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Here’s a second take on a jacket potato, much larger than the previous go 14 months back. This was consumed with a bottle of North Peak Brewing Company’s Majestic Wheat Ale, a not-that-wheaty-but-still-decent almost-pale ale. While eating this Danielle had her own baked potato, with a steak and a small pile of the same mushrooms.

The mushrooms were washed and quartered, then sauteed in olive oil and butter along with garlic, onion, salt, black pepper, and a bit of white wine. It was quite good, but probably would have been better with more butter and less cheese.

Last night someone very special made stuffed shells for dinner, and now I’m eating leftover ones for dinner tonight at work. This is very, very tasty. I only wish I had some of the super-awesome garlic bread that was also made by said super-special person.

After running some errands and visiting the bike shop Danielle and I headed over to Neehee’s for some Indian food. We’d never been here before, and the location on Grand River Ave. Being without a sign and colocated with a grocery store in the far corner of a strip mall its particularly hard to find, but it was worth it. Specializing in Indian street food we’d wanted to try it for a while, but on our last attempt to visit we couldn’t find it, and later perusing showed that they were closed then.

Our lunch consisted of Onion Pakoda (as seen above), a Mysore Masala Dosa, and Chili Paneer. While absolutely wonderful tasting this was far, far more food than we should have ordered; easily enough for three people. Next time we won’t order so much, but there definitely will be a next time.

This is my first attempt at making bubble tea. I made some black tea with milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and some boiled boba balls. It’s decent and drinkable, but I think in the future I’ll have to boil the boba in sugar and water and add more milk to the mixture. The boba is a bit bland, and the tea is far too British tea-like and lacking the sweet rich treat flavor that I’ve come to associate with bubble tea.

This is Danielle’s new masala dabba, which is an spice holder used when cooking south Asian food. Hers holds garam masala, mustard seed, ground chilis / chili powder, cumin seeds, cumin powder, turmeric, and coriander powder.

At first the lid fit extremely snugly, so much so that it’d be difficult to open without spilling the spices. A bit of bending around the rim with an adjustable wrench made everything fit much better, though. Now to find something to cook… Mmm!

Tonight’s dinner is home-made mutter mushroom, along with a glass of Simcoak (a home-made oak aged triple IPA).

Life could be much, much worse.

I am currently eating the popcorn pictured above, which was popped in in a pot on the stove, in a bit of veggie oil. It was then tossed with Penzy’s Brady Street Cheese Sprinkle and a bit of freshly ground chipotle. Yes, real chipotle, first cut up with scissors, then broken down in a blade mill, and finally finished in a mortar and pestle with a bit of salt.

I have also been strongly advised to substitute bacon grease for the veggie oil in the next batch. This seems like wise advise.

Here, have a bunch of winter-time moblog photos including food from Slows Bar-B-Q in Detroit, ice skating at Campus Martius, and random bits of snow:

· Danielle taking a nap.
· Random poor quality photo taken at home.
· My order of pulled pork and cornbread at Slows Bar-B-Q.
· Danielle’s plate of catfish and beans at Slows Bar-B-Q.
· Kristi, Erik, and Nick at Slows Bar-B-Q.
· Outside of Slows Bar-B-Q in Detroit.
· Danielle skating in Campus Martius.
· Zamboni smoothing the ice at Campus Martius after ice skating with Kristi and Erik.
· Purchasing a stack of RAM and an external hard drive as christmas presents at Micro Center.
· Grilled cheese and cajun fries from Five Guys in Auburn Hills.
· Looking inside of a sharps container at Danielle’s work.
· Slow, slick drive to work along M-59 through construction.
· Looking out the window at work on a very empty holiday week Monday.

SHIN CUP NOODLE SOUP (신라면컵), made by NONG SHIM CO., LTD. (농심) is the best spicy instant noodle cup ever made. Everyone likes SHIN CUP. Now, please excuse me while I eat SHIN CUP as I must hurry and install timers in my electric fans.

There are worse things for breakfast than (very, very tasty) pumpkin pie the morning after returning from the other side of the country. Thanks to some great friends this was a outstanding trip for both Danielle and I, and there’s still a few days left. Today should mostly consist of running errands, prepping the Mac Pro for sale, collecting queued mail at the post office, and maybe (hopefully) a bike ride.