Can I show you this state of mind?

[sovay]

There were some good things today:

1. My replacement phone arrived from Verizon. It is of sufficient vintage that the activation and data transfer instructions included in the box are inapplicable. (This is a point in its favor. I need it to handle calls and text messages. The fact that my old phone could take blurry little pictures was endearing, but not a life requirement. Anything else is just complicating matters.) I will bring it in to the Verizon store tomorrow.

2. I have a doctor's appointment set for tomorrow. Better if it had been today, but right now I am taking what I can get.

3. At dinner tonight, I ate zaru soba correctly by instinct. All the while I was dipping the noodles and nori into the little flask of sauce, I worried that I was doing it wrong and looking gauche (I said to derspatchel "like a person dunking their mac and cheese in beer," at which point he told me not to give hipster restaurant culture any ideas), I just couldn't figure out any other way to eat them. The internet tells me I did the right thing and wasn't even indelicate in wishing I could drink the sauce afterward. I feel weirdly accomplished. On reflection I'm wondering if I got the idea from A Tale of Time City's cornpone with malty soy.

4. Before dinner, we visited kittens. We are hoping to adopt. It's not a certainty. Wish us luck!

5. I can find a lot of Daisy Chainsaw by Googling.

Question for the wider internet!

Can anyone recommend a restaurant for tempeh in this city? It's not on Grasshopper's menu and I've been warned against True Bistro. (I have also given up on the Tamp at Diesel, as I ordered it three times last summer and three times in a row they made it wrong. I don't even know how that happens.) It's a foodstuff I like very much and I don't know where to find it (a) in Boston (b) that won't congratulate me on being holistic to myself. Even Life Alive doesn't seem to offer it on their regular menu and they're the place that puts raw lentils in their hummus. Blue Shirt just has tofu and depressing music.

Comments

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Maybe The Red Lentil, if Watertown is close enough to count as in Boston? I'm not the hugest tempeh fan, so I haven't tried theirs, to be able to vouch personally. I do like many of their other dishes, and they do offer tempeh, so it may be worth a shot.

I'm still puzzling over the idea of putting raw lentils in hummus, while thinking hopefully landlord approval thoughts re: kittens.

[sovay]

Maybe The Red Lentil, if Watertown is close enough to count as in Boston?

Absolutely. I used to eat there with some regularity between 2007 and 2010—I haven't since then, but it's no farther on the buses than the Deluxe Town Diner, which derspatchel and I visit every few months. I did not know of tempeh in those days; I just used to get the sea vegetable salad. Looking at their menu now, I don't think I would order a tempeh Reuben for the same reason I am not interested in most meat substitutes (I don't want substitute meat, I want interesting vegetable protein), but I could think about adding tempeh to the peanut noodle salad!

Alternately, I could just learn to cook it myself. Maybe they sell it at HMart.

I'm still puzzling over the idea of putting raw lentils in hummus,

It was lentil hummus, but that is not an excuse.

while thinking hopefully landlord approval thoughts re: kittens.

We just heard back this morning! Landlord approves the adoption of kittens. Now we start paperwork with the MSPCA!

P.S. Hello! You're commenting on LJ! I'm glad you're recovering!

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking the reuben sounded conceptially similar to the bacon issue, but the fact that they offer it as a side seemed hopeful.

Huzzah for landlord approval! I hope the adoption and paperwork process goes well and smoothly. :)

And yes, I'm doing remarkably well, actually, I think significantly better than projected. As a result, it mostly feels like I'm just hanging out at home an awful lot for some reason, not like I'm having this required convalescence. It's extremely odd having this much free time, but I really can't complain!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Seconding on Red Lentil. Also, it's possible that tempeh available at the Chinatown incarnation of Budda Delight, which I think has a new name now?

I am curious. What warned you off of True Bistro? I had a bizarre experience there attempting to eat dinner with jadasc and I'm wondering if that's common.

[sovay]

Also, it's possible that tempeh available at the Chinatown incarnation of Budda Delight, which I think has a new name now?

Do you have any idea what they turned into? I don't think I was ever at the original restaurant!

What warned you off of True Bistro? I had a bizarre experience there attempting to eat dinner with jadasc and I'm wondering if that's common.

I've never eaten there myself; I've been told by multiple people that they simply aren't very good. What happened to you and jadasc?