Ooe yofukuten world tour 2009-2010

[Mr HaGa]

Small update from yesterday.

What I wore to work

Crazy temperatures in the midwest. 70 degrees, or 21 Celsius for my fellow Europeans. It's ****ing November! I'm ready for some obscenely cold weather! Why else did I buy a Canada Goose parka?

After work I walked over to campus to meet my wife. Every first Friday of the month there's an artwalk in town, where all the museums have free admittance and free food. We went to the University art gallery.

The spread. Meh.

The featured art was Dias de los Muertos related. Meh.

After that some calzones for dinner and a birthday get together of a friend of my wife. Didn't take pics, sorry...

[Mr HaGa]

Another quick update.

Again I found a package waiting for me when I got home. I didn't know fedex delivers on Saturdays...

Contents:

Details:

Fit:

Very lovely and soft and warm! Chest fits perfectly, length a little short for my disproportionately long torso... but doable. Hope these don't shrink too much...

Thanks for looking, I'll have more tomorrow!

[pomata]

crazy I'm looking for the same sweater.

which brand? take care, those usually shrink!

[SoulRebel]

Serious those jeans fit you so well haga!! nice new boots

[ninetynine]

I like Jap coke best...

Nice updates HaGa, I like your pack and your block seems like a nice quaint place to live.

[Mr HaGa]

crazy I'm looking for the same sweater.

which brand? take care, those usually shrink!

Buzz Rickson. Kiya said they don't shrink...

[Mr HaGa]

I had to wear red, because yesterday was gameday. One MUST wear red when outside anywhere in Nebraska on gameday. This is what Nebraska is all about. God, Country, Huskers, and not necessarily in that order. The stadium is the most important building in the whole state, by far. It holds about 85.000 people...

(Sorry about the poor picture quality, my camera doesn't perform very well at nighttime...)

People who don't get tickets to the game park as close as possible to the stadium and picnic at their car, they break out a tent, tv set, tables, chairs, coolers, grills, food, drinks, whatever. They call this tailgating, and they do it all over the place...

[ThisSunday]

Nice tour pics HaGa.

I've haven't been tailgating in a while. Maybe next weekend.

[Mr HaGa]

Spent ALL day in the kitchen today, cooking. So I figured I'd bring you my culinary episode in my leg of the world tour. I made cream cheese chicken enchiladas...

The loot from the grocery market:

Started with making some fresh pico de gallo. Very easy, very tasty... Tomatoes, onions, jalapeno pepper, garlic, cilantro, lime and lemon juice, salt/pepper...

Remove the seeds if you don't want it to be too hot...

And voila, perfect pico!

[Mr HaGa]

While I made the tortillas I marinated the chicken in olive oil, chipotle, smoked black pepper and lime and lemon juice.

For tortillas I use masa harina. Not easy to find in conventional grocery stores here, but a staple in any Mexican market... Very convenient...

Just add water to make the dough, roll it into equal balls...

Press them...

And dry fry, they only need 30 second on each side...

16 mini tortillas in less than 20 minutes!

[Mr HaGa]

The sauce... Onions, garlic, jalapenos...

Silly me getting watery eyes from cutting the onion and then rubbing them with the hands that just touched the hot jalapeno...

Saute and add tomatoes... I like fire roasted for this sauce...

Spices: oregano, cumin, paprika, smoked paprika, smoked black pepper, cayenne, chipotle, salt...

And (this freaks people out sometimes when they see it first) dark chocolate!

[Mr HaGa]

Here I started to forget to take pics of some steps... I baked the chicken and pulled it into small pieces.

I spread some cream cheese and refried beans on the tortillas and rolled the chicken into them

Cover with the sauce

Grated some colby and sharp cheddar cheese and spread it on top...

While it was in the oven I whipped up some guacamole

Looks kinda gross...

Baked it for an hour and grated some more cheese on top

All done... The pics of the finished dish came out so bad it's almost not worth posting them...

That's it... The next 3 days are going to be pretty thin again with updtes, if there's going to be any at all even... Check back in on Thursday!

[mpcec]

nice fucking updates haga. that looks delicious! i havent had some good mexican food in forever.

[Mr HaGa]

Thanks man, they turned out pretty good, and I love my new tortilla press! I used to just roll them with an empty wine bottle, but this works much better...

[beatle]

man - mr.haga seems to be quite the cook

[Medine]

The next iron chef..

[denimformytummy]

All done... The pics of the finished dish came out so bad it's almost not worth posting them...

That's it... The next 3 days are going to be pretty thin again with updtes, if there's going to be any at all even... Check back in on Thursday!

Great updates...

It's still make me hungry though...

[SLAB]

great updates; do you have a place in Nebraska where you can buy cote d'or chocolate or your family/friends mail them to you?

[frideswide]

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Love your dedication to food (probably the only thing really worth beasting about...)

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Bloody starving now.

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[pomata]

the sauce looks hot mr. Haga

[Mr HaGa]

Thanks everyone!

great updates; do you have a place in Nebraska where you can buy cote d'or chocolate or your family/friends mail them to you?

I can't buy it here. I stock up whenever I go home. Go to the Colruyt and buy several dozens of chocolate bars and one of those 5 kilo bags of Chocotoffs. Hersheys doesn't do it for me...

[erbs]

Keep the updates coming Mr HaGa. Are you in Lincoln?

[Mr HaGa]

Quick mini update. Monday tuesday wednesday are busy days for me, no chances of getting out doing or taking pics of interesting stuff, so I figure I'd share a little bit. Might not be very interesting to everyone, but I feel bad about not updating at all in 3 days...

Got another package in the mail when I got home

No denim or boots or sweatshirts in this one, but something else I spend alot of money and time on...

New Sam Fuller movie collection... I love classic Hollywood movies, especially film noir and hardboiled crime stuff, and Sam Fuller is one of my favorites. Lately I always get a great gigly kick from spotting some selvage in one of those old movies...

Here's some of my modest collection...

I have a couple hundred still sitting in boxes in my basement because I don't have the shelfspace for them, and more still in storage back home in my parents' basement...

If I can ever stop myself from buying jeans and boots and shirts for a while I'd like to upgrade my tv to full HD and finally get a decent audio setup...

[blm14]

I just want to say that I love tortillas hecho a mano. There's a place near me in NYC that actually soaks corn in cal and grinds it into masa themselves daily.

Haga - the weather has been strangely mild on the east coast as well. It's reached almost 70 the past few days and there are still green leaves left on many trees.

Kudos on the jeans and the updates. Lets see some closeups of their current state!

[Atzec]

Kudos on the jeans and the updates. Lets see some closeups of their current state!

seconded. would love to see macros.

[Mr HaGa]

All right, let me see if I can get out of work while it's still light out so I can take some macros... If not today then later this week.

[Mr HaGa]

Workfit today

Now, as requested.........

Traintracks starting to poke through

Halflining stitching is gone

[Mr HaGa]

Macroooooooooooos

Now this is what I call a motherfuckin chainstitch.

Bit o' roping

Now this is what I call a motherfuckin belt.

Thanks for lookin.

[pomata]

you're doing a really good job here Mr Haga!

I love to see how our jeans are fading and that belt is really fucking amazing I want one!

[Mr HaGa]

Keep the updates coming Mr HaGa. Are you in Lincoln?

Late reply, didn't see it when posted, but yes, I am indeed in Lincoln NE, armpit of the world.