Boring but necessary
Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:28 amYou see that new thing LJ have added to comments whereby you can post them to Facebook or Twitter? Don't do that with my wise and wondrous sayings, please.
In other news, the hands are improving and I'm getting quite a bit of quilting done and have stopped moping about fearing that I will miss the Hoffman Challenge. But the hands still don't like keyboards, so I'm still trying to minimise using the laptop.
The preserved lemons are ready, and I'm not quite sure if I like them nor how best to use them. On the other hand, my attempts at pickling ginger have been spectacularly successful: dead easy to do and the results are delicious. (I went to a local Japanese place with my cousins the other week and noted smugly that their pickled ginger wasn't as good as mine.) Speaking of ginger, we recently grated and froze rather more ginger than I'd meant to, and of course it froze into an unusable solid block. Any ideas for how to separate it out into usable bits, or alternatively a recipe which uses a huge amount of ginger?
The dog has had surgery and is recovering well. We reckon it's all the swimming in the bath that helped her get into such good shape, and on Monday she will be off to kennels for three weeks (parents are off to Venice, lucky sods) where they will swim her three times a week. Rather a handy way to get the rehab/physio done, since the hydrotherapy place is rather far to be driving from home on a regular basis.
In other news, the hands are improving and I'm getting quite a bit of quilting done and have stopped moping about fearing that I will miss the Hoffman Challenge. But the hands still don't like keyboards, so I'm still trying to minimise using the laptop.
The preserved lemons are ready, and I'm not quite sure if I like them nor how best to use them. On the other hand, my attempts at pickling ginger have been spectacularly successful: dead easy to do and the results are delicious. (I went to a local Japanese place with my cousins the other week and noted smugly that their pickled ginger wasn't as good as mine.) Speaking of ginger, we recently grated and froze rather more ginger than I'd meant to, and of course it froze into an unusable solid block. Any ideas for how to separate it out into usable bits, or alternatively a recipe which uses a huge amount of ginger?
The dog has had surgery and is recovering well. We reckon it's all the swimming in the bath that helped her get into such good shape, and on Monday she will be off to kennels for three weeks (parents are off to Venice, lucky sods) where they will swim her three times a week. Rather a handy way to get the rehab/physio done, since the hydrotherapy place is rather far to be driving from home on a regular basis.
