Or
was a first attempt on a recipe a big success? Amazingly, the first
time I did sushi the rice was good. It is important to have a wooden
trough to mix the rice vinegar to the rice to get an even coat on the
rice. The biggest chore with sushi is going out that day to get the
fresh fish to make sushi rolls.
Do you have a favorite cookbook? The internet. It is too easy and fast and the phone can be with me in the kitchen for the recipe.
Do you have a favorite cooking show? Nah. Too many to watch when there are many tool shows to be viewed.
Do you have a favorite dish to make but it takes too long so you don't do it anymore? Sushi. A Thanksgiving meal is easier than getting raw fish at the fish market.
Have you ever been to a
Tree Lighting ceremony? I don't have any recollection or do you know Mom? Was it worth being in a crowd? Probably not. Just another COVID hot spot now.
Due to the increase in power bills, do you plan to cut back on Christmas outdoor decorations or will they be the same? Need to do those LED Xmas lights.
Ever make a Gingerbread house or just go heavy on ginger flavor, cookies, etc?
Interesting. When I was doing the family thing we made one Gingerbread
house with all those sweet candy on it and sugar snow roof top. And no
one ate it much less touched it, though it did last a long time before
we threw it out. Then I suggested that we should make the house out of
chocolate. It was a hit. In fact, we had to do a chocolate house for
each kid to ensure that they had a house to themselves. One issue with
the chocolate houses is that you have to keep them away from a window
because the sunlight coming through is enough to melt the house.
Any special plans for New Year’s Eve? Not really. I have been a good boy and gone nowhere to save money on projects and tools. Also, just another COVID hot spot.
How was your Thanksgiving? Most excellent! I did three dinners, two in Berkeley and one in Sacto. I made a side dish of fried green beans with chives and bacon. I got to carve the turkey, though anyone in the family can do that but they always suggest that I do that. And more importantly, I borrowed a crock pot. I put the turkey bones, blood, and small stuff in the pot with diced up carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, garlic, bay leaves cider and various other spices. It was an excellent aroma in the flat for a week where each meal was turkey stew. The broth was also excellent to drink. So, yay, Thanksgiving was great because I crock potted the turkey stuff and made a stew. FYI Sacto, you can make your own broth for brown rice by slowly cooking the turkey bones. See pic of my Turkey day in Sacto.
Trips. Not really.
Let's
get the tsunami out of the way. Back in 2011, the Japan earthquake was a
9.1 and 18 hours later a small tsunami hit the Bay Area. See video here.
Also, from here: "
The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a
magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed 11 people in
Crescent City. That wave rolled in at just under 4 feet and damaged marinas and private boats in Marin County."
What
annoyed me was that the 7.0 earthquake by Crescent City on December 5th
was just a 7, not a 9. A 9 is 1000 times more powerful than a 7. But
the City of Berkeley decided that they should evacuate everyone by the
bay. See pic. I was going to the recycling center off Gilman wondering
what the hell is all the traffic about. Then my music turned off to
allow a tsunami warning to come through. I thought, "We are in a bay.
Nothing is going to happen." So of course, the recycling center was
closed. The tsunami was cancelled in an hour because the earthquake was a
strike-slip fault, not a thrust fault.
The recycling folks never returned to work. That evening Jon told me
that a 9 is necessary for damage by a tsunami. So, the moral of this
adventure is don't panic for a 7.
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