22 thoughts on “January 22, 2015: Soo….tofu, eh?”

  1. brianS requested June, and The Dread Pirate requested a ways out, and August was as far as we could go. All other volunteers were assigned months at random. Here ya go!

    January 22: Pepper
    February 19: Philosofer
    March 19: SBG
    April 23: spookymilk
    May 21: punmanbowler
    June 18: brianS
    July 16: nibbish
    August 20: The Dread Pirate

    Also, if anyone needs a reminder of when they go, I've updated the Features page. I'll try to send out a reminder email 1 week before your date as well.

    1. Eh, the due date's not until June, so unless you want to hear riveting tales of "we're combining offices, but mostly, she's tired, so she watches TV and goes to bed at 9:30, it might be best to push mine out a bit.

      2. but mostly, she's tired, so she watches TV and goes to bed at 9:30

        ah, young mothers! It's a rare night when the Mrs makes it that late.

  3. I like how UP has been filming "music videos" around the railroad of local operations in various locations featuring a band/performer from there as well. The French Cassettes from Portland were featured this time around in the video introduced after the 4th Qtr report today; hopefully it's available online tomorrow for FMD, I kinda liked it.

    1. I have to confess that I even though I didn't have a lot of meetings, I didn't read much of The Goldfinch. Maybe 50 words (60 including titles)?
      So far, there's a mother in a dream and Amsterdam.

      As for Fratres and the title pieces on De Profundis, I love what the percussion does for them.

  5. I was initially hesitant about tofu too, but once I tried it... good stuff. We have it with some frequency now.

      1. I don't think I'd ever had tofu before my mid-20s. Since the Girl went vegan, we do eat it with some frequency now. Corn's recipe looks interesting. I've not gone so far as to use it in a pasta dish (other than asian ones, such as pad thai or stir-fried noodles), however.

        My preferred method is to press and drain well, cut into small batons, dust with corn starch and shallow-fry in batches until golden, then use in stir fry, pad thai, or, my personal favorite, as the "paneer" in vegan saag paneer. Mmm, saag.

        1. For us it makes its most regular appearance in stir fries that also utilize either peanuts or cashews. I didn't like it quite as much in pasta.

      2. Yeah, we're probably almost a decade into occasional use now. I don't even really think about it as a thing. I make pork, chicken, tofu, beef, fish, etc. Variety is the spice of life, and meatless is equally a part of that.

        I still don't know why anyone would ever use anything other than extra firm though.

  6. Houses are really quiet when you're alone. I've been home alone for 90 minutes (rest of the family went to the in-laws'. I'm going tomorrow. We're replacing the floors in 65% of the main floor of our house.)
    I can't figure out what noise I'm missing. We usually don't have TV or music on for no reason. No laundry? No fans? No faucets left running by toddlers? I can't figure it.
    I'm heading out for a walk in the woods now. It'll be noisier there.

      1. I just got back. That seemed like a very long walk for two hours.
        No owls hooting. No turkeys roosting.
        I did see some ducks on the water above the dam. Mostly Mallards, going by voice.
        The highlight was a Red Fox on the ice under the dam. From a distance, I'd hoped it was a Coyote (though I doubted it), but the tail was too thick when it ran away.
        When I got up to where it had been, I saw that there where fishing holes in the ice there, and the fox was eating minnows that had been spilled. I'm surprised that anyone's allowed to fish that close to the dam with the construction going on.

        I was home along for a weekend last summer and biked for 40-odd miles. Which isn't much for one day for freealonzo, but it was probably as much as I had biked in total the year preceding. That was the weekend I learned I needed a new seat.

  8. O.M.G.

    Ray Lewis! is gonna have his own cable show ripping off the Rock's stupid new show? Ray Lewis is gonna help people learn to control their emotions and not hurt others?

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