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shermaramaThe University of London is a civilised place that believes in a six-day holiday for Easter, from Thursday to Tuesday. This cut both ways on Thursday morning, when I had the day free to go house-hunting but couldn't get into the accomodation office of whichever bit of university it is that has that angular metal building doings in Holloway. Now, however, when I've taken the six-week let at Finsbury Park and just have a lot of packing to do, it seems like a splendid idea all round.
I've also taken advantage of the lack of brain-taxedness and availability of shops containing ingredients to have a go at not one but two of the recipes in the Madhur Jaffrey World Vegetarian book in the furtherance of doing 101 Things. (Also, Jon has been down this weekend, and it may be afflicting me idiom, as he'd probably not mind me putting it.) They were Rice With Spinach, which involved basmati and spinach and onion and cinnamon stick, and Tofu In Hot Sauce, which involved tofu and lots of garlic, ginger, chilli and soy. I don't think the rice came out very well but still doesn't seem like something I need to bother trying again, but the tofu was more promising. I think next time I'd use a firmer sort of tofu, or press the tofu first, which I understand is a thing that can be done to upgrade your tofu on the Mohs scale. That basic flavouring seems like a thing worth mastering, though. I'd also have it with noodles rather than rice. I just don't really like rice that much, apart from in densely-flavoured forms like risotto or fried rice or biryani.
The other thing I've done with my day apart from pack and cook is prat about on the internet, as if that needed saying. I usually find photoshop challenges a let-down, because although I'm not much cop at this stuff myself I feel that I benefit myself and the rest of the world by being aware of this and not posting pieces of lame crap in photoshop challenges. An honourable exception is b3ta, where the idea is the main thing and crappy photoshopping is often instrumental, or at least not usually in the way. Here's a challenge with high enough standards not to make me wince, though; putting modern celebs into Renaissance paintings. Some of them are a bit creepy and some have slightly missed the point but some of them are, well. Here's one of Jack Black as Rembrandt that I'd like to hang on on a wall someplace and see how many foreheads crease in confusion as people walk past it. Hee-hee.
I've also taken advantage of the lack of brain-taxedness and availability of shops containing ingredients to have a go at not one but two of the recipes in the Madhur Jaffrey World Vegetarian book in the furtherance of doing 101 Things. (Also, Jon has been down this weekend, and it may be afflicting me idiom, as he'd probably not mind me putting it.) They were Rice With Spinach, which involved basmati and spinach and onion and cinnamon stick, and Tofu In Hot Sauce, which involved tofu and lots of garlic, ginger, chilli and soy. I don't think the rice came out very well but still doesn't seem like something I need to bother trying again, but the tofu was more promising. I think next time I'd use a firmer sort of tofu, or press the tofu first, which I understand is a thing that can be done to upgrade your tofu on the Mohs scale. That basic flavouring seems like a thing worth mastering, though. I'd also have it with noodles rather than rice. I just don't really like rice that much, apart from in densely-flavoured forms like risotto or fried rice or biryani.
The other thing I've done with my day apart from pack and cook is prat about on the internet, as if that needed saying. I usually find photoshop challenges a let-down, because although I'm not much cop at this stuff myself I feel that I benefit myself and the rest of the world by being aware of this and not posting pieces of lame crap in photoshop challenges. An honourable exception is b3ta, where the idea is the main thing and crappy photoshopping is often instrumental, or at least not usually in the way. Here's a challenge with high enough standards not to make me wince, though; putting modern celebs into Renaissance paintings. Some of them are a bit creepy and some have slightly missed the point but some of them are, well. Here's one of Jack Black as Rembrandt that I'd like to hang on on a wall someplace and see how many foreheads crease in confusion as people walk past it. Hee-hee.
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Date: 2008-03-25 08:22 pm (UTC)Hahaha! I may have to borrow that.
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