tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76976670083366713262024-03-05T00:44:27.169-05:00Chonicles of Princess Hot FlashCafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-76333371255660652342017-11-02T08:58:00.000-04:002017-11-02T08:58:39.134-04:00Moving my blog<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've decided to move my blog to wordpress. Having too many issues with my blogger app on my phone. Here's the link to my new site: <a href="http://choniclesofprincesshotflash.com/">choniclesofprincesshotflash.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's kind of fitting with all the changes in my life that I start fresh with a new site. I hope to move all of my recipes over my new site but in the meantime I will be add a recipe page with links back to here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope you stop back for read. </span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-28301411163048413542017-07-25T11:36:00.001-04:002017-07-25T11:42:19.032-04:00I'm becoming birder . . .<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm up with the birds because of my cats. 4:00-4:30 and if they're nice 4:50. Since I'm up I been going for a walk as the sun is coming up and birds are waking up. Robins, Cardinals, Starlings and Finches mostly. But down by the river at the bottom of my hill, if I'm quiet enough there is a Great Blue Heron hanging out. I'm obsessed with him [I'm making an assumption as usually female birds aren't as pretty]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wish I had better camera to get a shot of him. But here's a crappy shot from my iPhone through the railing of the bridge. He didn't know I was there. I happen to be quiet that morning. He make funny clucking sound. Not what I expected. I've seen another neighbor looking for him on the other side of the bridge. I keep looking for his nest in the trees. Maybe next time I'll get a better shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-61009777967330867432017-06-29T11:17:00.000-04:002017-06-29T11:21:13.731-04:00Life Changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's been a long while since my last post and I've been debating if I should continue Princess Hot Flash. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two and half months ago my life changed dramatically. My love of my life suddenly past away from a sudden heart attack. Since then I've been trying to get everything in order with his estate and my life. Or just back to a facsimile of normal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My energy level is very low, sleep is not my friend and my hot flashes have gotten worst (I figure that is due to stress) and all I really I would like to do is curl up into a ball and just sleep for a really long time. But I'm trying my best to beat that urge. Been walking and doing hot yoga as well a catching up will every British murder mystery series on Prime/Netflix. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ollie and Orange have been my best companions. Running about and making a mess of all the paperwork I've been sorting through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'll try and post when I can. I don't have my passion to bake or jam or cook at the moment. I don't have my favorite taster anymore. I do have recipes in the queue and hope to make something soon. When I do I'm sure I'll post some pictures for you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Been walking when I can. Mostly around the neighborhood or on the JC waterfront. Here's one from a cooler day on by the Hoboken terminal. Love how the remnants of old pier looks in the water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-20075385096468865742016-11-11T08:09:00.000-05:002016-11-11T08:09:44.133-05:00morning walks: week of 11.06.16<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting fresh. Hope to be posting more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.07.16: first day after the time change. Sun was up about the building in downtown NYC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.08.16 Election Day walk around the neighborhood after I voted</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ended my walk in my back yard at my garden. Too bad I put the pumpkin in too late. Got a bunch a flowers. Oh well, next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.09.16 Gloomy Day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.10.16 Beautiful morning</span><br />
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-44332728116808313852016-09-07T20:01:00.000-04:002016-09-07T20:23:18.125-04:00What I've been doing--part 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Got a little busy this spring. Here's some highlights of what I've been doing. Here's a link to the Spring 2016 album on flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/princesshotflash/albums/72157670307956684">https://www.flickr.com/photos/princesshotflash/albums/72157670307956684</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's time to vote for Middlesex County Best of the Best Readers Choice contest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please consider voting for Cafe Bua in the Home News Tribune Best of the Best Readers Choice Contest 2016 Middlesex County. Categories to consider for us: </span></div>
