So the other day I tried to make a totally vegan pasta dish: spaghetti with tofu, shitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, sliced almonds, garlic and chilli - the umami, I originally planned, would come from the broth I made from soaking the dried shitake. As I totally expected, the finished product was pretty much taste free :( So in the end, I had to add some fish oil to make it edible...
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On reflection, that is a very respectable, manly amount of pasta I made.
On the weekend I came across a chess set I saw a few years back... it's a Devilman chess set with amazing figurines of the Devilman manga characters in all their grotesque, monster glory. Of course it costs a ton, and for now I will have to get by visiting that booth and gazing at the set longingly...
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Xenon and Satan are my favourites... what is it with me and bad guys?