Cocaine Bagna

Today I made bagna cauda today. I think I'm only aware of it because of Seago and the Italian population in and around Gillespie, Illinois, but apparently it is especially popular in the northern Italian region of Piedmont.

It is sort of a keto dream so I will have to keep this in mind next time I'm trying to drop a few pounds. The ingredients are anchovies, olive oil, garlic, and butter. 

It's sort of an oily fondue situation that you then dip bread and vegetables into.

We ran out of bread and vegetables so we poured the rest onto pasta as a sauce. It was a win.

We went to see Cocaine Bear at the theatre.  I was super excited about this very stupid movie and it did not disappoint. It had a fantastic star studded cast which was even more suprising considering that it was, again, a very stupid movie about a bear that ate a cocaine shipment and then went on a murderous rampage. It is based on a true story which is just the icing on the cake. I believe that the real bear also in fact act a brick of cocaine but then died, which is much more sensible.

I scream.

Japanese Italian Food

I was mostly excited about visiting Japaneses steakhouse Kokkaku in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle because I was craving a steak and the Japanese angle sounded like extra fun.

I was secondarily excited to have dinner here because I noticed that they had this on the menu:

Japanese bagna cauda with Saikyo Miso dipping

Assorted vegetables, radish mix, Saikyo Miso sauce

Bagna Cauda is an Italian dipping sauce made with garlic, butter, and anchovies, introduced to me by my friend Seago from Gillespie, Illinois. I guess it was popular in that area. Anyway I knew that the concept of a Japanese miso pretending to be bagna cauda would trigger him and that would give me maybe even more enjoyment than the food itself. This was really good.

I don't recall what I ordered but I can confirm it was good and meaty.

The war in Ukraine has caused an embargo on Russian oil plus there's some inflation happening and the result is some pretty high gas prices. I'd like to buy an electric car one of these days.

Wordle is the hit craze game that all the cool kids are playing these days. You have so many guesses to figure out a word. Its popularity has spawned a whole bunch of copycats. Semantle is kind of interesting where you guess words and it tells you how related your word is to the secret word.