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Jan. 23rd, 2016 12:20 pmToday is a day of cooking and emptying out my to-do list. I'm trying to keep to a grocery budget, which means no new groceries until next month, and THAT means I'm improvising with what I have. I have a lot of food but it's a lot of random food, so it's like, hey, let's make brownies using no eggs or melted chocolate! It'll be fun!
Actually those came out really good. But anyway, today I cooked the last of the bacon (it's Trader Joe's "bacon scraps" so you can't cook it in strips but it makes great bacon bits) and made Lipton boxed chicken soup, and now I'm improvising a bread pudding with my ONE LAST EGG, the last of the thawed milk (there's more in the freezer), the last of the agave syrup, and some very, very stale gingerbread chunks from Christkindlmarket. I'm hoping that pressure-cooking the pudding will force the liquid more fully into the gingerbread, because I'm not sure how well it's all going to absorb, but we'll see.
Today is part two of the Discworld Origami Project. ELEPHANTS ON PARADE!
The elephants are from a Leyla Torres origami video here. I folded the gold first, then re-played the video a single time and folded the other three along with it. Something went desperately wrong with the purple one momentarily, but I like to think the remnants of it are a scar from some celestial battle when the Disc was yet to be formed. Maybe he’s the one who kicked the fifth elephant off.
Folding the elephants with foil-backed paper was interesting; it holds a crease in a way that ordinary paper doesn’t, but it also doesn’t respond to creasing in quite the same way -- it’s easy to re-fold next to a crease, rather than on it, because the foil is malleable. It’s almost more like folding wet paper.
And re-folding is very difficult indeed. On the other hand, for a figure like this with a lot of fiddly tiny folds, the foil holds its shape excellently and doesn’t accidentally unfold itself.
I know like half the country is trapped indoors this weekend due to the blizzard, so on your behalf I will be going out tomorrow to the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, which are having free days. HURRAH FOR MUSEUMS. It's my consolation prize for Chicago NOT getting a storm. If it's going to be this cold I think we ought to at least get a storm to make up for it.
Actually those came out really good. But anyway, today I cooked the last of the bacon (it's Trader Joe's "bacon scraps" so you can't cook it in strips but it makes great bacon bits) and made Lipton boxed chicken soup, and now I'm improvising a bread pudding with my ONE LAST EGG, the last of the thawed milk (there's more in the freezer), the last of the agave syrup, and some very, very stale gingerbread chunks from Christkindlmarket. I'm hoping that pressure-cooking the pudding will force the liquid more fully into the gingerbread, because I'm not sure how well it's all going to absorb, but we'll see.
Today is part two of the Discworld Origami Project. ELEPHANTS ON PARADE!
The elephants are from a Leyla Torres origami video here. I folded the gold first, then re-played the video a single time and folded the other three along with it. Something went desperately wrong with the purple one momentarily, but I like to think the remnants of it are a scar from some celestial battle when the Disc was yet to be formed. Maybe he’s the one who kicked the fifth elephant off.
Folding the elephants with foil-backed paper was interesting; it holds a crease in a way that ordinary paper doesn’t, but it also doesn’t respond to creasing in quite the same way -- it’s easy to re-fold next to a crease, rather than on it, because the foil is malleable. It’s almost more like folding wet paper.
And re-folding is very difficult indeed. On the other hand, for a figure like this with a lot of fiddly tiny folds, the foil holds its shape excellently and doesn’t accidentally unfold itself.
I know like half the country is trapped indoors this weekend due to the blizzard, so on your behalf I will be going out tomorrow to the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, which are having free days. HURRAH FOR MUSEUMS. It's my consolation prize for Chicago NOT getting a storm. If it's going to be this cold I think we ought to at least get a storm to make up for it.
