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[coraa]

First: Last night we went to see Living Dead in Denmark (the action sequel to Hamlet, no really), which is probably the first, last and only time I will be able to use this icon and have it be totally appropriate. It was excellent good times -- cracky, off-the-wall awesome. I mean, when you have an all-girl badass zombie-fighting squad consisting of Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and Juliet, how can you go wrong? Plus the martial arts sequences -- of which there were a great many, this being firmly of the B-movie genre despite not being a movie -- kicked serious butt. If you're in or near Seattle, hey, it runs another week!

Second: It is Too Hot. 94F today, what the hell, Seattle?

Third: Despite the heat, we went to the University District Street Fair, which is running today and tomorrow. Ate fair food (kebabs, piroshky, and strawberry crepes), browsed the booths, admired hippy soaps and candles, contemplated jewelry, and bought a wood-and-bead hair-fork thingy, which was a lifesaver for getting my hair off my neck. It also made me contemplate making one of my own, since it was basically a simple two-prong wooden hairstick/fork, but pierced at one end and hung with beads, but it both held my hair up admirably and looked pretty good doing it. If I could find a fork like that, I could make use of some of the beads I have lying around....

Fourth: If we're up for it, tomorrow is the Seattle Cheese Festival. In addition to the obvious benefits (OMG CHEESE), there are cooking demonstrations, which I love, and a mozarella-making demo too. Boo yah.

Fifth: There is no fifth. Actually, there is -- I'm making a loaf of sour cream bread (recipe courtesy James Beard, I'll tell you how it comes out) in the breadmaker. What I really want is sourdough, but that's not the kind of thing you can do spur-of-the-moment unless you already have a batch of starter, which I don't. I should probably start one, but I'm not sure whether I want to a) do a basic sourdough starter that begins with commercial yeast, b) do a slighty more complicated sourdough starter using wild yeast -- which I haven't managed successfully yet (my one attempt turned to vinegar) but which sounds pretty cool, or c) split the difference and buy sourdough starter from one of the places that sells it pre-made and already alive (you can even pick what sourdough 'region' you want, though of course if I used a San Francisco starter here, it would gradually be colonized by Seattle wild yeasts). Also, it probably doesn't make sense to start a serious sourdough project before moving (which is I guess an argument for a), unless I want to shlep a shoggoth with me....

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[morganlf.livejournal.com]

K. (bellwethr) went to the cheese festival today and really enjoyed it! He saw one of the demos and thought it was cool.

P.S. K. has made starter before if you need any questions answered!

P.P.S. When I move up to Seattle, I get to meet you, right?

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! Yeah, I'm definitely hoping we're up for cheese festival-ing (and that it's a little cooler tomorrow... though admittedly the Market is at least shadier than University Avenue.)

P.S. Yay. It'd be useful to have someone to bounce questions off of.

P.P.S. I certainly hope so! :D

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

The cheese festival was awesome, but really crowded when I showed up (around 2pm). There were two modes of behavior for festival-goers--"stand in line" and "push and shove way through the lines."

The cheeses were excellent, although I couldn't taste more than 20 or so.... In addition to the mozzarella demo, which was cool, the burrata demo is also excellent. I've been wanting to make my own cheese for a while now---seeing the demo may be the impetus I was waiting for!

BTW, the thought of a shoggoth starter is pretty amusing.... amorphous pseudopods of yeast...