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January things
Feb. 1st, 2014 07:40 amI picked up Isa Does It at My Local Bookstore's New Year's Day sale, and have decided to cook my way through the entire book, skipping anything I'm allergic to (mushrooms) or anything I'm not interested in revisiting my aversion to (zucchini, eggplant) . I'm not super-interested in becoming a hard core vegan, I'm not aspiring to vegan superpowers, I just want to have more vegan meals in my life.
1. Alphabet Soup. Due to a tactical error regarding the broth/alphabet pasta ratio, this turned out to be more of a mush than a soup, but it was a tasty mushy. And we substituted the frozen peas for edamame.
2. Pureed Split Pea and Rutabaga Soup. Made this one with Delight and really liked it. I had no prior experience with split peas, though I felt a sort of aversion. But, this was delightful. And let me use star anise.
3. Chickpea-Rice Soup. I loved the fuck out of this soup. Rice, chickpeas, cabbage, carrots, dill.
4. Creamy Potato-Leek Soup. My first experience with using soaked cashews to give something a creamy feel. I think that it makes the soup age oddly in the refridgerator, but it is also delicious.
I got Heart of the Plate for the holidays, because I am an unabashed slut for both Moosewood and Mollie Katzen.
5. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew with Peanut Sauce and Banana-Jack Empanadas. This was also amazing.
On the book front, I've been trying to clean out my tablet. So, I've been reading all the interesting bits left over from downloading everything from last year's hugo's packet, everything I've gotten from the Early Reviewers program at Library Thing, all the things I've gotten from kickstarting. Which don't feel like they count as Books I've Read. On the same front, I finally collected all of my LCRWs and made sure I'd read them all from beginning to end. Which I hadn't, but now have. And I read all the issues of Crossed Genres since the compendium. So I won't count any of those either
Things I have read, however.
1. Agent of Hel, by Jacqueline Carey. I initially bought this as a reading-in-the-bath book, but I started it in the bath and didn't really want to put it down. Pure candy.
2. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer. Hated it. I had a lot of consent issues with Greta Prime deciding what's best for the other Gretas. (this sentence makes sense if you've read the book. If you haven't, don't bother.)
3. Codex Born by Jim Hines. Adored it. I love how careful he feels with exploring free will, consent, beauty, poly and all sorts of other things. And book magic.
4. Bridge of Dead Things by Michael Gallagher. Serviceable. And not about zombies.
5. Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon. Hrm. I didn't exactly like the heroine, or the sort of vague magical realism. It definitely touches on some sensitive things, sexual abuse and suicide, and handles them decently, but I just didn't care for it. And I have no idea why it was on my tablet.
1. Alphabet Soup. Due to a tactical error regarding the broth/alphabet pasta ratio, this turned out to be more of a mush than a soup, but it was a tasty mushy. And we substituted the frozen peas for edamame.
2. Pureed Split Pea and Rutabaga Soup. Made this one with Delight and really liked it. I had no prior experience with split peas, though I felt a sort of aversion. But, this was delightful. And let me use star anise.
3. Chickpea-Rice Soup. I loved the fuck out of this soup. Rice, chickpeas, cabbage, carrots, dill.
4. Creamy Potato-Leek Soup. My first experience with using soaked cashews to give something a creamy feel. I think that it makes the soup age oddly in the refridgerator, but it is also delicious.
I got Heart of the Plate for the holidays, because I am an unabashed slut for both Moosewood and Mollie Katzen.
5. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew with Peanut Sauce and Banana-Jack Empanadas. This was also amazing.
On the book front, I've been trying to clean out my tablet. So, I've been reading all the interesting bits left over from downloading everything from last year's hugo's packet, everything I've gotten from the Early Reviewers program at Library Thing, all the things I've gotten from kickstarting. Which don't feel like they count as Books I've Read. On the same front, I finally collected all of my LCRWs and made sure I'd read them all from beginning to end. Which I hadn't, but now have. And I read all the issues of Crossed Genres since the compendium. So I won't count any of those either
Things I have read, however.
1. Agent of Hel, by Jacqueline Carey. I initially bought this as a reading-in-the-bath book, but I started it in the bath and didn't really want to put it down. Pure candy.
2. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer. Hated it. I had a lot of consent issues with Greta Prime deciding what's best for the other Gretas. (this sentence makes sense if you've read the book. If you haven't, don't bother.)
3. Codex Born by Jim Hines. Adored it. I love how careful he feels with exploring free will, consent, beauty, poly and all sorts of other things. And book magic.
4. Bridge of Dead Things by Michael Gallagher. Serviceable. And not about zombies.
5. Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon. Hrm. I didn't exactly like the heroine, or the sort of vague magical realism. It definitely touches on some sensitive things, sexual abuse and suicide, and handles them decently, but I just didn't care for it. And I have no idea why it was on my tablet.
