I've been doing a lot of cooking with
the limited kitchen utensils that come with my apartment. For
cooking, I have a rice cooker, a one-burner electric cooker that
comes with a saucepan and boiling pan, and a kettle. That's pretty
much it. Today I made a concoction in the rice cooker that is sort
of like enchiladas without the wrappings mixed with Spanish rice, and
it's delicious. I started with rice, split peas and lentils, added a
bunch of sesame seeds, and brought to a boil with a whole bunch of
tomatoes and chilis and garlic. I also included some mushroom broth
from all the dehydrated mushrooms in the last week that I had soaked
to reconstitute. I added some canned vegan “pork” that I found in
the Lotte Mart's vegan section that is kind of the consistency of
Spam, and some reconstitutable TVP chunks. Then I added a layer of
chopped vegetables, including mushrooms, onions, eggplant, broccoli,
and water dropwort, and let it simmer until the veggies had softened.
Then I added some canned garbanzos and some cubed tough tofu, and
smothered the top with pasta sauce, and let it finish cooking. It was
so good I've been eating it all day, and I just finished the last of
it.
I've been making decoctions of ginger
with a little lime, to make ginger lime tea, and decoctions of
turmeric root and black pepper for a turmeric pepper tea, also with a
bit of lime. I've been making a bunch of stir fries as well. I made
a lotus seed and veggie stir-bake in the rice cooker a few days ago.
I've been making most of my own food while I have this apartment,
which is a change from the eating on the street and eating raw fruits
and nuts and one or two component ingredients I was doing while I was
on the move.
To wash dishes, I have a tiny sink in
the bathroom. It is the only sink in the apartment, and it only has
three tiny jets of water that come out of it with very high pressure,
but are a very small flow of water. If I need more flow, I can use
the showerhead that is on a hose, and is removable from a clamp that
holds it in place at shower level. The shower is not in its own
enclosure, but the whole bathroom is the shower stall. The sink has a
little swiveled disk that can be used as a sink plug; it is
rubberized on the side and fixed to the drain on a pivot that
attaches on either side of it.
The rambutans I bought the other day are getting juicier and sweeter as they ripen more. They also don't stick to the seed as much when they ripen more. I have a couple of different kinds of bananas; when I bought them, they were green, but they are ripening and will probably peak in the next couple days.
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