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August 2005 - Posts

Spicy lentil-potato patty on flatbread

I like piadina, the lard-enhanced soft, cracker-like flatbread of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. But I don’t use a lot of pork lard in my vegetarian kitchen. On the other hand, the toasted ghee I made last week stands in just fine; in German clarified Read More...
Posted Monday, August 29, 2005 11:34 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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Paneer two ways

Fried paneer with homemade peach chutney and paneer in a spicy tomato creams sauce. Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 27, 2005 7:47 PM by jason | 2 Comments
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Soba waffle with sweetened ricotta and peaches

Peaches were looking nice this week, so for breakfast this morning, I diced some peaches and added them to some sweetened ricotta with a few drops of vanilla, surrounded them with sliced peaches, and placed them atop a buckwheat buttermilk waffle. It’s Read More...
Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 10:38 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Craving soup and lentils

Tonight I was craving some soup, and something hearty involving lentils… I think I have recently mentioned this strangely unseasonal craving. I decided I wanted something rich, something refreshing, and something comforting. I’m far from Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:34 PM by jason | 1 Comments

Maybe I can catch up

My internet orders seem to be quieter the last few days so I hope I can finally make a dent on some long-neglected wholesale work and bookkeeping… but now I am a little frustrated at the sudden calm… It looks like the weather is slowly turning Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:06 AM by jason | 0 Comments
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Monday downtime

I did make a delivery and take care of some orders today, but I worked at a relatively slow pace today. One of my wholesale customers called and dramatically increased their reorder size, so that makes me happy. They used to take a cautious 2 cases per Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 11:29 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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Raspberry Lassi, Moon Viewing

Raspberry lassi, and offering refreshments at the moon viewing festival at the Japanese Garden in Seattle. Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:37 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Milchreis mit Himbeeren

In Germany, I remember buying a short-grain rice called Milchreis as an awful substitute for japonica . It was the cheapest possible rice we could buy and available in mainstream supermarkets. It tasted adequate and the price was right for a starving Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 20, 2005 10:04 AM by jason | 1 Comments
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Taco salad

Somehow I’ve been in a salad kind of mode at dinner lately. The weather’s been a bit hot and I guess I’ve got only a summer appetite… I seem to be more interested in big lunches, or small lunches and little afternoon snacks. Normally Read More...
Posted Friday, August 19, 2005 10:05 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Grilled tofu, umeboshi and tomato salad, and plotting a last minute contribution

Standard operating procedure for Americans confronted with tofu is to cover it up as much as possible. People think it “absorbs” flavors of things around it. This isn’t really true, though because water in tofu keeps the flavor mostly Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:26 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Focused/Distracted

Whenever possible, I’m inclined to write about something I’ve been doing or eating outside of work, but there hasn’t been much of that this week. I’m a little overwhelmed. I’m not getting much sleep. I’m eating awkwardly, although I had an excellent lunch Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:19 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Short sweet demo before a politically significant birthday

As customary I did another supermarket demo today, this time at Uwajimaya. No disasters on my part this time, but a young guy, roughly mid-to-late teens, managed to drop a matcha latte sample. His parents must have trained him well, because he not only Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:47 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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A bit of a klutz

It’s no secret that I am sometimes prone to distracting mishaps. Today I went to Central Market to do a matcha latte demo, and due to a slightly larger than normal number of vendors doing demos this weekend, I needed to bring my own small table. Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 13, 2005 8:48 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Matcha white chocolate enrobed fortune cookies

My matcha chocolate fortune cookies arrived yesterday early in the evening, and so I thought I’d try to take photographs today. One session I got half-decent shots of the cookies by themselves, but there was something wrong with all of the box shots. Usually something was too dark, and something was too bright. Alas, my cookies didn’t like the lighting at all… They tasted good, though, even when the heat from the light melted them a bit... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:28 PM by jason | 2 Comments
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New stuff coming

I just got a delivery of some nifty fortune cookies , dipped in matcha-flavored white chocolate, made by Chocolati of Seattle for YuzuMura.com. I got them just before something I had planned for this evening, so I don’t have any decent photos… Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:59 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Transforming ingredients, again

I’m afraid, after a late night updating my online store, my body was not in great form today… I got through most of the daytime hours, but I couldn’t even convince myself to go jogging this evening. Fortunately, I instead eventually Read More...
Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 11:34 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Lazy Sundays, I remember them

Most weekends I find myself in supermarkets doing demos of the candy and matcha latte stuff, but I never scheduled anything for this Sunday, so I took most of the day at leisure. I did show up to my office after whiling away most of the morning, nibbling Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:59 PM by jason | 0 Comments

Another Portland demo trip

I went to the Beaverton Uwajimaya today, but somehow I didn’t arrive until about 12:15 and I spent about 10 minutes wandering around trying to figure out where my demo table might be, then I found the staff member who runs the event, and settled Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 06, 2005 11:38 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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What am I doing right?

Yesterday I was surprised by a larger than usual number of internet orders for almost every product category I cover. I spent a good portion of the day taking care of them, although I also had a few other wholesale things to work on and a quick meeting, Read More...
Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 11:59 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Coleman pool, simple picnic

A couple of friends wanted to meet up at the Coleman Pool in West Seattle, but I got the call just about 10 minutes before the last session of the day would begin. At that very moment, I was in Ballard, talking with a client of mine. I don’t keep Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:55 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Mrmph... Software

I remember there was a time when I enjoyed exploring the features of software even when I didn’t need to know a specific feature for any particular task or work I had ahead of me. In fact, I’d say that most of my life, “playing” Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:14 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Making use of what's available

When I studied in Germany, my friends and neighbors were always surprised that I could make dinner out of “nothing.” What they meant was that I could scrape together something interesting from available ingredients, even if the ingredients Read More...
Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 11:56 PM by jason | 2 Comments
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