Lost and found

I was stripping the bed preparatory to doing laundry, and I heard something fall, so I went poking around between the bed and the wall. I found no less than five hairslides/barrettes, some of which I hadn't seen in quite a while. I have quite an extensive collection of the things; I like to co-ordinate them with my outfits or jewelry. The thing that struck me, contemplating that small pile of long-lost friends, was that three of them were in colors other than brown, whereas all but one of the ones I've bought here in the last ten years are either brown or metallic. I like brown -- I wear it a lot, in fact -- but I do wear other colors as well. Is it that the colored hair-ornaments are purely a European notion, or are they just hopelessly old-fashioned?

Another kitchen adventure

I'm not sure what to call this one. Southwestern vegetable curry? Spicy vegetable stew?

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Update

That's 3953 new words this week, so I'm still on track for averaging 500/day.

My heroine is having a conversation I didn't know was going to happen until I was in the middle of it, but I think it's useful.