Curry!

Today has been an interesting day.

It was deliciously fine, so I decided to take my textbooks (notice I say take, not lug; they are perfectly sized and hardly heavy, so I do not need to lug them up hills) to the Botanic Gardens and read them in the sunlight. I chose a nice seat in the sun...


Well, it looks much nicer when you sit on it anyway.

And I spent about two hours textbook reading in the sunlight. As well as watching people walk past and listening to the birds. It was a very productive hour in the end. I'd like to always do this to do my readings, but being in Wellington, I can't always trust the weather to permit me to do so. I'll just enjoy it while it lasts!


Then, this evening I attended a public lecture done by Ann Tickner. From the sounds of her introduction, she is a very esteemed scholar in the US. She talked to us about International Relations from a feminist perspective and about how feminist influences have been good in the IR realm. It was thoroughly interesting, I thought ^^

Aaaand, then I came home to cook another lovely Japanese recipe. A tofu curry.

Here's the recipe:
Ingredients (serves two)
300g tofu
150g beef
1 onion
1 carrot
4 mushrooms
a handful of beansprouts
1tsp curry powder
2 Tbsp sugar (mixed with 2 Tbsp water)
3 Tbsp sake
3 Tbsp soy sauce
3 Tbsp dashi stock (in water)
1 Tbsp tomato sauce

Basically, just cut everything up how you like it. Cook the onion in some oil, add beef. Cook. Add all the other veges and curry powder. Mix it all together so the curry powder coats everything. Add sugar (with water), sake, soy sauce, dashi and tomato stock. Cover and simmer for 5-10 minutes. And eat!

It was reeeeeally good.

Tofu is amazing.