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-19988816261162672292016-07-23T20:12:00.001-04:002016-08-03T08:36:25.791-04:00I braved the heatwave<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe I been away so long. Just my crazy life taking over. Thought I'd start out slow with a quick post from my morning walk. Should have gone out earlier than I did. But got in 1/2 hour before I melted.</span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-37347697072294022342016-02-06T12:53:00.000-05:002016-02-06T12:53:54.047-05:00Commuter Projects 2015<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Started commuting to Hoboken last February, set a goal of 12 projects by the end of the year. I post about setting <a href="http://princesshotflash.blogspot.com/2015/03/my-life-as-train-commuter-projects.html">that goal here</a>. Here's the final count and just a quick run down of what I knitted and crochet this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Around 19+ project finished this year. Many made on the train/bus. I thought I documented all my finished projects but . . . But not too shabby for a year and all from my stash. Still knitting my stash away. Maybe next year it will all be gone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="text-align: center;">Project 1: </span></span><a href="http://www.masondixonknitting.com/visual/linoleum-dishcloth/" style="background-color: white; color: #5421bb; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Linoleum dishcloth by Kay Gardiner</a> x 2</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;">Project 3: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18.48px;">Seed Stitch Pouch</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finishing: hand stitching zipper in</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">Project 7: Crazy Yarn Log Cabin Throw</span></span><br />
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Project 8–11: Market bag x 4</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 12–13: crocheted tiaras x 2</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 14: crocheted basket</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 15: lacy cowl</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 16–17: Graham hat for donations</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for donation to Operation Gratitude</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 18: Earflap hat for WG</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This came out great. No picture. Thinking of making another hat in this pattern but need to find yarn in my stash.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Project 19: Eggplant for Ollie</span><br />
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-28147251507527605932016-02-05T11:49:00.000-05:002016-02-06T11:45:42.075-05:00The Big Storm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Got around 24". Shoveled twice on the day of and one long 3 1/2 hour session on the day after. I love snow and it was quite beautiful to me. Went for two walks--one in the neighborhood then one in the woods with WG. Here's a couple of my favorite shots from the storm. Made up an album on flickr of the photos if you want to see more <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsktZUXkY">https://flic.kr/s/aHsktZUXkY</a></span><br />
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-76264634967266491092016-02-05T11:33:00.000-05:002016-02-05T11:33:35.713-05:00Happy New Year!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm late, I'm late! This post has been sitting around for at least a couple of weeks. But do want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Been running behind since the week of Christmas. I had dreams of beautiful bags of cookies and jars of jam as holiday gift but that didn't happen this year. After many jars of jam [some for gift most for the restaurant] and last minute catering order for brownies, cookies and lemon bars, things just didn't turn out how I picture it would be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And of course, this spiraled into my dreams of our New Year's eve meal. I really wanted to make a great meal starting with a beautiful hot bowl of ozoni made with homemade dashi. But all the new year's cleaning wiped me out and this stupid cold started brewing . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I ended up in bed, cold [I'm never cold], with too much clothes on, getting suck into watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy and stayed up to Midnight to finish it. [happy new year! shhh! WG is sleeping--the restaurant is open on New Year's Day]</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
My New Year's eve meal turned into New Year's day early dinner of Kombu Maki and rice with Ozoni to finish the night when WG got home from the restaurant. It tasted delicious even a day later. I love the Ozoni with homemade dashi--totally worth making. Got a little fancy with the carrot. I eve had time to whip up some dessert a new favorite Cannoli Pound cake from smittenkitchen.com. </span><br />
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<br />Not bad for a person with a cold, I even made kimpira on the 2nd with the leftover burdock/gobo.</span><br />
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hope you have happy and healthy New Year! </span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-61135059058152583212015-12-19T08:04:00.001-05:002015-12-19T08:04:31.183-05:00Too much to do!I guess I fooled myself in thinking I was almost done with my holiday making. Ha ha ha! I'm not even half way done. Oh well! I guess I got to get myself going.<div><br></div><div>First up last night, roasted persimmon jam. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiUefjf2hRWu9G6iIL5C2jcfnZni_Hm4RYGeKaEaXj5DIeaABRXh5eRj2YwYvhvjyQ9Vh5YasNd7OjUWe-F7VsTOVu0NAMGnN-4bWOnvDQU-E_xmkNbhB1ufEK2RQ8JHngM2hWE5iB4l-/s640/blogger-image-1518396896.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiUefjf2hRWu9G6iIL5C2jcfnZni_Hm4RYGeKaEaXj5DIeaABRXh5eRj2YwYvhvjyQ9Vh5YasNd7OjUWe-F7VsTOVu0NAMGnN-4bWOnvDQU-E_xmkNbhB1ufEK2RQ8JHngM2hWE5iB4l-/s640/blogger-image-1518396896.jpg"></a></div>Read about a dessert with roasted persimmons and thought I'd try this out. Roasted persimmons right out of the oven to be food milled. Then in to thre pot with sugar, water and organic lemon juice (lemon from my sister's house). And cook till thick and sweet. I got 4 half pints 4 4oz jars.