Main blog down for a while.

Since my hosting is messing with things I don't have my main blog. I guess I'll use this blog to fill that gap for a while.
Things have been crazy in my life lately. I quit a job. I got a new job. I got laid off. People moved out and people moved in. I have a baby on the way!
Alex, one of my roommates, has decided to start a family and wants to take over more of the house. That means letting people go. It isn't that bad because Blake is starting school and should be able to hold an apartment with grants and such. The rest of them...ehh.
Shawna doesn't want to live here, so things should work good. Alex will pay a good amount for the house and I'll live somewhere else. I need to get another job. THe one I was at said to reapply in a month. That is a bunch of bs and would make me feel like a total tool. I need to do what I can to be the provider though. I'm just glad things are working somewhat to my plan instead of having to go all mean landlord on people.

I haven't posted here in ages.

I've been really busy with life lately. As you all can tell, I never finished a single episode of my cooking show. There is just too much going on. I've been looking for a job for so long. I can't believe I haven't gotten anything. I mean, I've been applying for everything. Sign dancer, McDonalds, tech jobs. I've started posting the places I've tried each day on my other blog in hopes someone might know of some place I've missed. That same request is extended here. If anybody works somewhere or just knows somewhere that needs people then please let me know.

Cooking show!

I'm working on a cooking show I'm going to put on various video hosting sites and public access. My first episode is a real simple one. I'm just doing some recipes from allrecipes. I didn't wanna screw something up on my first go. That and it's Shawna's birthday and I wanted to make her cake and ice cream. I'll post links to the video once it is finished and uploaded.

Worst Blogger ever!

I never remember to blog anything anymore. Perhaps I'm too busy. Maybe it is because I'm in a depressed mac and cheese from a box driven coma. Either way I need to get the drive and the ingredients to make something wonderful. Stay tuned folks. I will get my 12 viewers back yet!

Sorry for seemingly abandoning you good folks.

Lately, I've been in a giant funk and it has been extremely hard to dig my way out. FOr those interested in an update about my cooking school woes, I'm not going to be able to attend classes this quarter because I lack the funds and they don't like to give financial aid to people who own houses even if they inherit it and owe their sister a bunch of money to even out the estate. I am trying to get some money to go though. I've been applying for a lot of jobs and haven't gotten anything. I'm not giving up though. I also found this site that collects money for you and refunds all donations if your goal isn't reached. It is a clever idea. If you are interested in helping out the link is here for my school collection and here since I'm having trouble getting money together for house taxes. Any help is appreciated.

No food today

I decided not to cook today. Shawna and I went out to Mongolian Grill for dinner. I think I might try to make the salmon dish I was planning in a previous post and post the recipe/process. We'll have to see if I'm up to it and I have time.

I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do for culinary school. I'm compiling a list of the schools in this area that offer cooking courses and what I know about them. I plan to research them a bit and the information will grow over time. Perhaps, some of you folks can help out. I'm going to Clark College to get the basic courses out of the way since paying a big name 6 times as much to "learn" things I already know seems wasteful.

I've been trying to post in my tea blog everyday. So far I'm almost doing it, but I don't see anybody visiting it and that discourages me. I haven't pulled out my better teas yet. Maybe it will pick up.

Narutomaki(Kamaboko)

Some time back I posted a message on my other blog about wanting to find a recipe for naruto. In case you don't know, Naruto is a Japanese fish cake with a pink spiral commonly used to decorate ramen.

Image taken from japanesefood.about.com

Not long ago, someone commented on that post stating that I might have better luck searching under the name kamaboko. I did have better luck, but I still haven't found anything I could consider a recipe. There are many sites that say cooking naruto at home just isn't done because the process is too difficult. I did find one person at Recipe Link that listed some of the thickeners used in making kamaboko, but that is hardly a recipe.

My other blog gets a decent number of hits and nobody has been able to find a recipe. I've scoured the internets trying to find one. Can any of you good blog readers find anything? I promise to do a follow-up on this with pictures of me making it and the recipe/process if someone is able to find me a recipe.