Tuesday: pretzels!

The blogger app also doesn't mind that the pictures have a defined orientation.  It just ignores all that.  I'm also wondering where the dithering pattern is coming from.  Anyway, pretzels are tasty, especially with cheese and mustard.

Something was happening at gate C9 at ORD. They had at least two firetrucks there trying to sort it out.

Monday: travel

After putting in a half-ish day of work, I then had to finish up errands and get ready to fly away.  This didn't leave much time for food, so I had a banana and then waited until the airport to get something else.  Oddly enough, the security line at HNL was longer than I've ever seen.  This was the case despite having all three scanners open.
Which brings up the question of why even have the radiation box scanners if people can just choose another lane without them?
I did pick up a margarita pizza at the airport, which made me "that guy who brings a damn pizza on the plane, making everyone else jealous." I didn't care too much, it was a good enough pizza (although it was a bit heavy on the cheese relative to the other toppings).
I also discovered that my phone can take decent enough pictures f the moon from an airplane.

My phone actually took a reasonably nice picture of this crescent moon above some random town.

Sunday: unsuccessful errands

One of the things I wanted to do today was go see if I could find a mini/micro usb converter.  That way, I would only need to bring one cable, and could convert for the devices that take the other cable.  Radio Shack claims they have this one in most stores, and list the price as $1.98.  Decent enough, given that it's basically four wires and a sheath in a chunk of plastic.  However, the actual store was selling it for $17.  Dear Radio Shack, this is part of the reason no one wants to buy things from you.  If your markup is 750%, then you can go fuck yourself. I'll tack one on to an amazon order in the future and take two cords on this trip.

I did stop in to get lunch at Curry House Coco Ichiban at the mall:

Not bad, although I tend to like my curry full of veggies and meat and stuff.  This was basically just a sauce, although it was pretty tasty.

Apparently I only have Pokemon links today:

• Puns are funny.
• So wait, they're making this game, but this game is just a mock up? The universe is not fair. (In case you don't want to look it up, Nobunaga's Ambition was a decent strategy game I remember playing on the NES.  It was reasonably complicated, but still rather fun.  Pokemon Snap is one of the greatest games of all time, where you ride a car on a fixed path and take pictures of Pokemon.

Saturday: sick

woke up early, felt terrible all day. super dehydrated, but kept puking up everything I ate or drank. finally eating a banana, and it's sunday now.

bye bye carefully planned weekend getting ready for travel. hello super rushed cram session tomorrow.

Friday: I regret having to clean up my apartment all weekend

But it's kind of a mess, and since I'm leaving next week, I need to get that fixed.  It is somewhat reassuring to have the motion detecting webcam setup to spy on the place while I'm gone.  Hear that, flying ninjas? I'm on to you.

Dinner was another lazy fast food day, because I was lazy, and for some reason I've been extra super hungry this week, and didn't want to wait for food to cook.  I need to figure out something to eat for this weekend, but a three-day/no leftover plan is kind of hard to design.

I really like these old filing cabinets that the MSU surplus store is selling, but I have no way to get them, nor do I have anything that needs filing.  My current filing cabinet is still full of cable and water bills from a decade ago.  I should really throw out more things.

• Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco is such a sad song.
• Stupid 2012. You had to be a stupid leap year didn't you?
• This would be cool if it had the apache.conf file necessary to configure your webserver to show the appropriate cat.
• I suspect that this is another reason that traditional print journalism is going away.

Thursday: Blah

I was super hungry today after work, and just got some tacos instead of cooking.  The fact that I put my chicken in the freezer on Monday and forgot to take it out has nothing to do with this.

I've also gone back and tagged all my past taco posts.  That made me think how nice it would be if you could tell blogger to define tag subsets.  For example, all "tacos" posts are "food" posts, as are all "nom nom nom" posts.  Therefore, it's a bit redundant to need to tag each taco post as a food post, when tacos implies food.  If blogger understood this fact, then I would only need to tag this post (and those) with "tacos", and it would still show up when someone clicked "food".

