Yep, it’s Christmas time, which means it’s time to start making eggnog! I really like this recipe (makes about 3-4 servings): 1 cup whole milk 1 cup single cream 1/4 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 cup sugar 2 egg yolks pinch of whole cloves 1/4 tsp cinnamon dark rum (to taste) Warm the milk, cream, cinammon [...]
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Chili, Football, Windsor
Posted in Food, Pet, Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
It’s a tradition in our family to make chili the first time it snows each year. Since we’re in London now, we’re not so sure how likely we are to get snow – so this past Sunday when we didn’t really have any other dinner plans, I whipped up some chili. Chili and football – [...]
For our first-year wedding anniversary we went to Capri. Capri is just off the coast of Italy – about 45 minutes or so from Naples by ferry. Naples is a 3-hour plane ride from London. I accidentally booked our trip from Gatwick airport, which is considerably farther from our house compared to Luton or Heathrow. [...]
So the MBH and I spent our first full weekend in London. Saturday we did some house-hunting. We were actually shown a very nice three-bedroom apartment near Kensal Rise/Westbourne Park. Only problem was the surrounding area was considerably less than desirable… We both rather like our current service apartment, and thus aren’t in -that- big [...]
Not content to simply make home-made chili , the MBH and I decided to try our hand at home-made ramen! Most of the readers of this blog are probably already aware of our fondness for a good bowl of ramen noodles (check out some of shops we’ve visited recently). Obviously one of the most important [...]
We’ve been on a bit of a ‘home-made cooking’ kick the last week or so. In honor of the recent snow, I decided to make home-made chili last week. In the past, I’ve always made my chili powder from scratch, but the ingredients are a bit harder to come by here in Japan, so I [...]
The MBH and I had our weekly ramen excursion last week near her home, in Higashi Murayama. This, by the way, was the day it snowed like crazy. This made the short drive over to the ramen shop an adventure all in and of itself. The MBH had the standard ramen, I had the negi ramen, [...]
Last week, the MBH and I went to Shinagawa (about two subway stops away) for ramen. We went to Shinatatsu – a little complex about 10 minutes from the station featuring seven (7!) different ramen outlets. We actually ended up eating at two different places – that’s right, we both had TWO BOWLS of ramen [...]