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Cooking With Christie: Spam Musubi
Inspiration: When I was a kid, and even today for that matter, my father loves SPAM. He mixes it with his eggs, adds it to salads, and, unsurprisingly, on occasion I would snag a piece here and there. That being said, it wasn’t something that I ever sought out to eat on my own….Until three separate undertakings conspired together to change this: 1. I started making my own sushi. 2. We began…
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favorite manga genre: doomed yuri
Cooking With Christie: Outtake!
These are the final product of the ginger spice cookies I baked last month. Doesn’t’t the powdered sugar make them look a tad dramatic?
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Cooking With Christie: Pepper Jelly
Inspiration: Once again, our local Asian market featured a manager’s special on Fresno chili peppers. After purchasing a pack or two of the said chili peppers, we took them home. And after using a few in stir-fries and rice bowls, we still had a ton left. So, in a fit of “waste not, want not,” my better half decided to make some pepper jelly! Using the jelly recipe from Chili Pepper Madness, we…
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Book Review: The Keeper of Magical Things
The Keeper of Magical Things reminds me a little of the Island of Misfit Toys from the 1964 Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer holiday special. In this case, two battered-by-life people are sent with a wagon full of “minorly magical artifacts” aka magical items that don’t work quite as intended, to a village whose innate magic is practically nonexistent. I believe I’m a fan of Julie Leong’s…
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Cooking With Christie: Outtake!
Putting together the overnight marinate for last Thursday’s Moroccan Goat Stew!
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My 52 Weeks With Christie: Death Comes As The End
First Published: U.S. Dodd, Mead & Company. October 1944; U.K. Collins Crime Club. March 1945 My Copy: William Morrow. New York (NY). 2012. Non-Series. Summary: In this first-ever historical whodunnit, Agatha Christie sets her trail-blazing mystery in Ancient Egypt within the house of a fussy and controlling ka-priest named Imhotep. Who, inadvertently, sets a fox amongst the chickens when he…
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