Productive?
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magidWell, mostly, except for the time wasted surfing LJ and playing (a stupid solitaire variation of) Lost Cities.
Last night I got a sampling of all the kinds of dried beans Harvest has to offer. Except for mung beans, that is, since they have no place in ch ili in my house [1]. I got all 8 kinds of beans soaking, divided by color (white, red, black). They look kinda pretty sitting in bowls of water like that. Also started a couple of loads of laundry, desperately needed for me to be presentable at work today. And a batch of challah dough, with some kamut flour in it.
This morning, boiled the beans, and sauteed onions, mushrooms, and many colors of peppers. I still have to finish the chili (tomatoes, hot peppers, and spices), but the work-intensive part of it is done (hopefully the hot peppers won't take too long). I put the challah in the oven on time bake, too.
And I ran a meeting today, foisting off a huge chunk of work onto 4 other people. It took a while to pull the pieces together to give/show them, but the meeting went well. Pleasingly, the head of the department congratulated me on how I ran it.
Still left to do: the rest of the grocery shopping, changing sheets on guest beds, the rest of the cooking, straightening the house. Shabbat starts at 5:51 this week... (so it ends at 6:51, which really will be enough time to get to the performance on time!) [2].
[1] I haven't yet figured out what place mung beans have at my house at all, actually. If anyone has uses for them, I'd be interested to hear.
[2] Shabbat is getting earlier reasonably quickly, and the clocks change at the end of the month. I have to change the rhythm of my Shabbat prep from what I do in the summer, with the long afternoons I can fit all the cooking in, start to finish. More t o start Thursday night (though I do want to get to potluck), or cook while I'm at work, stuff like that. [3]
[3] Of course, it's easier when I'm not having lots of people over for both meals. And when not sick. Though this cold seems to be abating. Hoora y!
Last night I got a sampling of all the kinds of dried beans Harvest has to offer. Except for mung beans, that is, since they have no place in ch ili in my house [1]. I got all 8 kinds of beans soaking, divided by color (white, red, black). They look kinda pretty sitting in bowls of water like that. Also started a couple of loads of laundry, desperately needed for me to be presentable at work today. And a batch of challah dough, with some kamut flour in it.
This morning, boiled the beans, and sauteed onions, mushrooms, and many colors of peppers. I still have to finish the chili (tomatoes, hot peppers, and spices), but the work-intensive part of it is done (hopefully the hot peppers won't take too long). I put the challah in the oven on time bake, too.
And I ran a meeting today, foisting off a huge chunk of work onto 4 other people. It took a while to pull the pieces together to give/show them, but the meeting went well. Pleasingly, the head of the department congratulated me on how I ran it.
Still left to do: the rest of the grocery shopping, changing sheets on guest beds, the rest of the cooking, straightening the house. Shabbat starts at 5:51 this week... (so it ends at 6:51, which really will be enough time to get to the performance on time!) [2].
[1] I haven't yet figured out what place mung beans have at my house at all, actually. If anyone has uses for them, I'd be interested to hear.
[2] Shabbat is getting earlier reasonably quickly, and the clocks change at the end of the month. I have to change the rhythm of my Shabbat prep from what I do in the summer, with the long afternoons I can fit all the cooking in, start to finish. More t o start Thursday night (though I do want to get to potluck), or cook while I'm at work, stuff like that. [3]
[3] Of course, it's easier when I'm not having lots of people over for both meals. And when not sick. Though this cold seems to be abating. Hoora y!
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Date: 2002-10-11 03:25 pm (UTC)I bought a bag of "fresh" mung bean sprouts at B&C today, and was thinking, "how fresh can these really be? When were they sprouted, really? The only way to get them really fresh would be to sprout them yourself." Funny you should mention this the same day.
Mung beans
Date: 2002-10-12 07:55 pm (UTC)