MY CUISINE AT 15 CRAIGSIDE

The UK went a different way on vaccinations. They chose to inoculate as many people as possible rather than first immunize an individual with both shots, as the U.S. is doing for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. The point is that you do gain, perhaps, 10 points in protection with both shots. However, even one makes a big difference in affecting the community, and, further, this delay for the second injection seems to be essentially okay. The graphic to the right from the New York Times.

By now anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I live in a seniors' community called 15 Craigside. Today, I will clear my desktop by transferring these food photos into this posting.

On Wednesday I had an international St. Pat's meal. My green life began the day by walking on the Ala Wai Golf Course. Did well, and my pulse rate remained below 100 pulses/minute because a group ahead of us played reasonably slowly. I might mention that I've seen hundreds of pigeons over the years, and, amazingly enough, saw my first Blue-bar Pigeon on this course.

On my way home I dropped by Fujioka's and asked, what is the best Irish alcoholic beverage. Without hesitation, he said Redbreast. Surely enough, this source picked Redbreast as #1 overall. Nowhere on the list was Jameson or Bushmills. The price for the 12 year old single pot still Irish whiskey ranged from less than $50 in Maine to $80 in Florida. I paid $67. For three times the cost of a Jameson, I question the cost, or, more probably, can't appreciate the superiority. I also picked up a Baileys Irish Cream from Dublin. This is reported to be the original Irish cream, invented by Gilbeys in 1971.

I had the BIC over ice when I took a green bath:

As I just had a corned beef and cabbage dinner to prepare for St. Pat's Day, I prepared an international meal of American steak and Japanese chutoro sashimi / shiitake mushrooms, and added some green mint jelly and sliced truffles:

The wine, Redbreast, beer and St. Patrick international cuisine:

Another day I had the following, beginning with breakfast, a Korean seaweed soup lunch and assorted Oriental dishes for dinner, with the rest of the most popular drink in the world, Jinro Soju :

With a Stanford Chardonnay, I had prosciutto, foie gras pate', blue cheese croissant, ham and a fancy salad of endive, radicchio, sea asparagus, avocado and sweet onion:

At an upscale Safeway located on Beretania Avenue, I saw this display of American Wagyu Beef. So I picked up a piece and had it with some hirame sashimi:

Different from the Japanese version, okay, but not the same. Of course, the U.S. wagyu costs one-fourth the Japanese cut.

Then I actually built a meal around boiled peanuts supplied by a friend, rest of the foie gras pate', salad and croissant, accompanied by a Pence Chardonnay and beer:

Soba and sashimi:

Two noodles lunch:

Finally, a luau for dinner last night. I made my own poke using blue-fin tuna cut in the shape of sashimi as opposed to those cubes, and adding the poke mix (seaweed, kukui nut, also known as candlenut, and salt), kazunoko (salted herring eggs), onions, sea asparagus and chili water:

I also enhanced the lomi-salmon:

My Hawaiian feast with lau lau, chicken longrice, lomi, poke, rice and various drinks:

I'm afraid I gained a couple of pounds this week. Here is the current state of my blooming Honohono Orchids.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

THE FIRST 84 YEARS OF MY LIFE

The first half of my life was spent preparing myself for my final 42 years. This was a mostly trying and stressful period involving a less than ideal youth, then struggles to get through school, my first few jobs and accompanying life, ending two months later on a Sunday with Part 15E , so it was a spiritual conclusion to my final transition. I never did count the number of actual postings, but I suspect it was around 25 parts. The ending had to do with golf, the disappearance and re-appearance of an 8-iron cover. That was the final clue to whether the beyond after death would be eternal gloom or Heaven. Today, I provide only one transition, but hint about a final one, for this, after all, is Sunday. I'm 84 years old, so let me summarize what happened during the first phase, from 0-42, and follow with the years 42-84. As this is 2024, that key transition year was 1982. I can't seem to find this photo, but as a one-year old baby, I was fat....

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