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| When I returned to this Xanga blog, I did mention it was a temporary location. And so now the time has come, and I have started a new blog. I am calling it Expattery, and it is located here: http://expattery.wordpress.com/
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| Yesterday I made lasagne with an altered recipe, and in the process discovered how to season ground pork to transform it into yummy pork sausage. You can buy lots of ground pork here, it's the Thai version of hamburger. You cannot buy bulk pork sausage, not even imported Jimmy Dean. Knowing how to do this is a handy thing, and I'd very much like to keep this tidbit of information. I want to enter it into my recipe database before I forget how to make it.
Not much chance of that happening in the next few days. Ok, wait, I can record this manually. I can use a pen and paper! I have those. I can put it in my recipe database later, when I have a computer again.
*Tries to write recipe down*
Have I ever mentioned anything about the pens here? Like about them not working? Not for over half an inch at a time, anyway? We're switching to mechanical pencils. Pens aren't worth the hassle. And I still don't have the recipe written down.
Pork Sausage
1/2 kilo ground pork (about a pound)
1 1/2 tsp rosemary, crushed
1 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp ground sage
1/2 tsp marjoram
1 tsp MSG (optional)
1. Mix well and leave overnight in the refrigerator to blend the flavors.
2. Shape into patties and fry it up.
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| It's been 2 weeks since my computer broke. The iBeat shop says it will be another week until I get it back. I'm about ready to go crazy. I can surf the web, I can play Packrat, I can play a lot of other games I own that are Windows only. I even updated my website with a new Sims outfit.
But I have 130 emails in my inbox, waiting to be downloaded to Mail and then archived by Gmail. I don't have my address book or calendar. Thai holidays have been sneaking up on us, causing some inconvenience. I have no tunes to listen to on this laptop.
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| Thais and menthol, surely a love affair to last the ages. When a label says "mint" on your toothpaste or chewing gum, you must translate that. The actual flavor is mint-menthol. The menthol is never mentioned, but it is there as surely as the mint. Trust me on this.
A couple days ago Jim bought some small red candies. They were that indeterminate fruity flavor that may have been either strawberry or cherry. They were also menthol flavored. The end result was a cherry cough drop taste; not the good Smith Brothers ones, either, the much less desirable Vicks ones.
My favorite gum here is a sugar-free lime-mint flavor. Of course, it is actually lime-mint-menthol flavored. It tastes much better than it sounds. I'm curious as to why they called the flavor lime. Limes are common here, and used in cooking as Americans use lemons...but in English Thais refer to them as lemons, not limes. Ask for some lime, get a blank look. Ask for lemon, and you get...lime.
My computer has been in the shop just ovr a week. I am officially being driven insane from using a Windows laptop. A slow, old, lame laptop.
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| I have finished moving my iWeb blogs over here to Xanga. It only took me six days, which is not bad at all. The bad news is that the editor doesn't like Safari, so if I want anything other than plain text, like, oh, italics or bold or formatting I have to use Firefox.
I am considering moving my blog to Gramze.com, as my Sweetie has finally decided he could share a domain, but I am reluctant to have to mess around with Wordpress again. I could learn to hate CSS. I may split the difference and use one of the other blogging sites, like blogger or something. I actually have blogs in most of them which remain unused.
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