Esta semana cociné vísceras de res dos días: goulash de hígado hace como 3 días y lengua en salsa hoy. Era la primera vez que cocinaba lengua, así que le pedí la receta de mi abuela a mi tía. Me quedó mejor el goulash porque he hecho esa receta más veces pero pienso repetir ambas #foodie #comidonte #CocinaEnCasa #HomeCooking

My #breakfast cod #congee with green onions & fried wonton wraps - I added some minced ginger too.

I get dispirited when I remember that my professional writing has become mostly an effort to make money these days. It's hard to truly enjoy anything with so much pressure on.

But then I think about why I need that dough: sustenance for myself so I live to see another spring as beautiful as this one, if not more so. Shared resources with and gifts for my friends: the humans I laugh and cry and love with, the other-than-human kin that tell me stories and give us strength.

I don't love having my nose to the grindstone. (Who does?!) But I do love building a world together with and for my loves.

#RetreatPosting #VoidMoonVibes
#BloomScrolling #Spring2025 #HomeCooking

Chatbots broke so much of the internet. Things I can't find even with the best search engines (Kagi). An example: I need a substitution for hoisin sauce. So I search for "substitute for hoisin sauce". Try it. Everything that comes up looks like it was generated by chatbots. Answers are characteristically generic and void of experience. Even the reddit threads that sometimes save me from LLM-spam, the commenters happily say "Sure here's a list!" and link to a bot-generated site. #homecooking

#3GoodThings yesterday*
• I saw a pair of sparrows foraging for grain around a fair price store at the nearest intersection. I found this a good omen, considering how threatened sparrows are as a species. No pictures, because I was rushing to get home. (Next point explains why.)

• I sowed a handful of seeds (pumpkin, butterfly pea, and black pepper) on a whim, although I was waiting for the Moon to be waxing again. Just an hour later, it got very, very dark with serious thunder, and beautiful steady, gentle rain. মাঘ মাসের বৃষ্টি ফাল্গুন মাসে এলো। It stayed dark, cold, and rainy the entire day.

• Thursdays, I've found, are almost always** great for cooking. I improvised on noodle recipes I saw on The Woks of Life and made pasta that, for the first time, I truly enjoyed. BFF#1 likes his pasta gently fried before being tossed in with the sauces, etc., and now I see why. I'd never had anything like this before, but I'm pretty sure I'll be trying this again.

•• P. Djélì Clark's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘎𝘰𝘥'𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴 also made for fine dinnertime reading.

*Ran out of data yesterday, so I'm updating today.
**If the Moon isn't void of course, or besieged.

#RetreatPosting

What was on the #vegan plate tonight?

Sweet Potato, Aubergine & Tomato curry; Basmati Rice; Sweet & Sticky Tofu Knots.

Sunday’s soup:
Vegetable beef barley, with an herb sea salt focaccia and cheese.

Oh my god I'm on a roll today. Am I a professional baker now? Ugh look how sexy these are!
Banana bread but I added pistachios, dried cranberries, and marshmallows and used cream cheese frosting and some kind of blood orange? Idk what kind of citrus this was but it was amazing!
I'm actually awful at baking because I don't have the patience to measure things... but GOT DAYUM.

Six mangoes can make this much chutney in an afternoon. #HomeCooking #DoItYourself #SustainableLiving

Here are pictures of another batch of thin Danish #yoghurt being seperated into liquid and solid, something like whey and Greek yoghurt. The first picture is how the yoghurt like like to begin with and the next one is the solids.. the final pic is the liquid that strains through. This time I used a kitchen towel which is a bit to tightly woven. Cheese cloth is better - it soaks up of the liquid