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May. 10th, 2005
Unable to go to sleep early, and unable towake up early made for a very late start to Jenn's day. I'm getting kind of angry at my wasted Mondays.
Also...remember those few flies Iwas talkign about? Suddenly the house was full og them. They were EVERYWHERE. And I still can't seem to find where they're coming from! We took out all the trash, did all the dishes and they're still just everywhere! Hopefully, with everything clean, they'll start to go away...especially since we forgot to buy flypaper at the groceries tonight. I did manage to clear out most of the buggers from the room I was in at the time, though...but they'd migrate to the bathroom, or the living room. :P But once I reclaimed the kitchen (and cleaned everything), I attempted to make some food,
Sometimes, being completely unable to make food is a GOOD thing. Case in point, what the hell did I make last night?!
It was meant to be salsa. It really was meant to be salsa. But it's much too...green. And chunky. Not to mention watery versus soupy. And DAMN it's good. According to dean, I've invented some sort of mutant cilantro infused gaspacho.
Recipe for "Whatever the Hell it Was Jenn Made."
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes.
5 jalapenos (alhough this is QUITE spicy...I think I need to push it back to 4 jalapenos)
1 "clump" of cilantro...you know...a bundle...a bouquet.
Salt/Pepper/Garlic Powder/Onion Powder to taste
Dice the cilantro and jalapenos in a chopper, scoop it into a bowl, be amazed at how green it all is, add tomatoes and spices. Tasty accidental cuisine.
and now I wait. For once my insomnia is helping me out - I need to pick up a package at the apartment office. I'll write about THAT tomorrow. :)
Also...remember those few flies Iwas talkign about? Suddenly the house was full og them. They were EVERYWHERE. And I still can't seem to find where they're coming from! We took out all the trash, did all the dishes and they're still just everywhere! Hopefully, with everything clean, they'll start to go away...especially since we forgot to buy flypaper at the groceries tonight. I did manage to clear out most of the buggers from the room I was in at the time, though...but they'd migrate to the bathroom, or the living room. :P But once I reclaimed the kitchen (and cleaned everything), I attempted to make some food,
Sometimes, being completely unable to make food is a GOOD thing. Case in point, what the hell did I make last night?!
It was meant to be salsa. It really was meant to be salsa. But it's much too...green. And chunky. Not to mention watery versus soupy. And DAMN it's good. According to dean, I've invented some sort of mutant cilantro infused gaspacho.
Recipe for "Whatever the Hell it Was Jenn Made."
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes.
5 jalapenos (alhough this is QUITE spicy...I think I need to push it back to 4 jalapenos)
1 "clump" of cilantro...you know...a bundle...a bouquet.
Salt/Pepper/Garlic Powder/Onion Powder to taste
Dice the cilantro and jalapenos in a chopper, scoop it into a bowl, be amazed at how green it all is, add tomatoes and spices. Tasty accidental cuisine.
and now I wait. For once my insomnia is helping me out - I need to pick up a package at the apartment office. I'll write about THAT tomorrow. :)
Unable to go to sleep early, and unable towake up early made for a very late start to Jenn's day. I'm getting kind of angry at my wasted Mondays.
Also...remember those few flies Iwas talkign about? Suddenly the house was full og them. They were EVERYWHERE. And I still can't seem to find where they're coming from! We took out all the trash, did all the dishes and they're still just everywhere! Hopefully, with everything clean, they'll start to go away...especially since we forgot to buy flypaper at the groceries tonight. I did manage to clear out most of the buggers from the room I was in at the time, though...but they'd migrate to the bathroom, or the living room. :P But once I reclaimed the kitchen (and cleaned everything), I attempted to make some food,
Sometimes, being completely unable to make food is a GOOD thing. Case in point, what the hell did I make last night?!
It was meant to be salsa. It really was meant to be salsa. But it's much too...green. And chunky. Not to mention watery versus soupy. And DAMN it's good. According to dean, I've invented some sort of mutant cilantro infused gaspacho.
Recipe for "Whatever the Hell it Was Jenn Made."
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes.
