food!
We arose rather atrociously late today – 11am; not bad, though, for a Saturday, especially considering we didn’t go to sleep until 3:30 last night. After extremely minimal puttering, a bank errand was run, and then we went food shopping. Since it’s now rather late in the day, the cooking-for-the-week extravaganza has been deferred until tomorrow; but I’m already excited. Besides our usual (already rather eclectic) array of food, we got the following, which I’ve never cooked with before:
duck
galangal root
fresh lemongrass
kaffir lime leaves
some other sort of leaves that should be good fresh, don’t know the name
an array of curry pastes:
red (a laaaarge tub!)
masaman and leang (small tins)
thai peanut noodle sauce
msg (to be used as a seasoning in judicious amounts)
fresh young coconut to shred
Artichokes are coming into season, too. They had gorgeous, huge ones at Whole Foods. So we got two, and they’re enough for a lunch, steamed and with a dipping sauce.
Photos, I hope, tomorrow. It is spring outside.
April 17th, 2004 at 4:36 pm
Photos Good! I need to take more again, but I already have like 1000 pics of my neighborhood. I’ll have to get to the beach or something.
I have been wanting to mount webcams over the stove and in the oven so I can check the status of cooking food from my room/the internet. But I need to steam/heatproof some cams first.
April 17th, 2004 at 6:48 pm
A recipe, too, would be nice!
April 17th, 2004 at 9:17 pm
So – totally apropos of nothing – I learned today when I went to Widener at 7:30pm to do work that it closes at 5pm. What the hell??? The library at Hampshire was open until midnight on Saturdays. (I know because I always worked the late shift then…)
April 17th, 2004 at 9:26 pm
Aiieee. Sorry to hear you went there for nothing. I suspect this is because they’re Harvard, and they can. Bleah. I hate that.