I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

I didn’t watch a single episode of Korean drama today
And it’s certainly good to watch TV shows in English again. We had a lazy weekend, but we mostly spent it out, except for 2 hours in the afternoon when we came home to drop stuff off and I invariably had to have a nap. I’m a voracious napper. It’s a symptom of being an escapist. Napping is a great escape – a short reprieve, with the prospect of a good time in dreamland.

I set out to make Lephet Thoke yesterday, and ended up with a mess in the kitchen. I can’t imagine what the difference was – the lephet we had in SF just seemed crunchier and didn’t carry that bitter aftertaste (or weird smell) that I found with the lephet from yesterday. And after all the trouble of preparing the peanuts, and toasting the sesame seeds (which I managed to mess up). Not pretty. It’s now sitting in the fridge waiting for a very hungry KF to finish. I can’t bear to open the other 2 packs of lephet yet. The smell is still putting me off. I wonder if it needs to be boiled again or something.

And it took me a day to get rid of the smell of roasted peanuts in the house. It was good for the first ten minutes, then it got really annoying. I have to say those Ikea candles are really handy.

Today was slightly better, I made soba instead. Meidi-Ya is full of fun food buys, like Shiitake Mushroom broth, soba and dashi.

Here’s some trivia of the day: what’s the difference between jam, jelly, preserves and conserves?

Jam’s a spreadable fruit thingey. The British/Eurpoeans make a filtered, and unfiltered variety.

Jelly is American for a jam that’s made of a translucent fruit.

Preserves are jams with large fruit chunks in them. Obviously not filtered.

Conserves are preserves with a few contrasting variety of fruit in them.

And Marmalade is jam made from citrus fruit.

There we go – another mystery solved by Wikipedia.

Have a good week, and Happy Independance Day, America.