Sushi Party Platters! Part II

The best circumstances for making sushi are usually when someone else is buying the ingredients. So, I was more then happy to put together some rolls for a group of people at the Outer Banks in North Carolina recently, especially considering the quality of the ingredients involved. Tuna and salmon and krab, oh my! I [...]

Namiko’s Sushi in Arvada, CO

Namiko’s is a sushi restaurant which is only a 15 minute walk from where we live. Or a 5 minute drive (closer to 8 minutes during rush hour). Or around 7-8 minutes to bike. In any case, we’ve lived near it for about 9 months now, and for some bizarre reason haven’t gotten around to [...]

Biscuits and sausages and tuna, or, The joys of depending on others

So Drew and I recently made a cross-country drive in a moving truck from Richmond to Denver. Prior that, we had flown back to Richmond for the weekend to get said truck. Meaning that for about 2.5 days, we were without either a home or a car. This also meant that (when we weren’t eating [...]

Tuna Steaks and Misc Rice and Bad Photoshop Art

In honor of it being both the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday as well as Martin Luther King Jr. day, I will make a post using ‘arty’ pictures. It’s such a shame to delete a mediocre photo, and this is what Photoshop is for! In any case, a little while back I got [...]

Canned Tuna Fishes is gourmet eatin’

I realised my brain apparently hadn’t had enough food today, so fishes it was. My only form of fish that I currently possessed was tuna, and thusly canned tuna fishes it was. Into my bowl of squishy delights got dumped some ‘salad dressing’ (AKA pseudo mayonnaise with tanginess) and chipotle sauce. You know, when it [...]