Cooking, as promised

You saw the picture yesterday.  It's tofu keema, and the recipe is here.  I'd like to say that it was just as good leftover as fresh, but I can't.  My dear carnivorous husband ('that's not food, that's what food eats!) ate all of it last evening for supper.  He even put it on brown rice and topped it with plain yogurt, the same way I like it.

I really like allrecipes.com as a source for recipes.  One feature I'm especially fond of is their ingredient search.  I found the keema recipe through a search for 'tofu' and 'ginger' after realizing those were 2 foods I've been craving lately.

On the needles: the entrelac scarf that may be mine.  I'm really liking it, despite the inconsitencies in the yarn.  A friend told me once that you really need to knit handspun to see its character.  She's been proven right over and over as I watch less than perfect yarn turn into something lovely, where all the little 'mistakes' disappear into the final item.

Accountability:  Here's the latest proof that I'm working at making my life neater and simpler.  It's the pile of stuff that accumulated by the front door, where I dump my backpack every day when I come home from work.   I've gotten it down to the backpack and one bag containing a current knitting project or two, some personal reading, and usually my Ipod.  Eventually I'd like to find a place for this somewhere.  Right now my phone lives in the bedroom on the dresser, next to my pager.  My Ipod wanders aroud, often ending up on the charger in the living room.  My keys go on the key rack next to the front door, or else I lose them.  My wallet is either in a coat pocket or in the pants I wore that day.  And most days I run out the door without at least one of those items and have to run back in to get it.  If they all lived together, maybe I wouldn't forget them so often.

I'm particularly proud that a very old sweatshirt, with ragged collar and cuffs, and food stains is now outside in the garbage bin.  I've tried to get rid of it before, but always grabbed it back when I needed something warm to wear and didn't care that it looked really ratty.  But now it's gone for real.