Saturday, August 26, 2006
bad week....
crappy week. i got yelled at again (and a 3rd written warning via email) at work for my attitude and doing dumb shit and being cocky. this time, when my bosses were gone, i took it upon myself to move my desk. i dont feel like giving the excuse why (actually i totally do, but im thinking that i shouldn't and just accept that it was stupid and that nobody told me to do so).... this sucks becaue i think i'm gonna end the month with a really good sales number....
onto something else...so mel got pink eye this week, and then got sick directly afterwards... so she's sniffling behind me and there's a million tissues and nasty wet washcloths (warm compresses) everywhere. of course everytime she gets sick, we make jook soup. so here's a recipe for a lazy saturday afternoon:
need: jasmine rice, chicken stock, garlic, ginger, scallion, cilantro, pork, eggs
*note, melenie says her mom never uses garlic in the soup but i personally like to...
1) cook some jasmine rice in a pot or rice cooker. (1 cup of rice, 2 cups water)
2) while the rice is cooking, dice ginger and garlic and cilantro and scallions and chop up pork breakfast sausage or ground pork (on separate cutting board, but you should know that already)
3) when rice is almost done, saute pork w/ ginger and garlic in a non stick soup pot.
4) when pork is almost cooked, add a lot of chicken stock. bring to a boil.
5) rice should be done. add that to pork in soup pot.
6) add greens
7) simmer for 2-3 mins.
8) crack an egg or two in the soup. stir it up. the eggs will cook really quick in the soup.
8) eat quick before rice soaks up all the chicken stock. if this happens, add water. add salt and pepper to taste, as well as pickled ground thai chilis peppers.
enjoy mel's favorite thai soup. the thai version of chicken soup or my matzah ball soup... this is also called congee in vietnamese or chinese restaurants. here is a pic of congee that we got in hong kong:
what else...so we've had jeannie and chris's car and didnt take advantage of the situation and actually go somewhere... we're off to go water her 1 million plants in a little bit...its hot here this weekend...then off to costco...again, guys, thank you for the car and costco card! monique and her bro christian are coming in a week or so... mel is off all next week... i'm out.
p!
onto something else...so mel got pink eye this week, and then got sick directly afterwards... so she's sniffling behind me and there's a million tissues and nasty wet washcloths (warm compresses) everywhere. of course everytime she gets sick, we make jook soup. so here's a recipe for a lazy saturday afternoon:
need: jasmine rice, chicken stock, garlic, ginger, scallion, cilantro, pork, eggs
*note, melenie says her mom never uses garlic in the soup but i personally like to...
1) cook some jasmine rice in a pot or rice cooker. (1 cup of rice, 2 cups water)
2) while the rice is cooking, dice ginger and garlic and cilantro and scallions and chop up pork breakfast sausage or ground pork (on separate cutting board, but you should know that already)
3) when rice is almost done, saute pork w/ ginger and garlic in a non stick soup pot.
4) when pork is almost cooked, add a lot of chicken stock. bring to a boil.
5) rice should be done. add that to pork in soup pot.
6) add greens
7) simmer for 2-3 mins.
8) crack an egg or two in the soup. stir it up. the eggs will cook really quick in the soup.
8) eat quick before rice soaks up all the chicken stock. if this happens, add water. add salt and pepper to taste, as well as pickled ground thai chilis peppers.
enjoy mel's favorite thai soup. the thai version of chicken soup or my matzah ball soup... this is also called congee in vietnamese or chinese restaurants. here is a pic of congee that we got in hong kong:
what else...so we've had jeannie and chris's car and didnt take advantage of the situation and actually go somewhere... we're off to go water her 1 million plants in a little bit...its hot here this weekend...then off to costco...again, guys, thank you for the car and costco card! monique and her bro christian are coming in a week or so... mel is off all next week... i'm out.
p!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
stand by me?
the stupid stand by me video that i posted on youtube a few mos back now has more then 7,000 views... crazy shit this internet thing, isn't it?
i want to give a big "have at it" shout to my man mark phile out in ol reading, pa...i miss you, dog...
p!
i want to give a big "have at it" shout to my man mark phile out in ol reading, pa...i miss you, dog...
