Mujadarrah

Mujadarrah is a delicious high-protein and high-fiber side dish. I created this recipe based on the mujadarrah served at a local Mediterranean restaurant. We served it with broiled salmon fillets last night. It’s also dirt-cheap! The recipe below makes enough…

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Belize: Day Eight

Today was our last day in Belize, and it doesn’t really count because it’s a travel day. We didn’t do a whole lot else. After breakfast (Doc with a special-order omelette and a parting glass of grapefruit juice, me with my usual fruit and cheese), we settled our bill at the front desk, left an envelope with gratuities for the entire staff as well as extra for a few specific people, and retrieved our dive equipment from the dive shop. Luckily none of our stuff was taken in the theft a few days ago (Giovanni’s regulator was stolen, along with someone else’s BCD and I think also a wetsuit or two). We packed as best we could, resigning ourselves to the fact that we’d have two suitcases full of damp musty-smelling clothes. We had to be out of our room by 11 a.m., check-out time, but our van to the airport wasn’t leaving until 1 p.m., so we brought our luggage down to the lobby and sat with Doug, Nish, Kurt, and Megan until their van left at 12. We found out that, since we didn’t arrive until dinnertime on our first day, our lunch meal was included on our last day. So we went ahead and ordered lunch, and by the time we were done, it was time to leave. We said our goodbyes to the staff, loaded into the van with Lorenzo, and headed for Dangriga. Our puddlejumper at Dangriga was about 3o minutes late arriving, which was fine since we had plenty of time before our connecting flight. We sat in the Dangriga airport and read the local papers, which were interesting in that they contained little hard news and some soft core pornography in the guise of a “love” column. In Belize City, we visited the […]

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giving the finger to sbc dsl

part of the reason that i haven’t been writing much lately has to do with the fact that we don’t have any DSL service at home. my feelings towards sbc’s reliability, customer service, and pattern recognition with trouble reports (or lack thereof) is a different rant entirely. let’s just say that while we hate the monopoly that comcast has on the cable industry, we called them up and asked them to send us a cable modem kit. there was an sbc repair dude ripping up the sidewalk this morning as we were leaving for work so that might mean that we have internet when we get home tonight. but i’m not counting on it. the sad thing is, i haven’t known what to do with myself in the evenings while our dsl has been out. i can only watch so much tv before my eyes glaze over. i did mostly complete that damn painting that i’ve been working on since, oh, october. and i got the preliminary charcoal sketch done for another one. i guess that is something. i’ve realized that reading is a habit i’ve gotten out of, largely, and that makes me sad. when i’ve gotten past the beginning of a good book then it’s easy for me to really get into it and tear through it until i’m done. but if i haven’t read in a while, it’s hard to motivate myself to sit down and begin.

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school nightmares

Another dream about being back in school. I bet everybody has these dreams sometimes. Luckily, I’ve never found myself in class naked. It was the first day of classes, and I couldn’t find my classroom. I had successfully located the…

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