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If i think about it, i'm having a hard time believing what month it is and even what year it is.
Yesterday included a couple hours of reviewing work email, thoughts about baking and some cooking experiments. Really, the chickpea flatbread with shrimp was quite yummy! Although i reflect on hushpuppies with onion chunks in them and ponder the similarities.
I am doing some shopping:
* alpaca yarn (Llama theme tiny family gift) and
* bias cut silk ribbon (for Mohops) from Dharma Trading to attempt to dye (i ought to dye again before the new year!), and
* Etsy Letterpress made New Years cards for my staff.
I'm pondering what to do about the Hein Braat "Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra" recording i have. It was a duplicated CD from my Grandmama some years ago, claiming it was the Dali Lama chanting for world healing. This turns out to be a widely spread urban myth. While searching for "Hein Braat" turns up results at Amazon, none of the results are his work. (And all are music; none seem to be simple chants.) He's not available on iTunes, either. The CD with the chant isn't available from his website, apparently. And, what is available are, erm, in Euros and an unfamiliar vendor.
I need to buy tea [419-0-5341798]. However these two posts --
* http://www.tching.com/2009/05/tea-and-cheese-anyone/
* http://artandtea.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/tea-and-cheese-pairing/
evoke a splurging in which i should not indulge.
OMG.
See's web catalog does not mention the egg nog truffles that i saw last year (and was too late to buy). Didn't i see them in the print catalog i recycled? Or was that the buttermint truffles? While i'm beginning to prepare to switch to only fair trade chocolate, See's seems to deserve an exception. I note they're owned by Berkshire-Hathaway, which means that they're not run with an insane quarterly profit, bottom line driven ethic. But they're not the family business i imagined. Hmm. The other extended family gifts are from Boudin Bakery.
We're off to watch The Road this afternoon: stopping at Whole Foods then See's afterwards should be a good or surreal antidote.
The Onion's story about Tiger Woods is the only one i've allowed myself to read -- http://www.theonion.com/content/news/investigators_still_piecing -- avoiding everything else but Jon Stewart's Queen-inspired piece. Hmm, i guess i should find that Muppet video. It was a pretty popular link as we were testing the new wireless we set up at my folks', but it seemed the wrong thing to demonstrate the power of WiFi. (Ancestry.com was the demo.)
Yesterday included a couple hours of reviewing work email, thoughts about baking and some cooking experiments. Really, the chickpea flatbread with shrimp was quite yummy! Although i reflect on hushpuppies with onion chunks in them and ponder the similarities.
I am doing some shopping:
* alpaca yarn (Llama theme tiny family gift) and
* bias cut silk ribbon (for Mohops) from Dharma Trading to attempt to dye (i ought to dye again before the new year!), and
* Etsy Letterpress made New Years cards for my staff.
I'm pondering what to do about the Hein Braat "Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra" recording i have. It was a duplicated CD from my Grandmama some years ago, claiming it was the Dali Lama chanting for world healing. This turns out to be a widely spread urban myth. While searching for "Hein Braat" turns up results at Amazon, none of the results are his work. (And all are music; none seem to be simple chants.) He's not available on iTunes, either. The CD with the chant isn't available from his website, apparently. And, what is available are, erm, in Euros and an unfamiliar vendor.
I need to buy tea [419-0-5341798]. However these two posts --
* http://www.tching.com/2009/05/tea-and-cheese-anyone/
* http://artandtea.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/tea-and-cheese-pairing/
evoke a splurging in which i should not indulge.
OMG.
See's web catalog does not mention the egg nog truffles that i saw last year (and was too late to buy). Didn't i see them in the print catalog i recycled? Or was that the buttermint truffles? While i'm beginning to prepare to switch to only fair trade chocolate, See's seems to deserve an exception. I note they're owned by Berkshire-Hathaway, which means that they're not run with an insane quarterly profit, bottom line driven ethic. But they're not the family business i imagined. Hmm. The other extended family gifts are from Boudin Bakery.
We're off to watch The Road this afternoon: stopping at Whole Foods then See's afterwards should be a good or surreal antidote.
The Onion's story about Tiger Woods is the only one i've allowed myself to read -- http://www.theonion.com/content/news/investigators_still_piecing -- avoiding everything else but Jon Stewart's Queen-inspired piece. Hmm, i guess i should find that Muppet video. It was a pretty popular link as we were testing the new wireless we set up at my folks', but it seemed the wrong thing to demonstrate the power of WiFi. (Ancestry.com was the demo.)
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Maybe the pu'erh would hold up to the dairy?
Hm, hm.
If you do wanna try some of those primo straight-up non-blended Chinese teas, Teaspring.com has a good selection of moderate quality at moderate price. Jing's Tea Shop and Imperial Tea Court have high quality at a high price. *grin*
Do you use Upton? I can't remember. I think you might be the person I know who shops there...
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Well, i have budget purchases and get the cheapest organic Keemun and my usual flavored seasonal teas (now: Mélange Noël, "A blend of black tea with cinnamon, cloves, vanilla and cardamom. Decorated with orange peel, rose petals and almond pieces.") I also take the bolder teas, Keemuns and Assams. I do not have the taste for the delicate white teas or Darjeelings.
Pu'erh was mentioned as a good match for a smoked Fontina.
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Hm, pu'erh and a smoked cheese, eh?
I thought my tea taste was pretty much gone, and it does seem to be for the China greens, but I tried a pot of this gyokuro (which has always been too delicate for me to understand) and silver needles (ditto) recently and HOHSHIT CAN YOU TASTE THE SENSATION? I mean seriously, not only is it blasphemy to mix China and Japan tea, but both of those should not be good together. And yet it was fabulous.