Because I am hungry and Fur Friday is my petty fiefdom we’re going to skip the sexy bears and Mink Stole this week in favor of a condiment: furikake. For those of you who don’t know, it’s dry mix of shredded nori/gim, sesame seeds, sugar, salt. Common varieties mix it up with various fish flakes (bonito or salmon), and MSG…because Japan. It’s a quick way to make a plain meal of white rice taste like it isn’t a plain meal of white rice, but it’s also used on soups, noodles or wherever you need to punch up the flavor of something. Because I live in a Bladerunner-esque future LA–a jumble of pan-Asian and American influences, but lacking replicants–I can also get that shit sprinkled on kettle corn at A-Frame in Culver. It’s tasty. Buy some, put it in your face. You’ll thank me later. Or you won’t because you’re a bunch of ingrates.
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Killing me here, Jesse. I’m so hungry and our usual Friday evening Chinese feast is still at least two hours away. I’ve got bank errands and back squat/power clean night first. 🙁
I tried so hard to find furikake back when I was in college and making onigiri for lunches, but I never had any luck. Might be time to try again.
Do you even Amazon, bro?
In all seriousness I wouldn’t pick up the mix pack. You’ll never get through all of it, but the individual ones should be available too.
This was pre-2009, so Amazon was fairly unknown to me at the time. I can find furikake now!
You could also do a soboro which is a meatier flavor enhancing rice topping counterpart. I make a chicken one when I’m doing big batches of gimbap.
gimbap
Dit dit doo wop
How furikake is made.
Well that’s super, duper NSFW
Don’t ruin it!
Made me look
Did SugarFree login as HM?
I feel better that I wasn’t the onlyone to think along those lines when I read that…
*hovers over link, sees the words hentai foundry*
Um, pass.
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR MSG.
^This guy knows what’s up^
Was that an apology?
A Japan excuse, really.
Hell of a good idea, Jesse. Had a shitty week, perfect way to get rid of the last of my microwave popcorn and some of an underutilised jar of noritamago.
We’re supposed to have bad weather all weekend. No kids sports.
I’m thinking it’s ramen weekend. Extra pork belly and roasted corn. Yeah, I said it.
Nice. Pork belly is the balls. Bone broth?
I will search this out. I will probably have to Amazon it as we are lacking in Asians around these parts unfortunately. Anything with sesame seeds is good. Why do you think they put them on Big Macs.
My kingdom for a sesame seed biscuit packaged in a not usda certified facility. Corner shop delicacies I say.
I’ve been making a lot of hummus and variants recently. The chipotles in adobo variant turned out really well. I need to find other things to do with tahini.
I have never used tahini, and or made my own hummus. The adobo hummus sounds right good though. I made naan a month or two ago. Yogurt in the dough. Sweet bajebus they were good. I have a charcoal fired vertical rotisserie in my head that needs building. Schwarma westernsloper style. Propane is for pussies.
As long as you’ve got a blender or a food processor, hummus is stupid easy to make. Can’t imagine making it otherwise.
And ‘sloper? Propane’s excellent for getting the charcoal going fast and hot. Just sayin’.
I have a chimney starter for getting it going. I might have issues with how long I can keep the coals hot, but I think it is doable. Food processor I have. I have child hood nightmares about pressure cookers. The smell of some sort of meat permeating the house that smelled, what I imagined, like a boxcar full of hobos.
Pressure cooker and a food processor make short work of things. Bulk garbanzo beans are stupid cheap. I did a sourdough whole wheat pita bread a few weeks ago which will get repeated this weekend with a plain/garlic heavy hummus. The acid in the sourdough helps prevent the whole wheat from going immediately stale, which is a huge bonus for whole wheat pita which normally goes stale immediately.
Pressure cookers are great, within their ambit. I’ve had pressure-cooked beef “stew.” Heinous. Some things just gotta be done low and slow.
Fair. I’ve done a few things in it that I was surprised worked out including smothered thick cut pork chops and a chili con carne, but It’d be awfully easy to mess either of them up without pretty precise timing. Being able to cook garbanzos in 5 minutes is pretty huge though. Also making chicken stock. It cannot be beat for that.
If you’re really into fusion, I know a place that serves excellent furibukake.
*Clicks on HM’s link* Of course.
I’m almost finished.
Those sounds reminded me of a joke:
What’s the difference between a woman and a refrigerator?
A refrigerator doesn’t fart when you pull your meat out.
Onara ja nai. Onara jai nai. Kuuki ga haita dake.
*It’s not a fart. It’s not a fart. Air just got came out.
/straffinrun’s one point lesson.
