preparation

I'm making this apple tart for the dinner party tonight, to have after the batata vadas and dosas and pressure-cooked rice. I just made the dough for the tart, and I am already excited about the eating we will be doing.

avgolemono

I made Greek-style egg lemon soup today. I used vegetable broth instead of chicken, of course, and I added some chopped green onions. I also had a higher egg-to-broth ratio than that recipe calls for, because I like it to be really thick. It was delicious! I think I would have liked it with more orzo, but I am the kind of person who likes it when lentil-barley soup turns into just lentil-barley after a day in the fridge because there is so much barley all the broth gets soaked up. I also had artichokes with lemon-butter-garlic sauce. It was a very lemony dinner.

I'd put up a picture, but my camera is broken. Looks like the camera I want is coming down in price, though, so maybe I will get it before I go to the Mundial. I'm pretty excited about that and I'd love to be able to take pictures.

kids

I'm reading The Namesake. The main character is born in the first chapter, and grows up throughout the book. I have just reached the point in the book where he finishes college, so all my reading today has been about his childhood. What struck me is that, for most of the part of childhood that they can think and remember about later, kids don't seem to really like their parents. In the book he doesn't seem to like his parents past kindergarten or so, and now that he's graduated from college he is only just warming up to them. It made me think of my own parents.

Most people I know have had times when they didn't get along with their parents. Some people had good reasons, but mostly it was because they were annoying and not cool, or because parents tell children what to do and what not to do, and young adults continue to hold it against them. I am kind of ashamed of having been, like all other children, pretty selfish when I was young. I probably could have been nicer.