The major achievement of this weekend was cooking, which I had not been able to do in a serious way in some time. Specifically, I made an experimental curry: it involved braising a pork loin in coconut milk with sliced pineapple and mushrooms until it fell apart after first browning it in canola oil with shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric, coriander, cumin, nutmeg, and white pepper, plus a very small amount of cayenne and a dash of soy sauce accommodating the preferences of both of my parents. In future, I would like to add palm sugar and cardamom at the browning stage and reserve some of the pineapple to be added toward the end of the braising as well as possibly leaving a cinnamon stick in from the start, but it was still extremely tasty and could be furnished from ingredients on hand, which was important considering the entire project began with needing to deal with a pork loin. Have some links.
1. "Great transformations: queer identities in the Amazon": selections from Daniel Jack Lyons' Like a River (2022).
2. Brivele has a new EP: What Joy Is Yours (2022). I wish only that it existed on CD, since I really like the ability to keep listening to my music if my computer dies.
3. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: the Iliad in Hebrew and Ladino.
P.S. I have been rated a beach read, which makes me very happy. In attractive sea-company, too.
1. "Great transformations: queer identities in the Amazon": selections from Daniel Jack Lyons' Like a River (2022).
2. Brivele has a new EP: What Joy Is Yours (2022). I wish only that it existed on CD, since I really like the ability to keep listening to my music if my computer dies.
3. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: the Iliad in Hebrew and Ladino.
P.S. I have been rated a beach read, which makes me very happy. In attractive sea-company, too.
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