Castle Combe

Dreams of English villages part 2.

Apparently it's one of the top 10 most picturesque villages? Very quaint...only 2 streets haha.

I will always be in admiration of their gardening skills. In fact I found this one stockist for a particular brand of Japanese knifes in a random rural location...and the shop turns out to primarily sell landscaping shears.

Lacock

Dreams of English villages part 1.

Stop 1: Talbot Photography Museum, where film processing was invented!

 Vintage camera galore

These prints (actually daguerreotypes, which was not invented by Talbot) made me realize why people always talk about how amazing metallic paper is.

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Stop 2: Lacock Abbey, a prime example of medieval convent

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Stop 3: ice cream against my better judgement (its raining and cold) but I'm a sucker for local products

Honestly it was too cold to tell how good this is, but nostalgia points for eating with a wooden paddle.

grill

Next in the soup series: zuppa toscana via Budget Bytes

with Bertinet Bakery baguette, which is not that much more expensive than grocery store bread 

This soup taught me to love cream soup and appreciate smoked paprika, so much so that I added another pinch near the end. Other modifications I've made include adding thyme and rosemary since my sausages aren't Italian, using sweet cabbage because that was literally the only non-lettuce greens that my local co-op sold (ugh their produce section is so disappointing), and using half water half whole milk. I should've reserved the whole milk until the end and just add it to warm up, I foolishly added it at the beginning so it curdled while the soup simmered for a long time so the beans can soften. I'm also disappointed in these dried beans from Sainsbury, they never even approach a creamy texture. But despite all that, a yummy and comforting soup.

run for the hills

Chugging away at assignments so I can leave for Italy early. I did well on the report for my first course so hopefully this motivation will last, especially since Integrated Design is what I imagine the combined capstone with architecture would be.

roots

Daylight >> fighting with artificial lighting, I do wish my window sill is just a tad bit wider so I can avoid the frame.

The status of lentils in /r/cheaphealthyeats is like how CDBs were circle jerked in /r/MFA back when I first discovered the subreddit. This is by no means an insult because I am / was completely in agreement.

Lentils via Matters of the Belly (I love how her recipes include warming spices, the cinnamon here is very tasty), peas via thekitchn.
The pairing with beets and radish is neutral, I usually eat the beets at the beginning since I love their earthy sweetness, why have I not been eating them, smh. Radish...is something I'm still getting use to, because I want to feel chic by smearing some outrageous butter on a lengthwise halved radish and sprinkling some flakey sea salt from a Brittany village on top (one day I'll visit Brittany, one day!).

quarter

It'll take some getting use to sun setting at 4pm "orz

A rare time when I like the results from my phone moreso than my camera. The phone picked up the stains on the window which adds a textural interest to the sky.

taking my time

I know of Logic through Jeff explaining his Rick and Morty appearance, he's pretty cool:


A hopeful song to accompany report writing.