For a while I’ve had a box of Vermont Curry sitting on the shelf. “I thought it was a decoration,” said Laurie. What is Vermont Curry? It’s Japanese curry in a box. I assume they call it Vermont Curry because Phish and Ben & Jerry’s are really big in Japan. (Okay, it probably predates that.) […]
Tillamook sent me a wheel of their 100th anniversary cheddar, which I cannot stop referring to as “100-year-old cheese.” This is not entirely accurate: it’s aged for three years. This is really good stuff. It the only Tillamook cheese I’ve tried that has a crumbly cheddar texture, with amino acid crystals like in Parmesan. The […]
Iris is old enough now to have chores, so I assigned her to be in charge of setting the table. This is my least-favorite job, because it has to be done right when I’m in the middle of making dinner, so I was delighted to outsource it. Not that Iris likes it any better. She […]
I went to Uwajimaya today and didn’t notice until I got home what was attached to my bottle of Lion & Globe peanut oil: This is so cool. I’m about to make use of it, because I need some napa cabbage for dinner and all they had at Uwajimaya was giant sumo wrestler cabbage.
A Thai restaurant near me has opened a sidewalk window selling individual skewers of chicken satay for $1 and red curry chicken for $3. This was an offer I could not refuse. So I ponied up $3 and got a surprisingly large serving of rice, red curry, a few pieces of chicken…and, oh, about a […]
