Joined the living dead, though it's a bit hard to tell

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Score for the day: finding Ipomoea aquatica, commonly if erroneously credited on menus as Chinese watercress or water spinach, for sale at Whole Foods. Its identifying tag was actually missing from the shelf, but I recognized it from restaurants and the assistant manager agreed with me. I stir-fried a bunch with peanut oil, garlic, Sichuan pepper, and a little mirin and soy sauce just to see what happened, and the results were tasty. I need to redress the balance of greens to oil, because I forgot that like any leafy vegetable it would cook down to nearly nothing once it stopped sizzling, but that just means I'll have to make it again.

Otherwise I slept for what feels like the first time since before Readercon, spent the remains of the afternoon at the MFA and did not have anywhere near the time I wanted to look at Japanese tattoo prints, mostly because I slept. Which is what I'm going to go back to doing now.

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[skotodes.livejournal.com]

There's a local farm called Flats Mentor Farm which specializes in East Asian vegetables; they always have water spinach, amaranth, and other hard-to-find products. In fact, they sell to some local Whole Foods, so they may have grown the stuff you bought. But it's cheaper and fresher at the market. Flats Mentor Farm is at the Lexington, Arlington, Belmont, Waltham, and many other local markets.

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Flats Mentor Farm is at the Lexington, Arlington, Belmont, Waltham, and many other local markets.

That's very useful to know. (I'd have gone to the Lexington market this afternoon . . .) Thank you!

Also, hi.