Wednesday, January 26, 2005
The cheesecake episode of Good Eats is on. I have been waiting for MONTHS to see this one. I've practically memorized the transcript. I'm a happy man.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Whoa! MacGuyver is on DVD now. Anyone who wants to buy me a late birthday or Christmas gift, valentines day, presidents day, july 4, groundhog day, any kind of present, can buy me this dvd set.
Oh. My. Goodness. Alton Brown was right. Fresh ground spices are a thousand times better than pre-ground. It's as much, if not more, of a difference as freshly ground coffee makes over preground. It's more akin to freshly roasted coffee vs. preground.
So I have the mortar and pestle I mentioned in my last posting. I decided to practice grinding some spices with it. Now, the only whole, fresh spices I have are pepper and cinnamon. Pepper I get freshly ground all the time as I have a pepper mill. So cinnamon it was.
My goodness it's strong and flavorful. I have some cinnamon powder, too. I tasted them side by side and the pre-ground stuff tasted like dust. Yes indeed. What a wonderful thing fresh ground spices are. Of course, I COULD have gone with a blade coffee mill type thing, but it doesn't look nearly as cool as a mortar and pestle. Neither does it give you that feeling of having acomplished something.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
So, I was off work yesterday. I spent the first part of the day playing with paper pieces of furniture on a graph paper room. I'm in the process of re-arranging my room so I can fit all my stuff in it (read: all my books). I'll be buying a couple of bookshelves for it. I then went out looking for said furniture to buy. While I was over in the shopping centre where Bed, Bath, and Beyond is I stopped in. I came out the proud owner of two new items. One is a attractive glass top kitchen scale with a 11lb capacity. The other is a great marble mortar and pestle in a green marble.
Today I used said mortar and pestle to make a pesto which I added to mashed potatoes and ate with my steamed asparagus and my tasty steak. The pesto was garlic, olive oil, salt, basil, and oregano. I melted some bleu cheese with a little milk and used it as a sauce for my asparagus. The steak was seasoned with salt and pepper and I ate it with some of the bleu cheese sauce. Good meal.
Church was, indeed, interesting this morning as we had a service in Chinese and English.
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)