• I was going to make an "X, X everywhere" joke today, but totally forgot what it was going to be about. Probably would have been funny, though.
• Yay collusion! That's way better than living in reality, isn't it?  I'm glad I'm sticking with regular books.
• I'm glad I visited London last year, because I'm pretty sure I don't really care to go back anymore.
• My legos never had a chalkboard.
• Potentially NSFW, but then again, it's also fine art.  In any case, I'm with Morbo on this one.
• Squirrel!
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Wednesday: Not the most appetizing looking dinner ever

That's my attempt at a crab salad.  Had I not been dumb, I would have realized that adding a bit more butter and a bit of egg, and then cranking up the heat would result in "crab cake," which is easy to convert into sandwich form.  Also, planning things better would have resulted in plain chips, as that would match better.  The pineapple was good, though.  The sandwich wasn't bad either, although Safeway seems to think that bread just sometimes molds on the shelf.  I had thought about going out for dinner, but decided instead that finishing up the crab would be a good idea.  I'm not sure how long that would really keep in the fridge.

Magneto Bunny is safe against your thoughts, Charles.

• I'm not sure how many astronomers actually read this, since it's mostly about food and pokemon, but this is kind of an important thing.
• Economic logic -or- why your family is not a government.
• I just thought this was funny.
• Disney movies would be much better with lightsabers.  Seems like that would solve a lot of plot points quicker, too.
• I wish we lived in the future of the 1950s.  The downside is we probably wouldn't have the internet.  The upside is we could live in houses like this.

Like no one ever was

• He only wanted to be the very best.
• I kind of feel bad for this bear.  He's clearly learned that if he waves, sometimes he gets food.  I felt really bad for him when about 45 seconds in, when they drive away a bit, and then stop again.  :(
• Squirrel!
• She makes the important point in here: to many people, you have to justify the lack of equality (technically equality of outcome) by assuming that there must be an equality of opportunity.  Admitting that this isn't true means that some action actually needs to be taken. It's far easier to simply assume that everyone has the same set of opportunities, and if they don't succeed, it's because they've squandered that opportunity. Therefore, the lack of outcome equality is a natural result which punishes slackers.

Tuesday: Mushrooms and Pokemon

That's the end result of today's dinner.  It wasn't terribly hard to make, but was kind of a time-sensitive meal.  I didn't take intermediate steps, mostly because I had to continually do things.  Here are the steps though:

1. Clean asparagus and big portabello mushroom.  Preheat oven to 425, set water for pasta to boil.
2. Oil asparagus, and place it on a baking sheet and set aside.
3. Pull out mushroom stem, and then scoop out all the gills.  Mince a clove of garlic, and a good chunk of green onion, and the removed mushroom bits.
4. Melt a gob of butter in a pan, and saute the mushroom bits, the onion, and the garlic.  When the moisture is largely gone, add half a tub of crab meat (I used the cheaper claw meat, since I don't really need nice lump for this).  Sprinkle with some pepper, old bay, and a bit of salt. Quickly cook that until the crab meat is heated throughout (I think pretty much all crab is sold pre-cooked).  You should put the pasta on to boil around here, too.
5. Remove crab mixture to bowl, add some mayo, some dijon, maybe a tablespoon of bread crumbs, and some parmesan.  Mix it all together, and scoop it into the mushroom.  Add the mushroom to the baking sheet, and place in the oven.
6. While the aspargus and mushroom bake, mince more garlic and onion, and melt another chunk of butter.  Add the garlic and onion, and stir constantly to brown the butter (keeping track to not burn anything).  Add some herbs (I used sage and rosemary, since I had that). Add vermouth to thin, and let it reduce slightly.  Add fully cooked pasta, and follow with more parmesan, stirring to let the cheese thicken the sauce.
7. Plate the pasta, and follow with the veggies, which should be done about the same time (the mushroom deflates a bit, and the top is toasted, as shown above).

Here's a cross section as I was eating:

The dark gills have turned the crab mixture a bit purple-y, but the flavor was wonderful.  I probably could have added a bit more flavor to the pasta, but it worked ok as a base to dress up with the crabby stuffing.  My thought was to do something similar for new year's eve, although almost certainly using regular size mushrooms instead.  Still, I wanted to at least try it out first.

And now I have half a tub of crab meat that I need to use.  Maybe make something like this stuffing and have a crab roll sandwich for dinner this week?

I then spent the evening watching "Pokemon the Movie 99: Victini Totally Cheats for Ash, and Then Random Shit Happens."  Here's Victini:

Wait, what's that he's eating?

Macarons?  Seriously Pokemon, now you're doing food trends in the movies?  That surprised me a bit:

Me: "Macarons?"

Cilan: "My homemade macarons!"

Me: "WTF?"

Anyway, pretty much the same as previous movies. Pros:

• Cute new Pokemon eating desserts.
• Reasonably funny.