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nzOlEXUwXarBS6DXklhJfRzbTxXD14pYBU_4yOlawyfxRrKmyrHbnWbQjRjhdqetw0x12kb9JZ7kiMf8fXSGgA_Wt9lMRPK51Qw_thgArp9ehfloB7VD8bZGMoNK_dnqNZW5tUFMFGjg/s640/blogger-image-2093129397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nzOlEXUwXarBS6DXklhJfRzbTxXD14pYBU_4yOlawyfxRrKmyrHbnWbQjRjhdqetw0x12kb9JZ7kiMf8fXSGgA_Wt9lMRPK51Qw_thgArp9ehfloB7VD8bZGMoNK_dnqNZW5tUFMFGjg/s640/blogger-image-2093129397.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Next up mandarin pineapple. More jam to come. I need more bottles. Aargh! </div></div>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-28847317392126181632015-12-18T10:16:00.000-05:002015-12-18T10:24:31.768-05:00random links: december 2015 • part 2<div style="border: 0px; color: #383838; font-family: gotham, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.57143em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Found a few more links that I wanted to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-here's the link to the pattern for the Graham by Jennifer Adams. Easy and quick</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.57143em;">-looking to for a cozy hat to knit up for you or to donate via seamenschurch.org</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.57143em;"><a data-mce-href="http://seamenschurch.org/sites/default/files/sci-1898-hat-kristine-byrnes-web-w-schematic.pdf" href="http://seamenschurch.org/sites/default/files/sci-1898-hat-kristine-byrnes-web-w-schematic.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #047ac6; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.57143em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://seamenschurch.org/sites/default/files/sci-1898-hat-kristine-byrnes-web-w-schematic.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-baking powder and baking soda what it does to your cookies via serious eats</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-The Oh Hellos--nice watch or listen to start your day via tiny desk concerts</span></div>
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-55388998372778124322015-12-06T08:27:00.001-05:002015-12-06T08:27:48.188-05:00Jamming, jamming and more jamming<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAC3P5-tk0WH5TW65wUgVduKWCqrD-MH78aFjwfIMN7lF1WJCvI9tGPDi1fnQmNNGhp2LUu2SLvM9eMiv8D-XGFgSM6pWm1SZVTfxUshui6gvXo3rpvM1uQKB3TMyewk8Y6g3nBmLRYD34/s640/blogger-image-1209666346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAC3P5-tk0WH5TW65wUgVduKWCqrD-MH78aFjwfIMN7lF1WJCvI9tGPDi1fnQmNNGhp2LUu2SLvM9eMiv8D-XGFgSM6pWm1SZVTfxUshui6gvXo3rpvM1uQKB3TMyewk8Y6g3nBmLRYD34/s640/blogger-image-1209666346.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My first batch Kiwi Apple--2 pints for the restaurant and 2 half pint for holiday gifts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJokEyBl3CPg0iRIlEjGOPLb6SeXO_AU-QdzB-EZmUa_WmFL3p7o71r5Vis1zsWRZLKkamOJZ6NSleFaJW-66xqjZc-f6gKU0VP2la4XiD5xSpMmLU0fV0bxKI5onrlhodxQxGN8qQvaip/s640/blogger-image--697659466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJokEyBl3CPg0iRIlEjGOPLb6SeXO_AU-QdzB-EZmUa_WmFL3p7o71r5Vis1zsWRZLKkamOJZ6NSleFaJW-66xqjZc-f6gKU0VP2la4XiD5xSpMmLU0fV0bxKI5onrlhodxQxGN8qQvaip/s640/blogger-image--697659466.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Next up, Mandarin Marmalade. Big batch cooking up on the stove. Hope to get 2 pints for the restaurant and 4 4oz jars for gifts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxDQ8-fYeDsCd0wQ8XW97FrC50Vi1ITt7_JMVKorEqbxmyADugC2z7Y3yjtalY34UAEU6oVUahc5NWQYRRgKxaw9rIUTDqGE-JhI_S4fjVG3WwRuRWF8QbIVrMhqKqBU4EEN6y_il_2Jl/s640/blogger-image--594743545.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxDQ8-fYeDsCd0wQ8XW97FrC50Vi1ITt7_JMVKorEqbxmyADugC2z7Y3yjtalY34UAEU6oVUahc5NWQYRRgKxaw9rIUTDqGE-JhI_S4fjVG3WwRuRWF8QbIVrMhqKqBU4EEN6y_il_2Jl/s640/blogger-image--594743545.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hopefully I'll end today with Cranberry Apple. Trying out this recipe from Food in Jars for the first time. Using golden delicious. Here's the link if you want try out for yourself: http://foodinjars.com/2009/11/gift-in-a-jar-apple-cranberry-jam/</div><br></div>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-56381816182366241112015-12-05T08:59:00.001-05:002015-12-08T12:03:17.840-05:00Starting my Saturday<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UPDATE: Hat all done, just need to trim the ends, make the tag and pack up it up send off <a href="https://opgrat.wordpress.com/">https://opgrat.wordpress.com/</a>. The pattern was great pattern, really fast. Forgot to put the link to this pattern, here it is: <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/graham-2">http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/graham-2</a>. Hope to finish another so I have 2 to send off. Will post the finish product a little later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a cup a coffee and knitting in bed. Knitting a hat to donate for my volunteer time for work. They been pushing the volunteer effort, and I decide to sign up knitting for the troops. I'm still going through my stash and thank goodness I had colors specified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is stretchy slouchy hat good for many different types of people. I already frogged the whole thing missed a whole entire section. Hope to be done by this weekend so I can send it off this week. More pics of finished piece.</span></div>
Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-67454082770184789902015-12-01T13:47:00.000-05:002015-12-01T13:56:28.310-05:00random links: dec 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had a little bit of time so I decide to put this together early. Still on food theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-video about ugly food and food waste via swiss miss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-love the peg boards--I need to do this via Joy the Baker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-a jammy holiday gift via food in jars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-something go with the jammy gift<span style="line-height: 1.57143em;"> via food in jars</span></span></div>
