• “boil” is probably too high for the burner setting, though it will cook most of the albumen immediately on contact
• festive sparkling noises
• squishing the yolk slightly (slight oozings) seems to help cook it hard enough
• plenty of oil probably helped

I started with a cookbook (my edition is earlier than this example one), to be sure my memory of my Dad ( Read more... )

( Click here if you can read hiragana and Japanese. )

There was a confused clump of (mostly) adults outside a locked, dark Kitsilano High School this evening. Nobody'd called us or emailed to say that "Classes are also on hold for VSB night school and the VSB Adult Education Centres." So, I came home and read through this week's dialogue, did some hiragana review in my workbook (which is ( Read more... )

This morning, I downloaded a customizable flashcard program Genius helps you memorize things. Genius organizes your information and carefully chooses questions using an intelligent "spaced repetition" method that’s based on your past performance. It performs fuzzy answer checking and even highlights errors visually.
and a hiragana card-set to go ( Read more... )