more wrapping madness

Okay, so they're not nearly as pretty as the ones you get at stores...but i don't know where you can get them around here, and they didn't rip, so for me they are a rather large success. bigger wrappers than the ones used for the bananas. i now have at least 100 rice paper wraps and will have to perhaps make some up for a dinner party if i am to use them up in the next six months. fun to make though. I think i may be on a wrapping kick. ever since the grape leaf experience a week ago. which reminds me, i have grape leaves to stuff. maybe i'll make up the stuffing mix tonight.....though i think i only have sushi rice...hmmmmm

playing with food

Seeing if i can make it a week with minimal wheat products. I like bread though, so it could be a challenge. Thought up this little dish while analyzing water samples. Rice paper wraps, bananas, cocoa powder and agave syrup. would be fantastic if you used coconut butter to fry. actually only used maybe half a teaspoon of oil, just enough to darken the pan (which really ought to be re-seasoned). The mint wraps didn't taste good when cooked but were fine raw. think i might go for some savoury summer rolls tonight. and maybe play with what happens to rice paper wraps when heated in different forms.

rhubarb cake; take III

Third time's the charm--almost. still not as good as my mom makes it; she can master the dessert be it with eggs and buttermilk or vegan...at least this time it didn't fall.

Dreamscapes

Our brains are so cool. the things they think up while we sleep... What seems amazing to me is that we can have certain landscapes that we revisit for different plot lines or investigations. it's amazing the things we can create...and similarly how mundane we can be when possibilities are unlimited. take flying. why not sprout wings, or just jump into the air. why does it have to be an effort? Flying, for me, is a very dream-concious "not-falling" and it takes a good deal of concentration and isn't always reliable...but is pretty dang cool. wonder how many regular "sets" i have for my dreams...do people who travel have more? are they more or less immaginitive than the "sets" of people who have lived in one spot? what about interactions between them? are we these little mini dream-universes walking around and what happens to these universes when we converse while awake?

right, back to the task at hand: dry cereal and looking up journal articles....should really put the dry cereal away though