Salmon sushi

^{The photo and lighting are not the best, but the sushi was :)}

It had been a long time since I hadn’t done sushi, so I had to look up the recipe on how to cook the rice. I had forgotten how easy and quick it is to make. I adapted the recipe into a simpler version of how I remembered first doing it:

1 cup medium-grain rice
2 cups water
2 tablespoons rice vinegar

Rinse the rice until water is clear (about 4 rinses). Let rice soak in water for 30 minutes in pressure cooker.

Close the pressure lid and heat on high flame until it begins steaming. Lower the flame to minimum and put the regulator on the cooker. Cook for 10 min and let cool.

When the pressure is gone, open the lid and add the vinegar while stirring the rice to mix it evenly. Keep it covered with a moistened towel while preparing the sushi.

Roll your sushi with your favorite ingredients over kelp and rice. This one has salmon, Philadelphia cream cheese, cucumber, and sesame seeds.

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Salmon sushi

^{The photo and lighting are not the best, but the sushi was :)}

It had been a long time since I hadn’t done sushi, so I had to look up the recipe on how to cook the rice. I had forgotten how easy and quick it is to make. I adapted the recipe into a simpler version of how I remembered first doing it:

1 cup medium-grain rice
2 cups water
2 tablespoons rice vinegar

Rinse the rice until water is clear (about 4 rinses). Let rice soak in water for 30 minutes in pressure cooker.

Close the pressure lid and heat on high flame until it begins steaming. Lower the flame to minimum and put the regulator on the cooker. Cook for 10 min and let cool.

When the pressure is gone, open the lid and add the vinegar while stirring the rice to mix it evenly. Keep it covered with a moistened towel while preparing the sushi.

Roll your sushi with your favorite ingredients over kelp and rice. This one has salmon, Philadelphia cream cheese, cucumber, and sesame seeds.

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Sunset #8

The sun at the moment of setting in the middle of both volcanoes, Popo & Izta. Taken a few months ago.

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Haiku #19

Geminids shower
Meteors, bright shooting stars
in the dark night sky

From Aldebaran
near the Pleiades cluster
to Orion’s bow

Oh, you meteor
bright purple white shooting star
you lit up my night

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Day 19: +1 = 27 countries

27. Estonia

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Item #7: yearbooks

As tough as it is, I think I’m just going to cut out the pages that interest me to add them to my scrapbooks sometime. Most of these yearbooks are from grade school where my friends and I are just in one page. There may be a couple more pages of interest, but not to keep whole books of very-heavy pages that I won’t be lugging in my next move. As heart-breaking as it is, they’ll have to go.

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Week #3

Last week, I went to a posada, a traditional religious celebration where the search for a place to stay by Joseph and Mary before their son is born is reenacted with litanies and lighting candles. Other activities that are done include breaking a piñata, drinking punch and traditional food of the season, and nowadays modern performances are also part of it.

Though I missed most of the posada because I arrived late —I thought I was just a bit late, but the posada actually started on time, something unheard in this neck of the woods—, I got there to eat some food from the stands, and I got to see one performance where a man dances with fire. Also some people started some bonfires where they just hung out by it, and it was just a good feel all around.

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Sunset #7

Today’s sunset behind two contrasting churches: one traditional (left) and one modern (center).

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