Hot Pot Sunday

The chilly weather made J, predictably, crave hot pot. So we squished some friends into our tiny living room and had ourselves a real blowout feast: pork, lamb, beef, oysters, shrimp, squid, clams, fish cake, pork balls, blood sausage, kabocha, taro, mushrooms, napa, watercress, shrimp dumplings, tofu, noodles, and a live dungeness crab. It was good times. I forgot to take a picture of the meal in action, but suffice it to say dinner was pretty much a meal plus a free steam session for everyone in the room.



Beer Report: it's bubbling furiously! Tory, thanks for the advice so far. I really need to get a pot that will boil 3 gallons comfortably. I had to boil my wort in two separate pots, and I'm hoping the beer won't suffer. Good news is the weather's perfect for brewing, and I'd much rather see too much action than none! It's a Hoegaarden style wheat beer, so it's pretty much going nuts right now. I have a blow off tube coming out of the plastic carboy right now, and it's already blown the rubber stopper out twice. I think a wider tube would have been wise, but I've never had more activity than an air lock could handle before! It's all very exciting. I can't wait to see how it turns out (and to buy more brewing equipment).