Score another win for my butter mochi

Score another win for my butter mochi

On the topic of winning (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-won-in-hp-hdx-dragon-contest.html), I was checking links to my blog the other day and found one to my award-winning dessert Buttered Belly Fat (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2007/11/recipe-butter-mochi.html) (or as the norms call it, Butter Mochi) at a blog called edible unknown (http://www.edibleunknown.com/view/index/squishy-mochi-mmmmmm-yumm-).

This one is a double-treat for me (pun intended) because my recipe was selected from among the masses as the one to try and because I so rarely get a link that isn't related to ink blogging or mobile tech. That's right, it ain't all nerd stuff here, people.
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Recipe: Butter Mochi

By popular demand (which means demand by a popular person), here's the recipe for my award-winning Buttered Belly Fat (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2007/11/buttered-belly-fat-for-win.html), known commonly as Butter Mochi. Downloadable version here (http://www.markandtanya.us/scribbles/ButterMochi.doc). Butter Mochi Ingredients 1 box Mochiko (sweet rice flour) 2 ½ cups sugar 1 tbsp baking powder 1 stick of butter (softened or melted) 1 can coconut milk (12 oz.) 2 cups milk 1 tsp vanilla 5 eggs Directions 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Mix dry ingredients in large bowl. 3. In second bowl, blend wet ingredients thoroughly. 4. Pour wet mix into bowl of dry mix and blend together thoroughly. 5. Pour slowly into greased 9” x 13” pan. 6. Bake for one hour. 7. Let cool before cutting into slices.

CateGoogles: waste_of_time Mood = pleasant

Apparently it's Blog Day 2008

Apparently it's Blog Day 2008

Warner Crocker (http://wickedstageact2.typepad.com/life_on_the_wicked_stage_/2008/08/happy-blog-day.html) alerted me to the fact today is Blog Day (http://www.blogday.org/), which means sending some blog love to five deserving blogs and tagging this entry for Technorati (http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008).

PhotoshopDisasters (http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/) is one I've recently started following. Every day a new image manipulation mess-up is posted, usually quite amusing.

Bradtastic Inkblog (http://bradchin.com/) showcases the ink skillz of Brad Chin, an on-again off-again ink blogger who is currently on-again.

New Leaf Vegan Society (http://newleafvegan.blogspot.com/) is the blog where my wife and our friend Dale contribute vegan finds.

HughSung.com (http://hughsung.com/blog/) is a blog I don't visit as often as I should. There, Hugh shares his experiences as a Tablet PC-using, professional pianist.

edible unknown (http://www.edibleunknown.com/) wandered back into my consciousness recently. They try out recipes from around the world, such as my butter mochi (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/search?q=Butter+Mochi), and share the experience.
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Watch Barack Obama eat Spam Musubi

Watch Barack Obama eat Spam Musubi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/22/spam-musubi-obamas-hawaii_n_152854.html)

Seems like just yesterday I was describing "Spam musubi" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi) to Tanya's cousins over dinner (http://sumocats.blogspot.com/2008/12/here-i-am-bertuccis-tysons-corner.html). Oh wait, that was yesterday, and considering the time difference, it was right around the time President-elect Barack Obama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama) enjoyed the one that set off a big buzz over this local Hawaiian treat.

Sorry, no photos of him eating one (though there is one of him shirtless that's grabbing eyes (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/22/obama-shirtless-in-hawaii_n_152873.html)), just a report from the vendor (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/22/spam-musubi-obamas-hawaii_n_152854.html). For those looking for the real scoop on what it is, Spam musubi is a compacted brick of Japanese-style rice topped by a slice of fried Spam (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2006/12/hawaii-ink-spam.html), wrapped together with a strip of dried seaweed (nori). Visually, it's like a big piece of nigiri sushi, but the rice is salted, not mixed with vinegar. It's another treat unique to the islands descended from Japanese cuisine, much like butter mochi (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2007/11/recipe-butter-mochi.html) and shave ice (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2008/08/watch-barack-obama-eat-shave-ice.html). If I hadn't gone vegetarian, I'd be eating one now.
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Buttered Belly Fat for the win

So I'm letting most of my lost Halloween entries (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2007/11/halloween-hard-drive-failure.html) stay lost, but this one was a winner, so it's the opposite of lost. Behold, my award-winning dessert: Buttered Belly Fat! No, not really. It's actually Butter Mochi, my favorite dessert from back home. I baked up a batch and renamed it for our Halloween dessert contest. Nothing inherently disgusting or Halloween-ish about it, but the name won the award.

CateGoogles: waste_of_time Mood = excited

Four Things Meme - Tag, I'm It!

Got tagged by Warner Crocker in the Four Things Meme game (which sucks because I don't think I know four other bloggers). But enough whining: here come the fours!

Four jobs I've had
-Senior copywriter for a comic book catalog and online retailer. Every other job I've had sucks by comparison)
-Research analyst for an international arms dealer (really!)
-Teacher and tutor (second best)
-Delivery driver for Pizza Hut (where I met my wife)

Four movies I can watch over and over me
-Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino's most refined work)
-Office Space (of course)
-Rush Hour (1 and 2, not really by choice but I always watch it when it is on TBS)
-Star Wars (I still remember watching it at the drive-in when I was 2)

Four TV shows I love to watch
-The Office (absolutely hilarious)
-Lost (I'm hooked, but I'm not hung up on trying to spot every little clue)
-CSI (regular and Miami, New York is kind of bland)
-the Maclaughlin Group (I just love to watch them argue)

Four places I've been on vacation
-Japan, Aichi Prefecture for fair world Expo last year
-Maui, twice, once with my sweetie
-California, family vacation to Disneyland and others
-Big Island of Hawaii, to visit my grandmother, a bunch of times.

Four favorite dishes
-Shrimp curry, which I used to make all the time until my darling wife went veggie
-Butter Mochi, my favorite dessert of all time.
-Crispy orange Beef with Broccoli, made using faux veggie beef at Chopsticks House
-Sushi, no one in particular, with sushi it's all about variety

Four websites I visit daily
-Tablet PC Buzz, gotta check the goings-on in the community
-Life On the Wicked Stage, whole lot of updates on everything
-jkOnTheRun, grandmaster of mobile devices
-Yahoo! Gotta do it.

Four places I'd rather be in
-Lounging poolside at my mansion
-a sushi buffet
-Mars
-Iceland, the leader in geothermal energy and # 3 on my volcanic island list

Four bloggers I'm tagging
-Ann Sumimoto (no relation, unless you count "sister")
-Zach Bush (Exalted gamemaster)
-This Space Intentionally left Blank
-This one too