internal sanity index++
At the risk of making this into a food blog (specifically, a bread-products blog), I made challah last weekend, and this weekend I want to make jiao-zi, pork curry, and perhaps lavender shortbread to keep at work. Lavender-caraway? Lavender-anise seed? hmmm. Now I need to find a source of lavender buds, and wonton wrappers. Nnngam. gotham_bound advised me of the tragic health-department shutdown of Noodles 28, the fabulous nearby dumpling place that served free crack-like fried dough with duck sauce as the table bread, and kept the bancha flowing as long as one could stand the Muzak. RIP, Noodles 28.
The girl from whom I borrowed a KitchenAid food grinder last Christmas hasn't returned any of my messages asking if I can send it back to her. So I guess I can has food grinder. Means I can buy one type of pork and grind some of it into dumpling filling instead of buying two types, right? Also wondering if I can get away with steaming the dumplings in a metal vegetable steamer instead of buying bamboo steamers.
I also have ori-do-thingwhatsit to prototype, and want to play with those membranous lamp ideas some more. Also, paper_crystals is going to corrupt my brain with girls on wheels.
The girl from whom I borrowed a KitchenAid food grinder last Christmas hasn't returned any of my messages asking if I can send it back to her. So I guess I can has food grinder. Means I can buy one type of pork and grind some of it into dumpling filling instead of buying two types, right? Also wondering if I can get away with steaming the dumplings in a metal vegetable steamer instead of buying bamboo steamers.
I also have ori-do-thingwhatsit to prototype, and want to play with those membranous lamp ideas some more. Also, paper_crystals is going to corrupt my brain with girls on wheels.