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Foto Friday: Coming back to Kathmandu, November 2007 4 November 2011 9:40 am

Posted by Tracy in : environment,Kathmandu,nepal,photos,pictures,random,travel , add a comment

I wanted to do this as a Wordless Wednesday, but I just couldn’t bring myself to throw down a bunch of Nepal pictures out of nowhere when my last real travelogue-y post about that trip was more than three years ago, which in turn was more than a year after the trip, which was (holy cats, more than four years ago). Anyway, the short summary of that trip, which does not do it justice but might provide much-needed context, is that October and early November 2007 I joined my parents, my brother Piett, my aunt Beth, my cousin Mike, and his (step?) sister Jessie on a two-and-a-half-week trek in the foothills of the Himalayas. We spent a few days in Kathmandu before and after the trek, where we saw some amazing sights. Finally, my parents, Piett, and I made a quick stop in Bangkok on the way back to our respective homes. (To read more, there’s all my posts tagged “Nepal” in reverse chronological order, or you could flash all the way back to my very first “so, I’m going on an epic adventure” confession post and work around from there.)

ANYWAY. In my last Nepal travelogue post I left off at the end of our trek, with our flight out of Lukla airport back to Kathmandu, which I’d like to point out was a tough act to follow (seriously, search YouTube for “Lukla airport” in case you’ve somehow managed to forget). But this is NaBloPoMo, people, and this year’s theme is blogging for the sake of blogging, and so I’m going to be absolutely shameless about using this as an excuse to dig way deep in my archives of blog fodder. So. Back to Kathmandu. For just a little more context, here is a link to what I blogged about that return four years ago (complete with yet another reference to the Lukla airport YouTube videos because seriously, they are amazing) but for the rest, on with the pictures.

I don’t really trust the dates on my photo files after many timezone shifts and uploadings, so I’m not sure how long we’d been flying in the little puddle-jumper when I noticed something interesting about the landscape below:

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(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday! 5 October 2011 12:10 pm

Posted by Tracy in : fun,meat,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures,travel,vegetarianism , add a comment

This post cannot be truly wordless because

1: I gotta give credit where it’s due to Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com for giving me the idea.

and

2: There’s, um, words in the picture I’m sharing. But awesomely! Check it out:

Butcher shop graffiti in Coimbra, Portugal

When will I have the self-control to actually post pictures without writing about them? Only time will tell.

Foto Friday: Delicious things eaten during recent travels. 23 September 2011 9:09 am

Posted by Tracy in : bread,cheese,consumerism,dessert,eating,fun,Holland,Netherlands,not even vegetarian,photos,random,travel,video , add a comment

So last month Ze Frank blogged a video that made me super-hungry:

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

It also inspired me to make a little photocollage of some of the gastronautic highlights of my travels this summer:

So, yeah, that was pretty great. You can click on any of those little images to go to bigger versions on Flickr. Some even have descriptions! Others I may have to write about at greater length some other time, and still others I did not photograph but should describe in glorious detail before they get any more faded in my memory. (Also note that these are only the pictures I took of our trip, which is why I am not in any of them; Peter has the pictures of me going “OMG NOM YES” but they aren’t in a place where I can link to them yet.)

Recipe from the vaults: Café au Moncef 5 January 2011 11:24 pm

Posted by Tracy in : convenience,cross-posting,food snobbery,friends,fun,milk,recipes,travel , add a comment

Once upon a time, when the world was young and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and I wrote regularly for a little website called Everything2, I started a writeup over there with the exciting announcement:

[Instant coffee] doesn’t have to [suck]!

The square brackets are an E2 notation thing which I’ve left in here just for that old skool flavor, but this post is brought to you in part by Mr. Victor Hanson-Smith, who talks to himself all over the intertwitface liciousplace (sometimes even in images, both moving and still) and in one such venue, recently complained that his travels in Chile had led him to a situation in which all the coffee was of the Nescafé variety. So Peter linked him to my old Everything2 post about one of the revelations from our adventures in Tunisia during the summer of 2002, and in honor of the successful caffeination that ensued, I am now mostly cutting and pasting the text of that old writeup here, because while I may not be posting much original content here these days, I can still archive stuff I don’t want to forget, oh yes. Anyway. This recipe is from one of the hosts of our Tunisian trip, Moncef—hence its name.

Moncef told us that this cappuccino-like concoction, which piqued our curiosity after seeing him drink it at breakfast for several days in a row, is something all Tunisian college students know how to make. After tasting a sample cup, we were so impressed that we asked for the recipe, which turned out to be almost embarrassingly simple. Turns out the entire secret to making a decent drink using instant coffee is: use hot milk instead of water. To get a little more fancy, try the following recipe:

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