Pilaf recipe

Since sine_nomine asked for it, here's the recipe.

When I first posted this, more than a decade ago, I said it was the only recipe I could really claim as mine*. I got the basic instructions from Al Bennick, a friend of my parents', when I was in high school, after he made it for a pot-luck.[updated April 2020]

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freelance job

I have a proofreading job, for a new client.

In one of her emails she said "That's great news that you're available during this extraordinary time." It is an extraordinary time, but I'm not one of the people who now has twice as much to do as they did pre-pandemic.

If anything, this will give me something to think about that isn't related to the news, epidemiology, missing people, or wishing I could go places. Now that she has hired me, my client gave me her phone number, in case I need it, and asked me to call in the afternoon because she's home-schooling her daughter in the mornings.

I also have one more article to proofread for the magazine that keeps sending me bits. So, two things, neither of them essential, but I am doing my bit to contribute toward better communication, which is good.