turkish cooking & Flickr

Front of a birthday card I made for Justin. Click for bigger image.


Fun 40th birthday party for Justin yesterday. Excellent victuals, too; Justin and Justin's mom had prepared all kinds of scrumptious but healthy dishes, most of them Turkish and from a cookbook called Sofra Cookbook: Modern Turkish and Middle-Eastern Cookery, by Huseyin Ozer. I've added this to my Amazon Wish List; I maintain this list more for myself than anyone else; I used to write down interesting-sounding books and movies on scraps of paper which I'd promptly lose.

And Justin hadn't seen the piano music I'd written for him after all! Now I need to dig up the other music I've written and give copies to my other musical inspirations, just in case I've been negligent in their cases as well. To John: Sadly, I have been unable to find my copy of Commandy Andy. I'll keep looking, though. I was highly impressed that John still remembered the tune!

Also chatted with Tom West and was delighted to discover that there is an 80-85% chance he'll be at FilKONtario when Michelle's the Author Guest! Yayyyy! Very happy about this since, after all, Tom's the one who introduced me to filk in the first place. Michelle was unable to be at the party because she's in Montreal this weekend for ConCept.

Thanks to Ruth & Kaarel for giving me a lift to the party, since Jeff wasn't able to attend.





I'm starting to link all my Blatherings photos to my Flickr photo album, by the way. I figure it's a way of saving some hard disk space as well as making back-ups of my favourite images. I'm pretty happy with Flickr so far, especially the bulk uploading tool available for Mac OS. Anyway, from now on, you'll usually be able to click on any photo to get a bigger image. I'm also pretty happy with how the Filking Group on Flickr is growing, with members in the filking community contributing photos.

Especially liked the comment from John (jjc in Blatherchat) in response to yesterday's Blathering about Salad Nicoise:

"I used to reflexively order café liègois, but that was because I was living in France. When I'm travelling in the States, I'll order chicken Caesar salads, because they're universally available, sufficiently digestible and nutritionally complete that I can live on them for long enough to run a Scrabble tournament, and hard to completely botch. If I'm eating out in a civilised part of the world, I cannot resist just about any preparation of duck, and am rarely disappointed.

Salmon and canned salmon are two different substances. I learned this the first time I made a salmon salad sandwich out of real salmon. I felt like I'd wasted a large portion of my culinary life opening cans. Canned salmon is for cats. Except the spoiled one that come to my back door, who gets barbecued salmon, microwaved back to body temperature if I've had to refrigerate it."

John, you canned salmon snob! I love canned salmon, and will often have it with toast, or dumped over some freshly cooked pasta for lunch. Yummm....

John, by the way, was the one to arrange the candles on Justin's birthday cake. Poor Justin spent a while trying to figure it out; it's a ritual between the two of them and there are times when the rest of us despair of ever getting a taste of the cake. This time the answer was relatively simple (for a technonerdboy, that is): the ascii character for 40.

:-)

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