Asian fish, Local Hero, school clubs

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Last night I tried my first recipe from The Moosewood Restaurant Cooks At Home, a Christmas gift from my sister and her family. Recipe: Asian Fish In A Packet, which is basically fish fillets (I chose halibut) on cooked rice with bok choy drizzled with a soy-ginger-sesame sauce, wrapped in aluminum foil and stuck in an oven. Dead easy to make, and it turned out great.

Maybe I don't suck at cooking as much as I thought. Or maybe I just need to find more good no-brainer recipes. :-)

Watched Local Hero on DVD last night while Jeff was out gaming. Wow, I had forgotten how great this movie was. And what a different perspective I have now compared to when I first saw it while still a student. Big company approaches naive little town about acquisition. The whole negotiation dance. Anyway, I loved it even more this time around. Funny to see how dated some of it was, like the mention of telexes, which was a communications systems consisting of teletypewriters connected to a telephone network back in the Old Days.

Today's Blatherpic is an old newspaper clipping from The Bramalea Guardian in July, 1977, when the Brampton Summer Band played the national anthem before a Jays game at the National Exhibition. I'm third from the right.

That was 26 years ago. Talk about the Old Days, whoa. :-)

Poll question: What clubs were you a member of back in school? Nerdy or cool? I definitely leaned toward the nerdier clubs, like the school band and the Library Club. I tried to join the Games club so I could learn to play D&D, but found that I made the boys too nervous because I was a girl. They kept apologizing to me (in all sincerity) whenever anyone swore or did something violent. Exasperated, I only attended one meeting.

Rand's coming to visit today, yay!

Links/News:

Thanks to pandemo for pointing me to the What Kind Of Band Geek Are You test, according to which I am an "Ultimate Band Geek". :-)

Wow, I had no idea so many of you are or were musical! To read a full list of responses to my "What musical instruments have you tried learning?" poll, see Blatherchat and my Livejournal Blatherfeed.

In his blog, Harald complained about the number of pages in the upcoming Harry Potter book, supposedly more than the last one. HA! Keep the pages coming, J.K.! I'd be delighted to read a Harry Potter book the size of War and Peace.

Erasure's coming to Toronto on March 5th, Massey Hall, woohoo!

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