The Forbidden Breakfast and window repair
2020-Aug-02, Sunday 19:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've written before about Shoujo Kageki ⭐️ Revue Starlight, back when I first saw it at an Anime Chicago sampler two years ago and when I went to a panel with the designers and director at ACEN 2019, but one thing I haven't mentioned before is banana miso soup. Daiba Nana (punning on Dai-Banana, "Huge banana") makes it in one of the episodes, and it turns out it was weirdly popular on the Japanese blogging site Ameblo around the time that Shoujo Kageki ⭐️ Revue Starlight was being made. I've wanted to make it for a while, but usually I didn't have any bananas, or I didn't want to try it. But today was the day! I found a recipe on cookpad (the title is, "Is it dangerous to eat lol? Banana miso soup lololololol"), made it over ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee's objections, and tried it.
It was kind of weird, of course. The miso and banana didn't mesh together at all at first, because, wary of that recipe's notes about the banana getting mushy, I just sliced it in at the end. But as it heated it it caramelized a bit and got sweeter and contrasted nicely with the miso's savory flavor, and I started to like it more. Originally I wasn't sure I'd eat it again, but I might.
Butsashagee and my Japanese tutor both think I'm insane, so we'll see. 
I also had to perform a bit of home repair today. When I went out to the Middle Eastern Grocery Store to pick up more hummus and pita, rain blew in andsashagee had to close the windows. Two of the windows in my home are on sliding levers and one detached from the lever, so when I got back I removed the blinds, unscrewed the holders for the blinds, detached the screen, and then put the lever back into place. After celebratory handpies, I put it all back together and then we sat down just as a stormburst blew in, so I got it in the nick of time. Those windows open outward toward the west, and all storms in Chicago come from the west, so there would have been a lot of water on the floor if I hadn't fixed it in time. And thanks to sashagee for trying to do it herself and figuring out how the blinds attach to the wall.
Now, to play more Chrono Trigger and beat Magus.
sashagee's objections, and tried it.It was kind of weird, of course. The miso and banana didn't mesh together at all at first, because, wary of that recipe's notes about the banana getting mushy, I just sliced it in at the end. But as it heated it it caramelized a bit and got sweeter and contrasted nicely with the miso's savory flavor, and I started to like it more. Originally I wasn't sure I'd eat it again, but I might.
But
sashagee and my Japanese tutor both think I'm insane, so we'll see. I also had to perform a bit of home repair today. When I went out to the Middle Eastern Grocery Store to pick up more hummus and pita, rain blew in and
sashagee had to close the windows. Two of the windows in my home are on sliding levers and one detached from the lever, so when I got back I removed the blinds, unscrewed the holders for the blinds, detached the screen, and then put the lever back into place. After celebratory handpies, I put it all back together and then we sat down just as a stormburst blew in, so I got it in the nick of time. Those windows open outward toward the west, and all storms in Chicago come from the west, so there would have been a lot of water on the floor if I hadn't fixed it in time. And thanks to sashagee for trying to do it herself and figuring out how the blinds attach to the wall.Now, to play more Chrono Trigger and beat Magus.
