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vital functions
Mar. 14th, 2021 11:24 pmReading. Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (enjoyed the reread) and Four Roads Cross. The latter I am just starting, and I am delighted both by how much of it I'd forgotten and how well it all fits together.
I have also flicked through two cookbooks that arrived this week from Oxfam: Leiths How to Cook and The French Laundry Cookbook.
The former contains an enormous amount of detail on meat, which I don't need, and disappointingly little new information on broccoli (by which I mean that I was hoping to Learn The Secrets of chopping it up in a way that Looks Good but alas it turns out there are no such secrets -- "If the florets are very large, halve them"). However! For all that much of it isn't particularly relevant to me, it is a lovely reference work.
The latter I acquired while dithering around Oxfam essentially because the wikipedia page contains the following passage:
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Writing. The introduction to chapter 5 has gone and rearranged itself on me, I think for the better. I... really need to spend some more time coaxing myself into making the words go, though, sigh.
Watching. Hoodwinked! (2005), proposed by a cousin for the purposes of Watching. I loved this.
Listening. I finally got around to actually buying all the Vienna Teng CDs about a month ago, and a week or so ago they arrived, and this week I have been listening to the two albums -- warm strangers and waking hour -- that I don't already know by heart. Victory Is Mine.
Cooking. ( Read more... )
Making & mending. Progress (of a sort) on getting my bike up and running again. ( Read more... )
Growing. Pulled up a bunch of carrots on Tuesday to eat with ongoing leftovers from the weekend! Which made me very happy, even if I did have to trim the bits the slugs'd got to first.
Elsewise little to report: my seedlings various carry sturdily on, but I have yet to get more started (or indeed the current ones potted up). But soon, perhaps? Hopefully soon!
I have also flicked through two cookbooks that arrived this week from Oxfam: Leiths How to Cook and The French Laundry Cookbook.
The former contains an enormous amount of detail on meat, which I don't need, and disappointingly little new information on broccoli (by which I mean that I was hoping to Learn The Secrets of chopping it up in a way that Looks Good but alas it turns out there are no such secrets -- "If the florets are very large, halve them"). However! For all that much of it isn't particularly relevant to me, it is a lovely reference work.
The latter I acquired while dithering around Oxfam essentially because the wikipedia page contains the following passage:
The Wall Street Journal called the cookbook "notorious for including some of the most laborious recipes in print", commenting that "putting the ingredients together on a plate properly can be an architectural challenge".[5] Restaurants & Institutions called the cookbook "too esoteric for home cooks" but found that it "does inspire, teach and set standards for any chef".[7]
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Writing. The introduction to chapter 5 has gone and rearranged itself on me, I think for the better. I... really need to spend some more time coaxing myself into making the words go, though, sigh.
Watching. Hoodwinked! (2005), proposed by a cousin for the purposes of Watching. I loved this.
Listening. I finally got around to actually buying all the Vienna Teng CDs about a month ago, and a week or so ago they arrived, and this week I have been listening to the two albums -- warm strangers and waking hour -- that I don't already know by heart. Victory Is Mine.
Cooking. ( Read more... )
Making & mending. Progress (of a sort) on getting my bike up and running again. ( Read more... )
Growing. Pulled up a bunch of carrots on Tuesday to eat with ongoing leftovers from the weekend! Which made me very happy, even if I did have to trim the bits the slugs'd got to first.
Elsewise little to report: my seedlings various carry sturdily on, but I have yet to get more started (or indeed the current ones potted up). But soon, perhaps? Hopefully soon!