Pre-heat oven to 350F.

Crust
9 oz chocolate wafers (I used gluten-free)
1/2 stick butter, melted

Reduce wafers to fine meal in food processor. Add melted butter and mix well. Press into bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Bake at 350F for 5 minutes to set crust. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Filling4 bricks cream cheese (I used two ( Read more... )

I'm planning to make this recipe soon, but also want to save a link to a set of ten pomegranate recipes from the Guardian over the weekend. The most tempting of those recipes include:

Pomegranate Possets with Lemon and Pistachio Biscotti (which looks beautiful ( Read more... )

Bill Nighy, in The Observer today, loves the very things I love about London:“I love studying the plane trees. They overwhelm me. As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.” He concedes that his perfect day is really “wandering about London on my own. I built my life around ( Read more... )

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Saturni secundo Maii, 1607

In which James I addresses both Houses in Parliament, by turns exhorting, cajoling and issuing veiled threats:At Two a Clock in the Afternoon, the House attended at Whytehall, according to Direction, as also the Lords and Bishops of the Upper House; and his Majesty there sitting in State, in the great Chamber (a Presence ( Read more... )

2 cans garbanzo beans (rinsed ( Read more... )

This was What've we got in the fridge that goes together and does not require a trip to the grocery? night.

Ingredients

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I've just booked tickets for The Duchess of Malfi, first production of the first season at the Globe's new indoor venue, modelled after the Blackfriars theatre. London in January!

(Also, yeah. January.)

This entry was originally posted at http://lapin-agile.dreamwidth.org/120959.html. (There are
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LJ: You're using the old version of the Friends page - switch to the new one and try to customize it.
Me: 'And try to customize it'? Really? Does not inspire me with desire to switch.

I just had email from American Airlines' AAdvantage program, which was a great thing to belong to back when I had any inclination at all to fly AA ( Read more... )