I love Lori Raye Erickson

Here is a painting of hers in our so-called kitchen:

My God! It's full of marshmallow stars!

Ho ho fucking ho

Santa is going to rape your children if you don't leave some Bolivian powdered presents for him, you shit licking capitalist.

To-Day Is The Day

we buy guns and go house hunting.

김치찌개 !

If you don't know how to make it, then learn!

lightly brown (or sear, but don't cook completely through at this point, whatever you do) enough sliced pork belly in its own fat with salt & pepper
add a lot of garlic
onion if you wish
diced hot peppers as well
gobs of kimchi (very important!)
enough water to make the whole mess soupy (or stock, if you want)
I usually add in the tofu at this point
boil gently until the kimchi softens (at least 40 minutes) & add in the rice cake and then cook until the rice cake is about right (probably another 10 minutes or more).
Serve with as much rice (massive plug here for kyong gi rice) as your guests can possibly eat or you're not a very good host.

New Wool Pants

+ Polish grocery store + weird, card-only laundry-matic + hot-dogs = Thursday.

Ginervation

Ah, our good good friend Tanqueray.  Tell us, then, rather what you cannot do.


Also, an Ikea employee totally cock-blocked us all on the last of the queen/full mattress covers.  Cunt.

Drinking is Magical

so practice every day.

Korean Pancake Waffles

Korean pancake mix + egg + a bit of extra barking[sic] powder (an dobvious lee water till it's just right) in the waffle maker.  Needs some fine tuning, but quite delightful, really.

This day in History

Err, the Land-Lady got married & my Wife's Dad turned 73.

I adopted a New & hopefully irritating capitalization paradigm.

Mister Cat failed to piss on anything of Value for four (4!) straight  days running.

Black Bean Soup for 03Sep2010

Browned some pig neck bits in a little olive oil with salt & pepper, then dumped in a cup or so of beer, some Chinese black soy sauce, and some water to give us about a ½ inch of liquid.  Braising it right now with hot peppers, Mexican oregano (which Skelly gives as Lippia graveolens) and some garlicks.

Later we will add a fistful of onion chunks, more garlic, and the (in this case canned) beans (& perhaps some tomatillo).

If you use dried beans, make sure you soak and cook them separately before you add any salt or spices.