Take me back si si si oui oui oui.

I am cultivating my evidence for my Australian
visa. They want to know whether we have truly
loved. I want to slap them across their puffy faces
and tell them it's private. But none if it would help
so I keep hunting and gathering.
At the mean time I wish someone would spin back
the ye old time and get me back to that one hot
month and a half spent in the Basque Country with
the boy I love.

Love,
E

Things that make me happy post food poisoning.

1. Bright green silk skirts that look like a balloon was dropped
on your waist and then tied down with a tiny black bow.
2. New books that tell silent stories of love in its most subtle forms.



Oh and the food poisoning?
Just a little something something that I picked
up on the way. No biggie.
It's just that I seemed to trade in my parents and
get that instead. Bad trade that one.
But I live and learn my friends.
Live and learn.

Love,
E

About family.

We are the same.
All four of us.
I have your heart,
you have hers,
she has his and
he has mine.

We are of same blood and
when I leave you I leave myself.

Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving here today.
I don't believe in it... however, I like the spirit of it.

With that, I'd like to Thank my Family. Friends [like You, who still has the energy and patience to be around me]. And last but not least, my lovely Mikey-Ike.

Early Birds

Woke up early and quickly dashed off to the Market.
We missed out on these amazing eggs these past 3 Saturdays. I swore to myself that today I'd wake up extra early and wouldn't miss it again --- it paid off.

I love going to the Market before everyone does. Peaceful and the tourists are not awake yet (not that I have anything against them...). And I like looking at the produce nicely laid out - fresh and untouched.

Anyway, after the Market we headed back and had our delicious meaty-hearty brekkie.

For ages, I have been looking for really good Spicy Italian Sausage.
I tried different specialty stores, but to no avail

Until today, I think I finally found it @ Bocallone. *Yippie!

Above: Bocallone Spicy Italian Sausage w/ toasted baguettes.
Meaty and fresh (nothing like the store brand).

The "Soft boiled egg" - they're the kinda eggs that Nigella would have. Wasa. Half of the Spicy Italian Sausage. and Jamon Serrano.

And a cup of GenMai.

*smiling*

Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meeeeeeeeeep Meep-Meep

Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans

*This article is from BoingBoing.net. I thought you maybe interested in this...

By Lisa Katayama

In Japan, we eat soy all the time. For breakfast we have rice with natto and miso soup with tofu; for dinner we pop edamame into our mouths in between chopsticks-full of vegetables sauteed in soy sauce. I always assumed it was good for you, until I came to California and my health-conscious American friend told me that soy was actually really bad for you. So which is it?

Here's what we know about soy: unprocessed, it's a great source of digestible protein and has tons of vitamin B, calcium, and folate — all things that are good for you. It also contains isoflavones, and here's where things get tricky. Some studies prove that isoflavones are beneficial, while others have shown that it promotes breast and prostate cancer. Soy has also been called out as an agent of brain cell aging and thyroid dysfunction, too.

In her recent book The Jungle Effect, San Francisco-based physician Daphne Miller — who studied low cancer rates in Okinawa extensively — writes:

While Okinawans take in over 80 percent of their soy in a relatively unprocessed form as tofu, edamame, soy flour, soy milk, or miso, people in the United States eat a similiar percentage of their soy in a processed form. Our soy foods are heated, mashed, and denatured to create a vast array of substances ranging from Tofurky to fillers for tuna fish to ice-cream sandwiches... while whole foods offer valuable protection, concentrated or denatured derivatives of these foods are having the opposite effect.

The bottom line, at least for now, seems to be that good soy prevent cancer and bad soy might promote cancer. Good soy = tofu, soy sauce, miso, natto, edamame. Bad soy = soy protein powder, energy bars made with soy, fake hot dogs, tofurky.

A lot of Western people think natto — fermented soy bean — is gross because of it's gooey texture and stinky smell, but it's one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast. It's filled with protein and great for a post-workout snack, too. If you're still iffy about it, why not combine the foreign with the familiar and cook some natto spaghetti? The slippery texture of the pasta cuts the gooeyness a little, and in my opinion this is a gentle way to ease natto into your culinary life.

Every installment of Taste Test will explore recipes, the science, and some history behind a specific food item.

Images via Jasja Dekker's Flickr and Gaku's Flickr