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anything but
Poking around astrology sites the other day, I came across this descriptor: "Leos can forgive anything except for a perceived lack of integrity". I'm finding this to be true. The trick's been figuring out if my filter's set correctly. -
interlude: goat cheese cheesecake
The pic is a crappy shot of my Mom's 1964 edition of her first cookbook ever. Like me and my sister, Mom didn't know a thing about cooking until she hit her late twenties/early thirties, but rallied quickly with a little practice. This cookbook has some of the most perfect pseudo-realistic, skinny-line era cartoons I've ever seen, and probably set ( Read more... ) -
olivia didn't get her nose done (did she?)
Apropos of nothing, I'm listening to Michael Jackson's "Human Nature", and idly clicked on the album cover artwork displayed on my player. I have problems believing that vitiligo alone can turn a handsome young black man with a perfectly good nose and a normal skin shade into Ronald McDonald. It's somewhere after the Thriller album that something ( Read more... ) -
the trip
I'd meant to get this post up sooner, but this summer has turned out to be an unusually busy one. It's not the usual way of things in our kitchen to get overtime in July and August, but there you are. There's been just enough events to keep us occupied, and now that we have enough staff we're starting to make more things from scratch - for example ( Read more... ) -
interlude: red velvet cake
As a thank-you to chefx for tracking down info on aebelskivers, and because I seem to have finally nailed this recipe, here's the final version of the fabled red velvet cake.
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the birthday
I haven't posted in some time, mostly because I couldn't concentrate long enough to hack one out. For about a month before my birthday last week, I was suffering from severe burnout: short tempered, jittery, restless, insomniac and wishing desperately for a disintegrator pistol to wipe the hordes of thoughtless pink bunnies from my environment. It ( Read more... ) -
iTunes problems?
Anybody else having trouble with the newest versions of iTunes not fully recognizing their CD/DVD+-RW drive? It's driving me insane. I've checked my driver and it's fine; iTunes recognizes that the drive is there; but every time I try to burn a disc with iTunes it says, "disc burner or software not found". I'm combing through the Apple support site ( Read more... ) -
cheap beer is not good good beer is not cheap
Oh, God. Why do I drink Rainier beer? Why, why? I know why, it's the same reason why I occasionally drink nasty-ass, shampoo-tasting Pabst: I'm hanging out with my twentysomething friends who'll gladly spend a couple hundred on anything and everything internet or video game related but won't spend the extra five bucks for a sixer of microbrewery ( Read more... ) -
dramatis rodentia
This is making me laugh like a spastic toddler. -
something you can do when no one is looking
Sometimes, when I'm at home by myself, I give the tub of hummus a good rimming to get all the smears out. And then sometimes, I eat the entire jar of kalamata olives ... and then I drink all the juice.
