of Cafe Flora.

The atmosphere is pleasant, reminiscient of Mother's in Austin. I like the place immediately. I get seated in the garden. I open the menu, visions of each item on the menu dance in my mind and my palate. The thoughts about making my own meals disappear and suddenly a 40 dollar per diem is not enough.

I order the Baked Tofu Yamwich, a sandwich with ginger-molasses marinated baked tofu, roasted yams, and a pesto spread on freshly baked bread. There is a side choice to make: wild greens or sweet potato fries. I stop to think, even though I scream for the fries, I wonder if it will be too much sweet potatoes, in the end, I decide on the fries. How was it? In a word: yum! The sandwich is wonderful, every bite is complex, and depending on the portion of tofu/yam/pesto you have a different subtle taste to search for amongst the stronger flavors. However, as a yamwich, I think the yams are often obscured. Which dismisses nothing, only serves to highlight the possibility that the name may be misleading. Yum.

Soy Milk...

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:28:36 GMT

...is made. Wow. I almost burned significant portions of my body while trying to blend boiling water. I finally realized what the purpose of that little hole on the top of the blender lid is for. It allows heat to escape so the lid and the boiling water inside do not blow up. Check.

How is the soy milk? A little grassy. I added a little sweetener to combat that grassy edge. Right now it is sitting in the fridge in a growler, of all containers! It was the only one I had available. Also, another tip, noise canceling headphones sans music work great when blending soy beans and boiling water for many minutes of the morning. I bet the cats upstairs were going nuts though. They need tiny noise canceling headphones.

Next up on the plate, tofu! After the new year though.

Soy Beans

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:59:46 GMT

Things I want to do that all involve getting some soy beans:

Make my own soy milk (also need to get a double boiler)

Make my own tofu cakes (follows, naturally, from the first item)

Make my own tempeh (but I need some Rhizopus oligosporus so that one is last on the list)

My caldo is great and easy. Add the following, in order, to a large pot of salted boiling water (3-4 quarts), 1.5 cups of pearled barley, about 2 cups of chopped celery (about 5-6 medium stalks), three large peeled carrots chopped into disks, wait for it to boil, turn it down to simmer and wait for it (about 20 minutes), then add a medium chopped onion, four or five potatoes washed and diced, some seasonings (pepper, cumin, maybe some bragg's amino acids, add to taste, then add a litte more, bring it back to boil, then simmer, then wait for it (about 20 minutes), then add 3/4 a head of cabbage, check taste of liquid, does it need more... then put it in dammit. Should be ready in about 20 more minutes. Serves one indefinitely. Well... that's a liberal definition of indefinite.

Getting My Fixes in the Nation's Capitol (Sorta)

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:40:32 GMT

Yesterday, Thanksgiving, I ate my pseudo-T-day meal in my car. I was on 16th street, in NW Washington, D. C., minutes from my destination, but trapped in a long traffic jam. Just when I thought I was about to make it through, the ambulances and fire engines started to move into positions that completely stopped the previously slow moving traffic.

From what I could make out - and I was first in line at this point, so I could see everything - there were five vehicles in the crash. Two with minor to no damage, one with medium damage, and one that must have taken the brunt of the blow because it was on the curb and that is where the emergency crew was concentrated. So I sat, I sat there in front of this crash scene and ate my cheese sandwich with pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cranberries, and almonds. The plan was to eat in a park, the reality was I ate while in park. Ha ha, me so punny.

Today was better, today I woke up at 9AM, the earliest I've awoken in a long time, and headed to Whole Foods for breakfast. I wanted to buy all the things I used to buy at WF in Austin, like dark chocolate covered graham crackers, but they did not have any! Instead, I had a corn pudding (which is much more tasty than the word pudding makes it sound - maybe only I find the word distasteful?), this squash and mushroom mashed thing (very tasty, the mushrooms were so aromatic), roasted plantains (!!!), and a croissant (which was highly unnecessary, but at the moment seemed like a good idea).

After a day of bicycling around Washington, D. C. and seeing the Joseph Cornell show (the purpose for going to Washington, D. C.), I grabbed a veggie meal at Java Green. I got a tempe, spinach, roasted red peppers, and soy cheese panini sandwich cleverly called Tempation.

Thanksgiving Dinner (already)

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:14:04 GMT

I had my Thanksgiving Dinner today. It is necessary for I have the intention of going on a mini road trip and it starts tomorrow.

