Grim Days With Fresh Breads

Coffee cake I made this morning.

English Muffin Bread I also made this morning. It's good!

This is so simple you really don't need to write it down. Put some oil in a pan, sautee onions and any other desired veggies, add either dashi or vegetable stock. Once boiling, laddle out a little bit of stock and put in small bowl. Add 1-2 tbsp of either brown rice, red or white miso. I used brown rice this time. Mix it well and make sure it's all dissolved. Replace back into pot. Simmer it for a few minutes. I served it with rice noodles and I put some turkey in it. It was pretty good although I thought it could use some pepper.

This is going to be my most "grim" blog yet, and there won't be another. I've been watching whats been happening in Japan and looking at the cold hard facts about radiation and it's behavior. People - we have a serious problem here! Nobody seems to care. As my husband said this morning, everybody is in denial and most people are actually putting their trust in the media and the government.

I heard one scientist claim that radiation won't leave Japan. Really? My husband watched a weather report where the weather man was stopped, told something in his ear piece and completly changed everything he was saying...they don't want the general population knowing that winds will bring this radiation around the entire world within' time. It entered our region on Monday.

It's going to enter our food supply, and it's going to enter our water supply. This is completly inevitable. After the accident at Chernobyl, Ottawa Canada measured radiation and found they had 6 times the normal limit, and it only took a few weeks at most to trickle it's way around the globe. I am not being overly cautious. I have a friend with a Masters degree in this exact area of expertise. This is what she does for a living, constantly measuring chemicals and such that are either in the envirornment naturally or not, and measuring their effect on the water supply. We may not see the direct effect today, tomorrow, or even next year. In about 5 years, there is going to be a huge boom of cancers.

So in the end, be smart, be safe. Make miso. Be cautious. Don't trust what the media tells you, or some stupid Yahoo article that took someone 15 minutes to write, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. PERIOD!

Of course they want everyone to calm down, think that it's all ok. They need people to continue buying things, to keep shopping, and to keep paying taxes. Now I could continue to go on for a very long time getting into the media and government and the cold, hard, nasty things they keep from us, but really, that's a whole different blog with a whole different agenda, and honestly, I don't have time. Now, how about some food? Miso anybody?

Amen!