Link of the Day [10.27.18]

broderic on October 27, 2018

Go, Carp, Go!

The Baltimore Orioles may be in a dismal situation, but checking in on my team in the Nippon Baseball League, Hiroshima Toya Carp, I find they made it back to the Japan Series.  It’s like their World Series.  This is the second time in three years.  They haven’t won it, yet, and it’s been since 1984 that they have won it.

I wonder if Carp fans in Japan were ever thinking if they would ever win the championship again since that time.

As an Orioles fan who hasn’t seen them win since 1983, I know how it goes.

One day.  Maybe.  One day.

http://www.carp.co.jp/en/

Eh? Wha’?

broderic on October 25, 2018

Learning the ropes here.  Looking for a better blog template.  I haven’t found one, yet.  I wish I could get down to the actual HTML so I could go back to what it was before.

This post brought to you because what the eff happened to those YouTube embeds?   Like they went gigantic all of a sudden!

Also, this post is a Pulianas special.

Lechon Kawali Scary

broderic on October 16, 2018

I had some pork belly in the freezer for quite a while.  Uh, longer than I want to admit.  So I want to make something with it.  Char-sui for ramen?  Maybe. But let’s go to the old Filipino favorite lechon kawali.

Yesterday, after thawing it out over night, I boiled it for an hour.  Along with water, some bay leaf and peppercorn kernels.  I didn’t have much of those so I went to the pepper mill and dumped its contents out.  When it was done, I dried the pork off, placed on a plate in the fridge so that today I can fry that mea up!

So I did.  In hot oil.  I don’t know what I’m doing as some of that was splattering all over the place.  I had thought I thoroughly dried it out in the fridge over night.  

The oil was supposed to be around 350 F.  I don’t have a thermometer.  I eye balled it.  Not too sure, but maybe it was too hot.  It should’ve been around 5 minutes for each slab.  But I think they were done in 4.  

Now to the taste.  Okay.  I should’ve seasoned it before frying.  I didn’t and now I have to rely on the vinegar to make it tasty. 

I don’t want to eat it all, but…

Mmmmm.

Soup is Good Food

broderic on October 14, 2018

The turn of the weather into fall this weekend has made me hungry for some soup. 

I’ve had a sour stomach for the past week. Any food I ate just does not agree with me at the moment.  Then after helping out my brother’s move, we had some pho.  Did that hit the spot!

Now’s the time to break out the soup pots and start cooking some soup.  I need to get going with that!

A bean soup that isn’t black bean.  Maybe an arroscaldo.  Some sotanghon would do as well.  A fish chowder.  Some simple roasted vegetable soup.  Barley?  Yes barley!  And more pho!

I’ll really have to start making a shopping list.  But here we go.

This Is It. Isn’t It?

broderic on October 5, 2018

Sadly, things come to an end.  We’re in October and September, News Radio Quote Month is over.  I look forward to finding more News Radio quotes which I haven’t used.  Surprisingly, I blogged quite a bit.

Now we’re into October and things have only become more heartbreaking…

Nogizaka46 「それぞれの椅子」2016

This is the cover of Nogizaka46’s second album.  Their color is purple which is a mix of red and blue hence why the members are in red and blue dresses.  But this is now their time of graduations.  Another two have announced since Nishino Nanase announced hers last month.

On the first, Wakatsuki Yumi announced hers.  Then today, Noujo Ami.  Those two bring the tally of member graduations to seven.  I do not think that we’re done for the year.  And we have 2019 to look forward to.  Huzzah!

Nogizaka’s shade of purple has lightened up a bit.  Those smiling faces now make me cry.  They are breaking my heart while they make me smile.

I only wish for happiness for the members of Nogizaka46.

“Seriously, Dave. If that eulogy went on a minute longer it would have been yours.”

broderic on September 27, 2018

It’s raining, and it’s cold.  The boys of summer should be shutting down.  

But of course I am talking the Orioles. They’ve been shut down since the start of the season.  Did they even show up?

The rain kept me from catching the last game of my season ticket package.  I wanted to see Adam Jones patrol the outfield one last time.  Sadly, I don’t want to sit in the rain, so I cancelled before I even went.  Thank the lord that the rain keeps going and the game was postponed.

This was the worst team ever.  They were hard to watch.  Then I didn’t want to watch.  The entire city of Baltimore too didn’t want to watch.  We stayed away in droves.  They kept losing in droves.  They also drove everyone insane with the losses.

I witnessed several seasons of bad Orioles baseball before Buck Showalter showed up.  But they were still easy to watch and root for.  This version you can’t want to watch.  It’s awful.  Now I know the difference between .333 and .400.  It’s really painful.

I wish for a better season next year.  Perhaps my money won’t be wasted.