The post office is different
Dec. 16th, 2018 06:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infryqYesterday I went for a walk in the morning and found a neat Japanese deli
with all kinds of good ingredients, including mugwort daifuku. I was
confused about the mugwort and consulted my sister, who looked it up. It’s
a digestive used to treat ulcers and stimulate menstruation. Cool!
I met up with P at Whole Foods and we got the chicken and walnuts for the
fesenjan. After lunch we started cooking. Last time it took three and a
half hours to make the polow, and while this time I had chopping help, with
the addition of caramelized eggplant it still took three and a half hours
to make. P was worried the chicken would be done too early, but it turned
out he had to redo a couple of steps due to reading comprehension, and the
timing worked out perfectly. Everything was enjoyed by all, and I even had
a sip of wine. Modifications from last time: 1 2/3 cup of rice, 4 large
carrots, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 eggplant, 2 teaspoons cumin, 2 large
potatoes. Toasted the rose petals before grinding them. Fried one side of
the potatoes first and flipped them before layering in the rice, and used a
huge flat sauté pan. Still made way too much; we probably ate a third of it
even though I used the same amount of rice as Wednesday when we only had
leftovers for two.
After dinner P and I did the crossword (quietly, since D and G like to do
theirs individually) and M played Dark Tower on his tablet— it’s an old
computerized board game from the 80s, and somebody digitized all the
original art and 8-bit sound effects so it’s pretty great.
We opened gifts afterwards. P had made aeropress receptacles and wee salt
pigs (with tiny spoons, since after shrinkage they turned out not to fit
fingers in) which were well-received by all. M’s present to us is heavy, so
he’s dropping it off in January when they stay with us on their way down to
South Carolina. DG got us a machined bit of aluminum in a particular shape
having only one stable and one unstable equilibrium point, which is
mathematically pretty cool. I got a lovely thick fulled alpaca scarf from
D, and a cello exploration of french tunes and a book from 1901 on early
color theory from P. D got a really pretty scarf from G, and a tiny (like
2” high) edition of Le Petit Prince from M that he picked up in Basque
country. M got tickets to a musical that will be in Greenville next year
once they’re settled in at their new place. Good hugs all around.
with all kinds of good ingredients, including mugwort daifuku. I was
confused about the mugwort and consulted my sister, who looked it up. It’s
a digestive used to treat ulcers and stimulate menstruation. Cool!
I met up with P at Whole Foods and we got the chicken and walnuts for the
fesenjan. After lunch we started cooking. Last time it took three and a
half hours to make the polow, and while this time I had chopping help, with
the addition of caramelized eggplant it still took three and a half hours
to make. P was worried the chicken would be done too early, but it turned
out he had to redo a couple of steps due to reading comprehension, and the
timing worked out perfectly. Everything was enjoyed by all, and I even had
a sip of wine. Modifications from last time: 1 2/3 cup of rice, 4 large
carrots, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 eggplant, 2 teaspoons cumin, 2 large
potatoes. Toasted the rose petals before grinding them. Fried one side of
the potatoes first and flipped them before layering in the rice, and used a
huge flat sauté pan. Still made way too much; we probably ate a third of it
even though I used the same amount of rice as Wednesday when we only had
leftovers for two.
After dinner P and I did the crossword (quietly, since D and G like to do
theirs individually) and M played Dark Tower on his tablet— it’s an old
computerized board game from the 80s, and somebody digitized all the
original art and 8-bit sound effects so it’s pretty great.
We opened gifts afterwards. P had made aeropress receptacles and wee salt
pigs (with tiny spoons, since after shrinkage they turned out not to fit
fingers in) which were well-received by all. M’s present to us is heavy, so
he’s dropping it off in January when they stay with us on their way down to
South Carolina. DG got us a machined bit of aluminum in a particular shape
having only one stable and one unstable equilibrium point, which is
mathematically pretty cool. I got a lovely thick fulled alpaca scarf from
D, and a cello exploration of french tunes and a book from 1901 on early
color theory from P. D got a really pretty scarf from G, and a tiny (like
2” high) edition of Le Petit Prince from M that he picked up in Basque
country. M got tickets to a musical that will be in Greenville next year
once they’re settled in at their new place. Good hugs all around.
