Sunday is slower...
May. 10th, 2010 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSunday was much slower. Thankfully. After wishing Omaha a lovely mother's day, we did the monthly household supply run, hitting Cash & Carry and Costco for supplies. That only took about an hour, and then we sat at home, drank iced tea, and gardened much more slowly. Despite it's being May, I think I may have tried to push the basil out the door too soon; it's been below 50F some nights, and they're wilting. Omaha and Lisakit assure me that they'll recover when weather warms up, but I don't know if they're going to live that long. Besides, the bastard squirrels have already been digging in there.
The perfect Western chili paste. I made a batch of my chili. The real secret to good chili is to skip the chili powder. Instead, go to the local Mexican grocery and buy dried, seeded peppers in the heat combination you like best, cut with scissors into small squares, put in a small saucepan and just barely cover with water. Bring the water to a simmer and leave for 20 minutes, adding water slowly as some steams off. When the time has past, blend the mix with a hand blender (or in any blender), test for taste, and then pour the chili paste in to the stew. The sinuous taste of anchos and a touch of jalapeno goes a long way to improving the chili in the way store-bought chili powders can't touch.
D&D. In LisaKit's D&D game, we ran for our lives, slaughtering kobolds, goblins, and orcs, only to suddenly find ourselves facing a hugh batch of nasty spiders. Slipping and sliding on the burnt, dead bodies was bad enough, but when the dwarf cleric got his hand stuck in the exposed ribcage of a lightning-bolt exploded kobold, the level of comedy was only partly alleviated.
We played outdoors, where I discovered the benefits of a British-style desert hat to keep the sun off the back of my neck. We drank a lot of iced tea.
The perfect Western chili paste. I made a batch of my chili. The real secret to good chili is to skip the chili powder. Instead, go to the local Mexican grocery and buy dried, seeded peppers in the heat combination you like best, cut with scissors into small squares, put in a small saucepan and just barely cover with water. Bring the water to a simmer and leave for 20 minutes, adding water slowly as some steams off. When the time has past, blend the mix with a hand blender (or in any blender), test for taste, and then pour the chili paste in to the stew. The sinuous taste of anchos and a touch of jalapeno goes a long way to improving the chili in the way store-bought chili powders can't touch.
D&D. In LisaKit's D&D game, we ran for our lives, slaughtering kobolds, goblins, and orcs, only to suddenly find ourselves facing a hugh batch of nasty spiders. Slipping and sliding on the burnt, dead bodies was bad enough, but when the dwarf cleric got his hand stuck in the exposed ribcage of a lightning-bolt exploded kobold, the level of comedy was only partly alleviated.
We played outdoors, where I discovered the benefits of a British-style desert hat to keep the sun off the back of my neck. We drank a lot of iced tea.
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Date: 2010-05-10 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-10 07:18 pm (UTC)Cut the roasted peppers into strips, throw them in the food processor/blender with the canned chilis (they bring smokiness to the paste).
I store it in a glass bowl in the fridge, and it lasts forever.
It's excellent in chili, or mix it with some sour cream for a fantastic enchilada/tamale sauce.