Wasabi Mashed Potatoes = Love
Last night's dinner at the Texas Embassy:
steamed artichokes with three kinds of dipping sauce (Thai peanut, curry mayo, hot mustard)
wasabi mashed potatoes!
As a Frenchman I knew long ago used to say in choked tones with tears streaming from his eyes, after taking a bite of wasabi-slathered sushi, "The pain is exquisite." I would never have thought of that combo on my own, but we went out to eat a few weeks ago and they came with the B.H.'s tuna. Now, of course, it had just a sense of the wasabi, for mere mortals. But when the B.H. decided to duplicate the recipe, he put in an ENTIRE TUBE of wasabi paste. He wept as he mashed. But they were, in fact, exquisite. And so easy: Boil potatoes and several whole cloves of garlic (to taste, of course). Add a little milk and margarine, and dump in as much wasabi as you want. Enjoy! As I was telling islandboy99, they seem gourmet but are so simple.
In other news, today's To-Do List:
Find glasses
Return phone calls
Grade ENGL 223 (Research Writing) short proposals
Grade 1 1/2 weeks of WRIT 325 (Writing for the Professions...no, not THAT one, you pervs) homework
Grade ENGL 346 (Romantic Engl. Lit.) journals
Read Wollstonecraft for tomorrow
Review WRIT 325 lecture notes
Write detailed "future of drama dept." memo
Have a whinge about said memo w/ dept. chair
Clean kitchen
Finish potting flowers
Nag B.H. into putting a "floor" on former kitschy mailbox, now birdhouse
Fold laundry
Catalog stack of books upstairs on LibraryThing.com
Catalog/reshelve stack of books downstairs
Wash patio furniture
Rake/scrape patio (note to self: B.H.?)
Rearrange patio
Collapse in sodden heap
Alternate To-Do List:
Goof off on internet
Alternate-Alternate To-Do List:
Take long bath
steamed artichokes with three kinds of dipping sauce (Thai peanut, curry mayo, hot mustard)
wasabi mashed potatoes!
As a Frenchman I knew long ago used to say in choked tones with tears streaming from his eyes, after taking a bite of wasabi-slathered sushi, "The pain is exquisite." I would never have thought of that combo on my own, but we went out to eat a few weeks ago and they came with the B.H.'s tuna. Now, of course, it had just a sense of the wasabi, for mere mortals. But when the B.H. decided to duplicate the recipe, he put in an ENTIRE TUBE of wasabi paste. He wept as he mashed. But they were, in fact, exquisite. And so easy: Boil potatoes and several whole cloves of garlic (to taste, of course). Add a little milk and margarine, and dump in as much wasabi as you want. Enjoy! As I was telling islandboy99, they seem gourmet but are so simple.
In other news, today's To-Do List:
Find glasses
Return phone calls
Grade ENGL 223 (Research Writing) short proposals
Grade 1 1/2 weeks of WRIT 325 (Writing for the Professions...no, not THAT one, you pervs) homework
Grade ENGL 346 (Romantic Engl. Lit.) journals
Read Wollstonecraft for tomorrow
Review WRIT 325 lecture notes
Write detailed "future of drama dept." memo
Have a whinge about said memo w/ dept. chair
Clean kitchen
Finish potting flowers
Nag B.H. into putting a "floor" on former kitschy mailbox, now birdhouse
Fold laundry
Catalog stack of books upstairs on LibraryThing.com
Catalog/reshelve stack of books downstairs
Wash patio furniture
Rake/scrape patio (note to self: B.H.?)
Rearrange patio
Collapse in sodden heap
Alternate To-Do List:
Goof off on internet
Alternate-Alternate To-Do List:
Take long bath