When in doubt, cook...

Depressed again today - or not depressed, really, just deeply fed up with almost everything. So of course I went shopping, in my favourite Asian foodstore.

And came home with giant prawns and baby aubergines, with coconut milk and lemongrass and tiny limes that you can eat whole like kumquats, and a sort of squash that might be an overgrown courgette/zucchini or it might be an undergrown marrow, or just possibly something else altogether.

Also with pasta made of rice and rice made of pasta, because nothing ever should be what it seems.

So, I shall make a kind of Thai curry with all those good things, and dish it up with macaroni-shaped rice pasta, which I have decided to call risimac. And we shall see what that's like.

Baby limes!

With a wine cork for scale (but also I think some foreshortening: they're actually smaller even than they seem here. I should have put the wine-cork to the side, perhaps. We live and learn.)





And also, as today has been play-with-macro day, here's a flower:

Scaling: is this how to do it?

Baby lime, next to regular lime:





In other news, when are they going to invent the wireless transfer of pics from camera to computer? I am getting very bored of swapping the memory card in and out. (And, yes, I do remember the days when it took weeks of waiting until the film was developed and printed before you even knew what your photos looked like; but that was yesterday, and part of an old experience [and actually, the wait was a part of the process, and to be enjoyed in a kind of a way]. This is today, and a new experience, and I just want it to work more efficiently; constantly trundling up and down stairs with a teeny-tiny memory card between finger and thumb is not efficient.)