Fun Friday

[liralen]

We started the day by going to the Original Pancake House and having pancakes and French Toast on Jet's part. I had the very delicate and nice wild blueberry pancakes with blueberry compote and bit of whipped butter. Jet ate the FULL order of French toast, all four slices, rather than the "kiddie" sized two slices as he said he wasn't a little kid anymore. John got a more traditional breakfast, but with buttermilk pancakes instead of toast, and it was all Good.

We did some errands in Boulder, including a stop at the Asian Seafood market just in case they might have the sour plum powder that Jet has been using on everything from strawberries and mangos to hard boiled eggs and corn dogs(!). We've still got a good supply, but boy will it be a sad day when it runs out! They didn't have any, so we'll keep looking.

The forecasts had PROMISED snow and rain with snow accumilations between 6-12 inches!! But didn't deliver at all. Phooey. The low headed South and we didn't get anything but a few flakes in the parking lot at the Pancake House.

Jet has a load of homework, work he has to do over the weekend plus the work he missed doing the day he missed of school before Spring Break. So we've spent a good amount of time today doing some of that and some of his Thank You notes he still hasn't done for Christmas and his birthday. The great thing is that he's writing his thank you notes himself, now. It's pretty impressive. He's even trying to do "fancy" lettering. Given that his normal lettering is still a mite hard to read sometimes, it got very giggly... we'll see if anyone can read their notes when they get them. *grin* But the effort was very well intensioned.

Lunch was hot noodle soup for everyone and Jet watched all 12 of the six minute Shaun the Sheep shorts gifted us by a friend. We'll buy them when they come out in the US later this year, but Jet loves them so much, he's watching them over and over and over and.... Then we went to the Rec. Center and swam like mad for nearly two hours. Ouch.

Since it was nearly dinner time, we headed to Souper Salad and chowed down until both Jet and I said our tummies hurt. Hee. Then home and more homework. Now I get to put the Jetster to bed. A very, very nice day....

Comments

[dunfalach.livejournal.com]

Souper Salad! We have one of those about an hour and a half away from me. So I rarely go there. But they're always good.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

We enjoy ours quite often. It's cheap, and an easy way to eat a meal we find pretty healthy. Jet likes to pick his stuff so it makes it easy all around.

Sour Plum Powder, alone, is hard to find!

[archangelbeth]

Sour Plum Powder... Hmm.

http://www.thefoodpaper.com/features/fennelpollen.html - 'six different "Spice of the Angels" blends, combining the finest ingredients such as fleur de sel, toasted hazelnut, almond and pecan flower, sour plum powder and date sugar.'


Other possibles...
http://www.dcwhawaii.com/samurai/SAMURAI.html

http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Ranch-00018-Salt-Heaven/dp/B0001AGNFK

Re: Sour Plum Powder, alone, is hard to find!

[archangelbeth]

Hm! This might be close:
http://www.crackseedcenter.com/ProductGroupSelect.aspx?ProductGroupID=68&CategoryID=11

http://www.amazon.com/Li-Hing-Mui-Powder-Packages/dp/B0009XBQE2

Re: Sour Plum Powder, alone, is hard to find!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

The aspartame makes me cringe a bit, as I don't think the stuff Mom and Dad bought had that or the food colorings. There wasn't any licorice either. But I appreciate the links! I sent them to Mom and Dad to see if they had any correllation iwth any of it. :-)

It would be cool to be able to mail order it, but the 99 markets all over California seem to carry it. :-) I'll bug Mom and Dad for more. *grin*

Re: Sour Plum Powder, alone, is hard to find!

[archangelbeth]

Oh, whew that the CA markets have it! (What brand name has it got? Now I'm curious!)

Re: Sour Plum Powder, alone, is hard to find!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you when they get here.

Turns out that the licorice addition *is* standard, too! Mom and Dad managed to find more powder, but it has licorice in it! Woo. I had no idea. We'll have to see if Jet will like that, too.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if those colors and the aspartame are in there and just not listed or something... it is suspiciously red... but the plums can be red, too. It's intriguing me. *grin*

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

I was reading about this in a food article in Saveur last year about Honolulu and a bar using it in cocktails. it said they just ground up standard sour plums - would those be dry enough already? maybe their Web site would have a stockist listed? if I find the article I'll check; I think it was the issue last summer covering New Zealand ;-)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You have to de-pit the standard sour plum, but other than that, yes, they're dry enough already. *grin*

Mom found some and is sending packets. The links archngelbeth had were actually fairly close! There is sometimes licorice added and the sour plums may well have the dyes and stuff if they're "red" ones.

[archangelbeth]

Oh! Plain "chunk" plums might work as well? There seemed to be some shriveled, nut-like things in some of the pictures...

I'll tell you when they get here. --Thanks!