I've been doing a ton of random cooking lately, so here's another picture post.

I made salted butter caramel sauce the other day, not for any specific reason but that the post on Smitten Kitchen reminded me that I've always wanted to make it myself... so I did and it's DAMN GOOD. I don't have much use for it, but I think I can find something in ( Read more... )

Jon brewed last weekend (he made an ESB) and I saved a bunch of the spent grain. The first thing I made was a spent grain boule - it looked a lot prettier than it tasted, it wasn't done in the middle and the recipe I used had no salt in it and I just didn't think to add any on my own.


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I'm baking spent-grain cookies right now. They are based off a recipe that Stephanie posted a few days ago on her fabulous food blog, only I made a few changes... nothing big, added cinnamon, ground up the spent grain in a food processor before adding it to the dough, and didn't use whole wheat flour. They are REALLY good! I think next time I'll ( Read more... )

I'm drinking a beer and it made me think of snoopturtle - Dog Fish Head Punkin Ale. This is one of the beest spiced beers I have ever tried. I know you like pumpkin beer, so if you haven't tried this yet I highly recommend it!!

I recently decided that I wanted a new pair of converse, but realized they don't really make them in my size. I am a half size in their shoes, but they only sell their shoes in whole sizes. Then I found out that you can special order and design your own pair online, and they come in half sizes! Someday these will be mine (when I can shell out $60 ( Read more... )

I am so bad at updating lj, I have no excuse! We had a good weekend in PA, the wedding was nice and surprisingly normal consider the bride and groom are Mennonites, the drive left me a little motion sick and I made a few bad eating choices (DQ oreo blizzard and potato skin things from Arby's at 9:30 at night tasted good, but BAD IDEA HEATHER!), but ( Read more... )

I have to go dress shopping today for a wedding on saturday, talk about last minute. At least summery dresses are on sale, but I'm just not feeling the "try on a million things" vibe today. To make it better I am going to also stop at the craft store to check out some jewelry making supplies and embroidery fabric (I have a multitude of embroidery ( Read more... )

I'm just a posty-mcposterson today.. but I have more stuff to share.

So, I'm reading a few books right now:

Passage by Connie Willis - I am only about 20 pages into it, so nothing much to share yet, but I love everything else I've read by Willis and I'm excited to be reading something new to me.

I Like you by Amy Sedaris - This was a gift from danowar ( Read more... )

I have all sorts of bacteria growing in my kitchen right now ( Read more... )

I have been putting off posting all week for some strange reason. At this point I have a number of things I want to post, so it's all up to the "bullet form post" to convey my thoughts ( Read more... )