Experiments with Asian Cooking

I’ve been buying packages of prepared sushi for awhile now that it isn’t easily accessible at the buffets of Asian restaurants.  The cost is prohibitive, and frankly, the quality of the rice in it is terrible in its crumbly dryness.  Earlier this month, the contemplation stage of making my own sushi kicked into the action…

Doodads — sunflowers and others

A poem from childhood that the asters reminded me of: A road like brown ribbonA sky that is blue,A forest of green with the sky peeping through.Asters deep purple,A grasshopper’s call,Today it is summer;Tomorrow is fall.—Anonymous

TSM 174 — lulled

sun is warmmusic lowglass of winelulled to sleep I love this image.  It brings instant relaxation.  Form:  slimverse. Carrie is today’s host for The Sunday Muse.

Doodads: Geo, Colbert, and Burton

ABOUT GEO I got a notice that George Harrison’s youtube channel had a new video to watch.  I was truly delighted by it (hoping they used only scrub or already-dead trees to create it.)     ABOUT COLBERT Before the election in November and through last and this past winter  I watched The Late Show…

#FF — Harley Days 1914

PHOTO PROMPT© Lisa Fox  (thanks for choosing this photo I took at The Gilmore Car Museum) Back then Harl wasn’t rickety. Back then, neither was I. Blessed to have a dad who tinkered with engines and had a patient way about him, it was only natural that gasoline and oil ran in my veins. When…