Resolutions, and a few links
Jan. 20th, 2016 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaIt feels like ages since I've posted, so even though I haven't great things to report, here goes:
My resolutions are off to a flying start, apart from the one about practising the recorder - and the one about writing. :( Today, okay?
Though the recorder one is partly that from this house I can hear one of my neighbours from time to time playing, just idly, I think, on the flute - such lovely and delicate melodies, very beautiful and ethereal. But if I can hear them, they would be able to hear me, and that would be a wrong thing to do to the neighbourhood - to let loose just-learning sounds on the recorder - you all know how horrible that is, right? - and also very shaming. So maybe not today for that.
For some reason I've been cooking up a storm this past week, including with the jackfruit seeds I mentioned once before. I tried them done the traditional ways people have suggested on the internet, but those didn't work for me. I thought maybe it was like potatoes roasted in the ashes of a bonfire - where three-quarters (or more?) of the pleasure in eating it is in the associations - no-one would actually order them in a restaurant. Same with the jackfruit seeds, I thought - but where they did work for me was in being added to potato-chickpea-based curries, taking longer to cook than the potatoes, and adding their own flavour and texture - not crunchy, but with something of the mild resistance of a cashew nut; I can imagine they'd go well in fairly sturdy mussaman-style meat curries, too.
They are fiddly to prepare, though, getting the tight, shelly covering off. I'm working on discovering ways to make that easier. :)
Which all doesn't really add up to a post, so how about a few links?
I enjoyed this article by an historian, about health services as portrayed in Downton abbey.
I was happy to see that traditional hurricane-proof houses on Tanna had stood the test of Cyclone Pam last March, though (as the video footage shows) standing the tests was not just the roof, but also the plain strength of those inside holding it down as it bucked in the wind.
and in my own country, a traditional farming practice creates great patterns while countering erosion.
My resolutions are off to a flying start, apart from the one about practising the recorder - and the one about writing. :( Today, okay?
Though the recorder one is partly that from this house I can hear one of my neighbours from time to time playing, just idly, I think, on the flute - such lovely and delicate melodies, very beautiful and ethereal. But if I can hear them, they would be able to hear me, and that would be a wrong thing to do to the neighbourhood - to let loose just-learning sounds on the recorder - you all know how horrible that is, right? - and also very shaming. So maybe not today for that.
For some reason I've been cooking up a storm this past week, including with the jackfruit seeds I mentioned once before. I tried them done the traditional ways people have suggested on the internet, but those didn't work for me. I thought maybe it was like potatoes roasted in the ashes of a bonfire - where three-quarters (or more?) of the pleasure in eating it is in the associations - no-one would actually order them in a restaurant. Same with the jackfruit seeds, I thought - but where they did work for me was in being added to potato-chickpea-based curries, taking longer to cook than the potatoes, and adding their own flavour and texture - not crunchy, but with something of the mild resistance of a cashew nut; I can imagine they'd go well in fairly sturdy mussaman-style meat curries, too.
They are fiddly to prepare, though, getting the tight, shelly covering off. I'm working on discovering ways to make that easier. :)
Which all doesn't really add up to a post, so how about a few links?
I enjoyed this article by an historian, about health services as portrayed in Downton abbey.
I was happy to see that traditional hurricane-proof houses on Tanna had stood the test of Cyclone Pam last March, though (as the video footage shows) standing the tests was not just the roof, but also the plain strength of those inside holding it down as it bucked in the wind.
and in my own country, a traditional farming practice creates great patterns while countering erosion.
