I'm doing 43 things
The package says “FRY BEANS”. In Japanese, SORA MAME. In English, fava beans. Good with a little chianti.
DocD's Life List
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1. I want to meet Celtic Woman
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2. I want to travel by boat from Rangoon up the Irrawaddy River to Mandalay
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3. I want to take it to the street
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4. I want to take a ship from Rarotonga to Manihiki
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5. I want to sit at Brauhaus in Singapore and drink a pitcher of Tiger beer with Mike, the owner
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6. I want to move to Singapore
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7. I want to visit my brother in Ulan Batar and ride camels with him in the Gobi. He aint heavy.
6 entries . 36 cheers1 person -
8. I want to stand at the bottom of a rainbow and shower in colors
3 entries . 94 cheers3 people -
9. I want to try every beer in the world
78 entries . 79 cheers3 people -
10. Take pictures of things that look like faces
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11. I want to share my bungalow
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12. I want to tell you about Tokyo
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13. Would that I could turn back the clock to 1929 and meet Helen Kane. We have so much in common.
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14. I hope to get to KL or Bali sometime in the winter
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15. climb kinabalu
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16. I want to be in an outside restaurant in Italy and have the house band sing Al Di La to my wife and daughter (Beyond the beyond, how much I love them)
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17. Computer painting.
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18. I want to transcribe my screenplay into book form and self publish it as an e-book
1 entry . 23 cheers2 people -
19. Take pictures of Buddhas
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20. Posting funny signs and product packages
137 entries . 18 cheers1 person -
21. I'll tell you one thing...Then I'll tell you another
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22. Oh, to be on the sea
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23. I want to laugh with my friends
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24. I want to be a botanist.
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25. I want to speak fluently every language of the world, including those of the animals.
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27. I want to go back in time and meet Vincent Van Gogh, befriend him and be the subject of one of his paintings.
2 entries . 40 cheers2 people -
28. I want to trek into the jungles of Sumatra in search of (and find) the elusive raffalasia.
2 entries . 9 cheers1 person -
29. I want to be a regular in another TV series, but this time one where I really show off my acting ability.
49 entries . 15 cheers1 person -
30. I want to trek the Anapurna Sanctuary
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31. I want to own a winery in Napa Valley
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32. I want to own a B&B in Calistoga.
5 entries . 8 cheers1 person -
33. I want my own TV cooking show.
44 entries . 40 cheers3 people -
34. I want to buy a condo on Koh Samui (or maybe just land, and I'll design a house and garden).
3 entries . 8 cheers2 people -
35. I want to go to New Orleans and pay a voodoo witch to remove a curse that's been plaguing me for years.
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36. Design a house, garden and outside hot springs bath for a plot of land I have on a side of a mountain near Aomori City in north Japan
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37. I want to go to Scotland, see Nessie and eat haggis
4 entries . 51 cheers1 person -
38. I want to learn the truth about Roswell, UFOs and aliens
1 entry . 26 cheers1 person -
39. I want to study painting in Ubud on Bali
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40. I want an avocado plantation
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41. Eliminate religious programs from television
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42. I want to see the dragons on Komodo.
4 entries . 36 cheers1 person -
43. I want to get a publisher for my finished novel
9 entries . 96 cheers1 person
How I did it
It made me
smile to see smiles 
How I did it: I have touched on this before in a couple of entries, but now want to elaborate. Kathmandu is a very old and picturesque city. The narrow streets are lined with interesting shops selling Nepalese wares. Here and there are inviting open-air restaurants offering unique Nepalese dishes. Cyclos (cycle rikshaws) offer rides for a very low fare to those who don't wish to walk. Old … Read how I did it…
It made me
dream of Sweden.
How I did it: I've eaten deer many times, but this is the second time I've eaten reindeer. The first time was a few years ago at a Russian restaurant in Shibuya, and that was a reindeer sashimi with a dip sauce. I had been eyeing the Swedish restaurant down the street from me for some time. I noticed reindeer steak on the outside menu and thought how appropriate it would be to eat it on Xmas. SYL looked at the idea as something … Read how I did it…
It made me
hungry for more
How I did it: In north Thailand lies the town of Chiang Mai, famous for it's vast night bazaar and tour companies that offer treks into the hills of the Golden Triangle where you can stay with the opium growing hill tribes, ride elephants and river raft. Another Chiang Mai specialty is water buffalo steaks, and the place that claims to have popularized it is Lek House, a back-packers' guest house on a quiet road in the north part of the city, onl… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
J2 cooked an interesting miso nabe tonight. In this shot is shirako, negi onion, napa cabbage, enoki mushrooms. The large white thing on the left is daikon radish, and the one on the right is yamaimo potato. Shirako is another acquired taste. I’ve posted before, tarako, which is red cod roe. Shirako, which translates to “white children” is cod sperm sack. It’s added to the boiling miso pot along with the enoki, napa, daikon, and negi. (See comments)
Scrambled egg with salmon, broccoli, shitake, negi, shoga, shoyu, sesame. Fry the salmon, broccoli, mushroom and onion in sesame oil. Mix the egg in a bowl with a dash of soy sauce and a dab of ground ginger. Pour it into the pan with the fried stuff and scramble. Top it with sesame seeds and salt to taste.
