foody bits

ommkarja and I had lunch at Mallorca today. I would like to figure out how to replicate the tuna with pepper sauce (pepper like in black, not like in bell). The fish was very moist and tender; I wonder if it was pan-seared rather than baked.

They have huge bottles of wine running along the wall. Huge, like in a gallon or more -- and good wines; this is not the cheap stuff that you would expect to come in gallon bottles. (I saw no price list. I suspect it follows the "if you have to ask..." rule.) Our server helpfully explained that if we got one of those bottles and finished it while there, it would be on the house. Our response was something like, "nah, not for lunch on a work day". :-) This did lead us to speculate, unproductively, about the maximum group size and meal duration that could be used in such an effort.

Tonight after the board meeting I baked banana bread for a party on Saturday night. (I need to make a salad for a different party on Saturday night, but I'll just do that before we go.) The turkey breast for Shabbat dinner is pre-cooking now (Ralph, it's the recipe you fed us not long ao). I feel so domestic on Thursday nights. :-)

And I got my latkes tonight (shul fund-raiser). Mmm, latkes.

motivation

There is nothing quite like a new mysterious sound from the computer tower to prompt the thought "are you satisfied with your most recent backup?".

(I'm actually reasonably good about backups of the data partition to the external hard drive. I'm lousy about off-site backups, though, in part because it requires actual interactive effort to partition things into CD-sized chunks.)

I think, all things considered, that my current computer has turned out to be a bit of a lemon. Bummer.