Left Coast Leener

Аргентинская Патагония. Район Ушуайи.


By alex_v_shmarin

Stupid Facebook and their new picture viewing mode has made it difficult to link to picture location sources, so these are smaller.

( Part 1, Joshua Tree )

( Part 1a, Noah Purefoy Art )

( Part 2, Salton Sea )

I've been craving ochazuke and I made it today, even though I was out of nori and wasabi. I grilled the salmon on my cast iron griddle with coarse salt, it was just dry enough. Even though my rice wine vinegar was too sweet and the Chinese green tea a little bitter, it totally hit the spot.



Here is the superawesome quiche from last night (please excuse the surroundings, good cooking is messy):

My parents are visiting, so among the perpetual difficulties is figuring out what to feed them. My father is diabetic and very picky about herbs. Cilantro and parsley type stuff. My (atheist) mother keeps kosher, and now she's keeping kosher for passover. Not sure if she's going Sephardic or Ashkenazi (she's half and half), but she didn't even know if starter was allowed, so we think she's pretty liberal with that. She also doesn't like soy milk and a host of other things, and I also ran out of some things like baking soda. Also, I intend to make a roast tomorrow (if Andy manages to fix the remote thermometer that Churka divided into two), and this means no dairy. I have well-documented food issues and Andy deserves some consideration, too.

So I found use of my opened half-can of corn - a modified vegan corn muffin recipe:

1 egg
1/2 can cornmeal (subtract the amount of liquid from the 1 cup below)
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
a bit of vegetable oil
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup ground flax seed meal

Preheat oven to 450F/230C, grease six muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners. Combine cornmeal, flour, baking powder, flax and salt. Add water, eviscerated corn, egg and oil. Spoon into cups, bake for 10-15 minutes until the usual things happen.

Pictures when Andy fixes my bluetooth and I figure out how to use my nifty new FTP server!

Nor is it hell freezing over. This is Massachusetts, and there they are not used to people being stabbed through the head with a sharp block of frozen water.

(from the collection of my friend sevencubed)

That's where we went hiking today.



( It was incredibly steep and vertigo-inducing, but gorgeous! )

The only vacation picture left after the the disasterous demise of a hard drive.

( and a hugely enormous one at that )

Всё-таки надо было из этого города уехать на несколько лет что бы снова его полюбить.

( 3 views from Chrissy Field and 1 from Baker Beach )