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Kombucha [snapshot]

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"Kabocha" Cedar Park, 2018
Photo info: OLYMPUS E-PL9, 20mm, f/4.1, 1/125 sec, ISO6400
 “Kabocha” Cedar Park, 2018

This evening we hosted a birthday party for a good friend at our house. As usual, it was a potluck so there was plenty of yummy food. We made a few homemade pizzas which were fun for the guests to make, and we have a lot of leftovers so I am happy! ❤️🍕

Our friend’s husband made individually bottled kombucha, which is the photo above. Truth be told, I didn’t get any photos of the party so I am borrowing one of Mariko’s pics. You can see in the caption that it’s not from my usual
Fujifilm, but from Mariko’s Olympus. That’s a really nice camera, actually.

I hope you had a nice Sunday!

またね～

Nacho Time

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Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2, 1/100 sec, ISO640

こなばんは。How’s it going?

Yesterday at the request of my sons, I had made a bunch of carnitas in our InstantPot, which we used as filling for burritos. Since I made so much meat (4 lbs!), there were plenty of leftovers so we decided to have carnitas again tonight, but this time we made nachos. The layers (from bottom up) were tortilla chips, refried beans (with water added so they were pretty creamy), cheese, carnitas, sauteed jalapeño and onion, more cheese, then repeat. Pop the casserole dish into a 350° oven for 15 minutes and they are done. For the finishing touches, we topped with cilantro, diced jalapeños, and sour cream.

By the way, do you know the origin of nachos? I didn’t until a few weeks ago. It’s very interesting! If you don’t know the history, here’s the Wikipedia article on Nachos so you can learn as well. Enjoy!

I hope you had a nice Sunday.

またね～

Gelato at Work

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"Gelato Lit Up" Austin, 2018
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO400
 “Gelato Lit Up” Austin, 2018

A wonderful afternoon treat at work!

Every few weeks, my work hosts a lunch, happy hour, or other get together in the office, and today it was afternoon gelato and sweets. I skipped the sweets, which were baked goods (cakes, tarts, and cookies) and had two cups of gelato from Frost. It was so good! The first one I tried was “Sea Salt Caramel” and it was awesome. And since I skipped the cookies, I felt that I was allowed to go back for a second gelato – “Lotus Cookie”. I think they said it was cookie butter… but whatever it was, I thought it was delicious! Since Frost Gelato brought in six flavors, I was tempted to go back and try more, but I decided to limit myself. 😁

It was a good way to end the work day!

"Packed" Austin, 2018
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/150 sec, ISO200
 “Packed” Austin, 2018

Have a Drink

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"Osake" Cedar Park, 2018
“Osake” Cedar Park, 2018

こんばんは。It’s Friday! So why not have a drink to celebrate the arrival of the weekend?

At the moment, we have a couple houseguests staying with us for a few days, and they bought over a bottle of some delicious saké. 🍶 My tastebuds are not so fine-tuned as to detect the subtle differences in most saké but I know what I like, and I really like this one. 😆

As far as drinking goes, I usually have a drink every day, most commonly a glass of wine before dinner, or a beer with dinner. But on the weekends, a little more is okay! But I can’t remember the last time I had too much to drink! I guess getting older means the sleepy feeling overwhelms the party feeling more and more. 😀

I hope you had a nice week!

またね～