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May. 29th, 2006 02:44 pmMy life seems to be a series of experiments. Who knows what it'll end up showing...
I bought some preserved kaffir lime leaves yesterday, and tried cooking with a few of them last night. Very tasty... plus, it's apparently one of those unidentified flavours/aromas that I've never quite managed to capture when I "borrow" recipies from restaurants. They work very nicely with prawns, in a rice noodle soup.
Some of you will know my strange habit with restaurants, inherited from my restaurant-dwelling parents. I'll eat out somewhere, order food that I've never seen or heard of before, and then I can go home and duplicate it. After that, I don't often bother ordering it again... once assimilated, it becomes "food that I can make at home." Time to find something else to try.
After a trip to the Vic Market and the big chinese grocery store, I think I'm well equipped for other experiments later in the week. There are a few dishes that I've never really worked out how to make, but I'm armed with a few more ingredients this time. Next on my list of toys to buy is a mortar & pestle, so I can make my own curry spices.
In the spirit of "if you don't know how to do it, experiment blindly" I've also worked out how to do neck and shoulder wraps with my firestaff. I really like the contact staff manoeuvres - they have a nice fluid flow to them, and they generally provide ways to get out of any dead-ends where the old spinning moves failed. Long hair is more of a problem, though... I'm still working out how to keep it out of the way.
In order to have something to practice indoors, I bought myself a contact juggling ball as well. Much safer on the overhead lights, although I really need to move the fragile things off the bookshelf :) I've never had much luck with the throwing/catching version of juggling, but it's an interesting exercise in co-ordination. I think the muscle control skills will also transfer across to firestaff, which makes it a good way of getting some practice in during the wet and windy months.
I bought some preserved kaffir lime leaves yesterday, and tried cooking with a few of them last night. Very tasty... plus, it's apparently one of those unidentified flavours/aromas that I've never quite managed to capture when I "borrow" recipies from restaurants. They work very nicely with prawns, in a rice noodle soup.
Some of you will know my strange habit with restaurants, inherited from my restaurant-dwelling parents. I'll eat out somewhere, order food that I've never seen or heard of before, and then I can go home and duplicate it. After that, I don't often bother ordering it again... once assimilated, it becomes "food that I can make at home." Time to find something else to try.
After a trip to the Vic Market and the big chinese grocery store, I think I'm well equipped for other experiments later in the week. There are a few dishes that I've never really worked out how to make, but I'm armed with a few more ingredients this time. Next on my list of toys to buy is a mortar & pestle, so I can make my own curry spices.
In the spirit of "if you don't know how to do it, experiment blindly" I've also worked out how to do neck and shoulder wraps with my firestaff. I really like the contact staff manoeuvres - they have a nice fluid flow to them, and they generally provide ways to get out of any dead-ends where the old spinning moves failed. Long hair is more of a problem, though... I'm still working out how to keep it out of the way.
In order to have something to practice indoors, I bought myself a contact juggling ball as well. Much safer on the overhead lights, although I really need to move the fragile things off the bookshelf :) I've never had much luck with the throwing/catching version of juggling, but it's an interesting exercise in co-ordination. I think the muscle control skills will also transfer across to firestaff, which makes it a good way of getting some practice in during the wet and windy months.
