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I found my mp3 player finally. It was in a jar where i keep pens and stuff. It's rainy but i still wanted to go running. I made a playlist where the songs are right about the length i'm supposed to be running/walking so i didn't need to use a stopwatch. With lines like "slow down, please slow down" and "do not run," some of the songs may not have been the best choices. But "Toxic" was a very good choice; it got me through the last three minutes, probably going too fast, maybe forgetting to breathe.

Gramma is mad at me. She thinks other people live here and is always wondering where they are. When i tell her we're the only people here, she thinks i'm lying to her and that "we" are trying to pull something on her. She gets very suspicious of me. She's suspicious about the real reason i went running, etc.

Today i made green curry coconut milk with potatoes, eggplant, peas, onions, and a little carrot. It's not a very photogenic dish, at least not this time. It tastes pretty good but needs a little more flavor. Maybe more potato (somehow that would give more flavor??). And maybe the eggplant could be put to better use. I'm not very good with eggplant. Not yet.

last weekend

broccoli with peanut sauce was so good! maybe because i was pretty hungry when i ate it?

this is the rest of dinner... squash with goat cheese, corn, curry radishes, carrots (afrique du nord or something), and apple and cucumbers and carrot salad.

marshmallows in black coffee!!

I finally bought some coffee to make at home! I bought it from work for convenience. I thought it might be better if i made it at home, but it still tastes funny. HOWEVER putting marshmallows in coffee is a great idea! I'm very happy with it.

It was rainy this morning but i went to the farmer's market. Since it's October (and i guess i only blog in the fall) i thought i should buy a great deal of apples. They didn't all fit in the bowl.

And as planned i got some vegetables. Beets, a couple squashes, white corn (Farmer Jay said it was the best corn i'd ever taste), an eggplant and some carrots. I spent the rest of the morning reading through the huge stack of vegetable cookbooks i got from the library this week and i now have plans for most of the produce. Besides soups i never really had a good idea of what to do with vegetables, but in Japan we ate them in so many ways... so i've decided to learn some new things.

I can't remember what kind of squash this is. I want kabocha but i haven't seen it anywhere this year.