Cons:

• Not enough Team Rocket.
• Lack of clear villain.
• The second half kind of degenerates into completely opaque set of plot points required to save the world.
• Ash almost dies, making this movie #99 where he almost dies.

Dear Open Office,

This is totally a face.

Monday: And now it's super rainy again

I probably should have cut the salmon like I did last time, as this was kind of a lot of fish to eat in one sitting.  Another thing that I would probably do if I had the hardware would be to burn the top across the entire fish with a brulee torch.  That burnt bit was the tastiest part of the entire meal.  The honey nicely caramelized, giving those bites a wonderful sweet/salty taste.

The asparagus was just thrown under the broiler with the fish, but it did pick up a bit of the marinade run off.  I did the mashed potatoes using the steaming method, and threw in a couple cloves of garlic as well.  I finished them with a bit of the shiso furikake, which may now by my favorite thing to put on mashed potatoes.  It adds all the salt that's needed to finish them off.

"gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme!"

• Panhandler kitty (unfortunately I couldn't find a proper news story).
• When in doubt, claim a prior engagement and run away, because otherwise you're going to show everyone that you're basically a bigot. And running for president.
• Probably wouldn't post this, except those are two of my favorites (it's still creepy, though).
• This was today's Honolulu groupon (link to the actual people).  Unfortunately, despite what they claim, none of the "name a star" things are real.  That makes it a bit depressing that "over 60" were bought. Sure, it's great that they mail a your name and your fake claim up into space (where it inevitably burns up on re-entry, just like your dreams), but it doesn't really mean anything.  So, I'm going to save myself the $14 per star, and claim all 31ish of these stars.  Then, I'm going to write that on a piece of paper, and throw it away.  See, I just stole $434 from this company, and I used more than one groupon at a time.

Sunday: half planning

Of course, it's not that I ordered a vegan burrito.  That would have probably been super gross.  Maybe they just have one burrito button on the burrito-tron.

Anyway, my original plan yesterday was to do fish tonight.  I got a nice looking salmon filet, but decided that marinating it overnight would be a better idea.  I went with something similar to this recipe, but added some hot chili oil.  Also forgot the garlic and ginger.  I can probably fix that this evening.

And that's why he's not Dr. Cookie Monster.

• Japanese school buses.
• Skittle burgers.
• It DOES compute!
• Executive pup.
• It's a bit odd that so many of these things are things you can buy to avoid using a recipe to cook.
• The British Psychology Journal has crappy editors. Also a broken peer-review system, apparently.

I don't think that word means what you think it means

I like how that disclaimer basically means "This can include lots of non-vegan stuff."

Note the cheese and pork.

Saturday: In which not much happens

I get Honolulu magazine emails every so often.  I think I signed up for it last year at the chocolate festival thing, and since it seems to be mostly about food and restaurants here, it's kind of fun to read.  A couple of weeks ago, I saw this in their email:

My first thought was "holy fuck, where can I get doughnuts here?"  I rushed out to buy an actual paper copy, since I couldn't find the story online.  This was harder than I expected, as all the supermarkets I tried had last month's (and the month before as well).  Of course, now it's available online, so I can link to it.

So I had the thought to go there today and get a selection of tasty doughnuts to eat this week.  However, I spent way too long this afternoon playing this word search game (because I don't know, that's why), and when I finally got there, I discovered that they close at two. Sadness.

While sitting in traffic trying to get back home (while also trying to come up with a nice set of equations to justify how long the exit/entrance ramps should be on H-1 for traffic not to stop), I decided that I wanted to stop and get something else to eat for lunch, since I wasn't going to get any doughnuts this week.

Consolation spicy tuna roll.

Math joke pictures!

I might have posted this one already, maybe.

Then it rained really hard:

• This story is just painful to read. Then I tried the "unnecessary math" test. Holy fucking shit. Now sure, I have a fancy degree, and I do math all the time (like while stuck in traffic), but this doesn't seem like it's asking too much.  Two basic math questions, two "how to not go out of business because you don't know how numbers work," one "how to fucking read" question, and one "do you know how geometry is drawn" question.  This is too hard for a fucking principal? Maybe he should do the honorable thing and resign.
• I missed the eclipse last night, partially because I assumed the clouds would win out.  Seems I wasn't totally right on that one.
• Somebody else who should just quit.
• Squirrel!
• My first thought was, "wow, that's a really poorly fit continuum level." I was then a little sad.

