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 [...]
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
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, [...]
Here’s looking at….
Posted in Humor on Feb 9th, 2008
The MBH and I were looking at a website of the American Film Institute’s top 100 film quotes of all time. My impression of the list: Any list that doesn’t have ‘Get busy living, or get busy dying’ on it is woefully in adequate and incomplete. Anyway – one of the top quotes is from [...]
The David Tyree Catch
Posted in Sports on Feb 5th, 2008
Super Bowl Quick Hits
Posted in Sports on Feb 5th, 2008
1) Being from NY, I’m happy that NY won. 19-0 would have been cool – if nothing else, it would shut up those crotchety old geezers from the ‘72 Dolphins (God those guys have gotten insufferably annoying), but NY was completely deserving of the win. 2) NY won because they did the one thing they [...]
Super Bowl Prediction
Posted in Sports on Feb 2nd, 2008
Let’s see… Quarterback: Brady vs Manning As good as Eli’s been the last few weeks, come on – we’re talking Tom Brady here – two-time Super Bowl MVP, 100-26 as a starter, won 3 Super Bowls. Big Edge: Patriots Offense I give the edge to the Patriots – most points scored in a season, they [...]