5 jalapenos (alhough this is QUITE spicy...I think I need to push it back to 4 jalapenos)
1 "clump" of cilantro...you know...a bundle...a bouquet.
Salt/Pepper/Garlic Powder/Onion Powder to taste
Dice the cilantro and jalapenos in a chopper, scoop it into a bowl, be amazed at how green it all is, add tomatoes and spices. Tasty accidental cuisine.
and now I wait. For once my insomnia is helping me out - I need to pick up a package at the apartment office. I'll write about THAT tomorrow. :)
Also...remember those few flies Iwas talkign about? Suddenly the house was full og them. They were EVERYWHERE. And I still can't seem to find where they're coming from! We took out all the trash, did all the dishes and they're still just everywhere! Hopefully, with everything clean, they'll start to go away...especially since we forgot to buy flypaper at the groceries tonight. I did manage to clear out most of the buggers from the room I was in at the time, though...but they'd migrate to the bathroom, or the living room. :P But once I reclaimed the kitchen (and cleaned everything), I attempted to make some food,
Sometimes, being completely unable to make food is a GOOD thing. Case in point, what the hell did I make last night?!
It was meant to be salsa. It really was meant to be salsa. But it's much too...green. And chunky. Not to mention watery versus soupy. And DAMN it's good. According to dean, I've invented some sort of mutant cilantro infused gaspacho.
Recipe for "Whatever the Hell it Was Jenn Made."
1 14.5 ounce can of diced tomatoes.
5 jalapenos (alhough this is QUITE spicy...I think I need to push it back to 4 jalapenos)
1 "clump" of cilantro...you know...a bundle...a bouquet.
Salt/Pepper/Garlic Powder/Onion Powder to taste
Dice the cilantro and jalapenos in a chopper, scoop it into a bowl, be amazed at how green it all is, add tomatoes and spices. Tasty accidental cuisine.
and now I wait. For once my insomnia is helping me out - I need to pick up a package at the apartment office. I'll write about THAT tomorrow. :)
I called my mom early in the morning. I hadn't called them in a while, and being Mother's day I was kinda obligated to...I did tell them I'd met a new girl, Emily, andthey were happy for me. The obvious came up immediately: Are you moving to Canada? I told her, "who knows?" She seemed happy about it. Then I slept and woke up for....
Comics! All day!
Some notes about AWFW - we finally get to hear about the creator, Deyus Pitha. We also deepen the mystery of Hanna a bit with the 30 year revelation. And definitively connect "Emm'a" to "Abaddon."
Deyus Pitha a purposely mispelled version of Dyeus Phater, the name of the chief god in the Proto Indo European societies (It's also where we get the names Zeus, Dievas and Jupiter). I've actually used a bit of PIE in the series, already. Haustos is based on PIE Hausos, goddess of dawn, and Skai...well...we'll get into that eventually. :) Anyways, if the Creator was the first thing around, we might as well give him the first name we had for him.
A reader figured out HAnna's mystery already! Hotdamn! The sign of a plausible mystery is if someone gets it before everyone else (including the story characters) do.
Looking it over artwise, though, I definately need to do something about the long shots. Panel 5 and 6 look terrible, and were hard to draw in the 1/6th format I'm using now. I may need to go back to 1 page per panel for long shots.
It was/is our 2nd month anniversary! I love you nine times over, Emily. :) ::hugs::
Comics! All day!
Some notes about AWFW - we finally get to hear about the creator, Deyus Pitha. We also deepen the mystery of Hanna a bit with the 30 year revelation. And definitively connect "Emm'a" to "Abaddon."
Deyus Pitha a purposely mispelled version of Dyeus Phater, the name of the chief god in the Proto Indo European societies (It's also where we get the names Zeus, Dievas and Jupiter). I've actually used a bit of PIE in the series, already. Haustos is based on PIE Hausos, goddess of dawn, and Skai...well...we'll get into that eventually. :) Anyways, if the Creator was the first thing around, we might as well give him the first name we had for him.
A reader figured out HAnna's mystery already! Hotdamn! The sign of a plausible mystery is if someone gets it before everyone else (including the story characters) do.
