When I lived in Taiwan, every once in a while I'd run across a place that sold the most wonderful-tasting soup, but I never got around to asking what it was. Every time I saw it, I would get a bowl. Turns out, years later, that it was actually a Japanese soup: Miso. I found this recipe on the Uwajimaya website.
Miso Soup
Ingredients:
4 cups dashi (soup stock)
4 Tablespoon miso
wakame (seaweed), small pieces (optional)
1/2 block tofu, cut into 1/2" cubes
1-2 stalks green onions, sliced thin
Other optional ingredients
spinach, cabbage, Shiitake Mushrooms, pork, abura age (fried bean cake), daikon (Japanese white radish), mochi (rice cake), or fish.
Preparation:
Serves 4
Heat dashi . Mix miso in small bowl with small amount of dashi and return to the dashi in the pan. Bring to a boil then lower heat. Add tofu and wakame (optional). When soup comes to a boil, remove from heat and add green onions. Avoid boiling too long - serve immediately.
And don't forget Inari, too!
On Tuesday night Lorien and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. The first show we originally arrived for was sold out, but a second one started just 30 minutes later. That show didn't come close to selling out, there were still many open seats.
Now I'm not a big Robert Downey Jr. fan. In fact, the last movie I saw with him in it was U.S. Marshals, and I saw it because of Tommy Lee Jones. He did a decent job, though, despite his checkered, alcoholic, drug-laced past.
His "deductive superpower" effect was neat. I must admit, though, I was surprised to see a bare-knuckle boxing Holmes. Not to mention his meager violin skills.
The story was okay, though. Not too slow, not too fast. It was, overall, a good movie. If you want to see a movie, and are considering it, I say go!
I lost a filling over Christmas. I found out that I need a crown to replace it. Fortunately, no root canal was necessary. My excellent dentist took care of it right when I called. He did a great job of making sure I was numb before drilling, too.
Holy cow I just had to blow my nose with half my face numb. FAIL!
My Sunday Twitter Updates didn't sync here yesterday. I blame the INTERNETS. They're always breaking crap.
- Once again, I have 666 spam messages in my Gmail inbox. Recurring proof that spam is evil. #
- Eric Rigler's Traditional Celtic Christmas #musicmonday. Saw Rigler in concert, it was amazing. #
- Merry Brainmas @sjgames and @philipjreed! #
- I just had a revelation: Twitter is like the short bus for bloggers. 140 characters vs. the infinite. Why am I here again?? #
- Got the latest @FootStompin podcast going now. #musicmonday #
- One more good idea that didn't make it: @Raphkoster just announced the closure of Metaplace.com. #
- The ONE Christmas special I watch without fail is The Most Horrible XMas Ever. #invaderzim #gohomecharliebrown #
- If there's one thing humans can't resist it's a fat man with presents! #invaderzim #
- Form...GIGANTOBABY! http://pictureisunrelated.com/2009/12/18/obsess-much/ #invaderzim #
- http://8bitchristmas.com/ #
- Random thought: Was it a coincidence that Porkins was a fat guy? Or did the name *require* him to be fat? #
- $30K of CLOTHING?? Tyson Smith, Athol, reported Monday the $30,000 theft of miscellaneous men’s clothing. #
- Same guy: the $7,500 theft of a MacBook #
- Also: Cindy Thompson, Athol, reported Sunday the $200,000 theft of jewelry and the $5,190 theft of miscellaneous tools from a mobile home #
- You are some *serious* screwed up if you have $200k in jewelry and live in a mobile home. #
- Hey @ThinkGeek! Be my #notsosecretsanta & gimme a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag! #
- WIN! My dad bought my stepmom a new TV for Christmas, and she bought him one too. Told them I would be happy to accept one. #
- Does anybody write like this any more? Such a lost art.. http://tweetphoto.com/7147229 #
- Ahh Christmas. The one day a year we let Noel and Joy into out homes. Even though we don't know them very well. #
- 7pm and I haven't opened a single present yet. In fact, I'm not even sure where my presents are.. #
- Watching @worldsdumbest on tv. Should add themselves to their list for advertising their Twitter account separated by a "backslash" #
- Saw mo family today. Saw wife for about 10 minutes. Being sick on Christmas sucks #
- Waiting in the car for Lorien to return something to WalMart #
My mom gave me a nice bread recipe book for Christmas. I love baking bread, I love the smell of bread, and I love eating the bread. I'm trying the cheddar recipe tonight, it's pretty simple and quick. I'll let you know how it goes later.