Ok, now let's see if I can come up with a meal plan for this week.

• Sunday: I'm going to say this is another pizza bagel day, although I may switch this with Monday, depending on what I get at the store.
• Monday: Yeah, this was going to be fish, but that'd be better to do on Sunday. Let's say either salmon or mahi mahi.
• Tuesday: ... Let's say something with chicken.  I'll do a two-day chicken thing.  I have some sage still, maybe I could do it saltimbocca again?
• Wednesday: Leftover whatever tuesday is.
• Thursday: This Rachel Ray show I'm watching on the DVR had stuffed eggplant.  Maybe something like that? Let's say I'll do a big stuffed portabello instead. Stuffed with what? Stuffing.
• Friday: Go out or something.  Maybe switch this around with something earlier in the week?  I probably shouldn't have assigned these to days, if I was just going to end up moving it all around as I write it.

Friday: pizza bagels

Because sometimes a day just feels like the day you want to make two tiny personal pizzas.

Yeah.  They were tasty.  Since I need to get rid of the leftover sauce, I'll probably do these again over the weekend.  I don't know what I'm going to do with the leftover soup.  I'm thinking about just putting the rest of it in the freezer with the stuff I froze the day I made it.  It'd be good next time I'm sick.

I do need to come up with a plan for next week.  Something involving fish, I think.

Pretty much.

• Font hell.
• There's an eclipse tonight that I should be able to see.  I'm not sure I'll be able to stay up late enough.
• Because I feel bad not having three items.

Thursday: Leftover option 3

I forgot to take a picture because I was working on something else while eating dinner, and didn't want to be bothered.  Today's strategy was to add some sriracha to the soup, and see if that helped make it new.  It did a pretty decent job, as once it was mixed in, it didn't overpower anything.  It simply added an extra flavor highlight and some spiciness.

I may have posted these before:

Tired!

Angry!

• Squirrel!
• Wait, didn't robocop already play an evil CEO in Star Trek?
• Yes, yes he did.  I've only seen like four episodes of that stupid series, and that was one of them.

Wednesday: Leftover option 2: Ignore

Since I had errands to run and left work late, I figured I'd just pick up a burger on the way home. I was disappointed, but it was at least different.  I think tomorrow I'm going to try to spice up the soup, and then use Friday to try a "bread pudding" thing.

• I forgot to post a link to the ham I had yesterday for the best lunch sandwich ever.
• This is pretty much bullshit.
• This week's Castle had Castle needing to get into a combination lock.  Storytime: in undergrad, my roommate had a lock that he'd forgotten the combination to.  He said I could have it if I could get it unlocked (since it was useless to him as it was in any case).  I consulted the intertrons, and found a page similar to this one.  Turns out it's far easier than you would expect (provided you have that very common model of lock).
• They're not necessarily punk, but it's probably close enough.
• I was going to post this, noticed that it had the same joke I was going to make, and then decided against it.
• Then I changed my mind again.
• Mother has bodies to store.

Tuesday: Leftover option 1

This afternoon, I remembered that grilled cheese existed. I figured that soup and sandwich was a good idea, so I paired it with the turkey soup. Not as good as someone else's delicious looking dinner, but it was ok.  The topic of turkey soup bread pudding came up again, and I'm starting to think about making a pot-pie like filling using some milk and a roux, and use that as the base.  That's not going to be "custardy," but I'm somewhat concerned that adding egg to the mix would just make a soupy omelette. How does chrome spellcheck not know the word "omelette?"

No fucking clue.

• Oops. I can't wait for that episode to air.
• Hey! Congratulations, Belgium, for finally making a government! And for successfully proving that on some level, you can actually get by with a leaderless bureaucracy.
• The important point for people who complain about prices of education. It's not that the total cost is increasing, it's that it's been subsidized for a long time, and now morons are cutting that subsidy because they're cheap bastards.
• Squirrel 1. The sad one.
• Squirrel 2. I like squirrels, but I think keeping them in this thing is worse than just letting them live freely in the yard.  Put out some food periodically, name one Walter, and you can live happy knowing you're not running a squirrel prison.

Monday: The leftover desire half-life is pretty short

Today was leftover turkey soup.  I'm trying to come up with ways to make it more exciting this week, although I'm pretty sure that "turkey soup bread pudding" isn't a thing.  I've also discovered that my soup is full of gelatin from the connective bits, as it was kind of at the "bizarrely jello" stage when I took it out of the fridge.  A short time in the microwave sorted this out, I was just expecting it to be a bit soup-ier.

