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greenstormToday is off to a fantastic start. My kitchen is clean and excavated, fully functional this week for the first time since we moved in (and I mean fully functional, not just the 'useable' state it was in before). I've eaten a lovely breakfast of fried sauerkraut, sausage, and carrots (two things: one, this is one of the best breakfasts-- caramelise the carrots a bit, brown the sausage, just warm the sauerkraut; two, Angus' mandolin makes thinslicin carrots magical. Everyone should have one. You can buy them for $15, no excuses). I am now eating a lovely dessert to my breakfast-- this is s'mores with a side of almond milk and hippie coffee (sanka, but I'm not picky, I just want something dark and bitter to drink-- I prefer dandelion coffee but never see it around).
I'm rereading The Once and Future King by TH White, which every english-speaker should read. It's a great book to read with kids because everyone gets something out of it, and they will be rereading it for the rest of their lives-- it's funny, silly, adventurous, but also deeply satirical and gentle and joyful and playful and tender and magical and as far from cynicism as you can get. It may be the only fiction I'd recommend as universally enjoyable.
I'm ambitious about this fall. I love sauerkraut, I am going to try to make up a five gallon bath during PAX. The mandolin will help. This will take a LOT of cabbage, maybe 40lbs or so, and some sort of foodsafe container of the right size. Also some salt.
Maybe I should lay aside some ginger beer then too.
It's so nice to have my house comfy again! I wouldn't even have dreamed of this a couple of weeks ago. I love cooking but sharing a kitchen with someone who cooks especially explosively when both of us get really busy and he eats at home almost everyday provides some challenges.
Other pleasant things in my future are kitting out my bike and riding it (I need to figure out if I want panniers, a folding box, both? and what sort of little handlebar bag or underseat bag I want to keep my tools in, also figure out hydration-- I kind of want a coffee mug holder on the thing, though I'm sure that'll make everyone's heart stop or something. There doesn't seem to be a waterproof pannier option at mec, which means I'm probably looking at a bit of an investment... and then there'll be rain gear all too soon... unless I change at school, which isn't a problem, and I wonder if I'd have access to BCIT's downtown facilities? I could shower there easily enough)
I've been enrolled in my courses, which is a little scary. I've got an applied math, an earth science, ecology, field safety, geology, map & aerial photo interpretation, field survey, sustainable resource management, and a technical commnications course. The latter is an online course, likely because they couldn't fit it into the schedule otherwise. That's a lot of stuff, I'm incredibly curious to see what of it I already know, I expect it'll be up-to-date but will keep an eye on that-- and I'm really looking forward to actually learning stuff.
Enough of this-- my day awaits.
I'm rereading The Once and Future King by TH White, which every english-speaker should read. It's a great book to read with kids because everyone gets something out of it, and they will be rereading it for the rest of their lives-- it's funny, silly, adventurous, but also deeply satirical and gentle and joyful and playful and tender and magical and as far from cynicism as you can get. It may be the only fiction I'd recommend as universally enjoyable.
I'm ambitious about this fall. I love sauerkraut, I am going to try to make up a five gallon bath during PAX. The mandolin will help. This will take a LOT of cabbage, maybe 40lbs or so, and some sort of foodsafe container of the right size. Also some salt.
Maybe I should lay aside some ginger beer then too.
It's so nice to have my house comfy again! I wouldn't even have dreamed of this a couple of weeks ago. I love cooking but sharing a kitchen with someone who cooks especially explosively when both of us get really busy and he eats at home almost everyday provides some challenges.
Other pleasant things in my future are kitting out my bike and riding it (I need to figure out if I want panniers, a folding box, both? and what sort of little handlebar bag or underseat bag I want to keep my tools in, also figure out hydration-- I kind of want a coffee mug holder on the thing, though I'm sure that'll make everyone's heart stop or something. There doesn't seem to be a waterproof pannier option at mec, which means I'm probably looking at a bit of an investment... and then there'll be rain gear all too soon... unless I change at school, which isn't a problem, and I wonder if I'd have access to BCIT's downtown facilities? I could shower there easily enough)
I've been enrolled in my courses, which is a little scary. I've got an applied math, an earth science, ecology, field safety, geology, map & aerial photo interpretation, field survey, sustainable resource management, and a technical commnications course. The latter is an online course, likely because they couldn't fit it into the schedule otherwise. That's a lot of stuff, I'm incredibly curious to see what of it I already know, I expect it'll be up-to-date but will keep an eye on that-- and I'm really looking forward to actually learning stuff.
Enough of this-- my day awaits.
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Date: 2010-08-22 12:51 am (UTC)The mandolin debate
Date: 2010-08-23 05:00 pm (UTC)I'd suggest you not try and do the saurkraut all in one container - I set up smaller batches of ferments myself, in case one of them goes off - hedging my bets. I know plastic isn't wonderful, but you might be able to get something food-safe if you talk nice to deli or bulk people at your local markets - they *used* to give them away if you asked nicely.