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“Asian Beef”, the name of which tells you it’s Americanized. Turned out ok, despite including sesame oil. It probably helps that the instructions (mix 7-ingredient sauce, pour on flank steak, broil 5 min, flip, broil more) means that all the sauce falls off and burns to the broiler pan rather than cooking into the beef. Next time I think I’ll marinate it for a bit.

I do believe that’s the first time I’ve used the broiler for anything except nachos. The broiler scares me. All the flames make it seem like opening a little door into hell.

Filed by scriniary at 4:18 am under Food
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Cranberry pancakes turned out really well. Standard pancakes, with 1/3 whole wheat flour, an extra 1/2 TBSP of sugar, a bunch of cinnamon, and a lot of slightly microwaved and smushed up cranberries.

Filed by scriniary at 8:11 am under Food
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Another fabulous evening at skating club. During class they had us do figure 8s. This is much harder than it sounds. After class I pulled out some old printouts of ISI dance steps (a set of moves they make up for tests/classes) and worked on one. I’ve gotten really bad at forward outside mohawks (forward outside edge to back outside edge on the other foot).

Filed by scriniary at 7:32 am under Skating
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Oven-Braised Lentils with Sausage (Cooking Light, 11/05), with red wine instead of white. Good, fast (except for the baking). Made a lot (a pound of lentils and nearly a pound of turkey kielbasa), so it’ll be dinner all week.

Filed by scriniary at 6:42 am under Food
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Books read recently: Melusine, Master and Commander (abridged, on tape), Warprize, My Antonia (on tape).

Filed by scriniary at 4:13 am under Books
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Dunno what progressives are supposed to be. They’re a dance move. The coach kept saying “they’re not like crossovers”, which was not so helpful, since what she was doing didn’t make me think “crossover” at all.
We learned the Dutch Waltz. That’s the most basic ice dance: just progressives and swing rolls. Swing rolls I get. It’s just a stroke onto an outside edge with a swing of the leg.

After we went through the dance a few times, and I realized there’s a prescribed number of steps, not just “when you get to the end of the rink, turn”, I started paying attention to the music. Not that I could do the progressives in tempo, since I am not so clear on what they are.

After the lesson I did a bunch of very very bad spins. Eventually gave up and worked on three turns – hadn’t tried back ones in a while, but I can still do them – and backspins, which didn’t, and waltz jumps. Amused myself by seeing how many waltz jumps I could do in a row (as in, jump, land on left leg, turn and push onto right leg, jump, repeat), which turned out to be 4.

Filed by scriniary at 7:38 am under Skating
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