Squirrel hug!

What are you doing, puppy?

• Brunchables.
• In the wake of this news story about Siri, the horribly inappropriate parody. Also: really funny.
• Depressing story of overequipped thugs.
• Depressing story about the problem with trying to be balanced.
• Fun reminder of the best part of elementary school gym.
• Self poptart shows up so much in my RSS feed that I've spent most of the evening wishing I had poptarts.  I will have to fix this problem tomorrow.
• Nightmare snowman.
• This guy plays one of the 9000 war themed first person shooters. And is basically a hilarious asshole the entire time.

You know how people are always like, "he died so young" and "what a waste"

Apparently this is what happens when you get clean and stop doing heroin:

Am I a bad person for suggesting that some people would be better off dying young from an overdose? Yes.

Sunday: Cooking all day

The goal for today was to convert leftover turkey into soup.  No real recipe for this.

The start was an onion, two carrots, and about two stalks of celery (and a gob of butter to saute in).  That dark spot in the middle of the pan is the remaining two anchovy filets.  I added them in the hope of boosting the flavor.

Once the vegetables were done and the anchovy obliterated, I added two boxes of chicken stock and the turkey.  I went with a turkey-heavy strategy, included both wings, a thigh/leg combo, another leg, and the chunk of breast I was eating for lunch last week.  You can also see the three parmesan rinds I tossed in.  I'm not sure how much they helped, since they're also mystery flavor boosters.

That simmered for about two hours, at which point the turkey had fallen apart, and I could fish out the bits and remove the bones.  Also those stupid needle bone/cartilage things in the legs.  I also shredded the meat into bite size pieces.

To finish things, I added some rosemary and sage (whole, in a bouquet garni idea), salt and pepper, and some sherry.  I let it go another half hour or so, during which time I boiled some egg noodles.  Plating:

Bowl of turkey soup, a couple slices of speck, a hunk of rye with some brie spread on top.  This solved the "haven't eaten anything all day" problem perfectly.  One issue that came up is that the soup separates a lot.  The top is bland and watery, with the flavor increasing towards the bottom.  I'm sure canned soup has lots of chemicals to fix this problem, but I just went with the "stir it before you take a bite."

I have enough soup that I have a pretty good idea what I'm eating for dinners this week.  I'll probably have to get more bread at some point, though.

Random picture time:

Asymmetrical corgi.

I like Self-Esteem Bear.

• Julie sent it around earlier, but I really like the sad cookie from this entry.
• It would be nice if people actually knew that they were dumb.  Like the 8% of people who feel "very unfavorable" about "Require easy-to-understand plan summaries." WTF is wrong with those people?  They want insurance plans to be more confusing?
• Oh the past. You were so delightfully racist. a) Did anyone actually know a southern colonel? b) Why do you need to keep pointing out that pancakes are "digestible?" Did people eat rocks and things back then, and had to be reminded to eat real food? c) I like pancakes as much as anybody, but I don't think that they're really the correct solution to all food problems. d) I'm super full, and still kind of want to eat some pancakes.
• Steampunk.

Saturday: Plans change

The original plan was to make soup today.  I then decided that that's more of a Sunday thing, so I postponed it.  It helped a bit that I had this:

with plenty of leftovers from yesterday.  This was the dinner portion, as I was in a hurry when I ate the lunch portion.  You can see the burnt spots, and the lunch part was even worse.  That's also WF pizza sauce, because they didn't pack the sauce last night.  The sausage they put in this was a bit heavy on the fennel.  I'm ok with some fennel, but this was a bit extreme.

Since it's been rainy and windy recently, I posted this:

Admittedly, it's not like this outside:

but when you wake up in the morning and your apartment feels like a wind tunnel, it's still normal to be cold when the temperature is still like 70.

• Alabama would almost be funny if they weren't run by racists.
• I went shopping today. One they left out was "50ish lady who has to have her groceries sorted just so, even if it takes 5 minutes to pack her stupid food."
• It's nice when Fark posts two news stories that go together so well. "Sure sounds like non-Christians ought to move out of Giles County before things get ugly over there." and "nonbelievers are less trustworthy because there’s no fear of damnation keeping them on the straight and narrow". LOL.
• Interesting story about jobs.  Turns out if you pay less than other people, you will have a hard time filling positions.  If only we had some sort of system to predict things like that.
• Ross Douthat is still a shitbag.  

