another saturday, another weekly anniversary to celebrate.
the calf soreness has pretty much gone away, so felt safe going to the
track. after a lengthy warm-up, ran two miles in 19:50. that's over two
minutes faster than last week's time, yet managed to keep the heart
rate unchanged. calf(s) still feel good, so i'm going to decide the pain
was caused by the stress of too much bouncy running, rather than
going forward running. [pre-op time 14:50, young guy time 12:20]
and the cheese ball? oh, yeah. i made cheese. this morning used 2 liters
of water buffalo milk and made a lovely ball of mozzarella. tough getting
the milk out of the bottles (i thought they'd given me yogurt!). the 18.44%
fat content made a thick creamy plug had to dig out with a knife. have
saved the leftover whey to make ricotta cheese on the morrow. another
forum provided a recipe for manicotti, so ricotta is useful for something
other than massage oil.
but this was strange. when i bought the swamp cow juice, it came in
200ml bottles at 3 RMB each. a 1.5L plastic jug is 38 RMB. doing the
math, the equivalent (7-1/2 bottles) in the little glass bottles is 22.50!
so they're charging 15.50 for a disposable plastic jug? they don't know
they're supposed to discount for higher volumes? they charge less,
although they have to collect, transport, and wash (hopefully) all them
little bottles? the salesgirl couldn't understand why i wanted so much
milk. when i said to make cheese, she said she'd never tasted it before.
the calf soreness has pretty much gone away, so felt safe going to the
track. after a lengthy warm-up, ran two miles in 19:50. that's over two
minutes faster than last week's time, yet managed to keep the heart
rate unchanged. calf(s) still feel good, so i'm going to decide the pain
was caused by the stress of too much bouncy running, rather than
going forward running. [pre-op time 14:50, young guy time 12:20]
and the cheese ball? oh, yeah. i made cheese. this morning used 2 liters
of water buffalo milk and made a lovely ball of mozzarella. tough getting
the milk out of the bottles (i thought they'd given me yogurt!). the 18.44%
fat content made a thick creamy plug had to dig out with a knife. have
saved the leftover whey to make ricotta cheese on the morrow. another
forum provided a recipe for manicotti, so ricotta is useful for something
other than massage oil.
but this was strange. when i bought the swamp cow juice, it came in
200ml bottles at 3 RMB each. a 1.5L plastic jug is 38 RMB. doing the
math, the equivalent (7-1/2 bottles) in the little glass bottles is 22.50!
so they're charging 15.50 for a disposable plastic jug? they don't know
they're supposed to discount for higher volumes? they charge less,
although they have to collect, transport, and wash (hopefully) all them
little bottles? the salesgirl couldn't understand why i wanted so much
milk. when i said to make cheese, she said she'd never tasted it before.
