You guys, I can’t even work up a good head of snark over this. It’s just so repellant, all I can do is throw up my arms in disgust.
They referred to Michelle Obama as Obama’s baby mama–several times, apparently.
Congratulations, Faux News. You’ve managed to be so vile, you’ve rendered me sarcasm-less. *golf clap*
I came across this entry last week while browing the “Food” category on WordPress. It lists every single way you can possibly make Welsh rarebit (thick cheese sauce on bread) possible. I went with the traditional recipe, Welsh Rarebit With Beer; but I’m definately going to be trying out the red wine variant in the near future.
I used partially-baked panini rolls that you finish yourself with about 10 minutes in the oven at 400 degrees. That gives you a nice, freshly-baked taste. Split them open to catch some of the sauce, otherwise it tends to slide off the roll and pool at the bottom, which it wouldn’t do with flat slices of bread. That’s okay though, I’m from a southern family and I’m perfectly at home with sopping stuff up with bread or rolls.
Yesterday I took off work and met one of the very first good friends I ever made online, Emma. She’s in the Bay Area to see some cousins graduate from high school and college, so we met in San Francisco and I took her to Japantown. It’s my very favorite place in the whole city. We had lunch at Izumiya (ebi fry and matcha ice cream!), then spent way too much $$$. It’s easy to do that in Nihon Machi.
I got some incense at Asakichi, yuzu and lychee and orange blossom, then let the owner talk me into some green tea. He lit a stick and OMG it smelled good. He also gave me a free sample of hinoki and said to burn it with the tea and it smells really unusual.
We took some photos in a photobooth–there’s a store in Kintetsu mall that’s got at least a dozen of them:
We wandered through Kinokuniya bookstore, and at the stationary store I got some refills for my Pilot Petit 1, which is the best pen ever made, but hard to find. I also got a new cell phone charm (the eyes have worn off my old one, kind of creepy) and another papercraft chest of drawers. I love assembling those.
We also went to Ichiban Kan, where I got:
Now I can justify getting another pair of geta–my old ones are all splintery.
I’ve been looking everywhere for those mushroom-shaped cookies! And I really don’t need more picks, but when they’re only $1 a pack, why the hell not? I also already have those pig-shaped sauce bottles, but the ones I have didn’t come with stick-on wings.
So that was where I was yesterday. Good times, noodle salad.
p.s. I didn’t really take any general photos of stores and buildings because I go to Japantown a couple times a year and have done it all before. You can see some of the photos here.
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