i have been making good on this goal. mostly in the category of culinary delight.

for example, on lunar new year, the best dumplings i ever made included:

eggplant
carrot
turnip
black mushroom
green onion
garlic
sesame seed
ginger
purple cabbage

the excess became a black and white fried rice with fried tofu wedges.

i’ve been experimenting making chocolate goods from unsweet cocoa. a really accurate hot chocolate last night: a/b’ed against a high-end new york chocolatier’s (lacking only cornstarch, apparently). and a very successful approximation of a european spread we dubbed ‘pnutella’.

two eggs, yolks broken and furikake rice seasonings cooked on ‘2’ until solid with an ever-so-slightly gelatinous surface (to approximate the texture of sushi), is my new favorite snack.

i’m on pace with two originals/ week this year.