Leftovers #178
New routines: wake up at 5am to work, take Len to daycare, grab groceries from the farmer’s market, maybe catch a yoga class taught by an old friend, drink coffee, drink smoothies, pick up Len from daycare, play at the park, make dinner, eat at 6pm, read on the sofa, fall asleep by 8.30am.
Haven’t been drinking at all, and then had a glass of red at happy hour watching the ice melt on the lake. Made all the sweeter knowing it was probably going to be the only one of the holiday and the fact it washed down a big bowl of truffle parm fries with caesar dip.
One more week of mountain living and spending time with my god daughter and willing the baby to arrive whilst I’m still here and smoothies in the morning and seeing the white peaks in the distance and eating salads on repeat.
Good things to consume (bodily)
Could basically live off the salad we’ve been eating on repeat: kale, pomegranate, feta, avocado and quinoa with a sweet sesame dressing: sesame oil, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar and honey. Perfect with salmon: one big fillet diced into cubes and coated with 1/2 tbsp white miso, 2 tsp soy sauce, 1/2 tbsp maple syrup and the juice of 1/4 pink grapefruit!
Made us Clare de Boer’s chickpea soffrito which is a perfect way to spend a day – simmering a pound of chickpeas with a floury potato and carrot tops and garlic and onion skins for hours; then frying the soffrito until it’s soft and a little caramelised, then blitzing a third of the soup and leaving the rest chunky.
A reminder that pink grapefruit left in the fridge and eaten cold in the morning is elite.
A lot of frittatas going on over here – packed with greens and a thai basil pesto that I’m obsessed with – pine nuts, thai basil, lemongrass, ginger, parmesan and chilli. It works, trust me! But when in doubt, a big Spanish-style tortilla.
A bunch of healthy things I’ve saved to make whilst I’m here includes:
Carrot and pomegranate salad because here we eat our skincare
Miso salmon and brown rice bowls but with orange and fennel
Jjimdak, which is a delicious Korean braised chicken and noodle dish
Creamy miso noodles with tofu and lots of veg
Hetty Lui McKinnon’s roasted carrots and chickpeas over salty yoghurt
And in the same vein, one-pot chicken with beans and fennel
Dustin made this tomato brothy bean situation and it was so healing, I need to repeat.
Also, nothing has spoken to me more than this:
Good things to consume (culturally)
“We’ve been conscious of each other for 65 years,” opens this 11 minute short documentary about Judith and Bob, two artists who have been together since the 70s. The filmmaker, Joshua Charow, has been documenting artists living in these types of loft spaces in New York for years. He perfectly captures their intimacy of existing and creating together. Makes me wanna fall in love.
Saw this video and looked up the Toni Morrison lines from Jazz about rising, not falling love.
“Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that’s the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.”
A reminder to anyone who hasn’t watched Sentimental Value yet to do so! Here’s a good Stellan Skarsgard profile in The New York Times about his experience with the role.
An insight into wild oyster fishing on the River Fal via Huck Magazine.
I saved watching Tell Me Lies until I was in Canada and all I can say that hating Stephen is so much better in community. Ky and I spend most of the episode staring at each other in disbelief, then I spend the rest of the episode telling her to not to talk to me when Alex is on screen because he’s exactly the type of guy I would fancy in college.
Dream State by Eric Puchner is the first book I’ve inhaled like that in a while. I’m about 100 pages from the end and can confidently say it’s my favourite new book I’ve read in the past year. It spans 50 years and perspective bounces between parents and kids, LA and Montana, where the complications of relationships over time unfolds with heart-crushing reality.
Great session of post-rock band They Are Gutting A Body Of Water on NTS Radio. Sometimes you just need a hit of lo-fi shoegaze noise rock.
Omg this Thai basil pesto sounds incredible!!! Going to try it asap