birthday greetings!

Happy birthday to thamiris! Hope it's a great one. :)

the dreaded meeting

We had the initial meeting today to discuss how to tackle the big new project. The bad news is that the meeting was way more rage-honing than I had imagined it would be. However, it's possible that the reason for that was a combination of early PMS, lack of caffeine, and general snarkiness on my part. So the possibly-good news is that the project itself may turn out to be both less difficult and less annoying than I had feared. It's too soon to say, though.

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Joan Can Cook

I cooked tofu today for the first time ever! Yay me!

It went pretty well, although what these people call "extra firm" I would call "somewhat soft." I understand you can make your tofu firmer by pressing some of the liquid out of it -- may give that a try.

I'm still getting the hang of wok cooking in general, let alone the wide new world of tofu, so it was ... an experiment. It wasn't bad, mind you. I ate the entire thing and haven't keeled over from food poisoning yet. ;) But once again I failed to get the timing exactly right, so the carrots were too soft, the summer squash a little too soft, and the broccoli too hard. It's an ongoing learning process. I'm optimistic though. Soon I'll be ready to start experimenting with spices! Gasp!

And if you think there haven't been a veritable slew of wok puns in this household the last two weeks, well, you probably haven't been paying attention. ;)

Life's a bitch ... and then you stir-fry!