Acini Di Pepe

De Cecco Pasta Acini Di Pepe Pasta

Acini De pepe refers to pasta in the shape of pepper seeds.

Acini De pepe when boiled, leftover looks like a honey comb, corn, link of laces, a pretty jewel. The pearls taste very good too.

The day I made it, I also came across cacio e pepe inspires cauliflower. Here you add many pepper seeds for spice. Usually somehting that we throw away, unless we want to plant them. I came across Banana peel cake. Sounds like an inside out day where you wear your dress the wrong way or like Superman.

Dino-Halloween (Dino-Holidays) 

This book is so much fun, who could have thought of dinos in costumes for Halloween. Usually strong animals in the dilemmas of which character to pick and giving in to the make believe of haunted homes, witches and tricks. They need help in deciding even which treat to pick. Now I know a new dinosaur - Apatosaurus.

Tartine: Revised Edition: A Classic Revisited: 68 All-New Recipes + 55 Updated Favorites

I dont usually judge a book by its cover, but in this case I had to relent.

On the bottom left are the Tartine morning buns. The revision to recipes has been done with changing tastes and times, using multi grains - einkorn ( now who knew that it was more protein that was making all purpose flour less softer than einkorn) doughnuts, matcha croissants (should have been an easy one to foresee), less sugar.

Baklava knots and wreath. Never laid my eyes on such divine things. The knots will be a hard thing to unravel in your mind, where it begins, where it ends - even for a mathematician.

Bostock. Conchas.

You can make your own Oat Digestive Biscuits, which can be used as a gluten -free base in Creamy Cheesecake.

How to make white chocolate mushrooms.

Sweet potato tea cake.

You can buy Happiness it's called a Bike

When I think of bikes to glory, it has to be the cow jumped over the moon style.

peel and place golf guides

 Swing Correcting Tool to fix Slice & Hook

Golf club carrying bags

Undust

Heart Expressions
The cracked heart
like the egg
that you drew as a
child with
matching
zig- zag edges
to make it realistic

But what is realistic
is there are some pieces
that fall down
wanted neither by
the zig
nor the zag side

is that some metal powder
should fall for the knife
to be sharp
once again

If someone were crazy about flying. getting aerial views of a city.

The Nest

Left wing
with cascading
layers
of feather tract

many down feathers
on the path
disheveled

tiny morsels of red
and
feathers
proof of a bird

So is the
chatter when you
roll your window
down at a corner
with fountains and
blooming lantana

Or the visits
to the bower plant
hiding a nest

The Chasen

Twice, we were driving on the wrong side of the road.
Being chased by a wily smiled guy.
There were two kids a boy and a girl, suddenly they were ours. we told them to run.
They opened a door. It was palatial inside. At every level of the building at the staircase landing was a person being taken care of. We were safe underground.
Assimilated in the new culture.
We went out to a fair. After an event, when the porch of a store cleared, there they were the wily guy in a wheelchair this time and his aide. As soon as I recognized him, we pushed a bundle of sticks, which fell on them in a rectangle pattern. With each push of sticks, their grave grew stronger.
The aide creeped away. The vision got foggy. I was screaming that the other one is getting away. You were gone too.

No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness 

Just like how changing a diet can have different results, if an exercise is not working out for you, switching to another activity that you like might bring the results you are hoping for.

Love the long cut idea.

Kettle Motivational Fitness Sports Bottle

Recently I read a book, Own the Day, Own your Life by Aubrey Marcus and changed my ways of drinking water. I find that the bottle with the oz markers is very helpful. I fill it to 16 oz per meal and try to finish it by the next. Even though the bottle has 20 oz marker, I go for the baby steps, its like customising the sand hour-glass for the time increments that are realistic.

This bottle below has helpful time markers too, to show you when to drink the water by. You are aware of the time in many ways, as you are always looking at it, on your phone, on your laptop. How about using that for your benefit or increasing your water intake? It likes a scheduled appointment, ensuring that it gets done.

I have now increased my water content by 1% after reading this book.




What are your techniques for ensuring that your water intake is good?

Hydrogen Water

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping by Aubrey Marcus

Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Virtues of Kettlebell - windmill, halo

Bear crawl and Ape Walk - Animal Walk exercises

Wading through life

There Are No Grown-ups A Mid-Life Coming of Age  by Pamela Druckerman

The book is summarised in chapters as -

You know you have a fortysomething body when..

"You have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times you feel a certain affection for them".

"You have Googled everyone who was ever of any importance in your life. You sometimes forget this and Google them again". For me it happens to be artists.

We want our authors to wade along with us even in age. We want our poets too, to make sense of what lies beyond the hill of the peak age.

Advice for modern men on turning 40

It is ironic that Forty is XL and 50 is L.

Commencement speech

On Aging

Being Mortal-Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

During his studies, Gawande had to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

How We Die author Sherwin Nuland writes "Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to say so. "

The Phillips Collection

The Phillips Collection  introduces many artists.
John Marin did water paints with both hands.

Own the Day, own your Life

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping by Aubrey Marcus

Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Virtues of Kettlebell - windmill, halo

Bear crawl and Ape Walk - Animal Walk exercises