I need a bigger home

It is nice and sunny so I walked down to the bookstore to browse. Today's shopping was a crapshoot of "Oh, I have no idea if it's good, but I'll grab it."

The additions to the bulging bookshelves: Lawrence Norfolk "The Pope's Rhinoceros" (sometimes you buy based on the name), David Sedaris "Me Talk Pretty One Day", Katsuki Sekida "Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy", Robert Aitken "The Mind of Clover", and Kakuzo Okakura "The Book of Tea" (it's a book of tea!). Most of them are skinny little books, but the rhino weighs in at 600 pages.

would you like some cheese with that?

Since cyberquail led the way and told me how, today I tried my hand at making paneer. My first batch came out quite well despite the fact that I didn't quite get the milk to a full boil. It was very close though and if I'd let it boil my pot wouldn't have been big enough.

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Makes a fist sized chunk of cheese.

Tonight it'll be pakoras.