Chai is comfort food

Chris got a box at the grocery store last night.

I cooked for about three and a half hours last night. I enjoyed every minute of it. It helped to do all the prep work first, especially since there were a lot of common ingredients. I've found there's a core of common ingredients in almost any ethnic cooking and every recipe just uses a variation. Once you stock your pantry with that core of ingredients, you're set.

So, I'm a freak and I took pics of the food. It just looked so pretty (and because we ran across a community called food_porn).

( things I'd do differently next time. . . )

Screw whatever the mole man says. . .

Mogwai is by far the most effective mole extermination device on earth!

I came home to a dead mole on the kitchen floor. That's the last time he gets the privilege of coming in and out of the house at will while we're not here.

That does put a kink in the plans of letting the dogs come and go as they please once the doggie door is in. Perhaps he'll have them all taken care of by the time that happens though. Still stomping down the tunnels as I see he's gotten one to see if there are more to get. He's averaging 1 every couple of days now. That's only the third I've actually seen, but I'm sure he's gotten more.

On the bright side, at least he left it in plain view and I didn't find it through a game of "find the smell of rotting flesh". Ah, who am I kidding, the dogs would find it long before I would.

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Remind me never to believe Bill when he tells me he just has a quick question for me.