Food Porn

Greetings bloggies.

For the second house potluck I have made bread. because I had this no knead recipe from a the internet by way of a bakery in Nelson that I have been planning on trying for 8 months or so.

Here is the visual on the out come. And as a revision the meal. This may be the best we eat all season.












Also yet an other use for a Dutch Oven. I love that peace of metal.

Fringe

Greetings Bloggies, No This is not a peace about my hairline but if it was I might use that Title
I went shopping this afternoon.
I was out a fair number of things so I went to the really big Walmart Super Centre By Boundary and Gallardi Way.
For those that take the Sky Train, Rurpert would be your stop.



After spending a chunk of change at WalleMart I headed the block over to Canadian tire.
Where I found what I needed that I failed to find and Walmart. On the way out I spotted a Police car in the underground parking
lot. Not an impossibility, but the Tim Hortons was above ground.

A closer look showed that it was not a real Cop car but a Prop. I had Boston Police painted on it. This pleased me.
For there is only one thing it is likely to be, A prop from the wonderfully Pulpy sci-fi show Fringe. Which was originally filmed in Boston until the moved to Van to save money.
It should be noted that this shopping area, is almost on top of a very large collection of film studios. Saddly I have yet to see any craft with Caprica City licence plates

Soviet Pot Luck

Greetings Bloggies.

I know it's been months. But its been Scramble scramble scramble. After nearly three weeks of midterms and assignments coming full time too I have a bit of a lead on the work. A bit.

So I was having a chat with a house mate about cooking, as I was reading a cook book last night in the Kitchen. She brought up a family tradition of steamed fish. I had to improvise the steaming with my dutch oven and parchment paper. The fish worked but needed more soy sauce, but was completely redundant. We ended up having a Soviet pot lock.

Velcome to Nisga'a D, where the pot luck organizes you.

I should point out that this missed matched collection of 12 people is one of the nicest group of people I could hope to have to spend a year with. Also 8 of the 12 are generally cooks of some form.

About 5ish I figure its time to start cooking the potatoes right at the same time some one else was starting her dinner and one of the others had some fresh tuna. Despite having talked about a house potluck we never organized one. Instead every thing fell together. Yam fries, roast potatoes, fried tuna, bulgar wheat, salad rolls, Potato soup, some odd japanese rice treat.

In Nisga'a D the pot luck organizes you

Work space

I caved in after getting back from my thanks giving retreat. I spent some money on improving my workspace. This hard ware will carry forward reasonably well. A new LG 18.5inch wide monitor. It was the second cheapest on, the other being an acer with a lower contrast ratio. It is so good being able to see the details of text with out having to squint. Things have been busy. I have not read a book since I cam here. The norm is to watch an hour of tv before bed. Thankfully the high band width here makes it practical to snag the content from the web.

The Story of the Chicken

Greetings Bloggies.

The other day before class started. I made one of a few larger shopping trips, this one was to TNT Super Market, home to every thing interesting or ordinary depending on your culture. I had a guild who know the uses of some of the moderately interesting food stuffs. Among the things gottern, were, Squid whole but cleaned, Frog Legs, Pork belly, and Cornish game hens, also duck legs.

On Monday I cooked up on of the chickens. Lacking a BBQ sauce I faked it. The general gist of the thing was, Honey Soy Sauce, a little seseame oil. The bird was roasted in my cast iron dutch oven. In the company of some home grown potatoes and stuffed with garlic ginger and shallots. I cooked it up monday so I could have a good lunch for Tuesday which is one of my longer days.

So come late morning Tuesday I am briefly back in the house and microwaving the food back up to and eatable temperature. Now it should be pointed out that the residence here have some limited house keeping on week days for the common areas.
The house keeping staff was in my building as I was warming it. The more social of the two said it smelled good and my being big mouthed caused me to recall what went into it.


It made my day when I saw some notes being taken on the preparation of a chicken. And yes I have to say having eaten it, is worth reproducing, the potatoes were some of the best part.

BCIT Week one

Hello Bloggies.

It has been a good time. A fast time and that time will continue. A week ago today I finished off a trip that I started out some 10 days or so ago. The first leg was a two day trip to Vancouver island, a blog worthy thing in its own right. Key points of note, are that I had never been two the island before, a side from when I was an infant, I got to go to a good friend's wedding after not seeing her for years, and saw some Alpacas.
And Ice cream shop near the Bay



A small tug boat named BOOMER CAT, which I want to read as Boomer, Cat!, as I know a dog of that name, but I don't know how he takes to cats.




Above, Passing another Ferry in a tight channel, Some random Alpakas on Somones road. The MacKenzie side of the wedding, party, the bride, husband sister mother and father.


The wedding was quick well done and really showed they cared for each other. The reception was a blast. Side trips included seeing crabs jelly fish and other marine animals on a trip to a local bay. I would have liked to stay there longer and I will have to go back. But I had to make my way to Burnaby to get the ball rolling.

I made it to town with out trouble, the ferry was easier the second time. Moving in was strait forward, I had packed lightly. Not a bad idea, but at some points I realized that I just needed some things I did not yet own. So the first few days before class were costly, with the need to stock the shelves and cover up loose ends. Of the extras I picked the best one is the cast iron dutch oven, filling the need of both a roasting pan and larger pot for the stove top.

I did have home work from the start and got a bug nearly as quickly. Both are now under control for the moment. Enough so that I was able to take part in yesterdays residence scavenger hunt. In which there was much fun had, and lots of running. I mean lots of running as well as fun, but then some more running, often with the appearance of my chasing my house mates.







Some random photos of before and during the events. I was not actually part of the race, on account of having felt like crap when registration for it started and uncertainty about the quantity of home work. I tagged a long as an embedded reporter. And yes lots of people did dress up.

Every one of these paragraphs if you could call them that could very well be built into a longer story but I lack the drive and creativity to do so and will leave you with this info dump. WIth luck I will be able to make regular updates but much remains to be seen

Back to School Value

Greetings Bloggies.

I have to say I like Walmart. Firstly I have to say that I am now in BCIT residence enjoying the state of not yet having started classes and the act of moving in. This moving in business took me to the Walmart super centre to stock up on uninteresting times.

As I had said I like Walmart, but it would seem that Walmart wants to like me even more. I was walking down this very long store
I passed several uninteresting signs for back to school sale priced items. The last one I saw just made me laugh. There front and centre, Just out side of the aisle with the pharmacy themed items was a back to school display. The top banner was average, with clip art style images of pencils rulers and scissors. Down below it got interesting, it was not a display case full of pens of paper, but KY Jelly, his and hers two packs. Yes it turns out back to school is the best time to get personal lubricant.