Topic: Rassah's culinary braggings (or what furfags do for fun) (Read 1995 times)

Mining rigs? 

Nah, it's going to be in a temperate climate. Will likely mostly need cooling.

Now my heart is broken. On to plan B.

That looks like bitch to heat. 

Yeah, we have a bit of a mish-mosh of chairs, and need to buy a few that are at least matching, but never get around to it because of extra expense and no room to put away the old chairs. Maybe when we buy our $1mil house in a year or two. Although since we are very much into modern style architecture, it will probably look more like this



Or maybe even this



Sorry Phinn, we won't have any use for your wood  

(No, I don't have any costumes, as I find them disturbing)

And before somebody makes a comment about his chairs, allow me to state that the dining room will be remodeled.




EDIT: I didn't see this post. 

Real chairs.

Don't tease me, dude. In the meantime, anybody want to buy a lumber yard in Illinois. I'm retiring to MD.

I wonder if he has an alpaca costume.

Bye, all. I'm moving in with Rassah. Handsome home, fine cooking, epic coffee table. What else can a man ask for? Plus he has a job.

Minced pork and mustard leaf dumplings.

What are the dumpling looking things next to the carrot and radish salad - they look divine.

And yes, our personal financial priorities are always interesting.  There are a ton of things I convince myself that I "can't afford" while happily spending a much greater amount on something non-essential. 

Shoes are a great example with me.  I loathe wearing shoes with a passion and constantly convince myself that they're "too expensive" even if they're $10.  Of course I'll then go and drop $50 on something for the kitchen because there's no such thing as "too many" kitchen gadgets or baking dishes.

Had a fancy, Japanese-themed New Year's party at my house this weekend. 12 RSVP'd, 10 showed up (2 were sick). Spent three days cleaning, cooking everything from scratch, and setting things up, including tables, table cloths, our fancy napkins, dinnerware and silverware (which I had to wipe down to polish and remove water spots from):



And yes, I did say cook everything from scratch, in the style of traditional Japanese home cooking (none of that sushi and noodles stuff that Americans traditionally associate with "Japanese food")

So, we had stuff like Kohaku Namasu (salad of pickled japanese radish & carrots):


a lotus root salad in rice vinegar w/ lemon juice:


Datemaki and kamaboko (slightly fishy semi-sweet omlette and fish cake):


a whole bunch of other stuff I didn't take pictures of, like kinpira gobo (braised burdock root that takes A LOT of physical effort to shave/slice), kurikinton (japanese sweet potatoes with chestnuts in syrup), tazukuri (soy sauce sugar-glazed sardines), and a bunch of other things I can't remember now. The main item was Oden, which is a traditional winter dish:


which is a hot-pot of fish stock with vegetables and assorted fish cakes. I was very exhausted by the time it was all done, but it went very well: food was enjoyed a lot by everyone, who also had occasion to dress up and practice proper table etiquette. Total spent on ingredients: about $250 (guests weren't charged anything).

All in all, I have a weird concept of "fun"  

P.S. Although I do this a few times a year, I still don't have an xBox360 or PS3, and drive a crap '99 Civic, because I don't feel I can afford those things. "Priorities," eh?