Pressure cookers and broken treadmills
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I was a cooking fiend yesterday. I made a big pot of fish soup in the morning (using fish as a base for soup is a lot less time consuming than using land-protein, as it takes minutes rather than hours to get all the flavor out -- BUT you do have to deal with all the fish bones). Then I felt like having dessert and made some pancakes. I made aloo gobi for dinner, and found this thing online where you can make 1 serving of ice cream without an ice cream maker and had to try it out (it worked). I've also got a sourdough starter in the proofing box so that I can hopefully make a loaf today. And I also cut up the pineapple I had (I'm now 3 for 3 in terms of selecting pineapples that are sweet and wonderful -- I think I finally have the hang of it!). Today I'm going to make crispy puris.
I've always been into Indian food, but I think I'm going to be cooking it more often. I have nearly all the myriad of spices that the cuisine uses by now, and I found these videos that this Indian housewife has made of all these different dishes, that are really helpful and fun. It's also cool because she's a vegetarian, so everything she makes is vegetarian, which is good because it'll force me to eat better. I've always thought that being a vegetarian is really hard except for Indian cuisine, because everything is so tasty and there are so many different ways to prepare it that it doesn't get old (as opposed to having salad constantly or veggie sandwiches, etc.). Still, if I'm serious about cooking more Indian food I'll need to invest in a pressure cooker, because cooking lentils/daal will take way too long without one. Aaaand I just ordered one on Amazon. Do any of you have or use pressure cookers? What else do you make in them besides daal? :P
So that's good when it comes to the Aspirational Jeans Diet. What's not so good for the AJD is that for the first time in months and months, I tried to use my treadmill yesterday. Unfortunately, sometime in the long winter months, something happened where now the buttons don't work. It turns on, it recognizes the iFit card when I put it in, but when I hit Start (and every other button), it doesn't work. Sigh. So now I have like a 500-lb paperweight (or however much it weighs). I guess I have to call the NordicTrack people, though a friend is like, don't call them yet, let me take a look first. And I'm like, you don't know anything about treadmills! And he's like, well I'll at least poke around for more than just 20 minutes! And I'm like, fine, I'll let you poke around until you get frustrated with it and then I'll just end up calling them anyway! And he's like, fine!
What a bummer. I can't recall, when I lost all that weight before, how much exercising I did. I think it was mostly portion control and eating better, but was it also walking a lot? I can't remember. If it was the latter it would have been when I was living in my condo, and walking around there is a lot easier than where I live now, which doesn't have nice paved sidewalks on the thoroughfare that my street connects to. Sigh.
I've always been into Indian food, but I think I'm going to be cooking it more often. I have nearly all the myriad of spices that the cuisine uses by now, and I found these videos that this Indian housewife has made of all these different dishes, that are really helpful and fun. It's also cool because she's a vegetarian, so everything she makes is vegetarian, which is good because it'll force me to eat better. I've always thought that being a vegetarian is really hard except for Indian cuisine, because everything is so tasty and there are so many different ways to prepare it that it doesn't get old (as opposed to having salad constantly or veggie sandwiches, etc.). Still, if I'm serious about cooking more Indian food I'll need to invest in a pressure cooker, because cooking lentils/daal will take way too long without one. Aaaand I just ordered one on Amazon. Do any of you have or use pressure cookers? What else do you make in them besides daal? :P
So that's good when it comes to the Aspirational Jeans Diet. What's not so good for the AJD is that for the first time in months and months, I tried to use my treadmill yesterday. Unfortunately, sometime in the long winter months, something happened where now the buttons don't work. It turns on, it recognizes the iFit card when I put it in, but when I hit Start (and every other button), it doesn't work. Sigh. So now I have like a 500-lb paperweight (or however much it weighs). I guess I have to call the NordicTrack people, though a friend is like, don't call them yet, let me take a look first. And I'm like, you don't know anything about treadmills! And he's like, well I'll at least poke around for more than just 20 minutes! And I'm like, fine, I'll let you poke around until you get frustrated with it and then I'll just end up calling them anyway! And he's like, fine!
What a bummer. I can't recall, when I lost all that weight before, how much exercising I did. I think it was mostly portion control and eating better, but was it also walking a lot? I can't remember. If it was the latter it would have been when I was living in my condo, and walking around there is a lot easier than where I live now, which doesn't have nice paved sidewalks on the thoroughfare that my street connects to. Sigh.
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Date: 2009-05-11 07:57 pm (UTC)They also opened up Mayuri in northern Bothell, which is closer to you. Right across the street from it is Om Home Foods, which is also new, but I went in there the other day and apparently they're remodeling so they won't be opening up again until next month.
I am sure there has to be at least one such store in Everett though!