Great Review

There really isn't much to say after watching the escapists reviews, brilliant.

Hot Pot

Hot Pot
Originally uploaded by chuborupert

The pictures aren't the best as they came off the cameraphone, but the food was good. I tested out my first hot pot dinner on our gait conference planning team. We had squid, fishballs, (tilapia, panko, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, cilantro, soy sauce, old bay) beef, bok choy, chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, and rice noodles. One side of the pot held chicken stock the other spicy chicken stock. I served a vietnamese dipping sauce (fish sauce, lime, peppers, sugar) an oyster and hoisin sauce mix. The prep work can be time consuming, but much of it can be done the day prior (sauces, stock).
It turned out very tasty.

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Sourdough crumb
Originally uploaded by chuborupert

here is the crumb, it looks moist on the lower end,,but it's not that bad love the bread!

Sourdough

Sourdough
Originally uploaded by chuborupert

I finally got my yeast starter to the point where it creates a decent sourdough. I've kept it alive feeding it every 2-4 days for around 6 weeks. It definitely is a slow low activity yeast as it takes a good 6-8 hours for the dough to double in size. I baked this at 500 deg for around 15 minutes, It was still a bit wet on the bottom so I returned it to the oven at 400 deg for another 15 min. Of course I didn't get the picture after the lower temp, (basically looks the same just darker. I am really liking the sour aftertaste and am pretty happy I took the time to grow the culture this long. I'm curious if it will evolve further.

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cheap Cabernet

cheap Cabernet
Originally uploaded by chuborupert

There is something wrong in the purple box, the wine isn't terrible, also not outstanding. I just can't seem to be able to embrace the milk carton as an appropriate container for wine. My wife bought this at costco or worse it may actually have been target. She knew from years of experience the effect it would have on me. (I think she lives for those moments). So we drank it, sharing ridiculous wine speak on it's merits.

Zelda on the DS plus more

I have been playing my sons Zelda game for the DS. I was initially worried about the use of the stylus for control and attack, but it turns out to be very intuitive. The map on the top screen (and the ability to pull it down fro notes) works geniusly on this game. I still have a long way to go in the game, and I'm a little worried, as my I have heard my son complain about the amount of backtracking he has to do in the game. (he still plays it though, so it can't be that bad)
Like most people I didn't get to play much Xbox this holiday as the Live service was essentially out the whole time. The kids got Mario Galaxy, Cooking Mama, and Ravin Rabbids 2 for the holidays so we have pretty much been playing those games on the Wii.

I keep meaning to take more food and meal pictures, but I always remember at the last minute or not at all. I need some more food posts, but mostly I would want to post some pics of the meals. I am hoping to put together a Chinese/Korean hot pot dinner the first for the immediate family if that goes well we will try it out at a larger dinner party.