Ploofle

One I knew from a while ago, literally from Mongolian:

raisin: raisin
grape: water raisin

cabbage: cabbage
broccoli: flower cabbage

hmm.

Tags: food

This flattop grill sounds cool, albeit a fancy term (and corresponding price) for a griddle.  It’s especially appealing for making breads and what-not, but also things like okonomiyaki I thought.

On the other hand, couldn’t I just get a heavy metal slab like this for obvjously a lot less…and I certainly wouldn’t use this to replace a real grill as suggested by the wikipedia link above…

Also, I would like a dutch oven some day.  The end.

Edit: this griddle looks far more appealing than the craigslist link above.

Tags: food

For dinner I had doritos, pb m&ms, and a mug of lemonade with my (singular) ice cube.

Thanks care packagers!

Thank god I can’t eat like this all the time…

Tags: food

Bonnie has been pointing me to some neat interdisciplinary groupblogging at UCLA on the upcoming election.  Two posts I’ve liked in particular lately have been Race in a post-Obama world and Residential segregation and the race vote.  The first one looks at the chilling effect his winning may have on social justice and disparities work, and the latter has some excellent charts concerning the relationship between who you live with and how you may vote.  As you all are aware, people still continue to self-select where you live, even if schools and public facilities aren’t technically segregated.  One of the cool graphs follows:

Of course, correlation isn’t causation, and there may be a lot more to this association (thanks Epi) but this also may be a handy quick guide to living if you prefer to live in more integrated environments, too.  If there were on a per-city or smaller unit than by state…hmmm….and now I’m intrigued by this Dissimilarity Index they used for the horizontal axis.  He also discusses methodology at the end of the post with some neat stats things if you’re into that.

Anywho, just saying.  Hoping to get this final debate off of youtube to watch with my fellow politics-interested folks out here.

Tags: politics

I must be more Texan than I think, as this blog here pretty makes me drool constantly.  Damn Stacey and her torture food links!

In particular, we (well, probably mostly me) talk or think about corn dogs regularly here.  And I know we all in general talk about condiments.  And what shows up but a blog posting to making homemade corn dogs!  We actually sort of have hotdogs in Khovd right now - they live on a shelf in a local store in cans, and they’re from Germany.  I have the cornmeal too, so…this may just have to happen.  If not, at the very least the next time (if ever) we have a deep-fry-a-thon this will definitely have to make it on the list.  Along with a repeat of fried pies (also on the aforementioned blog).

Nothing says quality blog, btw, like an entry entitled “How to render lard.”  A site after my own heart.

Meanwhile, supposedly we’re to have a power outage from tomorrow until Sunday.  Not really a big deal, but it means I’ll need to use up all the remaining frozen meat in my fridge.  I also got to drink some unexpectedly nice “rare” Borgio beer today.  It came from Uvs and they don’t get it to Khovd.  Its big innovation? 1-liter plastic bottle.

Tags: food, meat by-products