2020: Week 35

August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020

Bucket List Items Accomplished

• Make dumplings. I made Japanese oyaki. Half were stuffed with kuri squash and half were eggplant with miso. They were fried and then steamed in the pan.

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Things I Enjoyed this Week

• I want to continue posting the new words I find in the wild from books or podcasts.
  1. Avulsed – pulled or torn away
  2. Propolis – a substance made up of resin, saliva, and beeswax mixed by honeybees and used to fill crevices in honeycombs

• I watched no Oscar Best Picture Winners.

• I taught myself no new constellations this week.

• I renewed my first aid this week, which ate up most of my weekend.

Meal Prep and New Recipes Tried

I am eating plant based for a week. I started on Saturday, and all of the recipes I have made this week are vegan. For breakfasts I made simple stovetop oatmeal with banana and coconut.

• I made Oyaki from JustOneCookbook’s recipe. I subbed kuri squash instead of kabocha since my mother gave me a lovely fresh one from her garden. I also used Italian eggplant instead of Japanese. My roommate bought and forgot two of them, and they were languishing in the fridge.
• I used this recipe from the Seasoned Vegetable for One Pot Japanese Pumpkin Curry and it turned out beautifully. I used some more of the kuri squash in this. I use Japanese curry roux blocks all the time and love the convenience. My favourite kind is Torokeru by S&B.
• I also combined the recipe for this Kale and Butternut Squash Salad from SkinnyTaste with the Autumn Salad Plate recipe from the Moosewood Restaurant Favorites Cookbook (recipe reprinted here). I wanted to keep it plant based this week so I did not use any cheese. I added pumpkin seeds and cranberries instead of almonds and I used the pear thyme dressing from the Moosewood recipe. I also added cannellini beans for some protein.

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Updates

• It’s was a day early, but I wanted to do my summary for August. I crossed 16 things off of my bucket list. That makes three months in a row of really solid progress on the list.
  1. Make bibimbap
  2. Do the splits
  3. Throw axes
  4. Eat crickets
  5. Eat deep fried cheesecake
  6. Get a tarot reading done
  7. Take a silversmithing course
  8. Eat soft shelled crab
  9. Eat bannock
  10. Eat Som Tam (Thai green papaya salad)
  11. Make baked fish
  12. Make a Victoria sponge
  13. Make rice pudding
  14. Own a fountain pen with green ink
  15. Try pilates
  16. Make dumplings

• In the month of August I read and listened to four books. I listened to audiobooks for two of them and read two. Here’s what I finished reading this month.
  1. Pachinko
  2. Empty
  3. Girl, Interrupted
  4. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life