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Foray into beans continues. And also I'm using this space to save recipe links. >.>

I tried another New Orleans red beans and rice recipe, this time using dried beans. It was all right - I suspect that the tabasco sauce I omitted […]

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Foray into beans parts 6 and 7. White bean garden salad and cowboy rice salad.

We ate most of 6 before I remembered to take a picture.

Links and stories coming soon...

Foray into "beans" part 5 was a grain. A barley salad that turned out fantastically as good as advertised in the recipe.

I used barley instead of farro, and perilla oil instead of olive oil. The combination of sour from the vinegar with toasted cumin and […]

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Foray into beans part 4: black bean jackfruit enchiladas.

(Recipes coming soon in an edit)

2nd and 3rd forays into beans.
"Cowboy" black bean salad that was like a salsa, tzatziki chickpea salad, and eggplant lentil salad.

(Recipes getting edited in shortly)

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First foray into beans. On the left is an attempt at vegan Cajun red beans and rice, but I put in too much celery and not enough beans. On the right is lentil ragout - the lentils were a bit more al dente than intended but still very good. Recipe links to be edited in shortly...

Other end of Nelson's #payequity march. We had eulogies for equity, trust, and democracy from a teacher, a care worker, and a nurse. #nzpol

The #payequity march in Nelson is starting with a funeral procession.

Update: the soup came out good! I used beef but can definitely taste how lamb would go really well with the other flavours.

Will be adding it to my regular rotation of root veggie soups (currently includes borscht and maafe).

#boardgames today was Pax Pamir. It's about battling for dominance between the Afghans, Russians, and British in 19th century Afghanistan. An area control game where you have to balance political, economic, military, and intelligence (spies).

We stopped after […]

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A few bits of our day at the Melbourne Zoo...

Taranaki on my way past this morning. #naturephotography

#boardgames tonight was Covert. An oldie but goodie about being a spy wandering around Cold War era Europe doing missions.

#boardgames tonight: Finspan. It's like Wingspan for fish. :)

This popup appears on my laptop (Macbook Air) regularly, even though I haven't used anything MS Office in months. It also does it for MS Word. Other than uninstall MS Office, how do I get it to stop that? I kind of feel like it's spying on me...

#microsoft

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Dinner a few nights ago but I forgot to post: jabchae. My first try at it, and it came out pretty good. :)