Brother Visit

My youngest brother (who is 7 years younger than me) came home this weekend before spending part of the week in Boston for work.

He and his old high school friend, plus our other brother (one year younger than me) spent from 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm or so hanging out with our parents, watching golf and eating pizza from the local pizza place. I got a small pizza with anchovies and extra cheese, and it was glorious. There's just something about mom & pop pizza places that have been around for ages. The cheese is truly the star.

It was good to hang out with him for a few hours out of the blue like that, as he and his family live on the west coast. Fortunately he has a work reason (as well as the means) to travel out this way more than just once a year, so it's much easier to accept that he doesn't live 'just up the road' from me like our parents and other two siblings do (less than 30 minutes to all 3 other homes).

Food and Stuff

Today spring has officially sprung around these parts. Yesterday was sunny and in the 60's, and today it hit 78 degrees. Needless to say I had all the windows open to air out the house (both days), and it was glorious. However, this was a blip, and temperatures will be in the 40's and 50's for the next week at least. So I enjoyed it while I could.

Breakfast was sausage, a bagel and fresh broccoli. Lunch was a banana. And supper was a mission with kick. I used some ramen noodles and a spicy kimchi broth packet for the base, and added the last of the dried squid - the spicy stuff. I added fresh mushrooms and rehydrated seaweed at the end, and had snow peas and soy sauced boneless pork alongside. Such a great meal.

Last Wednesday I had something for lunch almost as labor-intensive, and just as delicious: rice with pork, seaweed and two fried eggs. SO worth it.