So after about a month of reading I’m now completely up to speed with R. R. Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice series. I haven’t inhaled books like this since I decided to read through Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series years ago. Martin writes big monsters of books that take several years to write, so after the newest one comes out in July it’ll be a long time before I see another one. Probably I’ll go back and read the series again in the future – they are full of enough detail that it would certainly be worth re-reading.
Last night Kuniko arrived home well before I did, so she cooked “nikujaga” without the “niku” – potato, onion and carrots cooked in the rice cooker with a slightly sweet savory sauce. Yum. We used to make this dish on the stove, but the rice cooker really gets the vegetables tender and full of flavor, and in record time, too. We’ve been eating (and drinking) healthy recently, and a it is going a long way to getting rid of all the weight I probably gained during the Golden Week of wine and tacos.
Today is recycling day, so we’ve got to move all those empty wine bottles, champagne bottles, beer bottles and beer cans out to the curb at the end of our street. We missed the last recycling day two weeks ago, so we had an incredible amount to take out. Luckily Kuniko was driving to work today so we could throw the bottles into the back of her car.