Frank, one of my cow-orkers, introduced me to this site. At only $4, buy it for the children: 8-bit Christmas, Christmas songs with old-school video game feeling.
- Getting ready to watch Dragon War #rifftrax in a couple of minutes. Anticipation is high. #
- Watched Cinematic Titanic version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians last night. Epic Christmas movie. #
- Conquered Super Mario Bros. For the Wii and found that there is a secret 9th world but it requires all star coins from all other worlds... #
- iPhone complained about not being authorized on the laptop I've been syncing to for the last 18+ months. #
- Natalie Portman producing and starring in Pride and Prejudice & Zombies: http://bit.ly/6oJxqx #
- http://www.badassoftheweek.com Get the book, too, it's awesome. #
- Just finished compiling a master list of file changes for an older piece of software. 19 files to update. #
- Really need to do some Christmas shopping.. #
- Shoveled all the snow off the driveway in about 35 minutes. Would have been quicker had I done it yesterday, too. #
- Yay! Just got shipping notification from @sjgames and Warehouse23 that Nanuk is on its way!! #
- Retired the switch that wasn't pingable last week. I seem to be able to ping it now, but still can't manage it. #
- Went to a wedding last night. Can't complain about people getting married mid-week, because I did.. #
- Schedule I thought wasn't free *is*. So we can attend the #rifftrax live event tonight in Spokane! #
- Cow-orker just ran "rm -rf /" on his Ubuntu laptop. We welcomed him to the club! #
- A @rifftrax live event ticket: $12.50. Seeing Santa say "Rudolph I need you tonight," PRICELESS! #
- I follow @MythBusters and I reject your reality! #
- RT @AngryPets: Pure awesome: Snow (for the first time in 14 years) at Global Warming Summit: http://bit.ly/6wGrCL in reply to AngryPets #
- Tons of stuff getting done this week. It's like Christmas, but for the business! #
- Preordered Zombie Dice and Cthulhu dice from @SJGames. Not out until next March, but...YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY COOL GAMES! #
- Yay! Meeting time! #
- Upgraded to WordPress2.9. Smooth as usual. #
- Hooray! #Nanuk is in my hands! Such a great get-together game! #
I was just reminiscing about the wonderful food (especially breakfast) I used to get in Taiwan. So I went poking about the Internet and found this recipe. I'll try it out and let you know how it goes! There seem to be a few others on the same site that look good as well.
