懶人菜的小撇步

蕃茄要剝皮，白菜要先煮。差一個步驟差很多。

晚上懶懶煮，超市特價的日本miso咖哩調理包，靈機一動想加進連日來乏人問津的小蕃茄。小蕃茄本身新鮮時味道應該不差，只是冰箱裡食物總是過剩，難免放到皺皮。於是把熱調理包的熱水開著（其實應該先燙小蕃茄才比較衛生），小蕃茄屁股用刀畫十字，丟進去滾一會撈起來泡冷水。其實比想像中的好剝皮。然後跟咖哩一起放微波爐中火熱一分鐘就好啦。最後灑上蔥花更棒，不過今天家裡沒有。

以前比較愛吃茄子咖哩的時候，他們蔬菜咖哩裡頭的小蕃茄也是去皮的。不但入味，口感也滑順許多。蕃茄加熱之後還有茄紅素，營養更加分。

晚上另一道受好評的菜是白菜燴豆腐。純粹是上禮拜買一顆白菜銷太慢，想盡辦法要把它吃掉。先用滾水加一角高湯塊，把白菜煮爛，而且切白菜時莖的部分要斜切，比較會吸湯汁、比較快爛。用陶瓷刀可以把莖斜切得很薄，半透明一般。然後不沾鍋放油熱豆腐（一般嫩豆腐就可以），加兩三匙綜合金針菇（日本信濃名產，玻璃罐裝，一罐$180可以用四五次），白菜放進去滾一會入味了就可以起鍋上桌。如果白菜沒先煮過，硬要跟豆腐一起煮就沒什麼味道，何況這兩個食材所需調理時間差很多啊。

煮的菜被吃光光真是有成就感。

almost gone

本來要把CD拿去回收，臨別一放又決定別丟。何時發新片啊？

趴到底的哲學

先前Berkeley那一票朋友們，鎮日吃喝玩樂享受加州陽光，玩得越兇唸書效率倒也越高，所以在我家餐桌K書的法學博士，期中考前的四月天突然說想趁春光明媚去海邊走走，也是見怪不怪，樂得搭上Prius去吹風。

大抵都念到博士班的人了，也不是不知道自己幾斤幾兩重，壓抑無理犒賞無罪，但能夠明確地分辨自己在何時何地最需要什麼，才是效率/幸福生活的關鍵。

有時覺得口譯表現跟當下的mentality是很有關的。調整腳步，就沒有犧牲，只有享受。

唉，不過我還沒考專業考咧，我是菜鳥菜鳥菜鳥～還是不要隨便說大話啊啊啊啊啊～

Sting is for rainy days

摺完衣服我要來吸地板。

While I Was Sleeping

I was in a green gown, a green cap. Disposable. Recyclable. Wearing new slippers so that my footprints would not carry or leave dirt. There was a carpet of reversed tapes at the entrance of the inner sliding door, which would lead to the operation room. In the waiting room, where I was sitting with five or six others, there was a TV. But my glasses were taken. I was almost bare. Just a green gown, a green cap, new slippers, nothing else, and soon my throat would be cut open and something be taken.

There was a refrigerator storing fresh tissues. Family or whoever accompanying the patient would be called to the window, listening to the doctor explain whether it was benign or hostile, whether it went on well. Staff were rushing in and out, chatty and sometimes melancholy.

Soon I was called. On my way I saw a small room at the corner, door wide open and vacant. Maybe the staff would nap on the sofa once in a while. Then there was another sliding door. Voila.

Immediately I was asked to lie down on the operation table. It was warm. The blanket was warm as well. It was a crowded room as I was surrounded by the anesthesiologist and at least two or three nurses. They said my trachea was not at the place where it should be. Crooked. Therefore the tube might not go very smooth. But I was more worried about lung collapse, a common side effect of general anesthesia. Anyway we didn't chat much. I was put on a mask and fell unconscious before counting to six.

An Ordinary Day

去書店。

誠品是誠品，不是書店。我喜歡去紀伊國屋，文具多一點就更好了。

買一本書像買一點期許，想像閱讀過程的快感、閱讀過後的收穫與回味。不過我乖乖看完的書實在比例上太少了，書常堆得滿地都是，像已經錯過孵化時機失溫的蛋，輕易被買主我遺忘。

花了一天時間看完1Q84，偷翻日文版第三集，啊，牛河上場--我寧願看死去的山羊。

今天微風之夜，書店會員打八折，給孩子們買好島田由佳繪本的要角玩偶。我自己一兩本遊記，食譜，還有日文口譯雜誌。短期間我想我還是只能臥遊並發夢。