Whew.

The last few days have been full. I started a nukadoko bed; it used 2 bags of rice bran, almost a kilo, and an assortment of chilis, garlic, and ginger. I've made it a habit so far to stir it twice a day.

I failed to stay off of solid food for Lent. I was just feeling shattered; I don't think I was getting enough food, even though I was drinking several keto chow shakes and several protein shakes a day. Doing as much cardio as I'm doing makes it difficult to keep up. Today, I biked a bit over 70 kilometers; I was towing a trailer the entire time. I made it to a large Korean grocery store and bought (among other things) glutinous rice and nuruk, with which I can try to make makgeolli. After I left the store and loaded up my trailer, I stopped to eat an apple, a chocolate bar, and a bottle of kombucha. Rarely in my life has food tasted so good or disappeared so fast. I also got several internally geared bicycle hubs; most of them are sturmey-archer AWs. I went for a walk after getting home today to get my steps in; I picked up some photos I had printed to send to my grandmother. It amazes me that I live in a world where someone could take a high-resolution picture and have it printed out for someone else on the other side of the world in under an hour for less than a dollar.

My black garlic experiment has failed. The slow cooker either turned itself off or was turned off. Even after only a day of cooking, it closely resembled baked garlic. I'm going to try again, and I'm also considering trying the same basic technique with other things. Shallots, for example; what would they taste like after an incredibly long, slow maillard treatment? Perhaps ginger.

Anyway, tomorrow I'll put in a large batch of soybeans to soak. Thursday will be a day to steam them (which should be a more efficient use of water than boiling them), crushing them. and making blocks to be aired out.