Break-time
Posted by: Fats in: Fats, Vitamins & Minerals > Wala langMonday I managed to visit my mom, see how everyone was doing. Pretty good. 
Although I wish that they’d clear the house up a bit to bring more sunlight in. One day I will need to get all my junk out too. In our own apartment it could get rather dark because of all the trees around us, which however provide cool shade during the scorching summer and some protection against winds during the typhoon seasons.
I’ve just started crocheting another hat - pink and red-violet colors - not very nice but I just want to use the few more scrap yarn left here. The colors I made for my friend are nicer, especially the golden brown one.
And, having finished the pink and gray crocheted blouse a few days ago, I wore it Monday to show my mom. Below is a photo with Alwin and Edward.
I think I started work on this crocheted blouse early January. With my very slow pace of work it takes me about 2 months to finish projects of this type. Anyway, I’m never in a hurry, and there are lots of other things to do…
Like soya beans. I’m experimenting with them now, maybe try make something that comes between soya paste and tofu. Trevor got me a book several months ago, The Book of Tofu, written in the 70s, which praised tofu as a miracle protein source, cheap and abundant. But for some twisted interests, soya is now expensive “well-ness” lifestyle food - at least here in this Americanized part of the region. Thank goodness taho is still relatively cheap, but the market is full of expensive milk (majority imported), in spite of the fact that most Asians are lactose intolerant. So, for the lactose intolerant, they are selling soya as milk substitute, and therefore places it in the expensive “health food” and “organic” category.
But enough of that. Soy beans are still inexpensive. I soaked them in water overnight and they exuded this beautiful smell reminding me of delicious taho (but reminds Trevor of wallpaper paste!) I boiled the beans for a while and noticed the oil in the water. Now I’ve ground them with a mortar and pestle, which is really quite tedious work. Obviously, a blender would make things easier, especially if I am going to make soy puree. Maybe later, we could buy a blender although I do enjoy the pounding with the mortar and pestle - it reminds me of Ma Cho, our very good cook in Burma.
Actually, first on our list of electrical appliances to buy is a radio. Trevor’s cheap radio is hopeless - it seems to have only two modes: “off” and “loud as hell.” It would be nice to keep up with the senate investigations of the anomalous ZTE-NBN deal. We did manage to bear listening to the Tuesday hearings, and because the radio was often inaudible, I couldn’t understands what was being referred to when hey started talking about “tong pats” and “bukol.” Then after a while it dawned upon me what they meant. I laughed.
Funny - but horribly disgusting, all the corruption.
