fub

We’ll be moving in less than three weeks. Packing-wise, we’re in good shape, though there are of course still a lot of things left to pack. The renovation project for the new house is also progressing nicely — but there are a lot of details still to fill in and work to do. Some things will have to wait until after the move, but we should be able to live there with a bit of improvisation left and right.

We’ve sold the ‘old’ house, and the official transfer will be two weeks after our move, so we still have some time to clean it up and to get rid of anything we don’t want to take with us after all.

As more and more reports come in of extension authors not publishing on wordpress.org anymore, or even taking their plugins away from there, it is clear that the WordPress ecosystem is showing more and more cracks. Therefore, conversion of this blog to a static blog powered by Hugo are continuing, but I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it — there are some things I’ll have to add myself to the site, such as comments and the likes. It doesn’t help that I insist on hosting everything myself, without any external dependencies — but that’s part of the fun.

For some reason, cooking features quite prominently in most of the manga I am reading. One of those, Shinmai Shimai no Futari Gohan, features recipes at the end of every chapter with instructions on how to make the thing that the characters cooked in that chapter. I heartily recommend their pudding recipe — it’s certainly a lot easier and faster than the recipe I used before. And let’s face it: pudding is just a protein shake that’s been steamed!

Another fun thing I do is to see if there are vegetarian or vegan options for things I’d usually use meat for. Sometimes the approach is obvious and you’d just use a meat replacement, like for minced meat. But sometimes there’s a way to prepare something that unexpectedly turns out to be similar to meat, which opens up new applications. In that category is the recipe for shredded tofu that produces something that is, indeed, similar to shredded chicken and can be used as such. We’ve been eating it in wraps, and it’s so good! I season it with salt, pepper, smoked paprika, onion and garlic powders. I highly recommend it.