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Cooking Konnyaku: A Video

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It reminds me of Tofu in how you are supposed to use it because it acts like a sponge and soaks up whatever flavor it is in.  It has a weird but interesting texture and reminds me of squishy fishing lures.  Like exactly like them.   I may try to cut a piece of Konnyaku into the shape of a fishing lure.   We’ll see.   Also apparently it is so low in nutritional value for anything that supposedly a guy tried to lose weight by eating nothing but Konnyaku and died of malnutrition.  Crazy.  Here’s the video:

Konnyaku: Weirdest Health Food in Japan

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For my school lunches, I don’t know what I’m eating about thirty percent of the time.  That is not an exaggeration;  most of it is good even though I don’t know what it is, some of it is pretty terrible.  It took me a long time to realize a particular garnish was in fact tiny baby fish.  For about a month I had been eating a grayish chewy food and I finally had to ask what it was.  Konnyaku.

from justhungry.com:

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Too Busy to Blog!?

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So I haven’t blogged in about a week now, which is my largest drought since starting my own website. But, isn’t that a good thing?!? I’ve been so busy with other things going on that I haven’t had time to talk about them? So that’s my justification, life is so busy, in a great way, that I haven’t had time to actually blog about random informercial stuff and other randomness.

This week was my first week of coaching, which has been SWEET! It is a blast and the two hours really does feel like a half hour to me right now. I feel like that may change slightly as the season progresses and I start losing steam, but right now I love it. I have an OK group of kids; there is a clear tiered division of skills between players. At first I was really scared that I would start to run out of d rills and wouldn’t make it that fun for the kids, but Mike gave me a huge amount of flashcards with some drills and games on them so I can keep it fresh for the kids. I also love getting to rock my track jackets and warmup pants, every day. God I miss Drake, where all I ever wore to class was a hat, T-shirt, and athletic pants or shorts. Can’t teach in that.

I went to a new Thai place this week, Thai Flavors, over on SE 14th. I am pretty sure they are owned by Cool Basil or they have the same owners, because the menus were almost identical. Even the levels of hot (Iowa Hot and Thai Hot) were the same.Very good actually, probably second best to Ban Thai. I also went to Ban Thai this week, which as always was amazing.

Started cooking some more, making some noodles with garlic, onion, basil, mushrooms, and crab meat. Good stuff. Working my way up to making full Pad Thai. This weekend I’ll get some more cooking in. Thinking about making some pizza or some chicken dish. Let’s hope the weekend is as awesome as the week has been!