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Jun. 4th, 2008
Latest Folio stuff
Jun. 4th, 2008 02:34 pmThe latest Folio Society mailing includes sets of works by Dickens and Hemingway. I would have to work hard to find two authors that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lemur_catta and I dislike as much. Hardy perhaps?
OTOH the "Castaways' Choice" offerings do include some favourites as well as some I rather fancy though I haven't read them.
Favourites: The Riddle of the Sands (chosen by Bill Bryson), A Passage to India, Slaughterhouse Five, Homage to Catalonia, Tom Jones.
Thinking about: Love in a Cold Climate, Death Comes for the Archbishop,Le Grand Meaulnes, The Mandarins, The Siege of Krishnapur, Things Fall Apart
Dear God, No!:84 Charing Cross Road, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
I really shouldn't be buying more books though.
lemur_catta and I dislike as much. Hardy perhaps?OTOH the "Castaways' Choice" offerings do include some favourites as well as some I rather fancy though I haven't read them.
Favourites: The Riddle of the Sands (chosen by Bill Bryson), A Passage to India, Slaughterhouse Five, Homage to Catalonia, Tom Jones.
Thinking about: Love in a Cold Climate, Death Comes for the Archbishop,Le Grand Meaulnes, The Mandarins, The Siege of Krishnapur, Things Fall Apart
Dear God, No!:84 Charing Cross Road, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
I really shouldn't be buying more books though.
With a little help from my freezer
Jun. 4th, 2008 07:07 pmIn the summer lemur_catta and I don't get to eat dinner together very often. Her dance and my rugby commitments mean that we maybe get to eat a home cooked dinner two or three times per week tops. Tonight was one of them. I thought it would be nice to have a proper meal. The freezer coughed up Massaman curry and long beans cooked with roasted chili paste plus some choo chee sauce. There was also some nam prik kapi in the fridge, I added some veggies and herbs, cucumber stirfried with bean curd and eggs, a pomelo and shrimp salad and some seared sea scallops for the choo chee sauce (giant sea scallops $8.88 per pound at T&T, FTW). That and some rice and we had a feast for not much work at all.
lemur_catta and I don't get to eat dinner together very often. Her dance and my rugby commitments mean that we maybe get to eat a home cooked dinner two or three times per week tops. Tonight was one of them. I thought it would be nice to have a proper meal. The freezer coughed up Massaman curry and long beans cooked with roasted chili paste plus some choo chee sauce. There was also some nam prik kapi in the fridge, I added some veggies and herbs, cucumber stirfried with bean curd and eggs, a pomelo and shrimp salad and some seared sea scallops for the choo chee sauce (giant sea scallops $8.88 per pound at T&T, FTW). That and some rice and we had a feast for not much work at all.