Yesterday was a quiet day at home and I played around on the computer quite a lot. I even finished editing 6 months of blog posts and ordered a book again from Blurb. But yes. Christine said she checked it out and Blurb no longer services Blogger which was a big shock to me. Well, I had already downloaded the 6 months of posts and they seemed to accept the upload so I guess I will get a book of January to June 2007 blog posts eventually. I'm tired out anyway so I'm not planning to make more books for awhile but I do hope they get it worked out or I find something comparable just so that I have the option of having my blog in book form again someday.
I did some knitting... Nothing to show. I made the November Noah's ark block so I'm on top of that project. I find my eyesight is stressed when I do embroidery more than when I do patchwork or quilting. I had a headache after making these cute penguins. Of course the headache could have been due to the fact that the cats decided to destroy the house while I was trying to embroider. Getting into pots. Knocking things off piano and bookshelves. Tearing into the wallpaper and the bathroom door. (I'd locked them in to give Velvet some freedom.) I was jumping up and down like a jack-in-the-box and finally grabbed three cats and put them in Chip's old cage for an hour or two. They seemed very happy all cuddled there. Maybe I should do that more often.
This morning Tetsu and Choco and I went out for our morning walk as usual and as we passed one of our farm friends he called us over and loaded Tetsu's arms full of
daikon. These are long icicle radishes that are very popular in Japanese cooking. Usually they are quite long, but Mr. Yano also raises round
daikon (different from turnips) as well as the long type. One of my English kids had brought over two
daikon the other day too so I have a lot of
daikon! Last night I'd made fish and
daikon simmered together (that's why the cats were trying to get into the pot) and
daikon and fake crab mayonnaise salad, and this morning I've made
daikon and deep fried
tofu miso soup for breakfast. Such abundance!
I did some knitting... Nothing to show. I made the November Noah's ark block so I'm on top of that project. I find my eyesight is stressed when I do embroidery more than when I do patchwork or quilting. I had a headache after making these cute penguins. Of course the headache could have been due to the fact that the cats decided to destroy the house while I was trying to embroider. Getting into pots. Knocking things off piano and bookshelves. Tearing into the wallpaper and the bathroom door. (I'd locked them in to give Velvet some freedom.) I was jumping up and down like a jack-in-the-box and finally grabbed three cats and put them in Chip's old cage for an hour or two. They seemed very happy all cuddled there. Maybe I should do that more often.
This morning Tetsu and Choco and I went out for our morning walk as usual and as we passed one of our farm friends he called us over and loaded Tetsu's arms full of daikon. These are long icicle radishes that are very popular in Japanese cooking. Usually they are quite long, but Mr. Yano also raises round daikon (different from turnips) as well as the long type. One of my English kids had brought over two daikon the other day too so I have a lot of daikon! Last night I'd made fish and daikon simmered together (that's why the cats were trying to get into the pot) and daikon and fake crab mayonnaise salad, and this morning I've made daikon and deep fried tofu miso soup for breakfast. Such abundance!
6 comments:
You have such nice neighbors. They are very generous.
I love daikon, but it is very hard to find around here (rural NC). I even put some in my okonomiaki (I am spelling that as it sounds, it is not in my Japanese Dictionary!) You are so fortunate to have such good neighbors!
Many times here it is Feast or Famine. There is either many things to choose from in the fridge or very few. Sounds like you have having a feast!
Tanya, I, too, like daikon. When my cook books get unpacked I'll try and find a salad recipe that uses it shredded. It's neither anglo nor truly asian. It is good.
Just in case your email bounces, could you contact me? thank you,
I've made fake crab salad a number of times but my recipe calls for shredded parsnips. We like it very much. It is nice when gardeners share their abundance!!
Tanya, check out picaboo.com to see if they service blogger. I hear their prices are comparable.
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