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Here is a thing that I love:

A Taxonomy of Cheese Sandwiches

Recipe: Potstickers

First, via Making Light, an interesting talk on Where do people find the time?. As Patrick Nielsen Hayden summarizes, it's about "gin, television, the 'cognitive surplus,' and the true answer to the annoying question in the title..." I nodded a lot, also: grinned. Video, worksafe.

Second, a recipe. Potstickers, or gyoza, or jiaozi, or pan-fried wonton things. Technically, gyoza/jiaozi are made with a different dough than wonton skins, but wonton skins are readily available to me, so I use them. I make no claim as to authenticity at all, but they taste good.

( Potstickers )

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Massive bookstore spoils today. Lots of manga, lots of YA fiction, lots of books-for-girls of both types. Including (but not limited to): Kaori Yuki's Godchild 1 & 2, Gallagher & Caston's Megatokyo 1-4, Lois Bujold's Sharing Knife: Legacy, Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic 1-4, Tim Powers' Anubis Gates, Tou Ubukata's Le Chevalier d'Eon 1 & 2, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. (I wanted to get the second Cantarella, but they didn't have it, though they had every other book; someone else must've pulled it recently. Next time.)

Tonight: I write a bit, see if I can finish this story up, and then take a pile of comfort reading and a cup of hot chocolate into a rose-scented bath with me as a reward. Mmm....