What did I have? I am glad I asked. I went to the Veggie Bar at the Pittsford Wegmans. I had the following:

appetizer: baked macaroni and cheese with shaved black truffles and truffle oil - during which time, as I was served, the chef said to me, "you are starting an addiction." And I said, what do you mean, and he said, "its like crack". I reassured him that I make my own mac and cheese but I cannot afford the truffles, so I am sure I won't be so addicted. I'd say I was wrong, if it wasn't for one little thing. Wait, first let me say that the truffles were amazing, the aroma was so rich and smoky and isolated truffles were delicious on the palatte, the problem is that wegmans uses something, I don't quite know what it is, but it is something in their creamy cheesey sauces that leaves a bad after taste. I've experienced it before in an au gratin dish. It is probably something simple that is unneccesary, but I can not isolate it. Maybe a cheap american cheese? It could also be a heavy cream or milk, all things I do not use, and am, therefore, not used to the taste of.

main course: cedar plank tofu with wilted aromatic greens, which were a mix of blue, red, and green greens, toasted garbonzo beans that were covered with this sweet crunchy crust (mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm(pop!)- that was my taste buds exploding), and served over steamed brown rice.

All washed down with a bottle of mint tea from Honest Tea, served in a full bodied wine glass (classy - no doubt, I felt like a king.)

Its Been A Long Time

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:31:36 GMT

Indeed, I am living the life of limited internet, no TV, and solace in my solitude, what more can I ask for? I know, advise! For instance, there are things that I would not have made if a single voice, be it a bewildered roommate, or an electronic cue in the form of a google search coming up empty, had raised the flag. Oh, I am not so sure I want to share those failures with you... I guess I should though:

Pesto - but not with parmesan cheese, that would be proper, I am talking about sharp cheddar cheese pesto with almonds in place of pine nuts, gasp!

This one is really embarrassing, but that pesto was supposed to be served in pesto-pasta salad, but I didn't have pasta so I used rice noodles (humiliation ensues) - do you see the trend here, substitutes should be thoroughly researched.

My tahini sauce served with rice noodles and fried tofu was not so good, but it wasn't horrible.

Which brings me to the successes:

My homemade peanut sauce with fried tofu and rice noodles was ab-fab and entirely improvised.

My bbq tofu was a quick and inspiring victory, I pressed the tofu extra dry and froze it to make it even more firm than the "extra firm" on the label.

The experimentation with sandwiches with unusual garnishes, i.e. sliced almonds, dried cranberries, and various cheeses, has produced many successful variations on a theme.

Though I almost lost a finger, my meat cleaver shaved dark chocolate (hey what is a vegetarian to do with a meat cleaver?) and sliced almonds after dinner treat is wildly popular with all of my sweet teeth.

My vegan apple/carrot scones were the best, the muffin form - not so good.

On the horizon:

My tried a true banana bread muffins

Another "you can't possibly eff this up" recipe, homemade mac and cheese with three cheeses and real pasta, none of these substitutes.

Cheers,

Autumn Mush

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:00:45 GMT

Autumn Mush (Roasted Butternut Squash, Roasted Garlic, spices, seasonings, whatever, mmmm!)

I've made sandwiches with this.

I've made an omelette with this. today.

lunch

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:02 GMT

almond, fresh basil, tofurky, and sharp cheddar cheese on whole wheat bread sounds as delicious as it tastes!

brunch is back

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:54:34 GMT

Java's Joes: Fried Egg crepe with asparagus, I can spare a Gus, can you?

London Calling

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:08:25 GMT

London, Ontario that is: Zen Garden, where to begin. A combination plate from the vegetarian chinese restaurant with impeccable interior design, which included a small serving of dumpling soup, salad with "oil and lemon" dressing which included orange, lemon juice, olive oil, and a few other things, sweet and sour lappa, which I am told is a chinese root, and it is delish, a roll, purple rice, these chiken nuggets, oh, it was just what the doctor ordered and a wonderful pre-constellation records release concert meal.

yesterday...

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:30:02 GMT

my mexican mush is surprisingly easy to make, and delightful with rice, lettuce, tomatoes, and tortillas.

S₁[S₂(1/2 + T_6min{}) + ]

where S₁ is the simmer operation, S₂ is the saute operation, and T_6min is the time delay operation set for six minutes.