Tuesday, January 29, 2013



"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.""
                   -Maya Angelou

Limited cookbooks






I currently have only two cookbooks here, one is Celebrated Chefs, a collection of the Seattle area’s restaurant's and chef’s signature dishes. Most of the ingredient lists require at least two specialty items, such as pancetta, chanterelles, duck confit, and sottocenere (this one is a bit more flexible “or any other truffled, semi-firm cheese”).  The other cookbook we have is Tasteful Treasures: A Collection of Recipes by SunCrest Home Health Employees of Eastern Tennessee, a Christmas gift to Kris from Terrie for his favorite sausage ball recipe (which I still promise to make).  Other recipes include Chicken/Ranch cheese ball, Crock Pot Lil’ Smokeys, and Coca Cola Chicken. I’m honestly not sure if ketchup, and soda pop will ever be staple ingredients in my cooking, but I’ll try anything once! Still, I can’t help feeling as though there is some sort of middle ground I am missing recipe wise, floating somewhere between Velveeta and ripened chèvre. All I can say is that I’m very excited for my things to arrive; I know that somewhere in those boxes there are cookbooks with pages flagged by Auntie Anne herself that won’t let me down!

The good news is...

Lots to look forward to, the sun rises tomorrow!

At one point Kris said this over the phone to a friend back in the states and I found it very amusing. As I was thinking of blog titles it came back to me. In Japan (also the land of the rising sun) we are 17 hours ahead (of PST) and today here is USA tomorrow, and the good news is... the sun does rise!



I also found that there is a statistical problem called "the sunrise problem" which is the type of question posed on the first day of a statistics class by a quizzical professor and is "what is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?" Upon further investigation I learned if you observe 1000 days that the sun does rise, then the certainty that it will tomorrow is 99.9% and this probability will increase as you see and include more days that the sun successfully rises. However if you account for prior knowledge of gravity rules the answer is dramatically different says Xu Cui, a researcher at Stanford University. I am going to guess this dramatic difference is also in our favor.


So see you tomorrow!









I am sorry to say this is actually a sunset, but the shot in the sunrise direction is not as good, so forgive me.



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