Welcome back to Links! You get a special morning edition today.
Over the weekend, we braved the Saturday crowd at our local H-Mart. I grabbed supplies to make rosé tteokbokki. It was so good! Highly recommend the linked recipe.
Have you tried any new recipes lately that turned out amazing?
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Shoutout to Malaraa for posting about this in the SBTB Patreon Discord! One of the oldest surviving operas by a Black composer will be played for the first time.
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Denali Foxx, a drag queen who appeared on the thirteenth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is a talented figure skater. There’s a whole playlist of Denali interviewing other drag performers while on ice.
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In a small, British town, a plate of peeled bananas appear on the same street corner on the second day of the month. I am fascinated.
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Author Jae recently was part of a virtual event on sapphic fiction and community building. You can watch it here.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Re:opera. I watched Edmund Dédé’s Morgaine last Friday. The UMD performing arts center had a live stream. Unsurprisingly, the actual plot was more than a little dated and a bit problematic in places. But the music was great! Immediately appealing. Written in 1887, this definitely sounds like a Romantic Era piece in absolutely the best way. So tuneful. And, in the best tradition of opera, the plotting is completely over-the-top. The final act’s plot twist is completely predictable and advertised loudly in the first act because opera. Highly recommend!
Here’s a very easy recipe for a Thai condiment that I make about twice a week. We use it on rice, salmon , eggs etc. You can increase the heat level as desired.
https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/prik-nam-pla/#recipe
Since I retired, I started experimenting with Asian cuisine recipes and This is my favourite site for Thai food.
Really great links this week! Thank you!
In the banana story I like that the person who put up the sign that failed to prevent their appearance was relatively chill about it.
I made Chinese almond cookies-they’re just like the ones you get in the restaurant. The recipe is from King Arthur Baking, their recipes have never disappointed me.
I was really hoping the BBC did a stake out or at least hid a trail camera to get to the bottom of the banana mystery. Alas, I fear this is yet another sign that journalism really is dead.
Just a heads up for Kindle users who use the usb transfer download option, Amazon is removing that option February 26th. Be sure to backup your purchases before that date.