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

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

yay sleep! Hope this comment finds you still unconscious.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to hear of the interesting vegetable, and that you can score more of it soon. If only there were a Whole Foods here,* I'd go looking and see if I could give it a try, myself.

I'm very glad that you've slept at last. Glad that you were able to spend part of the afternoon doing interesting things, and I hope you'll be able to catch up with the tattoo prints soon. I hope you've slept well since.

*They've two in West Hartford alone, as I discovered last week; I don't think this is fair at all.

[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.