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-26719714638108741382015-11-17T10:11:00.000-05:002015-11-17T10:11:45.521-05:00Random Links: November 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decide this month's links would be about food, since the holidays are coming fast and furious. Working on a variation on the Lots of Banana Cake recipe from Dorie Greenspan. Adding lilikoi to the cake. It brighten up the flavor but I think it needs more lilikoi and maybe lilikoi curd between the layers. Will post the alterations when I've got it right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-want to make your own pumpkin puree. I use the kabocha pumpkin after hear this story from Last Chance Food on NPR during my long commutes to work. Kabocha pumpkin have the very smooth texture and are sweeter than sugar pumpkins. I use the green ones but I've seen the orange ones, but haven't tried them yet. Here's the link to the story from Last Chance Food. And a link from Smitten Kitchen on how to make your own puree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Looking for a great cake for a party during the holidays. This sweet potato cake from Smitten Kitchen is yummy. I used vanilla buttercream instead of the marshmallow frosting because I was taking it to work. Looking for a reason to make this with the marshmallow frosting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-haven't tried this but it is on the lineup of cakes to try. from Lottie + Doof</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-another one in the lineup, guava chiffon cake. from Guava Rose</span><br />
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Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-17162346570992142622015-11-11T08:00:00.000-05:002015-11-12T02:17:04.881-05:00One and Only Zinnia<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that it's November, my one and only zinnia decided to bloom. I guess they weren't a total wash out. It is so beautiful. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next year, I hope to remember to plant the seeds early, to get a bunch of these or at least 2. </span></span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-33543920303757178182015-11-10T13:31:00.000-05:002015-11-10T13:31:01.925-05:00Morning Walks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really started my morning walks when I switched from taking the train to bus to work. Beside being half the price of my train ride, now I get out a stop before my stop and I walk along the water front of Jersey City and Hoboken. It is a great way to start your day. One of the best idea I've had in a long time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm trying to keep the walking up on my work from home days. But it's hard with Ollie the cat cuddling on my lap with my morning cup of coffee. I think I have to do as soon as WG leaves the house so I can put in more distance. I realized that these morning walks really gives me energy and put me in a better mood. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And I started using the <a href="http://www.charitymiles.org/">charity mile</a> and <a href="http://www.donateaphoto.com/en_US">donate a photo</a> app to raise money for charities on my walks. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm trying to take a at least one picture per walk and I've donating one of these photo to the app. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Been posting the photos on FB and I've also made an album on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/">flickr</a> of the pictures of my walks. Here's that link: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/princesshotflash/albums/72157660455331431">https://www.flickr.com/photos/princesshotflash/albums/72157660455331431</a>. Will continuing to add pictures as I </span>continue my walks. Maybe one day I'll even take a picture of myself on one of these walk. Maybe. . . </span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-77864118203086769352015-11-04T10:30:00.001-05:002015-11-04T10:30:52.982-05:00Random Links: Oops! I forgot to post October 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Missed Octobers random links. Here's what I collected:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-if you haven't made up one, you have to do it. Been loving all of these on FB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-love this knitting/crocheting project: The Red Scarf project. They deliver valentines gift to forster kids in college. You knit/crochet red scarves to be included in these care packages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.fc2success.org/programs/red-scarf-project-and-book-club/" href="http://www.fc2success.org/programs/red-scarf-project-and-book-club/" shape="rect" style="border: 0px; color: #047ac6; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.57143em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.fc2success.org/programs/red-scarf-project-and-book-club/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-guess I'm on charity kick. Just signed up for charity miles, it pays .25 per mile that I walked. I figure since I've been keeping to my walking routine. I might as well get something out of it. This may inspire me to walk more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-another charity app that I just started is Donate a Photo because I try and take at least on photo a day during my morning walk and I'd thought what a better way to raise money for a good cause and share my start of my day. Johnson & Johnson donate $1 a day for a donated photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-if I make it past 90, I guess doing this would be better than becoming a crazy cat lady.</span></div>