p!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
medford / horizon
flew down to medford, oregon today for a business meeting. hour flight, much better than a 5 hour drive... surprising thing was that Horizon Air turned my ride home into a happy hour. they were pouring one of my favorite local beers, Drop Top Amber by Widmer like it was water. no charge, refills all around. that was nice... my meeting went great also... the library rocks here...you can even download audiobooks as a rental...chris and jeannie are back in philly for a week or so...letting us borrow the car as a trade for taking chris to the airport and picking them up....good deal, i say... thanks guys...oh, and watering of the plants is required.... melenie is gearing up to start her first class for grad school... she's taking online courses to get her master in elementary ed/teaching certificate...
im tired...woke up @ 4:30 am this morning...peace in the middle east.
im tired...woke up @ 4:30 am this morning...peace in the middle east.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
no title..
well let me start off by saying that for mel's bday, our neighbors baked mel a penis cake. this was kind of funny, especially when our 80 year old neigbor, Van, stopped over the other night to say happy bday:
so what's been up?
well, EMC stopped over Friday after work...we caught up on what we've been up to... ed's been at this college called Heartwood studying chinese medicine. he's off the raw food diet, now eating whatever his body tells him to eat, so long as its organic and not too high up on the food chain.. i think goat's milk, goat cheese and goat meat (once so far) is as high up as he'll go. he schooled us on canola oil (cheap canadian oil) and a cool way to make coffee that wont kill us in the long run. he has a long beard and long hair now. full rasta hippy man. he's chillin though.... and on his way to the amazing san juan islands off the coast of northern Washington state. i got him to eat some bacon in this flick, though:
so we went to vancouver, BC last saturday... EMC got off 3/4 of the way there. oh, we stopped in Seattle, by the way to pick up a piroshy at Piroshky, Piroshky (got the smoked salmon jawn). also picked up some super juicy Rainier cherries (the yellow and red ones). oh, and some little SUPER juicy organic donut-shaped peaches.
we went to chinatown in Vancouver and it was comepletely full of heroin addicts and other junkies... that sucked. gastown near the water was ok, but nothing special. when we got to Vij's, there was what do you know, an hour to an hour and a half wait. we strolled the streets and found CRU wine bar. got a gin martini, mel got a pinot noir, we had some chevre cheese w/ champagne grapes and a seared scallop appetizer. went to vij's for an AMAZING meal. we had another appetizer (hey, we had a buzz, it's ok...) we chose the baby jackfruit in a black mustardseed and cardamom curry. with the bomb naan bread to sop it all up. I chose the venison medallions in some chocolate curry sauce. mel had lamb tenderloin w/ mushrooms and this really good eggplant fritter. we also had some awesome drinks but i cant remember for the life of me what it was. this place comes HIGHLY recommended, i really loved the venison.
the wait coming home through customs blew. it took hours and hours. luckily, the view was incredible to the west. we stopped again in seattle on the way home. seattle seems a lot cooler than when we visited before...we found a dope new neighborhood there too to chill on. it's only 2 1/2 hours away.
tadd jets back on his alaskan fishing boat again until october.
snow patrol comes here on sunday for $7 admission to the Bite of Oregon food festival. they're touring w/ The Subways.
so what's been up?
well, EMC stopped over Friday after work...we caught up on what we've been up to... ed's been at this college called Heartwood studying chinese medicine. he's off the raw food diet, now eating whatever his body tells him to eat, so long as its organic and not too high up on the food chain.. i think goat's milk, goat cheese and goat meat (once so far) is as high up as he'll go. he schooled us on canola oil (cheap canadian oil) and a cool way to make coffee that wont kill us in the long run. he has a long beard and long hair now. full rasta hippy man. he's chillin though.... and on his way to the amazing san juan islands off the coast of northern Washington state. i got him to eat some bacon in this flick, though:
so we went to vancouver, BC last saturday... EMC got off 3/4 of the way there. oh, we stopped in Seattle, by the way to pick up a piroshy at Piroshky, Piroshky (got the smoked salmon jawn). also picked up some super juicy Rainier cherries (the yellow and red ones). oh, and some little SUPER juicy organic donut-shaped peaches.
