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[which_chick]

This evening I did the dinner idea I mentioned on Monday night, the hot-peanut-vaguely-asian sauce thing with nice noodles and kale. It came out better than you probably think. I know it came out better than I thought it would. The sauce was mostly Kikkoman with a dash of mirin, some merlot (I didn't have any white wine), a little water to thin, four cloves of box garlic sliced thin and a smallish handful of crushed peanuts, salt not washed off. Also two pointy knife tips of ground red pepper, which was plenty. Crush the peanuts by putting them in a ziplock and rolling over them gently with a rolling pin.

I used potato starch noodles -- they're white when dry and get clear and kind of chewy when they're cooked. I got mine at the Han Ah Reum near not_your_real's digs when I was helping Sector R with his garage problem. Presumably they are a brand but the packet is in Hangul (script for Korean) which I have no hope of reading. Anyway, I like these clear, flavorless, nameless noodles for use with heavy-duty sauces. Good thing, too. It was a large packet what I bought and I'd hate to not like them.

The kale, I washed and chiffonaded. It's frilly so it never looks as aesthetic as collards. It also doesn't roll as tight. I like collards better. Probably I only eat kale so that I can be happy that it's collard week again next week. If every week were collard week, I wouldn't get to have that. I also sliced and cooked some mushrooms with the kale.

Assembly: Cook sauce. Cook noodles. Cook greens and mushrooms. Drain noodles and veggies. In large bowl, toss everything together. Eat.

Damn. Damn that was good. I had two bowls. It is only with considerable effort that I am not currently eating a third bowl. I'm going to have the third bowl for breakfast tomorrow, possibly with a scrambled egg on the side.

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

How is "...there's no naked men in it" supposed to be a bonus feature? Is there something I'm not getting? I like naked men. Well, okay, mostly pretty ones, but still.

Korean soap opera?

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

"The sort of help we do not need" used to consist of a) Japanese language info, and b) recommendations of more n3kk1d m3n manga to buy. Yesterday's comment has aspects of a) (I canjust hear you say "which_chick does not need another Asian language"), but without the b) aspect which so often drove a).

As for the soap opera, it's a cute little thing where everyone lives with their in-laws like good children, and the actors sound exactly like our across-the-hall neighbors while taking leave of a gaggle of friends.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Hangul is pretty. It's interesting... but dang, I still don't have the asian language from... what... three or four years ago? The world is too full of bright, shining things (Miki-from-Utena footage day, see). I really need to pick up the HnT from amazon.co.jp, too, before it goes out of print. The in-print lifespan of such things is regrettably short and I'd be pissed as hell if I couldn't get it anymore. I might look into that today.

Also there's the bright, shiny DVD burner. It's really sexy. Really. Lots. You should get one. :)

The entirety of Hikaru fits on four data DVDs, with the OVA, both parts of the WK OVA, and six episodes of that plotless bit o' fluff (swords, frock coats) I mentioned a week or so ago. I made two sets -- if you don't want the second, I am going to mail it off to Goro Mark as a postal surprise. I'm reasonably sure that the fluffy-bishounen crap will not be anything he's interested in, but HnG is a good story outside of the... er... fangirl appeal and he'd probably enjoy that.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! I want it! :) (Sorry, Goro.)

Wow. This DVD burner of which you speak is truly a marvelous thing, methinks. I'm just happy that I got (though haven't installed - I want somebody here to watch me get electrocuted, and Mr. Not Your Real is stuck late at work this week) the new power supply for the BSD box.

As for the rest of our disposable income... house.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

The DVD burner freaking r0xx0rs. It's firewire, so transfer to and from the laptop is reasonably speedy. It burns a 4-Gig dvd in about seven minutes, which is better than the built-in CD burner does for audio CDs. I haven't (as mentioned previously) done any actual dvd authoring with it, just burning of data disks, but it's still very spiffy.

As I mentioned, I also bumped the laptop RAM up to a gig, and I gotta say, that was also worth every freaking penny.

These little upgrades do mean that I don't get to buy a smaller, cuter laptop for another two years at a minimum... *sigh* Smaller, cuter laptops call to me. Their voices are hard to resist. Quick, somebody tie me to the damn mast!