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the art of not fucking up yellow split peas is lost on me
Wow! You know the trick where you run water off the back of a stainless steel spoon over your hands to take the garlic smell off them? It works. Who knew? Sadly, it does not seem to work on asafetida smell. (I'm not sure that tactical nukes would either, though.)
In other news, this fake ice cream is not fucking around. It is better than ( Read more... ) -
irascible
This list of language annoyances is brought to you by the yoga classes I've been to lately.- Confusing "vertebra" and "vertebrae." It harshes my mellow every time I hear someone say "one vertebrae at a time."
- Confusing "revolve" and "rotate" - look, guys, the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. This is the conventional term, but I ( Read more... )
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Tomorrow through next Thursday is Nantucket with my parents and aunt and uncle, if anyone wonders why I'm not stalking them like I would ordinarily. I'll miss you, Internet. -
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after such a big lunch I'm just getting hungry now, so I'm having roasted asparagus and my just-made-up imitation of the garlic mushroom dip from the Cellar, which worked really well and which I'm going to have on crackers. and also on toast. and with carrots. and quite possibly with a spoon. wow. it's good.
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food. i'm a big fan.
It's not every weekend I eat such exciting things. Yesterday was sautéed spinach and tiny chanterelles with sun-dried tomato spread on a toasted baguette. Today was cold soba noodles with lemony miso dressing, avocado slices, and dry-fried sesame seeds and dulse. (I've been eating a lot of dulse lately. Holy crap is it delicious.) After both of the ( Read more... ) -
upside down travels, possibly first in a series
Standing on my head in places outside my apartment means I look at the insides of rooms in a different way than I have up till now. I'm not entirely confident yet, especially not in public, doing handstands without a wall nearby for support. Wherever I go now, out of both necessity and habit, I look for places, preferably out of public view, where ( Read more... ) -
strictly business
Attention LiveJournal:
A pair of my faraway relatives accidentally found my old Amazon wishlist from college and sent me stuff from it, so now I have new paperback copies, just like my old paperback copies, of Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood and The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson. Both fine books, but I totally already have them. ( Read more... )