we went to chinatown in Vancouver and it was comepletely full of heroin addicts and other junkies... that sucked. gastown near the water was ok, but nothing special. when we got to Vij's, there was what do you know, an hour to an hour and a half wait. we strolled the streets and found CRU wine bar. got a gin martini, mel got a pinot noir, we had some chevre cheese w/ champagne grapes and a seared scallop appetizer. went to vij's for an AMAZING meal. we had another appetizer (hey, we had a buzz, it's ok...) we chose the baby jackfruit in a black mustardseed and cardamom curry. with the bomb naan bread to sop it all up. I chose the venison medallions in some chocolate curry sauce. mel had lamb tenderloin w/ mushrooms and this really good eggplant fritter. we also had some awesome drinks but i cant remember for the life of me what it was. this place comes HIGHLY recommended, i really loved the venison.
the wait coming home through customs blew. it took hours and hours. luckily, the view was incredible to the west. we stopped again in seattle on the way home. seattle seems a lot cooler than when we visited before...we found a dope new neighborhood there too to chill on. it's only 2 1/2 hours away.
tadd jets back on his alaskan fishing boat again until october.
snow patrol comes here on sunday for $7 admission to the Bite of Oregon food festival. they're touring w/ The Subways.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
EMC
I know everybody remembers the good man EMC aka Ed Campbell aka Soupy from bensalem/temple/philly. well the nomad himself will be blessing us with his presence in portland on friday night then hitching a ride with us 1/2 way to vancouver, BC, getting off in northern Washington State, near the San Juan Islands...
I've known EMC since the first day day of my sophomore of high school...he was a freshman...we met in study hall and we played dungeons and dragons with jessica lipson. yes, we were geeks and played d&d. i also really dug jess lipson and took her to the soph hop or junior prom or something... but EMc has been my man since like 1991 or 92 or something... everytime i would pick him up, he was never ready on time. but he could tell you the origins of popcorn. or how many miles it is from here to Saturn. dude's a genius. he has a philosophy degree. he is homeless. he travels like the wind. i visited his hometown in jamaica, sligoville, with him and his pops back in like 1995 or something. we partied it up. we ate meat and drank Red Stripes and smoked our hearts out. Ed is now a vegetarian who does none of the above. let me take that a step further....Ed is a macrobiotic? He lives by the Raw Foods diet. he ONLY eats raw fruits and vegetables. no meats, no fish, no cooked vegetables. STRICTLY RAW. well, he's not the type of dude to totally limit himself, i guess if that's all there is to eat, cooked veggies, he'll eat them, but he prefers raw. i think he's been on this diet for a few years now. i'll update everyne on how he's doing shortly.
Looking forward to kicking it with you, Ed.
pauly
I've known EMC since the first day day of my sophomore of high school...he was a freshman...we met in study hall and we played dungeons and dragons with jessica lipson. yes, we were geeks and played d&d. i also really dug jess lipson and took her to the soph hop or junior prom or something... but EMc has been my man since like 1991 or 92 or something... everytime i would pick him up, he was never ready on time. but he could tell you the origins of popcorn. or how many miles it is from here to Saturn. dude's a genius. he has a philosophy degree. he is homeless. he travels like the wind. i visited his hometown in jamaica, sligoville, with him and his pops back in like 1995 or something. we partied it up. we ate meat and drank Red Stripes and smoked our hearts out. Ed is now a vegetarian who does none of the above. let me take that a step further....Ed is a macrobiotic? He lives by the Raw Foods diet. he ONLY eats raw fruits and vegetables. no meats, no fish, no cooked vegetables. STRICTLY RAW. well, he's not the type of dude to totally limit himself, i guess if that's all there is to eat, cooked veggies, he'll eat them, but he prefers raw. i think he's been on this diet for a few years now. i'll update everyne on how he's doing shortly.
Looking forward to kicking it with you, Ed.
pauly
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
twenty eight
it's melenie's twenty-eighth birthday today so i'd like to say happy birthday, dear, I love you. we're off to vancouver, BC this weekend. eating dinner at the world renowned Vij's.
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