[misc] Hmart and the Blizzard

Made a quick trip to Hmart with my mom on Saturday before the blizzard started. I was up and out of my house at 6:30am and at hers by 7am. Sigh. But it was a quiet drive and we got to Burlington, MA by 9 am. We did our shopping, had some lunch and were back home by 2pm. 

It was a madhouse there. We had no trouble finding parking when we arrived but by the time we left at noon, cars were slowly circling the parking lot like sharks, following anyone pushing a shopping car away from the store's exit. There was even a LINE of cars backed up, waiting to get into the parking lot. People were being crazy- parking up on the grass and places they so obviously shouldn't. 

It was a successful shopping trip. I replenished by Vermont Curry supply:

Found a new type of stew that I'm not willing to try... yet:

Bought some super hot ramens. A package of Volcano Chicken and a package of this:

Which I mostly bought because the only descriptive word in English on it is 'Mania'.

My best purchase of the day:

I love them but Murderface hates them. I'm thinking of making him cat slippers that have little human heads on them, so he won't feel so bad.

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Sunday was a snow day. We watched the games at home, rather than going out into the full-on blizzard. The Patriots are going to the Super Bowl!!

Monday was a holiday but we stayed home all day. It was -25 F with the wind ALL DAY. ALLLLLL DAAAAAY. 

I did a huge amount of knitting over the weekend- I started a linen curtain with plans to make two panels. It would be good airplane knitting for a work trip next week. But I'm already done with one panel and 25% into the second so I think I'll finish these before I even go. Time to find another travel. Either socks or a tea cosy (I finally got out my never-been-used teapot for a pot of barley tea- and now it needs a cosy).

[misc] Penny Monday and Hmart

This is how I humiliate Penny:

By posting an unflattering picture of her. She started stomping around my on chest in bed before 7am on Sunday, trying to get me up for (her) breakfast. Usually I'm up with the sun but was rather tired from Saturday.

Saturday I took a trip with my mom to Hmart- we hadn't been in a long time and were in dire need of staples- rice, seaweed, sauces, gochujang, ramen, etc. First, we went to the liquor store next door to buy 17 bottles of makgeolli (so good). Then a couple jjigae's for lunch in the food court:

Since it's summer, it's naengmyun time and we also split a bowl of cold bi bim naengmyun.

Then it's time to shop. There was a nice display of rambutan:

Which I've never had. I bought 8 to try. As well as a guava and baby bananas. And a box of Asian pears. The fruit and vegetables at Hmart are so good.

I didn't get these but I thought about it:

I think I'm mellow enough in general. And I'm not sure a hit of chocolate and marshmallow would be calming for me.

The trip was good- got everything I was looking for- especially all the fixings to make naengmyun all summer. Dinner at home was ssam:

Spicy pork, homemade ssam sauce, red leaf lettuce and arugula from the CSA, and a few banchan (black beans, peanuts, spicy dried anchovies). Rambutan for dessert. They were good but I don't know that I'll get them again. Fun to hold, easy to cut and pop out of the shell, tastes like grape but kind of hard to eat around the seed inside.

[food] Banchan

From my trip to H-mart this weekend:

A wall of banchan (small dishes): pickles and radish and dried fish and squid. Yum.