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June 2006 - Posts

Shichirin night

We didn’t want to be indoors last night, since it was hotter inside than out. A hot kitchen in a hot apartment with no air conditioning seemed an unbearable thought, so we lit some binchoutan (Japanese charcoal) and set up the shichirin , a small Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:28 PM by jason | 3 Comments
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It was too hot

Sunday we endured almost unpleasantly hot weather most of the day. Seattle’s summers tend to be moderate and plesant for the majority of the season, but this season we’ve alternated between drearily cool and cloudy and excessively sunny. To Read More...
Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 11:28 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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Extra soupy

We’ve been on a soup kick for the last week and a half… I made a large batch of Western-style vegetable soup base from a mirepoix, and I took advantage of that for another canellini soup . Tonight I made an ordinary minestrone, but a few Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:13 PM by jason | 5 Comments
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A smooth transition

I’ve just got a couple of days left at Revenue Science, where I’m furiously finishing up some test automation code. It’s been rough going for the last few weeks, as I’m not very Java-savvy. I’ve been trying to build tests Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:44 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Gefüllte Windbeutel

Pâte à Choux is the pastry base for a number of sweet cream-filled treats, but it’s often overlooked as a stage for more savory flavors. In Germany, I remember running into “cream puffs” with such savory fillings, generally built on Frischkäse, essentially Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:06 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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Konnyaku Soba!

I’m afraid I didn’t get around to making it for “Konnyaku day”, but I got this nifty sample of konnyaku soba from a Yamagata-ken based company at FoodEx. That company makes “konnyaku balls” as well, which have a nifty Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:34 AM by jason | 3 Comments
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and we're back

I’m not completely up and running again, but I got my replacement hard drive for my laptop installed and the OS is back up… now I have to install all the stuff I used to have and try to recover as much of the data of the old drive as possible. I bought Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:34 AM by jason | (Comments Off)
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Expect delays

My laptop at home suffered a hard drive failure. Hopefully I can recover some of the data, but it'll be out of commission until I get a replacement hard drive next week. That's my primary machine at home, so I might not have the patience to do much blogging Read More...
Posted Friday, June 02, 2006 5:26 PM by jason | 0 Comments