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Good Finds
Dec. 11th, 2018 09:22 amYesterday's errands went well. Sometimes running errands makes me extremely peopled out and cranky but I was all right. My book store visit was also excellent - a lot of good finds and I still have fifty-five bucks in store credit. Someone had dumped the first seven volumes of Lone Wolf and Cub in withdrawn library editions so I snapped those up. They have sticky label residue on the covers but they're in pretty good shape for public library manga. This has been on my to-read list for a long time, and I'm a fan of historical manga. In other bookish news, I completed my reading challenge for the year, completing my fiftieth book last night.
Other finds from Chamblin Book Mine are:
Glittering Images and Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch, the first two volumes of her Starbridge series
Little Saint by Hannah Green
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering - edited by WY Evans-Wentz
They had a copy of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, but I didn't buy it because I'm an idiot, and clearly I need to go back for that one.
Then at Jax Oriental Market, I found this. It was an impulse buy from a display that also featured the same cakes with a small pig on top, and I recognized it as something both Japanese and New Year related.
I found that it's a mochi cake that's meant to be displayed until either the 7th or 11th of January, at which point you break it up with your fingers or a hammer (never use a knife) and eat it by using the unflavored mochi in a soup or as crackers, or honestly however you wish to prepare it. It says "keep refrigerated" but I think that's an American thing. It's actually sealed up in plastic, and it's literally just rice flour and citric acid. They also had green tea noodles, which I had not seen there before. I know those are typically more of a spring dish, but given the sheer simplicity of a lot of the green tea noodle recipes I've seen, it's worth my while to practice a couple of times to make sure I have the balance of flavors right before "officially" serving up a spring noodle salad.
Today's plan includes a five-mile easy run, making almond butter protein bars, not freezing my ass off, and taking care of a slew of little chores I put off over the last couple of days. However, I feel sort of like a slug, and I just want to sit near the fire, drink coffee, and read.
Other finds from Chamblin Book Mine are:
Glittering Images and Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch, the first two volumes of her Starbridge series
Little Saint by Hannah Green
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering - edited by WY Evans-Wentz
They had a copy of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, but I didn't buy it because I'm an idiot, and clearly I need to go back for that one.
Then at Jax Oriental Market, I found this. It was an impulse buy from a display that also featured the same cakes with a small pig on top, and I recognized it as something both Japanese and New Year related.
I found that it's a mochi cake that's meant to be displayed until either the 7th or 11th of January, at which point you break it up with your fingers or a hammer (never use a knife) and eat it by using the unflavored mochi in a soup or as crackers, or honestly however you wish to prepare it. It says "keep refrigerated" but I think that's an American thing. It's actually sealed up in plastic, and it's literally just rice flour and citric acid. They also had green tea noodles, which I had not seen there before. I know those are typically more of a spring dish, but given the sheer simplicity of a lot of the green tea noodle recipes I've seen, it's worth my while to practice a couple of times to make sure I have the balance of flavors right before "officially" serving up a spring noodle salad.
Today's plan includes a five-mile easy run, making almond butter protein bars, not freezing my ass off, and taking care of a slew of little chores I put off over the last couple of days. However, I feel sort of like a slug, and I just want to sit near the fire, drink coffee, and read.
