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We switched to summer time today, and I am just so wiped out. Why. Why must we change the clocks. Why must the Sun exist. Why. Also, it snowed. And I have a headache. The cubital tunnel thing seems to have abated with nerve glide exercises and sleeping with the elbow straight, though!
Foodblogging: made sesame oil chicken soup as advertised in recipe, but with half a napa cabbage julienned in plus mung bean vermicelli. I think I might've overcooked it a little? And I didn't have enough rice wine. It tastes good, though – a bit soft and broad in a way that I can only assume is the sesame oil. I also chopped and froze a whole bunch of ginger and scallions. (Freezing instructions.) I'll be eating the soup until Thursday. Next up is something with rice cakes. (I have some that are technically a month past their best buy, but, whatever. Waste not wank not! [That typo can stay, lol.]) I'll probably go with this recipe, as I have everything save the onions and pork, or this recipe, as I have everything save the cornstarch (and maybe beef, would have to check the freezer). Recipe recs welcome, btw. I also have some red bean buns! (example recipe, though I used a readymade red bean paste and a more basic bread dough. They freeze OK after cooking, btw!)
My tea order (...of the "one-penguin stimulus package for the Chinese economy" magnitude) should be here next week, according to the tracking info! This means I should be able to get some out to mom and misc other relatives before any further internal borders get set up. And I get new tea to drink, which is important.
I haven't touched the casefic yet today, but the next scene in it will be food and eating! The fic is 14.6k long and I think that I'm in the general vicinity of the midway point, so maybe ~8 chapters and 32k? *scurries off for tea-and-fic time*
Foodblogging: made sesame oil chicken soup as advertised in recipe, but with half a napa cabbage julienned in plus mung bean vermicelli. I think I might've overcooked it a little? And I didn't have enough rice wine. It tastes good, though – a bit soft and broad in a way that I can only assume is the sesame oil. I also chopped and froze a whole bunch of ginger and scallions. (Freezing instructions.) I'll be eating the soup until Thursday. Next up is something with rice cakes. (I have some that are technically a month past their best buy, but, whatever. Waste not wank not! [That typo can stay, lol.]) I'll probably go with this recipe, as I have everything save the onions and pork, or this recipe, as I have everything save the cornstarch (and maybe beef, would have to check the freezer). Recipe recs welcome, btw. I also have some red bean buns! (example recipe, though I used a readymade red bean paste and a more basic bread dough. They freeze OK after cooking, btw!)
My tea order (...of the "one-penguin stimulus package for the Chinese economy" magnitude) should be here next week, according to the tracking info! This means I should be able to get some out to mom and misc other relatives before any further internal borders get set up. And I get new tea to drink, which is important.
I haven't touched the casefic yet today, but the next scene in it will be food and eating! The fic is 14.6k long and I think that I'm in the general vicinity of the midway point, so maybe ~8 chapters and 32k? *scurries off for tea-and-fic time*