world is changing
mellow home life under lockdown continues. ive been indoors nearly 4 weeks now. im not saying its great but it is pretty easy and chill, i dont have complaints. just working on my puzzle, enjoying the occasional video chat with a friend... occasionally we cook something, read books, watch more netflix than usual. doctor is starting a string of night shifts tonight but he just had 3 days off which was nice. the weather is amazing 23-25c and sunny which means people are not staying indoors.... not good. of course i'd much prefer to go for a picnic in a weather like this too but it is what it is. so i just enjoy the sun as it fills our living room.
corona (and UK's response to it) has brought on a new set of ethcal dilemmas... like, if i order takeaway, am i a) putting restaurant staff and delivery guy at risk, or b) supporting small business and delivery guy's livelihood? or c) both, plus being a selfish privileged bitch?
earlier this week i decided to make finnish style salmon pie. id been planning it for a few days and tasked doctor to find the ingredients when he went grocery shopping. i wasted half of my tuesday evening on it. it reminded me why i dont like such extensive cooking; despite reading the recipe it turns out i had the wrong kind of rice, wrong kind of salmon and so forth. next, i realise im missing other things (rolling pin, egg slicer, etc). it was just painful, messy and did i already say time consuming? ok, anything ut of one's comfort zone can be annoyng, but cooking & baking really tops the list for me. when i say it was a bad experience, i've noticed some assume it turned out tasting bad and thats why im regretful. but thats not the case. okay it couldve used more salt (a result of the wrong kind of salmon) but we happily ate it for a couple of days, it more less matched my memories of how tasty salmon pie is. i just dont find the result worth the trouble. as i struggled with it, i genuinely thought about how some people quite enjoy baking and cooking, and i think t's seriously a skill and talent they should appreciate and be prud of. too often avid cooks are like "its easy, you just..." well imagine i said that for good photos? ok, plenty of instagram heroes feel like that is easy too, i know... i think the fact that we all have to eat and engage with food to some extent blurs the line. sure, we all CAN boil rice somehow.. some of us will burn it or end up with mush... but we CAN boil rice. but proper cooking and baking are next level stuff that is not for everyone. you can train yourself and practise and become better. but just like some people hate painting and just wont become good painters - lets be honest - i think the same applies to cooking. since i hold the opinion that it's a skill & talent, i also think home chef's should be a bit more mindful when going on with the "it's easy..." mantra. like, if i dislike cooking, let me be. easy is relative.
the infamous salmon pie
then a few days later doctor made a kind of turkish pie, börek. and today he made granola bars for himself with muesli, honey... and i dunno what else, he got some recipe from the internet and modified it. he likes granola bars as a snack at work.
random lunch.
puzzle is nice to do by the sunny window.
the prices of puzzles on eBay have gone up, i can see im not the only one who wants something to do... i luckily have one new puzzle on the shelf waitingwhich i got as a birthday gift but im trying to have a couple more ready. i like puzzles corona or no corona. its just faster now.
i came across this book which is still in progress but u can already buy it https://leanpub.com/AroundTheWorldWith80SoftwareTesters
its one of those where you can choose how much to pay for it. (i did pay what i normally would for a new book)
NYTimes: Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women's Deaths are a State Secret now this was a depressing read if any.
today i was watching a free documentary on this site; https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/free - the current film they are showing is Rams. interesting, i think i had seen Helvetica before already.
corona (and UK's response to it) has brought on a new set of ethcal dilemmas... like, if i order takeaway, am i a) putting restaurant staff and delivery guy at risk, or b) supporting small business and delivery guy's livelihood? or c) both, plus being a selfish privileged bitch?
earlier this week i decided to make finnish style salmon pie. id been planning it for a few days and tasked doctor to find the ingredients when he went grocery shopping. i wasted half of my tuesday evening on it. it reminded me why i dont like such extensive cooking; despite reading the recipe it turns out i had the wrong kind of rice, wrong kind of salmon and so forth. next, i realise im missing other things (rolling pin, egg slicer, etc). it was just painful, messy and did i already say time consuming? ok, anything ut of one's comfort zone can be annoyng, but cooking & baking really tops the list for me. when i say it was a bad experience, i've noticed some assume it turned out tasting bad and thats why im regretful. but thats not the case. okay it couldve used more salt (a result of the wrong kind of salmon) but we happily ate it for a couple of days, it more less matched my memories of how tasty salmon pie is. i just dont find the result worth the trouble. as i struggled with it, i genuinely thought about how some people quite enjoy baking and cooking, and i think t's seriously a skill and talent they should appreciate and be prud of. too often avid cooks are like "its easy, you just..." well imagine i said that for good photos? ok, plenty of instagram heroes feel like that is easy too, i know... i think the fact that we all have to eat and engage with food to some extent blurs the line. sure, we all CAN boil rice somehow.. some of us will burn it or end up with mush... but we CAN boil rice. but proper cooking and baking are next level stuff that is not for everyone. you can train yourself and practise and become better. but just like some people hate painting and just wont become good painters - lets be honest - i think the same applies to cooking. since i hold the opinion that it's a skill & talent, i also think home chef's should be a bit more mindful when going on with the "it's easy..." mantra. like, if i dislike cooking, let me be. easy is relative.
the infamous salmon pie
then a few days later doctor made a kind of turkish pie, börek. and today he made granola bars for himself with muesli, honey... and i dunno what else, he got some recipe from the internet and modified it. he likes granola bars as a snack at work.
random lunch.
puzzle is nice to do by the sunny window.
i came across this book which is still in progress but u can already buy it https://leanpub.com/AroundTheWorldWith80SoftwareTesters
its one of those where you can choose how much to pay for it. (i did pay what i normally would for a new book)
NYTimes: Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women's Deaths are a State Secret now this was a depressing read if any.
today i was watching a free documentary on this site; https://www.ohyouprettythings.com/free - the current film they are showing is Rams. interesting, i think i had seen Helvetica before already.
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