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no booty, just tacos

Let’s talk, for a minute, about the Kogi truck.

beef short rib taco, Kogi style

Korean short rib bbq tacos with kim chee. On tortillas. With a special sauce, which I think might be made entirely of smack.

See, there’s this fleet of trucks and they drive all over and Tweet their locations. Hipster scum all clamoring for a fix of Kogi will wait for HOURS in line. So will I, but I’m not a filthy hipster, I just queue behind them for tacos. For hours. Because there are hipsters IN MY WAY, standing between me and the tacos and it is in public and I cannot pretend we are in a prison shower and shank some refugee from Urban Outfitters, as much as that might get me to the head of the queue, and therefore tacos, faster.

And now Kogi has brought their truck and made a regular stop not half a mile from Casa Fabulous. It is worse than a crack house on my block. I can walk past a crack house, all nonchalant and “no thanks.” I do not have a problem with any chemical substance, natural or man-made. Ok, except maybe Cinnamon Dolce lattes from Starbucks, that might be a small problem. But otherwise, I am zen and groovy, y’all, with the addiction free existence. I can start making my coffee at home at any time. I can. I just choose not to.

But tonight I realized… I might have a Kogi problem. I caught myself going through empty purses and backpacks for loose change, turning out pockets, searching through the sofa cushions, pulling my hair and asking the children if they had any money. “Lend me a dollar baby, mama needs a fix.”

None of us had any money but I remembered that the ex Mr. Honey and Ollie usually has cash, so I texted him and told him to come over.

I totally booty called my ex for taco money. Except, there was no booty. Just tacos.

Tofu taco, Kogi style

They didn’t even make it to the car.

So next week when you see me standing on the corner looking a little strung out, compulsively checking my Twitter feed for the Kogi update, you’ll know why.

hi, my name is Rainy, and I will do anything for a Kogi taco.

No pictures.

I meant to take them. But dinner tasted so good, we forgot to snap any pics and while we were eating, the cats got up on the stove and ate the remaining albacore steak.

But. Erhm. It still counts. The recipe is here. I overcooked it a little, so really do follow the directions in the recipe for how long. It might seem underdone to you. It isn’t. Unlike salmon, I always forget that tuna is good when still a little rare inside.

The marinade is pretty simple, butter and olive oil (recipe asks for canola, I only cook with olive), lemon juice and zest, a little dijon, some herbs. You brush it on and broil the steaks, it took 15 minutes to throw together.

We had ours on a bed of broccoli rabe sauteed with garlic, shallots and a little shoyu, nestled next to some mashed potatoes.

Trust me, even without pictures, it’s really worth trying.

An Open Letter…

To the people who celebrate the murder of Dr. George Tiller,

Trust Women…

Trust that we have the ability to comprehend the magnitude of our reproductive choices. Trust women to choose wisely, based on an unflinching analysis of our circumstances, our abilities, our resources, the unique realities of our lives. Trust that we understand that life is not something to be fecklessly thrown away. That when we are forced to make difficult choices, we lend those choices all the gravity and importance they deserve. Trust that sometimes we are forced by circumstance to make the most difficult and painful of choices.

Trust us, for we are not little girls. We are not children. We do not need laws that reduce us to infants, that fence in our ability to choose for ourselves. We do not need legislative interference in our lives. Those laws put us at risk; they do not protect us. Trust that we are capable of determining our own boundaries and our own borders, the lines of when or how or why.

In return, we would like to trust that you will no longer commit murder in our name or the name of the unborn.

We would like to trust that you will not commit acts of violence or intimidation against those who we have entrusted with our well being, who offer us the blessing of legal, safe, clean, and compassionate medical care.

We would like to trust that you will not commit acts of violence and intimidation against us as we seek out appropriate care.

We would like to trust that you will no longer dance in fancy circles around your own commandments; breaking your own moral laws in the pursuit of getting your own way, no matter what the cost.

Trust us when we tell you that choice is the only reasonable, sane, and ethical option.

