It's easy to recreate home here in the Bay Area, compared to England.
Fried tau kwa last night. A block only cost me 1.20. That isn't a lot, considering that meat costs much more. And i'm really going off meat quite rapidly. Scaling back on meat consumption.
Listening to UFM 100.3 live stream, drinking green tea (from Starbucks). Really - this can feel like home.
The weather though throws you off. It's unhumid here - really nice in the day (between 15-20 degrees C at the moment), which is gorgeous. Ambient studying temperature with the windows thrown open and the blinds up. Night time is a different matter. Drops below 10 degrees when the sun goes down, which is now earlier (coz we turned back the clocks).
Very big on cilantro now (corriander in home speak). Always have a bunch sitting around. Throw into soups, as garnish - yummy. I think it's one of my favourite herbs. OK, i'm really not a big fan of basil and dill. They are too sharp.
Working on my 1st term paper now. Pulled out 40+ papers. Shoot. Too many. But i'm loving the topic. Iron nutrition in plants. Really like plant mineral uptake. Did caesium uptake last year, and now iron. Haha. Still must confess i'm not a gardener. I do not like to garden. At this point, i'm reminded of an old Will and Grace episode where Bobbie comes to visit (Grace's mother). Gardener vs Rose argument. "I'm not a rose. I'm the gardener, damn it. I do a lot of hoeing."
Another term paper on multigene families in plants. Will get to that next week. Scour for more references.
I'm thinking there's a point in life when your experiences get rooted into you so much that they become the pivot of your entire existence. How else do you explain the observation that our parents are such huge fans of music in the 70s and 80s and disparage 90s music. And how we love music of the 80s and 90s and disparage current music. It's part of the generation gap idea, i reckon. It's a time when we are most open to external influences. And then we clamp shut - refusing to accept anything new and foreign. Walking cynics.
I feel so good now listening to chinese pop on radio. No american music, please.
At which point where i say i'm turning semi-vegetarian, i'm making beef stew tonight. HAHA.... but surely if it turns out awful, i'm going off this recipe. Ok. No recipe. Just throwing things together and seeing if it works. I never go with recipes. That's probably why my food is usually awful. Only suitable for self consumption, coz the cook is always the most lenient critic. Who else would eat your muck if you don't eat it?
Fried tau kwa last night. A block only cost me 1.20. That isn't a lot, considering that meat costs much more. And i'm really going off meat quite rapidly. Scaling back on meat consumption.
Listening to UFM 100.3 live stream, drinking green tea (from Starbucks). Really - this can feel like home.
The weather though throws you off. It's unhumid here - really nice in the day (between 15-20 degrees C at the moment), which is gorgeous. Ambient studying temperature with the windows thrown open and the blinds up. Night time is a different matter. Drops below 10 degrees when the sun goes down, which is now earlier (coz we turned back the clocks).
Very big on cilantro now (corriander in home speak). Always have a bunch sitting around. Throw into soups, as garnish - yummy. I think it's one of my favourite herbs. OK, i'm really not a big fan of basil and dill. They are too sharp.
Working on my 1st term paper now. Pulled out 40+ papers. Shoot. Too many. But i'm loving the topic. Iron nutrition in plants. Really like plant mineral uptake. Did caesium uptake last year, and now iron. Haha. Still must confess i'm not a gardener. I do not like to garden. At this point, i'm reminded of an old Will and Grace episode where Bobbie comes to visit (Grace's mother). Gardener vs Rose argument. "I'm not a rose. I'm the gardener, damn it. I do a lot of hoeing."
Another term paper on multigene families in plants. Will get to that next week. Scour for more references.
I'm thinking there's a point in life when your experiences get rooted into you so much that they become the pivot of your entire existence. How else do you explain the observation that our parents are such huge fans of music in the 70s and 80s and disparage 90s music. And how we love music of the 80s and 90s and disparage current music. It's part of the generation gap idea, i reckon. It's a time when we are most open to external influences. And then we clamp shut - refusing to accept anything new and foreign. Walking cynics.
I feel so good now listening to chinese pop on radio. No american music, please.
At which point where i say i'm turning semi-vegetarian, i'm making beef stew tonight. HAHA.... but surely if it turns out awful, i'm going off this recipe. Ok. No recipe. Just throwing things together and seeing if it works. I never go with recipes. That's probably why my food is usually awful. Only suitable for self consumption, coz the cook is always the most lenient critic. Who else would eat your muck if you don't eat it?
posted by Monty Elm at 3:46 am
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Haha, same here wirh my cooking. And I like your last pronouncement, sort of explains my cookery situation too. Got to set up one of these password-protected comments soon, these Pulex irritans have nothing better to do on the Net. Was the beef stew alright?
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