The TallyCast

A Sad Day

tallycast@gmail.com (Dave Brightbill) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:10:49 PDT

Back in August of 2007, I met an exceptional person. Her name was Lucinda Chandler. When we met, Lucinda had pedaled her bicycle (a hot pink recumbent trike) across the Southern United States from San Diego. She traveled mostly solo and did the trip with style touching lives everywhere she went. As she passed through [...]

Far Eastern Cuisine

tallycast@gmail.com (Dave Brightbill) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:01:43 PDT

I missed going to Vietnam during the war because of a bad attitude, a high draft number and my willingness to serve in VISTA. I don’t think I missed much in the war department, but I’m sorry I’ve not yet gotten to experience Vietnamese cuisine in it’s place of birth. I’ve almost made up for [...]

Japanese Convenience Food

tallycast@gmail.com (Dave Brightbill) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:45:24 PDT

Continuing with our theme of quick and easy, we present miso soup. It’s mostly water with three other packaged ingredients. I start out cooking a bit of dried kombu in water. I bring it to a boil and then simmer. When i’ve extracted as much kombu goodness as I want, I add a package of [...]

Umami

tallycast@gmail.com (Dave Brightbill) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:35:26 PDT

Kikkoman Shoyu – paid $5.99 for a quart today at Mike’s Seafood.