Entry tags:
Notes on a Gregorian year
Culinary skills acquired:
Miscellaneous other skills acquired:
- whetstone use (after a fashion)
- baby's first marmalade
- Kardemummebullar
- cheese-making! (paneer; an ambition for the next year is mozzarella)
- pasta (gosh but wrangling the machine is An Adventure)
- macarons (via the magic of Italian meringue)
Miscellaneous other skills acquired:
- finished the Duolingo Turkish tree
- seriously levelled up in hair-dying skills (including managing a pretty good rendition of this general principle on a friend with a hair type I hadn't previously bleached or dyed, but I'm also pretty pleased with a peacock-shades oil slick, and Adam's current rainbow gradient from roots to ends)
- submitted baby's first first-author paper, with Significant General Academic Progress, particularly with respect to Having Boundaries
- acquired a physio/exercise regime that works for me (and then promptly let it lapse, but having acquired the principles I can come back to them)
- substantially levelled up in technical writing on a reasonable and sustainable schedule
- so. much. emotional. regulation.
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ooooOOOOH I had not considered mascarpone but it is VERY GOOD TO KNOW that it is easy, given how much I like it in tiramisu!