vital functions
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kaberettReading. This One Sky Day, Leone Ross, slowly. Unlike this time last week, I have been swept up rather by it and am now entranced; I very badly hope that I will love it a lot but I am holding my breath, metaphorically, until the ending. (I typed "resolution", first, but that seems -- I hope it will turn out to be -- too pat; "ending", a process ongoing, feels closer to right.)
Cooking. Continuing to make So Many New Foods.
At the beginning of the week, to go with the final portion of cauliflower cake: approximately butter beans with kale, lemon, chilli, and garlic. I once again found myself actively disappointed that there wasn't more of it. Apparently I like kale now.
More things from East: mushroom ma po tofu; coconut rice with aubergine and pickled cucumber; the autumn pilau. I want to have another go at the ma po tofu, probably with some tweaks; A was very fond of the aubergine; the autumn pilau is tasty but we are not quite as astonished by it as we were by the winter pilau.
We also experimented with a recipe for Dishoom's house black dal, except that after stirring it for half an hour on the hob I did leave it to slow-cook in the Instant Pot for somewhere over twenty hours, before finishing it with the cream. We are happy with this! I have frozen a portion to compare with Meera Sodha's vegan black dal recipe! It goes very well with the aloo paratha, which I have now definitely got the hang of.
Eating. Several helpings of Ruby Violet ice cream. Malted milk and the apricot rice pudding; today's was peach and rosewater sorbet plus the passionfruit mojito sorbet.
Making & mending. My bike now has new mudguard stays and shrieks less; it also has a frame lock that works.
Observing. Four starlings! Busying themselves on the lawn! And a couple of coal tits bouncing around above their heads.
Cooking. Continuing to make So Many New Foods.
At the beginning of the week, to go with the final portion of cauliflower cake: approximately butter beans with kale, lemon, chilli, and garlic. I once again found myself actively disappointed that there wasn't more of it. Apparently I like kale now.
More things from East: mushroom ma po tofu; coconut rice with aubergine and pickled cucumber; the autumn pilau. I want to have another go at the ma po tofu, probably with some tweaks; A was very fond of the aubergine; the autumn pilau is tasty but we are not quite as astonished by it as we were by the winter pilau.
We also experimented with a recipe for Dishoom's house black dal, except that after stirring it for half an hour on the hob I did leave it to slow-cook in the Instant Pot for somewhere over twenty hours, before finishing it with the cream. We are happy with this! I have frozen a portion to compare with Meera Sodha's vegan black dal recipe! It goes very well with the aloo paratha, which I have now definitely got the hang of.
Eating. Several helpings of Ruby Violet ice cream. Malted milk and the apricot rice pudding; today's was peach and rosewater sorbet plus the passionfruit mojito sorbet.
Making & mending. My bike now has new mudguard stays and shrieks less; it also has a frame lock that works.
Observing. Four starlings! Busying themselves on the lawn! And a couple of coal tits bouncing around above their heads.
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Date: 2023-02-12 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-02-13 02:16 am (UTC)-Wolf (sa/they)