This is why my kitchen is never completely clean

I was supposed to go grocery shopping and probably run some other errands today, but I apparently decided not to get dressed. Hey, I got dressed yesterday, I'll get dressed tomorrow, today it wasn't happening. So, no grocery shopping. I need to go soon, though, I am out of garlic and that is just crazy, me not having garlic to throw in everything.

Instead I worked on eating or cooking for storage yesterday's produce haul. ( It's just a lot of cooking )

I did get the queen excluder and super installed - snuck up on the hive before they were really awake, the bees were barely disturbed. Adding supers is easy, when it comes time to remove it will be another story.

Dumpling Update: Palitao

 Because obviously I haven't cooked enough today, I decided to make Flattened Rice Dumplings with Grated Coconut and Anise Sugar. Also because they sounded pretty quick to put together and I had all the ingredients (except the anise, but I don't love anise anyway).

And they did were pretty easy to make. They're just rice flour and water, formed into balls, then flattened, simmered for a few minutes, coated with coconut and sprinkled with anise sugar (which you have to make out of anise seeds and sugar, but I just skipped the anise). The dough feels a little like oobleck and it is really really white. Like, made me really aware that all-purpose flour is not really white, because this was much whiter. I've had problems with dumplings that have no binders dissolving instead of simmering, but these maintained cohesion and all floated like they were supposed to (although not after 2 minutes, more like 5). Unfortunately, I'm not sure i like the texture. I might try making a smaller batch and make smaller dumplings, I'm not sure these got cooked all the way through (though I ended up with the right number so they should be the right size. IDK). Or simmer them longer, maybe. Good to know that that works, though.