Trust us when we tell you that we will not stand down, we will not give up, we will never stop fighting to maintain our fundamental right to reproductive choice, to be the last and most important voice in what happens with our own bodies. Trust us when we tell you that you can not and will not intimidate us into backing down from this issue. You can not and will not intimidate our doctors and nurses into refusing us the medical care that we have chosen. Not with signs, not with threats, and not with bullets. Someone, somewhere, will always stand up for what is right.

If you trust nothing else, trust me on this one.

It can not be that easy.

Sure it can.

Tomatoes, an onion, and some butter? You lie.

Onion
No, really. Tomatoes. An onion. Some butter.

No, really. Butter.
That’s it? And it cooks down into a velvety, light, sweet tomato sauce?

Yep.

Nuh uh.

tomato sauce with butter and onion
Yeah huh.

roasted cruciferous veggies
Throw down some roasted veggies with caramelized shallots and garlic and you’ve got a colorful, low fat, low cal, nutrient rich feast! Dairy, because of the butter. There’s really no way to make this pareve, it’s the alchemy of real butter that makes it work.

Yum
Ok. You might have a point. But I don’t think you should quit your day job and try to become a food photographer or anything.

Hmph.

Destash/DWB benefit still on, I have just been laid up with the flu. Also it has been too darn rainy and crappy to take any decent pics of the yarn and fibers up for grabs. But, er, soon. Soon the sun will shine and the flu will leave.

Em's going to MN hat side

The Lovesick Stained Glass Cap. Standard bulky slouchy cap recipe as far as cast on/increase/decrease, only I alternated 2 rows of handspun to 1 row of mule spun yarn from Beaverslide (held doubled for gauge).

Em's going to MN hat back

Perfecto!

Working on my post for the big win/win DWB destashing extravaganza. There’s some amazing stuff going up for sale, y’all. Hopefully it will be light enough despite the rain to take some pictures tomorrow!

DWB fundraiser teaser

I’ve been needing to destash for a while. Spinning fibers, yarns, you name it, I need to get rid of some. So I’m going to put it up here, for sale.

Everything, 100% of what I raise, will be donated directly to Doctors Without Borders to help them in the work they are doing in Haiti and around the world. I am asking people to pay for shipping, though. Because I don’t want to go broke doing this. So 100% of everything, except shipping (up to $3.50. If it goes over that, I’ll eat the difference.)

Luxurious spinning fibers like optim, merino bamboo, bamboo, BFL from dyers like:
Chameleon Colorworks
Blue Moon Fiber Arts (sheep to shoe kit)
DragonFibers
and more! Some exclusive club colorways!

Yarns from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Fleece Artist, Handmaiden and others!

You can get amazing fibers and yarns and do some good for Haiti at the same time.

I’ll keep a running tally of everything raised for DWB in a sidebar.

Stay tuned for pictures!

Knitters Without Borders

I’m pretty sure that most of the people of the knitting world are aware of the Yarn Harlot’s work on behalf of Doctors Without Borders. Well, knitters are awesome and in the wake of the Haiti earthquake they’re stepped up again and raised the MSF tally by over $50,000 in just the last few days.

Consider though, that organizations like this really need regular infusions of cash from supporters, not just when the sh*t hits the fan somewhere in the world.

Consider becoming a Field Partner. You can donate as little as $7.50 per month, or as much as you want. It’s automatically charged to your credit card each month, and you get the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping in the daily lives of people somewhere on the planet, helping them get the clean water, food, vaccinations or medical care that they need. If not with DWB, then consider becoming a regular contributor to something, somewhere, so that organizations like this can exist and do their good work.

And then, yes, sure, of course. When the sh*t hits the fan, you can step up and do a little extra.

We’re so incredibly blessed here in the first world. $7.50 is like, two lattes a month. When was the last time you had to really think before buying a latte?

I’m in, per usual

Another FatCatKnits spin.

Dec FatCat spin

Kind of like a pile of autumn leaves that you just want to roll around in, except there are no spiders. Just silk, alpaca and merino….

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