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<br />Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-43979780008625204162015-10-28T14:33:00.000-04:002015-11-05T10:32:37.250-05:00Olie the Cat<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">old myself--no more cats. PnC were the best. I would be always comparing the new cat to them. </span><br />
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But somebody show up at the back door of the restaurant, after some JACK--S threw him out of SUV. He was super friendly, not like the other cats from the feral colony in the back. He also was getting beat up by the other tom cats. AND he was skinny. </span><br />
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On top of that it was getting cold out. How would a house cat survive the cold outside?</span><br />
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All the kitchen folks plus my husband <span style="color: #6aa84f;">[the man who says he doesn't like pets] </span>were telling me to take him. And so that is how Ollie the Cat came to live with us. </span><br />
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Here's few pictures of the smart boy who keeps us on our toes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ollie finally let me take a picture of his face</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your votes got us The Home News Tribune Best of the Best 2015 Readers Choice Best THAI FOOD for the second year in the row. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 17.5636px; widows: 1;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We really appreciate your continued support over the last few years, from the 2011 Munchmobile feature to this year's award. Thank you so much. Hope to see you soon at Cafe Bua!</span></span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-33421497904047981302015-09-19T18:27:00.001-04:002015-09-19T18:27:59.068-04:00Random Links: September 2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-got this from <a href="http://www.underconsideration.com/quipsologies/index.php?page=2">Quipsologies</a>. Perfect for my new commuting strategy or my biking friends.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.volvolifepaint.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.volvolifepaint.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-video game for me and my yarnie friends. found this on <a href="http://www.notmartha.org/">not martha</a></span><br />
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2015/06/16/yarn-video-games.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://boingboing.net/2015/06/16/yarn-video-games.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-because I'm a foodie and have to post at least one link on food. Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk from <a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/">the Kitchn</a> sold me on this recipe. I'll make it when the weather gets cooler.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/jamie-oliver-chicken-in-milk-best-chicken-recipe-all-time-80388"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.thekitchn.com/jamie-oliver-chicken-in-milk-best-chicken-recipe-all-time-80388</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-I guess this makes three. I've been wanting make spareribs but can't choose between these two recipes--in the oven for 6 hours or sweet and sour Hawaiian-style</span><br />
<a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/07/sweet-and-smoky-oven-spareribs/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2010/07/sweet-and-smoky-oven-spareribs/</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.foodland.com/video/sweet-sour-spare-ribs"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.foodland.com/video/sweet-sour-spare-ribs</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-from <a href="http://swiss-miss.com/">swiss-miss.com</a> funny one star national park reviews. Funny.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/08/i-cant-stop-reading-these-one-star-yelp-reviews-national-parks"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/08/i-cant-stop-reading-these-one-star-yelp-reviews-national-parks</span></a>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-76622035915805884742015-09-19T18:26:00.001-04:002015-09-19T18:26:17.361-04:00Red Shiso: Part 2--pickles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I posted about my first harvest <a href="http://princesshotflash.blogspot.com/2015/09/red-shiso-first-harvest.html">here</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now that I have all the red shiso that I need <span style="color: #6aa84f;">[I cheated, the chef at the restaurant supplemented me with a beautiful bag of leaves]</span>, I'm on the road to make shibazuke, japanese pickles. Shibazuke is pickled eggplant, cucumber and ginger in salt and red shiso leaves. One of my favorite tsukemono. I love to eat it on hot rice, it's salty, tart and crunchy.</span><br />
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I've only had store-bought shibazuke so I was so exciting to get the shiso plant and start planning what I could do with it. I found this recipe from <a href="http://sojournerfood.blogspot.com/2013/10/shibazuke.html">Sojourner Food</a>. It looked doable. The only item I didn't have from the recipe was the ginger buds, myoga. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #6aa84f;">[Ha! I just googled the myoga and found a link on how to grow them. If you feel ambitious to grow your own, here's the <a href="http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-japanese-ginger-bud-83551.html">link</a>. I may tried this indoors this winter. This is what happens when you don't have a pet anymore. You look for other things to take care of.]</span></span><br />
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Back to the recipe, I just added little more ginger in it's place of the myoga. Here's some of the pictures of my first attempt at shibazuke.</span><br />
