May 2011
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Quinoa Salad
Source: Vegan Quinoa Salad (altered to suit my taste/ingredient availability) Ingredients: 1 cup water 1/2 cups raw whole grain quinoa 1/3 cucumber, diced 1/4 red or yellow bell pepper, diced 1 tomato, diced 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp cup lemon juice 1 cloves garlic, minced dash salt and pepper, to taste (sea salt tastes best) Preparation: Cook quinoa in vegetable broth until it fluffs up, about...
May 9th
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Couscous and Chickpea Salad
Recently become obsessed with couscous and quinoa. This is the salad I’ve been making nonstop. I find that dividing the original recipe by four (aka the amount of couscous, chickpeas, and dressing, but keep the veggies the same) works best if you want a single serving meal. Source: Couscous and Chickpea Salad. Slightly modified to my tastes. Ingredients: 2 cups water (or vegetable...
May 9th
Food Blogging
I think the only way I’ll ever successfully manage to blog is to blog about one thing I will never get tired of: food.
May 9th
April 2011
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Jump Rope Rhymes
Cinderella, dressed in yella, went upstairs to kiss her fella. Made a mistake, kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? One, two, three, four…
Apr 22nd
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Handclapping Rhymes
Apparently I learned rather … different lyrics for the endings of “I went to a Chinese restaurant” and “Miss Suzy.” I Went to a Chinese Restaurant I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread bread, I put it in a paper bag and this is what it said said said. My name is Kai I. Picolai, Picolai Kai I. Jumbo whiskey *wallah-wallah whiskey* Chinese...
Apr 22nd
December 2010
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Writing about the PPACA in Japanese XD
Continuing to look up info on the PPACA for 文章表現 class. It’s difficult translating the information and my thoughts into Japanese, since a lot of the vocabulary is specialized and often doesn’t have a single definitive translation. For example, there were quite a few different translations for the “board” part of “Independent Payment Advisory Board,” but...
Dec 29th
Dec 11th
October 2010
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KitKat flavors in Japan
So once upon a time Nestle took advantage of Japan’s love of local and seasonal foods to localize and seasonal-ize KitKat flavors in Japan. Going to different areas in Japan yields different flavors that can’t be attained elsewhere (with the exception of international airports, as the picture below of a stand at Narita Airport shows). For some examples: apple flavored KitKats can...
Oct 18th