I made Moco Loco for breakfast this morning.
Those of you who are Hawaii Five-O fans may have heard it mentioned once or twice in various episodes on the show. Some of you may be wondering what it is and why I put the qualifier "almost healthy" in describing this morning's breakfast version which I made.
Moco Loco is basically a bowl of sticky rice, topped by a hamburger patty, topped by a fried egg and then with gravy poured over everything.
This morning's version was sticky rice, topped by a lean burger patty (3% fat) which was cooked in a low-moisture/no fat pan.
I topped this with a poached (not fried) egg.
My husband, Gregg, made the gravy using low fat beef consomme.
So...yeah. It's not really what you'd call healthy, exactly. It could be slightly healthier if I used a veggie patty and brown sticky rice, but my family doesn't like brown rice. My husband really likes moco loco. So I made it for him and we force fed it to the 19, 16, and 12 year olds. 16 and 12 opted out of the gravy and used ketchup instead.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Failure! Again.
Well, THAT didn't work. I was unable to get the warp weighted loom fully functioning yet again this time. I lost the cross while moving it back and forth. There were other problems, too.
Major Problems:
The loom must be completely assembled FIRST, in place, in order to properly warp it. The set is in the church parking lot and we don't have access to it until a week before production. The loom has to be moved, and time is lost untangling the warp and setting it back up again.
The loom is basically a very large prop and resembles a bunch of lumber and sticks when it is not assembled. Pieces were broken and some were missing this year.
Warping and setting up the loom took a huge physical toll on me this year. I would work setting up the loom for 4 to 6 hours, but then I was a basket case for the rest of the day and the next. I could not move without intense, crippling pain. I bulled ahead and did it anyway, and I became a weeping exhausted mess.
I've come to the conclusion that I can't and won't do the loom next year. I can't do it by myself and with no one else interested in learning how to do it, it seems pointless to continue. If we have a loom at Journey to Bethlehem in the future, opting for a double beam vertical/tapestry or variation of the Navajo loom set-up would be wiser.
Instead, I will spin. I want to try my hand at spinning flax again. I will wait and see if we are actually going to run the production this year and think about supplies then.
Major Problems:
The loom must be completely assembled FIRST, in place, in order to properly warp it. The set is in the church parking lot and we don't have access to it until a week before production. The loom has to be moved, and time is lost untangling the warp and setting it back up again.
The loom is basically a very large prop and resembles a bunch of lumber and sticks when it is not assembled. Pieces were broken and some were missing this year.
Warping and setting up the loom took a huge physical toll on me this year. I would work setting up the loom for 4 to 6 hours, but then I was a basket case for the rest of the day and the next. I could not move without intense, crippling pain. I bulled ahead and did it anyway, and I became a weeping exhausted mess.
I've come to the conclusion that I can't and won't do the loom next year. I can't do it by myself and with no one else interested in learning how to do it, it seems pointless to continue. If we have a loom at Journey to Bethlehem in the future, opting for a double beam vertical/tapestry or variation of the Navajo loom set-up would be wiser.
Instead, I will spin. I want to try my hand at spinning flax again. I will wait and see if we are actually going to run the production this year and think about supplies then.
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