phad thai, Chladni quilt
Feb. 16th, 2003 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eubMade phad thai, using our wok!, from my new cookbook. Except that it called for distilled white vinegar, which I just couldn't come to terms with, so I substituted tamarind liquid. I should try it with the boring vinegar as a control, though.
It was tasty. I have to work on my lumps-of-egg technique. More time-consuming than it seems, with the various chopping and futzing, but would be quicker with pre-reconstituted tamarind (or of course vinegar), or with tofu instead of chicken.
It's impressive how nam pla improves so much in palatability through blending and cooking. Maybe now I can be brave enough to use the fermented shrimp paste.
Next up: phad kee mao.
Wouldn't these colored Chladni patterns make a pretty quilt? I don't remember how the a square's Chladni patterns are indexed, but I would like to arrange the quilt with the zero mode in the center, increasing frequencies towards the edges. Something visually like this (using (with repetition) arbitrary patterns findable on the web).
Eric J. Heller's colors are pretty. I'd be inclined to arrange them so that hot colors mean regions of the plate that advance when the excitation source advances, and cool colors mean regions that recede.
His gallery has other nice stuff too.
It was tasty. I have to work on my lumps-of-egg technique. More time-consuming than it seems, with the various chopping and futzing, but would be quicker with pre-reconstituted tamarind (or of course vinegar), or with tofu instead of chicken.
It's impressive how nam pla improves so much in palatability through blending and cooking. Maybe now I can be brave enough to use the fermented shrimp paste.
Next up: phad kee mao.
Wouldn't these colored Chladni patterns make a pretty quilt? I don't remember how the a square's Chladni patterns are indexed, but I would like to arrange the quilt with the zero mode in the center, increasing frequencies towards the edges. Something visually like this (using (with repetition) arbitrary patterns findable on the web).
Eric J. Heller's colors are pretty. I'd be inclined to arrange them so that hot colors mean regions of the plate that advance when the excitation source advances, and cool colors mean regions that recede.
His gallery has other nice stuff too.
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Date: 2003-02-17 10:50 am (UTC)I have too many quiltlike projects already, dammit. Probably some will get killed off once I finish the sweater, though, hmm. Your idea for color assignment is sensible, but visually I think I'd want the colors to be less clashy. Maybe something could be done with patterns that were more and less dense.
Re: Hmm
Date: 2003-02-17 11:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-17 03:10 pm (UTC)Counterpoint (heh) the Chladni figure's business against that of its material, so the center would have simple figures and busy fabric? Oh, I think you're thinking fabric busyness instead of warm color. That too.
Re: Hmm
Date: 2003-02-17 03:14 pm (UTC)Tell us a story, Auntie Mh75?
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Date: 2003-02-17 03:26 pm (UTC)