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太白粉.....2åˆ1/3大匙
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- LAN switches went tango uniform this morning after a power spike. Had to reboot them to get things back up and working. #
- HAHA! RT @GeekyClean: http://sketchysantas.com/ <--Amazing! #
- Lots of weird "Monday" issues to deal with today. #
- Yay! M.U.L.E. is back!! http://www.planetmule.com/ #
- Long, weird day. Going to play some serious M.U.L.E. tonight! #
- It's a brisk 5 degrees outside. Not thrilled about going out in it. #
- Busy day..again. #
- It's late, but it's time for lunch! #
- Working late. Too much left to get done, not enough accomplished today. #
- Lots of traffic in my office today. #
- Sad now. Just heard that Liam Clancy died last Friday. #
- Bag o Crap just crashed the @wootoff #
- Dear Santa RiffTrax: How about a Kindle DX and an ASUS EeePC 1008ha-mu17 netbook! http://j.mp/3ZHgcL #RiffTraxSANTA #
- Writing documentation. Not a fun part of the job, but necessary. #
- Checking out a little "early" today. Worked too late last night. #
- Still busy, I have a 10am, 1pm, and a 3pm meeting or conference call. #
- Conference call overwith. Went well, just long. #
- New 48 port gigabit switch came in. About time, we are running out of ports. Not to mention the switch it is replacing no longer pingable. #
- Changing switch to managed mode "press managed button for less than 7 seconds." What they don't say is it must be more than momentary also. #
- Off to the Coeur d'Alene Inn to discuss the company Christmas party arrangements. #
- Thought I was last out of the office, but I'm first on site at Christmas party location #
- Should be able to wrap up work on time today. It's a nice feeling. #
- Tracking down a deleted version of some code. Think I'm going to have to work backwards from a known point instead of trying to restore them #
- Coming from a heavy Linux background, I find many things about Macs confusing. Like the urges to grow a soul patch and buy a Prius. #
- Had a dream early this morning that #Nanuk showed up today in the mail. So much anticipation! #
- Never start the day out with a woman crying in your office. #
- RT @AngryPets: This one is quite hilarious: Why Men Shouldn't Write Advice Columns -> http://bit.ly/8qnx4d in reply to AngryPets #
- Having some trouble restoring a SQL database from BackupExec to a new location.. #
- Still fighting a cranky BackupExec server. For whatever reason, it doesn't want to redirect the restoration process... #
- Database is (finally) almost done restoring. Quick fix on the way #
- Somebody that wasn't me accidentally ran a query that changed all creation dates for a field to the same date. #
- Fire's out. Problem solved. Responsible party has been sacked. Well, just kidding on that last bit.. #
- Solving lots of problems today. Didn't get everything I needed to done, but overall, it'll do. #
- Waiting to get access to our Xhristmas party room. Been here 5 minutes now. I remain unimpressed. #
- Waiting at the Coeur d'Alene Inn to get access to our Christmas party room. Been about 5 minutes now #
- Only took a few minutes to set up once I got in. They're still setting up some things. Already has to remind them about what they forgot... #
Today I welcomed a new SQL admin into the club. The club of royally screwing something up by accident. Because, be honest, you're not really an admin until you've made a really huge mistake and had to get help to fix it.
Brownie points go out for:
- Admitting it quickly
- Saving a screenshot
- Not crying
Well, the short answer is not much, really. I've been collecting addresses for Christmas cards and I have a few to write tonight. We'll probably mail them out on Friday.
It's been pretty darn cold here the last three days or so, low temps in the single digits. I had to dig out my long scarf!
I'm going to make some more sourdough tonight, and look up a holiday cookie recipe to make tomorrow.
I haven't posted much because work has been busy, and if I log in during the evening hours I'm probably playing M.U.L.E. and not blogging…
- Back to work after being out of town for Thanksgiving. Much turkey was consumed. Along with much sushi. #
- Woah Fail Whale time. #
- Had a bad experience with a local Dell repair guy. He fixed one problem, created another, and isn't taking responsibility for it.
# - Happy birthday @jonathancoulton! #
- Just wrapping up a big project at work, one more big one to go. Feeling the stress leave my body is NEAT. #
- Time for some INSTANT NOODLES! #
- The Big Project is resisting wrap-up, keeps rearing tentacles and I keep cutting them off like a bad scifi movie. Why.won't.you.just.die??! #
- And I just opened a jar--for another man! *flex* #
- Nokia just released Qt 4.6! Woohoo! #
- So cute your head will explode: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6522901/16929718 #
- Thai peanut noodles and #Munchkin for lunch! #
- I think Big Project #2 is a lot smaller than we thought it would be. Hooray for overplanning! #
- Purchasing an iMac with Intel Core i7. #
- Nanuk (published by @sjgames) starts shipping next week! Yay! Order it for the holidays, it's a great party game for up to 8 players! #
- Dell's got a new Core i7 laptop. Spec'd one out for $4096. Almost have to buy it at that price just for geek factor. #
- Spec'd top of the line out at just over $9k. 16Gb of RAM though! #
- I think I'm coming down with a cold. Starting to get the shivers. But then again, I was just outside. #
- Just got back from Keith and Susan's. Much fun was had, #invaderzim Christmas special was watched, etc. #
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