Because I think they're cute, and it's my blog

• Why didn't I get puppy day in grad school?
• Remember how cops suck? And how they hate Occupy protesters? Even if you disagree, you must agree that stealing pizza isn't cool.
• This shelf seems like a lot of work.  You have to place it in the middle of the room, and I wouldn't think it'd give you the same quantity of shelf space as an equal size regular shelf.
• My phone checks out as clean.
• I have to admit that Dr. Squirrel isn't really likely to be sanitary.  How about Dr. Cat?
• Six to eight black men. Or, just one.
• Sneezy puppy.
• I'll need to read this paper, I think. I've never been totally happy with the thin/thick disk concept.
• I'm not posting a link to the saddest comic I've ever read.
• But this? This is basically why I don't read comic books anymore. 

Friday: I don't think I'm unreasonably picky

I would have pictures here, but my phone decided it'd be cool to do that thing where it pretends to take a picture, but then doesn't.

Since I've had way too much turkey recently, and plan on having more turkey this weekend, I wanted something different for dinner.  I've been kind of in a pizza mood since always, and decided to drive out to the Kona Brewing Company restaurant way over in Hawaii Kai.  My thought was to get a calzone, and have leftovers to eat for lunch tomorrow.  I arrived, and when I noticed that calzones weren't listed on the menu, asked, and was assured that they still make them, they just don't list them anymore.  Odd.

I started with the "Roasted Garlic Pupu," which had a nice half loaf of bread with two heads of roasted garlic and a melted Gorgonzola dip.  Very delicious, with the cheese being on the mild side of Gorgonzola, which blended nicely with the garlic.  Excellent start to the dinner.

Then things kind of went off track.

I was about halfway through the appetizer when my calzone arrived.  The online menu notes that calzones take thirty minutes to prepare.  At this point, it'd only been about 15-20 minutes since I ordered, which I thought was a bit odd.  I'd ordered the "Honaunau," which included mozzarella, smoked mozzarella, "Parmesan sausage," mushrooms, and just for funsies, more garlic.  I could see the sausage pouring out of the cut, which looked very good.  I noticed that the top was a bit burnt, but it didn't look too bad.  However, I then stabbed a bit of sausage, and discovered that it was cold.

A bit more poking and prodding led me to the conclusion that the reason it came out so fast was that they'd cooked it wrong.  Because the heat was too high, the outside started to burn before the inside had had a chance to cook fully.  Even the cheese on the inside wasn't melted.  I finished the rest of the appetizer, glad that I'd decided to get that in addition to the calzone.

When the waitress returned, I let her know, and she took it back to be boxed up (as it could easily be fixed in the leftovers phase).  The manager brought it back, and let me know that "the oven was too hot."  Yes, sure, but that's not the actual problem.  The kitchen is supposed to have someone checking that they're cooking things correctly.  If they can't actually cook something (say, calzones because they have the oven turned up too high all the time), then they shouldn't try.  If they do, then they're just going to end up buying me the calzone they can't cook.

In any case, I'm somewhat hesitant to go back.  Part of the reason for this visit was to see if it would be the kind of place to take my parents when they visit.  I've had good luck with their seafood before, so it's possible that as long as we stay away from the calzones, it'll still work.

Thursday: OMG TOO MUCH SRIRACHA!

Apparently the only picture I took today.

Dinner was leftovers again.  I decided to make a tactical strike, and concentrated on eliminating the mac&cheese, accompanied by some turkey.  Since turkey is getting a bit bland, I decided to add a bit of sriracha to the plate to perk up the flavor.  I then proceeded to:

1. stick way too much sriracha onto the first bite of turkey
2. decide that the dairy in the mac & cheese would solve that
3. burn my mouth because the m&c was about 9000 degrees

Yay for planning.

On that subject, I'm thinking that saturday I'm going to make turkey soup for dinner, using all the "hard-to-use" bits of the bird I have in my freezer.  I don't think I really have too much to get to make that happen, maybe just a bit of crusty bread or something.  A bit more veggies wouldn't hurt either.  In any case, I'm hoping that that will cover dinner for saturday and sunday (maybe monday?), and then I can just freeze the rest for when I'm sick and want homemade soup instead of canned.

That means I have to sort out something for tomorrow's dinner, but I might just go out or something.  Anyway, here's a handful of bunny:

• Paging Dr. Squirrel!
• I really like these cute kitchen towels.
•