On making hummus
...from the first recipe I found in google. Oddly enough, I already had half of the six real ingredients lying around.
-Lime juice really will not do--lemon is required. It's not /bad/ per se, but it is noticeable and not /right/.
-One can of chickpeas, which is currently about $.60, makes as much hummus as (maybe more than) is in a $3 Sabra thing. Also takes less time than finding it in Squill geagle.
-Too much garlic is a contradiction in terms. Roasted garlic might be worth doubling the fridge space I currently give over to garlic.
-The right tool for this is not a large monolithic blender--not because it does a poor job blending (it doesn't), but because it is nigh on impossible to get all the hummus out again.
Other things, not related to hummus at all:
-This semester I'll be teaching (TAA) phys2 instead of phys1. This may lead to taking more physics than is good for me next year. Hooray? TAAing should be fun though. I just wish I had a lunch break on tues/thurs...
-We seem to have a new quasi-resident of our apartment. Awesome :)
-I have a brand new huge Italian cookbook. Expect huge Italian cooking.
-Chris was good enough to take pictures while I was visiting of me dressed as a ninja.
Putting on the costume:
Some adjustments:
All costumed up:
(There are fourteen ninjas in this picture. Can you spot them all?)
So my sister tells me that the history of ninjas dressed all in black is not what everyone thinks. For one thing, real-world assassins who wish to move without being seen at night wear indigo, not black. Black is a highly visible color against normal backdrops at night. However, black has always been the color of choice for theater techs, who move against a black background. In a particular form of Japanese theater, there were no curtains-down scene changes, so the stage hands would be onstage moving props at the same time as the actors. The audience was trained to ignore these people dressed in plain black. Until one of them entered the action by assassinating a normal character, thus revealing to the audience that he was in fact a ninja.
-Lime juice really will not do--lemon is required. It's not /bad/ per se, but it is noticeable and not /right/.
-One can of chickpeas, which is currently about $.60, makes as much hummus as (maybe more than) is in a $3 Sabra thing. Also takes less time than finding it in Squill geagle.
-Too much garlic is a contradiction in terms. Roasted garlic might be worth doubling the fridge space I currently give over to garlic.
-The right tool for this is not a large monolithic blender--not because it does a poor job blending (it doesn't), but because it is nigh on impossible to get all the hummus out again.
Other things, not related to hummus at all:
-This semester I'll be teaching (TAA) phys2 instead of phys1. This may lead to taking more physics than is good for me next year. Hooray? TAAing should be fun though. I just wish I had a lunch break on tues/thurs...
-We seem to have a new quasi-resident of our apartment. Awesome :)
-I have a brand new huge Italian cookbook. Expect huge Italian cooking.
-Chris was good enough to take pictures while I was visiting of me dressed as a ninja.
Putting on the costume:
Some adjustments:
All costumed up:
(There are fourteen ninjas in this picture. Can you spot them all?)
So my sister tells me that the history of ninjas dressed all in black is not what everyone thinks. For one thing, real-world assassins who wish to move without being seen at night wear indigo, not black. Black is a highly visible color against normal backdrops at night. However, black has always been the color of choice for theater techs, who move against a black background. In a particular form of Japanese theater, there were no curtains-down scene changes, so the stage hands would be onstage moving props at the same time as the actors. The audience was trained to ignore these people dressed in plain black. Until one of them entered the action by assassinating a normal character, thus revealing to the audience that he was in fact a ninja.