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Feb. 5th, 2023 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettCelebrating. Today is, according to Facebook, the seventh anniversary of probably-the-first-time-we-used-the-soldering-iron-to-make-crème-brûlée. What even is time.
Reading. Lots more A Slob Comes Clean. Highlight this week: a guest post at another blog consisting entirely of actual best-practice parenting-neurodivergents advice.
Spirals in Time, Helen Scales. This signposted me towards lots of cool and interesting things (some of which the book itself was wrong about), and the author was absolutely scrupulous about giving credit to named undergraduate and postgraduate research group members as appropriate, and also her publisher (who are Bloomsbury, i.e. should absolutely know better) really, really needs to have paid, like, a social historian or a diversity consultant or someone to go over the manuscript.
And then my library hold on (the digital version of) This One Sky Day, by Leone Ross, showed up. So far I am mildly irked about the advertising copy for it and very much enjoying the thing itself. I am apparently about 15% of the way through it and there are multiple queers, both central to plot and in the background.
Cooking. So many new recipes oh my goodness. As mentioned, I have been on some small culinary adventures. We were delighted with Meera Sohda's winter pilau (comments on the post I link to contain details of what I did to prep it in a rice cooker) and indifferent to her red lentil rasam with roast red cabbage: it used up a red cabbage and was perfectly pleasant but we prefer our standard Things To Do With Lentils recipes. Tonight we had the first of three helpings of the Ottolenghi "cauliflower cake", which A is very into and I am mildly suspicious of.
And also! This morning! We made a small quantity of approximately-bubble-and-squeak, using half a leek and a small quantity of oca and a couple of leaves of kale, and I was actively sad we hadn't made more of it, so that's definitely my new favourite thing to do with this specific brassica.
Eating. The last of our panettone; the Cartmel sticky banana pudding, which we definitely enjoyed, but probably not more than we like the sticky toffee, which is conveniently more readily available.
Exploring. I poked around some bits of town that I had never previously been to, including some excellent wee bits of path around the canal, and very pleasant it was too: nice weather, abruptly CROCUSES EVERYWHERE plus some irises, and Many Splendid Waterfowl.
Making & mending. Fixed! my bike! again! after the local bike clinic human sucked their teeth dubiously and sent me away again.
Growing. ... more like anti-growing? I pulled up a bunch of raspberry canes from the fruit cage (I have lots of the rest of the plot for them!) and put cardboard-and-wool mulch down around most of the jostaberry. There is, as ever, More To Do.
Observing. waterfowl! crocuses! (one of) the allotment fox(es)! more excellent sunsets!
Reading. Lots more A Slob Comes Clean. Highlight this week: a guest post at another blog consisting entirely of actual best-practice parenting-neurodivergents advice.
Spirals in Time, Helen Scales. This signposted me towards lots of cool and interesting things (some of which the book itself was wrong about), and the author was absolutely scrupulous about giving credit to named undergraduate and postgraduate research group members as appropriate, and also her publisher (who are Bloomsbury, i.e. should absolutely know better) really, really needs to have paid, like, a social historian or a diversity consultant or someone to go over the manuscript.
And then my library hold on (the digital version of) This One Sky Day, by Leone Ross, showed up. So far I am mildly irked about the advertising copy for it and very much enjoying the thing itself. I am apparently about 15% of the way through it and there are multiple queers, both central to plot and in the background.
Cooking. So many new recipes oh my goodness. As mentioned, I have been on some small culinary adventures. We were delighted with Meera Sohda's winter pilau (comments on the post I link to contain details of what I did to prep it in a rice cooker) and indifferent to her red lentil rasam with roast red cabbage: it used up a red cabbage and was perfectly pleasant but we prefer our standard Things To Do With Lentils recipes. Tonight we had the first of three helpings of the Ottolenghi "cauliflower cake", which A is very into and I am mildly suspicious of.
And also! This morning! We made a small quantity of approximately-bubble-and-squeak, using half a leek and a small quantity of oca and a couple of leaves of kale, and I was actively sad we hadn't made more of it, so that's definitely my new favourite thing to do with this specific brassica.
Eating. The last of our panettone; the Cartmel sticky banana pudding, which we definitely enjoyed, but probably not more than we like the sticky toffee, which is conveniently more readily available.
Exploring. I poked around some bits of town that I had never previously been to, including some excellent wee bits of path around the canal, and very pleasant it was too: nice weather, abruptly CROCUSES EVERYWHERE plus some irises, and Many Splendid Waterfowl.
Making & mending. Fixed! my bike! again! after the local bike clinic human sucked their teeth dubiously and sent me away again.
Growing. ... more like anti-growing? I pulled up a bunch of raspberry canes from the fruit cage (I have lots of the rest of the plot for them!) and put cardboard-and-wool mulch down around most of the jostaberry. There is, as ever, More To Do.
Observing. waterfowl! crocuses! (one of) the allotment fox(es)! more excellent sunsets!
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Date: 2023-02-06 03:29 am (UTC)so I'm assuming from the implication of future occurrences that it... worked? I... have a soldering iron. Do you just...?
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Date: 2023-02-12 03:05 am (UTC)Coffee-Nostril Interaction
Date: 2023-02-06 07:16 am (UTC)we-used-the-soldering-iron-to-make-crème-brûlée
Today you have been Exalted from the rank of 'Person most likely to make make say Oh Good Grief' into the stellar eminence of 'First person today to make me exclaim WTF!?'
With great power comes great irresponsibility.
Re: Coffee-Nostril Interaction
Date: 2023-02-07 09:28 am (UTC)Foam follows WTF-tion
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