I should be fired as a foodie.

Tuesday Dinner: Baked potato. Earth Balance. Salt.

Wednesday Dinner: Baked potato. Earth Balance. Salt.

Thursday Dinner: Baked sweet potato. Earth Balance. Salt.

In other news, Le Hana is much better as a sit-down than as takeout.

Hot Diggety Damn!

New Voodoo Doughnuts location opening next week!

And it’s within a decent walk of my house!

(I do need to start getting more exercise…)

Laziest Vegan Lunch Ever

Teriyaki Seitan

Drain 1 lb. of chicken-style seitan and throw it in a Tupperware.

Cover with premade teriyaki sauce.

Toss in a brick of frozen rice. Yes, you can freeze rice.

Run and totally miss your bus and get to work half an hour late and then at lunch nuke for 3 minutes.

Om nom nom.

Eeeew.

I made Bamboo Shoot and Snow Peas with Bacon Pork Chop last night.

That’s not where the ‘ew’ comes from.

It was so yummy I boxed it up for lunch this afternoon. And I eated it.

That’s not where the ‘ew’ comes from.

The little bottle of fish sauce I brought to douse it with (because I like me some fish sauce) spilled all over my bag.

So now my entire cubicle smells like fish sauce.

All together now: EEEEEEW!

My goodness.

You know it’s going to be a great morning when you spend about twenty minutes trying to identify the strange odor, and you realise 1) it’s Carolina Red barbeque sauce, and b) it’s coming from the COFFEE.

(I’m hoping to have some more substantial fooding posts going up, but not until after this weekend ’cause I’m going to Seattle to the Emerald City Comic Con. Yes, I am that kind of geek. No, I am not dressing up.)

YATTA! \o/

Whenever people ask me why I studied Japanese at Chico State and traveled on my own in the country for two weeks as a college graduation gift to myself and subjected the country to my horrible gaijin accent and my tears of homesickness on Tokyo Disneyland’s Main Street, I always tell them the story about reading a Robert A. Heinlein novel with a throwaway line about feeding the tiny deer in the city of Nara, and how that triggered a lifelong fascination with Japan.

That is totally true, by the way. And I did go to Nara, which is an awesome city, and I did feed the tiny deer.

And one of them bit me on the ass.

HANYOLDWAYS, the part I don’t often tell people is that in high school I would often stay up wayyy past the sane sleeping hour on the weekends watching NHK feeds broadcast on relay from San Francisco. I had no idea what the hell I was watching, as it was all in Japanese, but it was these guys… cooking. Not just cooking, though, doing wild things with food that I couldn’t recognize and making it outrageously beautiful.

It was AWESOME.

And became even more awesome when NHK started running subtitles in ENGLISH!

I didn’t have Food Network, so I missed out on the dubbed version. BUT MY LIFE WILL NOW REGAIN MEANING! Fine Living Network is showing it in all its dubbed glory!

Kore wa ii desu ne? YATTA! \o/

Absinthe is not hallucenogenic. Get over yourself.

I had to listen to some Trustafarians natter on about how excellent it is that absinthe is now legal on the bus the other day. For the record: yes, I’ve tried absinthe. It tasted yucky. I’ll stick with my beer for now.

Hanyoldway, WIRED reports the findings of some German researchers into the drink.

Absinthe, widely known as the ‘Green Fairy’ was banned across Europe in the early 20th century after it became the purported cause of absinthism, the symptoms of which included hallucinations, tremors and convulsions. It turns out that absinthism was probably just alcoholism.