Looking it over artwise, though, I definately need to do something about the long shots. Panel 5 and 6 look terrible, and were hard to draw in the 1/6th format I'm using now. I may need to go back to 1 page per panel for long shots.
It was/is our 2nd month anniversary! I love you nine times over, Emily. :) ::hugs::
I called my mom early in the morning. I hadn't called them in a while, and being Mother's day I was kinda obligated to...I did tell them I'd met a new girl, Emily, andthey were happy for me. The obvious came up immediately: Are you moving to Canada? I told her, "who knows?" She seemed happy about it. Then I slept and woke up for....
Comics! All day!
Some notes about AWFW - we finally get to hear about the creator, Deyus Pitha. We also deepen the mystery of Hanna a bit with the 30 year revelation. And definitively connect "Emm'a" to "Abaddon."
Deyus Pitha a purposely mispelled version of Dyeus Phater, the name of the chief god in the Proto Indo European societies (It's also where we get the names Zeus, Dievas and Jupiter). I've actually used a bit of PIE in the series, already. Haustos is based on PIE Hausos, goddess of dawn, and Skai...well...we'll get into that eventually. :) Anyways, if the Creator was the first thing around, we might as well give him the first name we had for him.
A reader figured out HAnna's mystery already! Hotdamn! The sign of a plausible mystery is if someone gets it before everyone else (including the story characters) do.
Looking it over artwise, though, I definately need to do something about the long shots. Panel 5 and 6 look terrible, and were hard to draw in the 1/6th format I'm using now. I may need to go back to 1 page per panel for long shots.
It was/is our 2nd month anniversary! I love you nine times over, Emily. :) ::hugs::
Comics! All day!
Some notes about AWFW - we finally get to hear about the creator, Deyus Pitha. We also deepen the mystery of Hanna a bit with the 30 year revelation. And definitively connect "Emm'a" to "Abaddon."
Deyus Pitha a purposely mispelled version of Dyeus Phater, the name of the chief god in the Proto Indo European societies (It's also where we get the names Zeus, Dievas and Jupiter). I've actually used a bit of PIE in the series, already. Haustos is based on PIE Hausos, goddess of dawn, and Skai...well...we'll get into that eventually. :) Anyways, if the Creator was the first thing around, we might as well give him the first name we had for him.
A reader figured out HAnna's mystery already! Hotdamn! The sign of a plausible mystery is if someone gets it before everyone else (including the story characters) do.
Looking it over artwise, though, I definately need to do something about the long shots. Panel 5 and 6 look terrible, and were hard to draw in the 1/6th format I'm using now. I may need to go back to 1 page per panel for long shots.
It was/is our 2nd month anniversary! I love you nine times over, Emily. :) ::hugs::
( Salsa Like Substance )
Several months (years?) ago, I mentioned The World's Best Ramen. It was a long story about how Dean and I became Ramen Snobs after sampling some good old fashioned Oriental Store Ramen. After trying many packages out (we were poor, we had to eat what we could) we discovered two things:
1) Indomie Ramen is the Best Ramen ever produced by man in the history of instant noodles, especially their Onion Chicken Flavors.
2) Korean Ramen really does taste like mud.
The store we bought from in Pennsylvania caried four types of Indomie Ramen. Onion Chicken, Chicken Curry, Soto Mie, and Satay Fried Noodle. These are the only four I ever saw. And while all four of these are THE BEST RAMEN IN ALL OF ETERNITY, I got a special craving for the Soto Mie ramen. It's basically just a chickeny ramen with lime.
Four years later, we move to Austin. After scouring all the good ethnic shops, we settle on Muy Tanth for our ramen needs. Far Corners in State College had a small "Wall of ramen. Muy Tanth had the "Death Star Trench of Ramen." Again, we tried the ramen we hadn't before (I love Shin Ramyun and this other one that I can only read as "Spicy Seafood Flavor), and we eventually made it down to the Indomie ramen, and learned that Indomie made more than four. At the very least they made 7, the other three being different types of Mi Goreng.
Then tragedy - Suddenly, the indomie selection was down to three - Chicken Curry, Onion Chicken and...Mi Goreng (regular flavor). ALAS, There was no more Soto Mie. I looked at all the other oriental stores I knew of and found nothing. I figured Indomie just didn't make Soto Mie anymore.
