I just saw this, and MAN do I want to make it! It looks so good! The bread and rosemary honey don't look so bad, either, but it's the spiced apple butter that caught my eye. Scroll down a bit for it.

Apple Butter Recipe

Okay, now back to reading The Queen of Attolia. Almost halfway done.

I like how HAVING to cook for myself makes me find interesting recipes to try. Tonight’s was from a cookbook belonging to one of my roommates, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant and is a recipe for Turkish Spinach and Lentil Soup. It’s actually vegan, but not in the “ew, I can tell this is substituting vegan-friendly food for the REAL ingredient” ( Read more... )

Well, now I've been in Minneapolis for a couple weeks, once again adjusting to living in a new place. I'm all moved in, and my roommates are great, but my walls are still annoyingly bare, so no pics until I make a decision on how to deal with my massive postcard collection and get that sorted out ( Read more... )

My mom apparently got Mockingjay in at the library on Friday but refuses to let me see it until Tuesday. As if the publisher would know!

Hmph hmph hmph.

At least the book I'm reading at the moment has been really interesting so far. It's called They Were Counted and takes place in the Hungarian/Transylvanian part of the Austro-Hungarian empire ( Read more... )

For some reason I've kind of been craving leeks lately. Leeks! What's so great about them anyway? They just don't strike me as the kind of food someone would get cravings for. Plus, I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've knowingly eaten them.

BUT STILL

This recipe for black-eyed peas and leeks was just sitting in my inbox ( Read more... )

First, I will be moving to Minneapolis in September! Signed a lease and will be living in a house with a couple of other Mac alumnae...and a couple cats. They seem nice though, so I'm not too worried (the cats - obviously I like the people, otherwise I wouldn't be living with them). But it will be a first ( Read more... )

I know the World Cup is over, and many of you guys weren't that into it anyway, but I came across this post yesterday and just completely love it ( Read more... )

Guys, I have a confession:

I'm actually enjoying watching the World Cup.

AND

I don't feel bad calling it football instead of soccer.

Or rooting for Germany (and the US, obviously), even though it goes against the whole rooting-for-the-underdog thing, as well as this little article on team likability ratings from a very American point of view ( Read more... )

I just put up the last batch of pictures from Austria. They include my dirndl-buying trip to Bad Ischl, time spent up on the Kahlenberg (a big hill overlooking Vienna), and some touristy places in Vienna.

If you want to see them, click the link below. The new pictures start on page 7.

Austria pics

I got home safely last night, in case anyone was worried. And I got some Taco Bell on the way home ( Read more... )