tapioca and road dirt

Today I learned that you can make noodley things with tapioca flour the same way you can with water chestnut flour. Use a 3:1 ratio of flour to water, and since it's a dilatant material, it's faster to just break off hunks of dough (if you do it fast enough) instead of forming 'galls.' If you aren't fast enough, the dough you're holding flows down over your fingers.

I also learned that it only takes about fifty feet to get road dirt all over your lovely, brand-new orange tires. Life is hard.