Recent cooking endeavors

For dinner some weekend a while ago:
Omuraisu!

For dinner weekend before last:
Cabbage rolls in tomato soup with onions, bacon, and shiitake
Rice with fresh peas

For dinner last weekend:
Braised haddock (couldn't get sole or flounder)
Curry stir-fried cabbage
Hiyayakko
Red miso soup with potatoes and onions

Yang came over and cooked so we also had:
Shrimp chips! (He also brought watermelon, weird soda and a bag o' frozen gyoza. We haven't finished eating it all.)

For laughs a couple days ago:
Kinako and sesame seed cookies (resembled a rich but cleaner shortbread)

For dinner last night:
Curry salmon meuniere
Fresh peas
Fried potatoes
Sour cream and black pepper for condiments

I've been making pancakes a lot, too. My choice in pancake mix is truly an extravagance (imported from Japan, claims to be organic), but they taste like the pancakes of my childhood. I had a bunch of leftover koshian so I kept eating that with pancakes. Between that and the omuraisu my frypan abilities have had a LEVEL UP!

My next conquest was going to be either spicy deep-fried katsuo or aji meatballs, but the store didn't have either fish and I had to settle for ingredients for something else mutter mumble. HAY, WHOLE FOODS, HAVE ANY TUNA FROM THE PACIFIC?

I don't normally cook this frequently or this nice. My mother is home from school for the summer and I have her to order around (go buy this for me, cut these onions, tell me if that looks done). She happily plays along because she likes what I cook and she doesn't have to plan anything.

Look, I found a quiz that didn't come from someone else! ( It's been nothing but princesses with me these days. Yeah, really. )

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Sorry for the double entry day, I feel that I must make announcements about things that everybody else probably knew at least two weeks ago (´Д‘)

I picked up an issue of Ribon at the grocery store today and the ads all say that Arina will start a new series in the next issue. And since all the magazines at this store at a month late, the new series is out there somewhere. I know the title has "revolution" It's called Zettai Kakusei Tenshi Miss Fortune (haha, shut up, I can read) Zettai Kakusei Tenshi Mistress Fortune GOD I'M TOO EXCITED TO READ? and there might be princesses involved. Also, the main character has pink hair. Cool! The ads talk about Arina's popularity worldwide. They certainly were fast with localizing that Eve one-shot she drew. Maybe they're doing that with the new series, too?

Update: this series will have 3 chapters, and it'll have the fantasy/supernatural theme. The main character has crummypowers and she is partnered with a guy with superpowers to do tasks for the organization they work for. There are transformations! The guy transforms, too.

I'm kind of hoping that starting a new series will magically, instantly improve Arina's narrative, which even I will agree has deteriorated. She moves too fast, she says too much, all the goodness and feeling to the moral of the story is lost. I really have no problem with the fanservice, though, hur hur.

For me, probably the most important addition to the Vesperia site is the option to skip their stupid flash introduction, which I did have to sit through while on dialup in the countryside. Too little, too late.

There are new character profiles but I'm only going to do the characters I like because I don't feel like doing the rest. ( This is okay y/y? )

Blah about Vesperia:

The advent of Vesperia's female physical fighter. Raven will be lacking in attack power, and Judith's attacks will be awkward or an acquired taste. MAYBE. JUST SPECULATING.

The advent of the older man (!), who also has a ponytail (!!) and hides his seriousness and/or sad past by acting like a moron (!!!). :DDDD Is it too late to hope for "dork," too? how about teh gay?

Judith has almost as much of a :3 face as Rita. Gee, do you think Fujishima has noticed the love for :3 faces?

Rita is like the Fujishima version of Harold, not that I mind something to possibly heal the scars a lesser game gave me. Harold was kind of...over the top.

I'm already entertaining fantasies of Raven and Judith interacting. Actually, I'm thinking about Judith totally pwning him. Is that so wrong?

Fears (IF I SAY IT NOW IT'LL MAKE IT BETTER):

Raven will totally pwn or shock Judith in some way and she'll fall into his arms, because she wanted his fancypants manspeech. Because all women secretly get wet for men who take control. Can't we have some quiet cameraderie?

Someone will hit Rita and inform her that real friendship is about punching people. (拳で語る熱いをとｋ(以下略) Because friendship is about beating your friends and everyone being an asshole. TOGETHER. Aww.

ETA: In the deeply, unspeakably unlikely event that someone wants to use these translations for something, could this hypothetical someone please tell me first? I don't have any legal control over them, but some warning would be The Nice Thing To Do.