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This is the bag of shiso leaves from the chef. She still want to give me more. This was after I took out 40 leaves for the pickles. I don't know what she's thinking I'm going to make with these leaves. </span><br />
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I added the salt to the washed shiso leaves and tossed it together. I let it sit while I prepped the eggplant, cucumber and ginger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chopped the veggies into bite size pieces and the ginger into thin strips. Then salt and let to sit for 1/2 hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a 1/2 hour, I made sure that there was liquid from the salted veggies. Then I squeezed the shiso to get the purple-ly juice out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I added the juice and the squeezed shiso to the veggies and toss together. Taste a cucumber to see if the salt needs to adjusted. The recipe says it should be salty enough to pucker but not unbearable. I added a couple more unsalted shiso because I didn't think the juice was purple enough. <span style="color: #6aa84f;">[I hope it helps]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I packed it up in tall-ish plastic container, put dish with a can of condensed milk in another plastic container on top of that to weigh it down and cover. Now to wait a week to it is done. On Sunday, I'll give a mix. I'll post the finish product later. Can't wait, smell great already. <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have a 1/2 a bag full of shiso and some ginger to use up. What to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decide to try out shiso wrapped salmon. The chef at the restaurant told me about this. She said her husband, who is Vietnamese, wrapped fish with the shiso and grilled it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I marinated the salmon in koji [store-bought] and grated ginger to keep with the japanese theme. I let it sit for about 1/2 hour then wrap the salmon with the shiso. skewering the leaves to stay on. Then I tossed it on the grill, turning it once, till salmon was done. Here's what it looks like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taste? Pretty good. The koji gave is it that sweet and salty taste. The ginger went well with the koji and shiso flavor. The shiso still had the shiso flavor with a little bit of smokiness from the grill. Would definitely do it again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I'd do differently? Marinate fish longer with more koji and ginger, probably overnight. Cut up the salmon in smaller pieces so it is easier to wrap in the leave and use toothpicks instead of skewers. And lastly, don't grill in the dark. hard to see when the salmon was ready. I'll write up this recipe when I get the proportions right. Coming soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More shiso to use. Maybe some pickled ginger with shiso. Maybe I can dehydrate the leaves and make some furikake. Hmmm. That's a thought.</span></div>
Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-82481592232414143232015-09-18T14:05:00.001-04:002015-09-18T14:05:53.130-04:00Watered<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been shooting a lot with my borrowed camera. Got a bunch of shots from my morning waterings. Just thought I'd share what I've been practice shooting. Having fun with the camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's my <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/princesshotflash/albums/72157657704597161/with/20379376634/">watered album</a> on flickr. If I get more watered pictures will keep adding to it. </span>Cafe Bua/princesshotflashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16719661386833067875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697667008336671326.post-17880599398868198482015-09-11T09:39:00.000-04:002015-09-11T09:39:50.893-04:00I'm late, I'm late<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">returning my latest read </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ten Thousand Saints</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Eleanor Henderson. Just can't seem to finish it. I've been enjoying, it takes place, part of the time in NYC during the 80's, right when I arrived. I'm almost there and I'll just pay the fine. I thought I'd finish it up on my mini vacation but ended up knitting instead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's reading stats so far this year. Life of a commuter sure up the books read numbers. I'm impressed with myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last read: </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joy for Beginners</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Erica Bauermeister</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Books read so far this year: 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Books borrowed from the library: 4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see I've been making good use of my library these days. Decided to go old school and b</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">orrow books to read on my commute.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I'm there at least once a month, I've found some great things in the building while searching for something to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.nbfpl.org/">New Brunswick Free Public Library</a> is in a old Carnegie building. And still has some great old fixtures. Look at these old shelves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the second level, the floor has opaque glass panels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This give me more reason not to buy a kindle or a nook. I guess I'll keep doing this until it's not fun anymore. Support you local libraries. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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