Skip forward to a week ago.
I was talking with a coworker about ramen and told her about Soto Mie, when I realized: Indomie is prolly not the only company that makes Soto Mie. Look around for it! So I got online and looked around. And I not only found a place that still sold Soto Mie Indomie ramen, but...
FOURTEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAMEN. (And the total cost was about $5 :) )
I'm really looking forward to trying the other flavors. Indomie has never done me wrong, before. I've never had oxtail or skipjack tuna before...and if they suck? Well, I'm out 40 cents. But if they're good... Mmmmmmmmmm...............
I love that "Special Chicken Flavor" though. I haven't tried it yet, but it's Asia's answer to American Chicken Flavor (or as I like to call it, chicken laced salt flavor). I wonder what it tastes like compared to Maruchan chicken flavor.
I'll review these as get through them. Mmm mmm tasty. :D
Several months (years?) ago, I mentioned The World's Best Ramen. It was a long story about how Dean and I became Ramen Snobs after sampling some good old fashioned Oriental Store Ramen. After trying many packages out (we were poor, we had to eat what we could) we discovered two things:
1) Indomie Ramen is the Best Ramen ever produced by man in the history of instant noodles, especially their Onion Chicken Flavors.
2) Korean Ramen really does taste like mud.
The store we bought from in Pennsylvania caried four types of Indomie Ramen. Onion Chicken, Chicken Curry, Soto Mie, and Satay Fried Noodle. These are the only four I ever saw. And while all four of these are THE BEST RAMEN IN ALL OF ETERNITY, I got a special craving for the Soto Mie ramen. It's basically just a chickeny ramen with lime.
Four years later, we move to Austin. After scouring all the good ethnic shops, we settle on Muy Tanth for our ramen needs. Far Corners in State College had a small "Wall of ramen. Muy Tanth had the "Death Star Trench of Ramen." Again, we tried the ramen we hadn't before (I love Shin Ramyun and this other one that I can only read as "Spicy Seafood Flavor), and we eventually made it down to the Indomie ramen, and learned that Indomie made more than four. At the very least they made 7, the other three being different types of Mi Goreng.
Then tragedy - Suddenly, the indomie selection was down to three - Chicken Curry, Onion Chicken and...Mi Goreng (regular flavor). ALAS, There was no more Soto Mie. I looked at all the other oriental stores I knew of and found nothing. I figured Indomie just didn't make Soto Mie anymore.
Skip forward to a week ago.
I was talking with a coworker about ramen and told her about Soto Mie, when I realized: Indomie is prolly not the only company that makes Soto Mie. Look around for it! So I got online and looked around. And I not only found a place that still sold Soto Mie Indomie ramen, but...
FOURTEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAMEN. (And the total cost was about $5 :) )
I'm really looking forward to trying the other flavors. Indomie has never done me wrong, before. I've never had oxtail or skipjack tuna before...and if they suck? Well, I'm out 40 cents. But if they're good... Mmmmmmmmmm...............
I love that "Special Chicken Flavor" though. I haven't tried it yet, but it's Asia's answer to American Chicken Flavor (or as I like to call it, chicken laced salt flavor). I wonder what it tastes like compared to Maruchan chicken flavor.
I'll review these as get through them. Mmm mmm tasty. :D
( Salsa Like Substance )
Several months (years?) ago, I mentioned The World's Best Ramen. It was a long story about how Dean and I became Ramen Snobs after sampling some good old fashioned Oriental Store Ramen. After trying many packages out (we were poor, we had to eat what we could) we discovered two things:
1) Indomie Ramen is the Best Ramen ever produced by man in the history of instant noodles, especially their Onion Chicken Flavors.
2) Korean Ramen really does taste like mud.
The store we bought from in Pennsylvania caried four types of Indomie Ramen. Onion Chicken, Chicken Curry, Soto Mie, and Satay Fried Noodle. These are the only four I ever saw. And while all four of these are THE BEST RAMEN IN ALL OF ETERNITY, I got a special craving for the Soto Mie ramen. It's basically just a chickeny ramen with lime.