Yeppers. Use this stuff (and a dozen variations on it from mostly Asian food cultures) all the time. Nice way to make starches into something less plebian. Sprinkles and sauces and dustings and dips FTW.
It’s also used in making Hawai’is “Hurricane Popcorn” (which, I’m assuming, is what your picture is of . . . ). Mmmmmm, unnecessary melted butter . . .
GROWN MEN ARE TALKING: most certainly not a 5sf.
Sex Survey Results
What in God’s name
I was ashamed I watched for a minute 30.
God?
God is dead.
These are all age restricted. Someone want to recap for me?
I can’t even describe it. A take off of the Garfield comic where the characters (in upright person form) in the comic answer the door, and an unfaced person says their name and how many sex partners they have had.
It goes on for over 4 hours if you believe youtube timers.
That piece of it goes on for four hours. In the final ten minutes is something different, and somewhat disturbing.
OKAY well nevermind somewhat, let’s go with extraordinarily.
oh fer fuck. Now I have to watch the last ten minutes. Bastard.
WHATTHEHOLYFUCK!!
HM, you have some unanswerable questions and I suspect some unquestionable truths to deliver.
Ummm, well that got different.
HM is trying to make people’s youtube recommendations a goddamn mess again.
OK. Bibimbap for dinner tomorrow. It’s settled.
Why wait so long? Gochujang‘s calling you!
I have 3 kinds. Mother’s brand. Or Mother in law. I can’t remember.
It’s the other stuff that I need. I don’t just have bean sprouts lying around these days.
Furikake in bibimbap?
Afterwards on Chinese for the Greater East Asia Cuisine Sphere effect. Especially good on Singapore street noodles and Hong Style crispy pork belly.
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I fucking hate these people. I hope Lizzie White Squaw is right, I hope they drop dead like flies.
Yeah, I’m up on the roof cleaning my skylights. What makes it so weird? The beer?
Beer isn’t really that good a glass cleaner, whatever the hops content.
Oh, I have a 20 foot pole and windex. My neighbors are just uptight.
Are we still doing that euphemism thing?
Everything is all right.
I’ve been out of the action pretty much all week long. Too many big updates for clients. I need to catch up. I see there’s plenty of lefty pantshitting happening because Oh muh gawd, no healthcare, people will die! I thought that the Kkklown car couldn’t pass anything? The Democrats have went straight from 24/7 celebrating to doom/woe is us. Who could have predicted that?
I think I made this prediction a few weeks ago after seeing multiple people say that Republicans were about to vote to murder a bunch of people . Aka healthcare bill
Yeah, because poor people who were already on medicaid staying on medicaid but calling it something else, and creating a monstrous bureaucratic nightmare that destroys the healthcare plans for the middle class of a country with 350 million people is soooo much better. I truly hate those people, there’s no longer any room for any compromise or even empathy.
You’re Talkin about my mom and sister jerk…
Sorry, bro.
It’s okay. I wanna hate em, instead I just treat it like I would s small child “they just don’t know any better”. Though they should. It would be nice to have an honest debate in a market of ideas but Trummmppppp.
I had a big long reply to your comment typed and deleted it because I was blathering.
Easier sum up for the progs: Ya, we are all going to die. It doesn’t mean you are entitled to other peoples property. Grow up and face life fuck wit.
Before the ACA passed, I had a prog tell me that 40 million people a day are dying from lack of healthcare insurance. Seriously. I’m sure she heard this from the likes of Nancy Pelosi or Fauxcohontas. And never being one to question her betters who are ‘experts’, I guess she never thought to question this or do the math. I said ‘so you’re telling me that more than 10% of the entire population of the USA are dying every year? Where are all the bodies?, because there’s no way we could bury them all’. She did that ‘thing’ that all totally unprepared people do. The little quirky smile followed by the deer in the headlights look. Damn, it is alarming that there are so many people, not only people, but people with fucking college degrees, who are that stupid.
Sorry, lol. Not a day, a year.
Already got a good buzz going from a Belgian followed by a stout….beer you heathens.
Time to go shotgun Venture Bros Season 6 on blu-ray. My kinda Friday night.
4 beers. Still on the roof.
I know, I’m a hero.
Haven’t fallen off yet?
4 beers? How many skylights do you have? I think this has devolved into “I like to drink beer on the roof” territory.
Beer on the roof you say?
3 on this slope. Had to scrub the solar panels too. It’s gonna rain, and I’m taking advantage of that.
Pfft, guns are fruity.
Yeah, but in S6, he has to carry because Dr. Venture is back at the top of the “list”.
I love Venture Brothers. When is the next season starting?