Usually I make this for our annual fall sumo party. It's a great cold-weather chicken soup. And delicious.

Good Luck Chankonabe
(Sumo Soup)
Serves lots.Note: Why chicken? Because armless and legless fish are considered unlucky for wrestlers who depend so much on arms and legs, and because cows keep all four legs on the ground--an automatic loss ( Read more... )

Things to remember for future sumo parties:
1. Costumes--eh. But if you do get a Ragstock kimono, never wash it or it will dissolve. Literally. Frighteningly. "Horrific stench and fingers poking through cloth"-ly ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Sumo Party--I think it went quite well this year. And I actually got to see most of it, since for once I prepped most of the sumo soup chopped ingredients beforehand. Though I showed up late (3:00 PM) for my own party since I had a baby shower to attend first. Fu Manchu was quite the star of the party, with ( Read more... )

• House is filled with the scent of frying tofu and onions sauteeing in butter. Chopping shiitake mushrooms and bok choi and carrots.

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Depending on where you're coming from, this 35-W detour may affect you:
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Remember, the Sumo Party is this Saturday!

Feeling accomplished. This morning I finished my critiques for my writing group, and then I had my writer's group meeting and collected critiques and passed on critiques, and then I swung by Ragstock and picked up a couple of kimonos for us for the sumo party. Also glimpsed fake bamboo being tossed away, but alas, it was of insufficient quality for ( Read more... )

I would like to curl up on the couch with a book today (Green by Jay Lake, specifically) and cuddle with the cats and read, but I have four pressing projects that must be done instead of anything else.
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Right, so, there have been significant conflicts for the first two weeks of October--we're pondering the 17th as the official date now. Maybe. Any conflicts for that?

I had such a fabulous dream that I'm now trying to figure out if it would make a good story starter, or if it's just too ridiculous to work. But--but--I've kinda been getting an itch to do something with the sort of urban/rural fantasy thing-that-I-lack-a-handy-genre-handle-for. Not coincidentally, perhaps, either we both slept through the alarm or ( Read more... )