Today’s kitchen victories: blueberry scones with clotted cream, fettuccine Alfredo with roasted mushrooms, steamed artichokes, and scout mint ice cream.
Today’s kitchen victories: blueberry scones with clotted cream, fettuccine Alfredo with roasted mushrooms, steamed artichokes, and scout mint ice cream.
Quick run to the Children’s ER this morning, but all is well, and the kid was discharged in record time (about two hours).
Yesterday, we applied for a new passport for the bambina.
In our ongoing game last weekend, my character lost a battle of wills with a corrupt runesword— extremely unlikely by the odds on the dice, but it fits perfectly into the overall story.
Had Mom and Greg and Jocelyn and the kids over for dinner (corned beef, roasted vegetables, and Irish soda bread).
Finished reading Dead Country by Max Gladstone, book seven or one in a series, depending how you count. (It’s seven, I think.) Anyway, interestingly, this book sort of rhymed with Gladstone’s previous, Last Exit, sharing some motifs, but I think this was the better book: tighter and with less clumsy preaching.
My pile.org redesign for 2023 is changing the botanical iconography from black pepper to coffee. Still a little wonkiness with how the coffee beans are centered, but it’s acceptable for now.
Added a bit of nuance (?) to last night’s screedlet.
This weekend’s kitchen victory: butter chicken for us and the kids’ friends.
Finished reading The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. I almost put this one down unfinished: The setting and story are incredibly inventive, and the characters’ portrayal and motivations very one-dimensional and clumsy. I actually found myself skimming parts, which I almost never do with fiction.
Current earworm: “Change of the Guard” by Kamasi Washington.
Finished reading Babel by R.F. Kuang, about the translators’ college at Oxford in the 1830s that worked magic based on the tension between imperfectly-translated terms, and thus fueled the British Empire. About empire of course, and appropriation and systemic racism and such. I enjoyed this.
Tonight’s kitchen victory: carbonnade à la flamande with homemade fries! (I used Joël Robuchon’s cold fry technique, which worked great.)
Tonight’s kitchen victory: roast chicken, skillet-roasted potatoes, and charred green beans. Lots of rosemary and garlic. The house smells pretty good.