Today for Anand’s birthday weekend, I’ve promised to run a small D&D-style one-shot game for him. A couple of friends are coming over later today, so I need to go find some character sheets to download and remind myself how to roll up characters. But I thought it was appropriate to start the day off […]
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Technically, nasturtiums aren’t classically part of Sri Lankan kale sambol, but I grew these from seed, so I added them, and they’re so pretty and edible and why the heck not?
When you’ve had a long day, and you realize you have homemade peach ice cream, and slightly over-ripe peaches, and leftover pancakes, and that’s basically a fabulous impromptu cake.
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Nice to have enough time to make my favorite curry.
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Still sick with a cold, but clearly no longer exhausted, as I had plenty of energy to make brunch for the family, AND send two e-mails I’d been avoiding afterwards. Yay, me. Plan for today — keep going on clothing sort; I’m down to workout clothes at this point, so almost done. I have a
I hit a bit of a wall yesterday. I was so tired, I came downstairs at 5 a.m., sat on the couch, put my head down, and fell asleep ’til 9:30. If you don’t give your body rest, eventually, your body will just slug you and take the rest it needs, will ye, nil ye.
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I tried to reproduce two of Amma’s classic dishes to tempt her appetite — we’re trying to get her to eat a little more. High stakes cooking! The carrot curry actually came out better than it has in years, even though I didn’t have green chilies on hand. The beef and potato curry was reasonably
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My dad was having lunch with some old friends when I arrived in CT, and a family friend had dropped off food for it, so I got to enjoy quite the feast — stringhoppers and pittu in addition to rice, various curries and papadum and pol sambol, fruit salad and tea — it was all
Brunch with friends at ChiCon — we walked to a ‘New Asian’ place in River North. Many restaurant options near WorldCon, good — finding seating at a nicer place without a reservation, slightly challenging. But this ended up being a tasty option — I particularly liked the sliced open bao with fried chicken between the
Prepping for teaching this morning, in between posting ChiCon photos. Goal — post all the photos and commentary before I go to CT to help out my parents; we’ll see. It helps that I only took one photo during the pre-party I threw on Wednesday! Was too busy chatting, cooking, and having fun! In retrospect,
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