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Alan Mascord Design. Via House Plans and More.

fall & winter essentials for you

hi tumblr want to hear a story :)

absolutely not

lol sucks to be u then, ok so: 2 weeks ago I found an eggplant recipe for Miso Glazed Grilled Japanese Eggplant and it looked amazing, and I wanted to make it authentically so I had to go several towns over to buy the eggplants from a specialty international grocery story (I needed a more slender variety of eggplant not available at my local store) and also I had to buy sake and mirin etc but finally I had sourced all the ingredients needed for the Eggplant Recipe so last night I prepared the Miso Eggplant Glaze and heated up the grill and I grilled those goddamn eggplants and the eggplants were DELICIOUS, soft and succulent and flavorful, I grilled a damn good eggplant if i say so myself, and I wish that was the end of the story but there is an an epilogue i.e. it turns out I am allergic to eggplant so I have spent the last 18 hours sleeping & vomiting

#but the experience reminded me that despair is a fundamental component of the human condition and so lurks at every corner  #truly even when Despair seems distant it is never further than the distance between a cliff's edge and the ground waiting below #which in theory may be many miles but in practice is always within the reach of seconds

"oh you poor dear are you okay?" asked NO ONE as the comment section filled up with requests for the recipe. Screw ya'll

Art by Sofia Verigina

It doesn’t tell you how to prepare tofu here, but if you’re using firm or extra firm tofu (as opposed to silken), you’ll get a better result if you press the water out first. I tend to put a clean tea towel, folded in half, down in the bench/counter, then put the block of tofu on it, then another folded tea towel, and then some weight. A big heavy cookbook or two is handy, or maybe a chopping board and a few tins/cans placed directly on the board. You can leave it to press while you chop your other ingredients, then chop/cube the tofu.

You’ll find that the tofu will pick up the flavours of the spices or sauce much better if you take the time to press the water out of it first.

Aurora borealis captured by Matt Robinson, on Senja island, Norway (22/11/2020)

I now understand why people thought that there was gods just chillin’ up there

Katharine Hepburn photographed in her driveway by John Bryson | 1985