Kinou Nani Tabeta' A manga about food and life, plus: Caramel Stewed Apples
From I was really just very hungry, 1 year ago Similar articles
While I was in Japan this time around, by sheer chance I came across the first volume of a manga series called Kinou Nani Tabeta' (What did you eat yesterday') by Fumi Yoshinaga. As soon as it was finished, I picked up the 3 other volumes available as fast as I could. (The story is still being serialized in Morning magazine, and the episodes are collected into volumes later.) Kinou Nani Tabeta' is about a 40-something gay couple: Shiro, a lawyer, and Kenji, a hairdresser. The stories mostly...
I was really just very hungry
Real Life Beckons....Going back to work
From Africa Expat Wives Club, Today, Similar articles
These intermittent posts are all related to our house build, however I am aware that life continues beyond the banging and the shifting walls of ours. (*Okay, I can't help it. Right now they are doing the roof. I am fully expecting the leg of a builder to appear through the roof above my head any minute now. The ceiling boards are shifting ? I feel like I am on the set of Alien or some horror movie. A minute ago there was the most almighty crash ? do I have an ambulance number...
Beer, mustard and cheese bread recipe, inspired by Welsh Rarebit
From Nami-nami, Today, Similar articles
Are you familiar with the British pub classic, Welsh Rarebit? It's a slice of toasted bread topped with a melted cheese, mustard and beer concoction. Excellent, if rich, comfort food. Those three flavourings are all present in this soft yeast bread that's been a favourite for years - I even included a recipe in my first cookbook. It's soft and tender, with plenty of gutsy flavours going on. It's obviously not a bread that you'd toast and slather with jam, but with some extra cheese or a slice...
Long walk, first day, continued. El Paisatge gran, primer dia, continuació.
From oreneta aground, Today, Similar articles
OK, where was I' Ahhhh, the skid in the concrete, pretty cool, no' Llavors, on era' El ciment, no'We kept on walking, Chuck and I. We had quite a lovely time in fact. There were lots of lovely mountains overhead, we had plenty of water and lots of places to get more. Vam continuar, en Chuck i jo. Era un dia fantà stic, moltes muntanyes, vam tenir molt d'aigua, i moltes llocs per buscar més.Plenty of food, and generally pretty lovely scenery. Molta de menjar, i...
Six years and counting
From Polly Vous Francais?, Today, Similar articles
Break out the bubbly! Wow. Â Here I am, six whole years old, and ready to down the champagne.I'm not picky, really, but it must be French. Veuve Clicquot will do quite nicely, though I won't turn down a Taittinger, Moet, or Nicolas Perrier. (Am I missing someone important')Yup, six years ago today Polly-Vous Francais' was born. It happened by accident, really. Â I had been living in Paris for two months on place de la Madeleine, invading and soaking up the cultural and political life of...
Driving through the musseque
From de kooijtjes, Today, Similar articles
It's always very crowded in the narrow, dusty streets of the slums. How come that there are no old people here' Is this because of the war' ?Yes, but also they don't come often out of their barakas. Besides, there are not really old people here as they usually don't reach the age of 50. The living conditions in the slum are extremely bad. It's too crowded and utterly unhygienic with mounds of rotten garbage and no clean water.? The average life expectancy in Angola is not more than 39 years!...
Diversity: No Holding Back the Tide
From Here There and Everywhere, Today, Similar articles
From today’s AOL News/ Huffpost: So here’s the thing. In the USA, as in many countries, people study their ancestry, their bloodlines. Some people want those bloodlines to make them special, but anyone who has read history in any big-picture kind of way understands that most of history is people coming and going, waves of migration, immigration and emmigration, mostly depending on food supply, but often, too, depending on employment opportunities. Bottom line, most of it is about...
thought for today...a birthday verse
From Blackpurls knitpickings, Yesterday, Similar articles
Have you ever been given a verse for your birthday' Â One of the precious gifts that I received yesterday was Zephaniah 3:17. Â What a treasure! Â Just like the priceless young woman who gave it to me. Â She wrote that she was praying these words over my life. Â And I am blown away by her thoughtfulness. Â Her message went on to say:"Praying you feel his celebration and delight over your life more and more."This present arrived the night before my birthday....
Even Silence Has an End
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From the memoir of Ingrid Betancourt, a Colombian politician held hostage by the FARC for 6 years: A few months before I was captured, I visited the Good Shepherd women’s prison in Bogota. I had been impressed by those women who wore makeup and wanted to lead a normal life in their isolated world. Prison was a microcosm, a little planet of its own. [...] I felt sorry for the women, and I was touched by the anxious way they had of asking for little favors, as if they were asking for the...
Aux Champs-Elysées
From The Bold Soul, Yesterday, Similar articles
I'm in the final day of frantic packing, cleaning and organizing for my trip to the States on Friday (why, oh why did I book an 8:20am flight' WHAT WAS I THINKING') and for some reason I'm inordinately more anxious about this trip than I usually am when I travel. (And no, I'm not having premonitions about bad things happening to the plane. I'm just freaking out about the piles of laundry, the messy kitchen, and the fact that I haven't vacuumed, food shopped, or ironed Georges' work shirts...
Addendum to the PB post
From Bugigangas, Yesterday, Similar articles
I forgot to mention (sleepdeprivationexcuse) that I think my peanut butter turned out so well without a Vitamix blender because I added extra-oily Brazil nuts. They seemed to help creamify everything. If you use "dry" or harder nuts like almonds, try mixing in an oilier nut or adding oil (peanut, walnut, olive) to help get things moving towards the right consistency without blowing your food
