When there's smoke there's fire
Feb. 13th, 2009 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elvenpirateladyKilometre count with Eric: 35.5 as of this afternoon (would be more, but Eric's computer acted up.) Huzzay!
First, banana muffins with dates. Normally I am not a date person (and yes, I realise that I'm saying this the day before Valentine's. I do not like the texture and the fact they are too sweet and how I can never remember which fruit they begin as. Possibly dates are spawned from the ground. But in muffins they are not really noticible except for some added sweetness. So I shall (cautiously) say: yay dates!
They are all gone now, but I have a Project to keep me busy.
I tried cooking polenta for the first time this week. It is the weirdest grain ever. I swear it is some alien blob from a 50s B-movie. It turns into a thick paste and then boils very slowly. And when the bubbles pop, they release steam. And it hisses! It is strange and creepy and bizarre and had I remembered that today is Friday the 13th I might have cooked it today too. Just to honour the occasion.
Speaking of honouring occasions, I lamented to myself that I did not do anything for Darwin Day except type up that amazingly nerdy menu, but I found these pics on my camera: trilobite shortbread!
(Apologies for the darkness of the shot, but this is the one that shows the ridges best. The cockroaches of the Devonian seas have never looked so tasty! And Trojie or any other palaeontologist who reads this can feel free to correct me on what they actually look like. There is probably some other creature that looks more like this than a trilobite, but we didn't cover that in geology. XD)
*scuttlescuttlescuttle*
And what I made this evening was pesto with home-grown basil. Our basil plant is extraordinarily happy and I don't know what we did to it. Accidental pouring of radioactive material into the soil? Or did I unwittingly make an amazing sacrifice to Isabella, the patron saint of Basil?
In other news of the world, the bushfires continue although some progress is being made. The wind's been blowing all the smoke south to us and the light went all orange and red in the afternoon. Here's what the sun looked like at 7.30 this evening. It was the colour of a grapefruit by the time it set.
That's all for now, but tune in tomorrow for pics of... the Project! You won't be disappointed!
First, banana muffins with dates. Normally I am not a date person (and yes, I realise that I'm saying this the day before Valentine's. I do not like the texture and the fact they are too sweet and how I can never remember which fruit they begin as. Possibly dates are spawned from the ground. But in muffins they are not really noticible except for some added sweetness. So I shall (cautiously) say: yay dates!
They are all gone now, but I have a Project to keep me busy.
I tried cooking polenta for the first time this week. It is the weirdest grain ever. I swear it is some alien blob from a 50s B-movie. It turns into a thick paste and then boils very slowly. And when the bubbles pop, they release steam. And it hisses! It is strange and creepy and bizarre and had I remembered that today is Friday the 13th I might have cooked it today too. Just to honour the occasion.
Speaking of honouring occasions, I lamented to myself that I did not do anything for Darwin Day except type up that amazingly nerdy menu, but I found these pics on my camera: trilobite shortbread!
(Apologies for the darkness of the shot, but this is the one that shows the ridges best. The cockroaches of the Devonian seas have never looked so tasty! And Trojie or any other palaeontologist who reads this can feel free to correct me on what they actually look like. There is probably some other creature that looks more like this than a trilobite, but we didn't cover that in geology. XD)
*scuttlescuttlescuttle*
And what I made this evening was pesto with home-grown basil. Our basil plant is extraordinarily happy and I don't know what we did to it. Accidental pouring of radioactive material into the soil? Or did I unwittingly make an amazing sacrifice to Isabella, the patron saint of Basil?
In other news of the world, the bushfires continue although some progress is being made. The wind's been blowing all the smoke south to us and the light went all orange and red in the afternoon. Here's what the sun looked like at 7.30 this evening. It was the colour of a grapefruit by the time it set.
That's all for now, but tune in tomorrow for pics of... the Project! You won't be disappointed!
