What I’ve been reading, watching, making, and otherwise doing for the past month!
In September, I didn’t have a ton of free time… and I spent most of that limited free time just watching videos and playing The Sims, TBH. September was a strange month for me, full of extreme highs and extreme lows. I’m tired.
Books + Media | Arts + Crafts | Food + Health
Books + Media
Finished
Books
- Audiobook — Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
- Book series — Goredd duology by Rachel Hartman, 2012–2015
Seraphina, Shadow Scale
Media
- Movie — The Bank Job starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, 2008
- Animated series — LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy produced by Disney+, voiced by Bobby Moynihan, Gaten Matarazzo, Tony Revolori, and Marsai Martin, 2024
In progress
Books
- Audiobook — Tevye the Milkman by Sholem Aleichem, 1894
- Book — Arabian Nights by anon. and transl. by Antoine Galland and Edward William Lane, ed. by Muhsin al-Musawi, circa 900
Media
- YouTube series — Ranked with Babish starring Andrew Rea at Babish Culinary Universe, 2024–TBD
Reviewed
- Feminist Cross-Stitch by Stephanie Rohr (Nonfiction)
- A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner (Fiction, Graphic novel)
- The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Fiction)
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Fiction)
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (Children’s fiction, Audiobook)
- The Owl Service by Alan Garner (Children’s fiction, Audiobook)
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Children’s fiction, Audiobook)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Children’s fiction, Audiobook)
- Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Poetry)
- Poems and Fragments by Sappho (Poetry)
Arts + Crafts
Nothing this month!
Food + Health
Finished
Cooking
- Cookbook cook-thru project – Tasting History by Max Miller, 2023
Nyumen - Cookbook cook-thru project – The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt, 2015
Green risotto with mushrooms - Cookbook cook-thru project – Methodist Morsels by the FUMC of Lamesa, Texas, 1983
Artichoke-cheese squares by Mary Lane Peterson - Cookbook cook-thru project – Holiday Entertaining magazine special ed., 2018
Pear upside-down cake by Karen DeMasco - Magazine clippings cook-thru project
Three-ingredient pretzel bites from Good Housekeeping magazine, recipe by Susan Westmoreland
- Egyptian barley salad from America’s Test Kitchen: Best-Ever Salads special ed.
- Wheat berry salad with figs and goat cheese from America’s Test Kitchen: Best-Ever Salads special ed.
Of the new recipes I tried this month, I especially enjoyed both salads from America’s Test Kitchen. Grain-based salads have become my latest obsession.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the artichoke-cheese squares from Methodist Morsels. The final product wasn’t terrible, but the squares had a boring texture and just tasted like artichokes with Cheddar… like, I may as well have just had a snack plate with artichokes and Cheddar, instead of doing all the extra steps to bake them together.
Dining + Drinks
- Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015
Barolo Serra from Giovanni Rosso, 2018; Serralunga d’Alba, Piedmont, Italy - Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015
Chenin Blanc from Neethlingshof Estate, 2022; South Africa
- Dined out — Rudy & Paco in Galveston, Texas
Fitness
- Walking, 6.5 hours (16.75 miles)
Due to travel and other personal events, I did not do a lot of physical activity this month.
In progress
Cooking
- Cookbook cook-thru project – Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes by Max Miller, 2023
- Cookbook cook-thru project – The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt, 2015
- Cookbook cook-thru project – Methodist Morsels by the Cookbook Committee of the First United Methodist Church of Lamesa, Texas, 1983
- Cookbook cook-thru project – Bon Appétit + Gourmet Holiday Entertaining from Condé Nast Special Editions, 2018
- Magazine clippings cook-thru project
Dining + Drinks
- Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015
Fitness
- TBD
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