Today i spent ~5 hours shopping for groceries. One of the downsides to living out in the country is that this is, without a doubt, HEB country. For those that don't know, HEB is a smallish chain of grocery stores originating in the Austin area. If you see a grocery store out here, there's prolly around a 90% chance it's a HEB. They have reasonable prices, a decent selection, and fairly good produce. The only major complaint i have is that the butcher's stock sucks ass, hardcore. I've tried, on multiple occasions; beef, pork, chicken, and seafood, all with the same result: sub-standard, tough, and flavor-less meat. This leaves you with two options, 1) search for a independent butcher or 2) search for a different grocery store. After spending ~20 min looking for a rumored butcher's shop, i opted for option 2. Well, it was a good 2 hours before i got to the nearest (to the best of my knowledge) non-HEB grocery store. I'm sure it prolly seemed quite interesting that i loaded up on chicken breasts, salmon, and swordfish steaks with very little other things in my basket (my previous shopping was done at the cult grocery). I got home just in time to start cooking dinner. >.<
With a decent amount of skepticism, i tried yet another new dish out of my ever-full japanese cookbook; Sakana no Shinshu-mushi (Fish steamed with Soba, Shinshu-style). Now, to date, i've cooked alot of different things in various ways, but steaming fish was something i'd never done before. As i spent the 2+ hours making the recipe for the first time, i had a backup plan for dinner, should it turn out...less than good. To my surprise, it was very, very good. Even without all the ingredients (mostly garnish type things), it was a smooth and delicately flavored (yet filling) dish. Basically, it's fish (salmon this time) wrapped around cooked Soba noodles, then steamed. Now granted, it's _far_ more complex and annoying (mostly cause it was the first attempt) than that, but that's a close enough description. Everyone was quite pleased with it and it looks like it's going on the repeat menu.
A good friend showed me this little movie about a mac, done in the same style as the WoW switcher vids. I have to admit, if you've ever been a Mac newbie, it's quite easy to relate to this guy.
Here is another interesting read i ran across today along with many other random things.
With a decent amount of skepticism, i tried yet another new dish out of my ever-full japanese cookbook; Sakana no Shinshu-mushi (Fish steamed with Soba, Shinshu-style). Now, to date, i've cooked alot of different things in various ways, but steaming fish was something i'd never done before. As i spent the 2+ hours making the recipe for the first time, i had a backup plan for dinner, should it turn out...less than good. To my surprise, it was very, very good. Even without all the ingredients (mostly garnish type things), it was a smooth and delicately flavored (yet filling) dish. Basically, it's fish (salmon this time) wrapped around cooked Soba noodles, then steamed. Now granted, it's _far_ more complex and annoying (mostly cause it was the first attempt) than that, but that's a close enough description. Everyone was quite pleased with it and it looks like it's going on the repeat menu.
A good friend showed me this little movie about a mac, done in the same style as the WoW switcher vids. I have to admit, if you've ever been a Mac newbie, it's quite easy to relate to this guy.
Here is another interesting read i ran across today along with many other random things.
You scored as Combat Shotgun. The Combat shotgun is mostly a sidearm. There are many different Combat Shotguns like the M500, Remington 870, SPAS-12, Benelli M3, ect. The shotgun ussually holds up to 4 to 9 shotgun shells. The shotgun is very reliable and powerful and close range but lacks firepower at longer range. Double Ott Buck is very powerful you know. The Combat Shotgun either comes in Pump-Action or Semi-Automatic or both.
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