is baaaaaack!!! but they wouldn’t take my old tokens from 2007. the token takers in the token hut giggled when i asked if i could still use them. the food is just as good as it was and just as inexpensive. even at 11 am, the crowd seemed mostly thai and was very low key. i wonder how long this will last. next time, try the sausage from the vendor closest to the parking lot and the fried mussel pancake. (really?!?)
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why i live in california
valentine’s day shortbread
m made me homemade shortbread cookies a la martha stewart for valentine’s day. we made jelly sandwiches out of them (polish blackcurrant jam tasted the best). they were very tasty and i consumed them within 2 days, but they are a b***h to make so perhaps we will let the professionals make them from now on.
downtown
our magic flute pre-party:
springtime
in a rare show of motivation and accomplishment, i am tending to our peach trees (fertilizing and spraying for peach leaf curl), planting garlic, feeding the jade plant with more soil, planting basil, refreshing the soil for the succulents, and weeding the parkway. mama bear and i used 3 year old grass seed and sprinkled it over the newly weeded and raked dirt. this was the first year that grass predominantly grew instead of weeds and i would like to encourage that.
the introvert’s heart
ethiopian biftu gudina
after trying ethiopian biftu gudina, m found it at crop to cup and ordered 10 pounds so we could try it roasted at the 5 different behmor profiles. it’s amazing that i roasted all of them to full city. as expected, their roast behavior was different for each profile. duh… what’s also amazing is that i bookended my 5 roasts with a dry burn for a total of 7 roasts in 1 day!
of course, i found the following sweet maria’s roast articles after the fact:
throwing this roasting fundamentals article in here because i had a heck of a time roasting decafs.
bread test
the red wheat is super complex and best eaten as is. the white wheat is best for sandwiches. my starter seemed a little sluggish, so i added 3/4 tsp active dry yeast to the dough. the KA also made the crumb much more dense than hand folding and you can see some areas of concentrated/gummy dough where i didn’t distribute as well as i should have.
next: grinding glenn wheat berries in our dry vitamix pitcher.
new growth peaches
salad dressing
m made homemade salad dressing for dinner again:
- 3 TBSP lemon juice
- 6 TBSP olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic
- chili flakes
- oregano
- 2 anchovy fillets
- salt
- pepper