Four years later, we move to Austin. After scouring all the good ethnic shops, we settle on Muy Tanth for our ramen needs. Far Corners in State College had a small "Wall of ramen. Muy Tanth had the "Death Star Trench of Ramen." Again, we tried the ramen we hadn't before (I love Shin Ramyun and this other one that I can only read as "Spicy Seafood Flavor), and we eventually made it down to the Indomie ramen, and learned that Indomie made more than four. At the very least they made 7, the other three being different types of Mi Goreng.
Then tragedy - Suddenly, the indomie selection was down to three - Chicken Curry, Onion Chicken and...Mi Goreng (regular flavor). ALAS, There was no more Soto Mie. I looked at all the other oriental stores I knew of and found nothing. I figured Indomie just didn't make Soto Mie anymore.
Skip forward to a week ago.
I was talking with a coworker about ramen and told her about Soto Mie, when I realized: Indomie is prolly not the only company that makes Soto Mie. Look around for it! So I got online and looked around. And I not only found a place that still sold Soto Mie Indomie ramen, but...
FOURTEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAMEN. (And the total cost was about $5 :) )
I'm really looking forward to trying the other flavors. Indomie has never done me wrong, before. I've never had oxtail or skipjack tuna before...and if they suck? Well, I'm out 40 cents. But if they're good... Mmmmmmmmmm...............
I love that "Special Chicken Flavor" though. I haven't tried it yet, but it's Asia's answer to American Chicken Flavor (or as I like to call it, chicken laced salt flavor). I wonder what it tastes like compared to Maruchan chicken flavor.
I'll review these as get through them. Mmm mmm tasty. :D
Several months (years?) ago, I mentioned The World's Best Ramen. It was a long story about how Dean and I became Ramen Snobs after sampling some good old fashioned Oriental Store Ramen. After trying many packages out (we were poor, we had to eat what we could) we discovered two things:
1) Indomie Ramen is the Best Ramen ever produced by man in the history of instant noodles, especially their Onion Chicken Flavors.
2) Korean Ramen really does taste like mud.
The store we bought from in Pennsylvania caried four types of Indomie Ramen. Onion Chicken, Chicken Curry, Soto Mie, and Satay Fried Noodle. These are the only four I ever saw. And while all four of these are THE BEST RAMEN IN ALL OF ETERNITY, I got a special craving for the Soto Mie ramen. It's basically just a chickeny ramen with lime.
Four years later, we move to Austin. After scouring all the good ethnic shops, we settle on Muy Tanth for our ramen needs. Far Corners in State College had a small "Wall of ramen. Muy Tanth had the "Death Star Trench of Ramen." Again, we tried the ramen we hadn't before (I love Shin Ramyun and this other one that I can only read as "Spicy Seafood Flavor), and we eventually made it down to the Indomie ramen, and learned that Indomie made more than four. At the very least they made 7, the other three being different types of Mi Goreng.
Then tragedy - Suddenly, the indomie selection was down to three - Chicken Curry, Onion Chicken and...Mi Goreng (regular flavor). ALAS, There was no more Soto Mie. I looked at all the other oriental stores I knew of and found nothing. I figured Indomie just didn't make Soto Mie anymore.
Skip forward to a week ago.
I was talking with a coworker about ramen and told her about Soto Mie, when I realized: Indomie is prolly not the only company that makes Soto Mie. Look around for it! So I got online and looked around. And I not only found a place that still sold Soto Mie Indomie ramen, but...
FOURTEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAMEN. (And the total cost was about $5 :) )
I'm really looking forward to trying the other flavors. Indomie has never done me wrong, before. I've never had oxtail or skipjack tuna before...and if they suck? Well, I'm out 40 cents. But if they're good... Mmmmmmmmmm...............
I love that "Special Chicken Flavor" though. I haven't tried it yet, but it's Asia's answer to American Chicken Flavor (or as I like to call it, chicken laced salt flavor). I wonder what it tastes like compared to Maruchan chicken flavor.
I'll review these as get through them. Mmm mmm tasty. :D