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I was almost excited to see that Dr. Who premiered on the 24th; unfortunately it was the 23rd.

From wikipedia, today in…

1898 – International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opened (sorry Andy)
1940 – Slovakia officially joined the Axis powers
1966 – NYC experiences the smoggiest day in the city’s history
…and about 6 airline hijackings or crashes. Also, William F. Buckley was born, as well as Beth Phoenix aka “The Glamazon”.

Looks like they knew I was coming Hopefully the coming years will result in more propitious events on this day so I don’t have to assume I’m following a trend.

Um, otherwise, I got a beautiful peach-colored sunset today.  My office windows face west and with the smoke from the coal you get a lot of fuzzy light.  It was really pretty.

On the other hand, rumor has it that something broke concerning the heating system here, so no heat for people for a few days, possibly longer. Overnight here it’s about 13F/-10C.  Day temperatures, at least according to the forecast, are just hovering around freezing.

My birthday treats were a shower at the showerhouse – wow, and I needed it – and the can of chili Bonnie sent me.  I have to say I think homemade chili is better, but the beans were wonderfully cooked through and the meat was definitely something you don’t see here everyday.  I pulled out a ration of cheese Lisa gave me, and made some hoecakes based on this blog’s recipe, and now back to work for me.

Tags: food, heating, wrestlers

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…

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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