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new zealand mentioned!!! oh wait

dinner: ottolenghi lemony-leek meatballs, fresh hummus warmed with paprika and charred pine nuts, chopped salad, spiced yoghurt with cukes, fresh pitas, pickled onion. Dessert of olive oil orange cake with warm blueberry coulis. Yum

Ottolenghi recipes are great although maybe it's just me but I feel like I use every single pot and bowl in my house every time I make one (1) of his things

One thing I really love in cooking is colour This was a very green meal of dry-fried chicken with green pepper, bright green choy sum, and a mountain of scallion greens

Verdict: the Dahongpao variety is super nice, milder than Hanyuan and perfect in a cold sauce for veg

something very 2026-parenting about actively encouraging my 8yo to go play Nintendo 64, since it's so much more chill/cool than modern ipad games

It's not that obscure, but I hate podcasts. All of them.

My local Chinese grocer carries five different varieties of Sichuan pepper from the same manufacturer, which is indicative of how good my local Chinese grocer is

fwiw science people, reading the news on the trade publishing newsletter, Publishers Lunch, is fascinating and well worth a subscription. You also get to find out who among us academics is dipping toes into the real publishing world 🫣

one road, not even long enough to run a marathon on, for the low low price of 42 times the entire 2027 budget for scientific research in new zealand #nzpol

Biggest-ever PPP: $3.6b Northland expressway deal signedThe 26km expressway will include twin tunnels through the Dome Valley.www.nzherald.co.nz

the brilliantly cutting, disparaging term "AI slop" is what we all arrived at informally, and now actual corporations are adopting it themselves. I love this for us

not that it matters but wordle is running out of common 5-letter words, yes?

À bit chilly so I'm inside the boat, uncharacteristically, but nonetheless, it's another great day for a ferry commute!!!!!

babe wake up, avocados have been doing two sex changes per day for forty million years

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Zero people whatsoever: Anonymous academic: yeah nah conferences are kickass places to hook up

one of the espresso things I'm still not very good at is thick enough crema + steady enough pour that you end up with just a design on a blank canvas and no other marks getting better though! practice makes perfect