the fridge

I have eleven tabs open in my browser window - this means that one window, over the course of one (or two) pages/articles, has horizontally multiplied into read-it-later-read-it-after; this rarely happens. I usually end up closing all tabs in a few days after they've lived mini-minimized in the bottom left hand corner of my screen. What are they? Hotmail, United States Food Atlas, Edible Geography - United States of Food, Yahoo article: "Olympics host Vancouver ranked world's most livable city", Grist: "The 10 greenest and brownest things about Vancouver", New York Times: "Are your friends making you fat?", Edible Geography - The Anti-fridge, Mark Menjivar, New York Times "Trashing the Fridge", The Foodprint Project, Vancouver 2010 and Blogger. If there is one link that you click on, it's Edible Geography - this page is what took me to most of the other links, and there are some SUPER neat articles and photos. Example #1: an artist's (Mark Menjivar) collection of photos of the inside of people's refrigerators, with accompanying information such as occupation, age, household size, and random stuff like "sleeps with a loaded .45 pistol on nightstand" and "has a photographic memory for useless information". Here are a few pics, but check out the whole show (I think) here.

Red Cross Board Member | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Sleeps with a loaded .45 pistol on nightstand | 2008

Retired Train Conductor | Jackson, MS | 1-Person Household | Started Meals on Wheels in his community | 2008


Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables. | 2008

And so voila, our refrigerator.

Volleyball player/? Housewife? Nooo... ummm... teacher, procrastinator, cook, writer, thinker, reader, worker outer, blogger | Tokyo, Japan | 2-Person household | buys salsa and maple syrup at Costco, can do the worm. | 2010

Nao came over last night - much of what is now in the fridge is thanks to her; she insisted on doing the cooking and made GYOZA and miso soup and tomato salad and it was all super delicious! We have leftovers, as you can probably tell. Cabbage and a few gyoza and salad and soup AND (surprisingly) some of the chocolate pudding cake that I made for dessert. I've made this before and blogged about it, but it is a pretty delicious dessert that requires next to no effort. This time, I even followed the recipe and made the batter in the pan that the concoction cooks in - less clean up required, hurray.

making gyoza...

... and digging into dessert!

We've been watching a TON of Olympics... I've had a few teaching hours this week, and when I get home between 10:00 and 12:00 Steve gives me the updates from his perma-spot on the couch. It has been great to see such awesome performances from Canadian athletes, and to be entertained by athletes from other countries too. I couldn't even BELIEVE what the Russian figure skater Yvgeny Plushenko said about the quadruple axel: "Of course, we need quadruples. That's the future of figure skating and, of course, without the quadruple, I'm sorry but it's not man." (Interesting article about him here...) I'm sorry but it's not man? Nice. Anyways, I'd best be getting back to those tabs, or they'll never get read...