Nov 12th, 2009 | family, Food, Fun | 2 Comments
I missed posting last night, and almost missed today. I will make up yesterday’s. I swear.
Tonight, I procrastinated from doing homework by re-reading the Thanksgiving issues of various food magazines and making a detailed list of dishes I might want to try, for either home, Friendsgiving, or Thanksgiving with my family in Iowa. Making lists soothes my anxiety, for real. Half the time, I never even use the list for its intended organizational purpose, but I like organizing things on paper. I’ve narrowed the magazines down to a few recipes I want to make in the next month.
- The only downside to this incredible-sounding toasted corn pudding from the very last issue of Gourmet, ever, is that it calls for a corn you have to order. I don’t know if I want to commit to that. Yes, I will waver horribly on the *commitment* of buying a specialty food item. No, I don’t know why.
- Bon Appetit has cornbread with a bacon crust. Yes, we want to go there. Yes, you want to click on it.
- Then, THEN, Bon Appetit has the gall to hit me with these roasted potatoes with bacon, onions, and sage. Yes, please.
- Despite my bacony dreams, I was a vegetarian for a long time. Well, not long enough for me to not have bacon dreams. That’s probably why I’m not a vegetarian anymore. ANYWAY, I always hated Thanksgiving if there wasn’t some type of substantial main dish–or at least a super-hearty side. This butternut squash and cheddar bread pudding from Bon Appetit is exactly what I was looking for then.
- Gourmet <sniffle> also has a lemon custard pie, which sounds kind of out of the norm for Thanksgiving, but I think it would be a substantial dessert that’s still kind of light with the citrus, so fuck it. Let’s do lemon.
So there’s a good chance that several of these will be cooking in either my kitchen or my mom’s soon. I’m sure I’ll find
Oct 16th, 2009 | Food, Garden | 3 Comments
This nasty weather keeps me checking the 10-day forecast to see when the first frost will be so I can rescue what tomatoes are still on the vine. It’s also kept me from cleaning out the dead plants, digging up the last of our carrots, and getting some cuttings to take indoors. Stupid cloudy cold rain bullshit.
Our expanded gardening was a success on many fronts. I think, had I been at home over the summer like previous summers, we probably would have had even more success. As it was, was took on a more laissez-faire approach to the garden. We could have thinned, pruned, and weeded more. As the outdoor growing season (for us) comes to a close, here’s a little recap and look forward to next year (Yes, I’m already planning for next year. I like to geek out with a seed catalog). I would have taken pictures but it’s cold outside, kids, and I’m still in my sweatpants. → continue reading
Oct 6th, 2009 | education, Food, life | 1 Comment
Wheeeeee! It’s my last week of work at my current job, which means it is the last week I will be in this building on Tuesdays from 7 or 8AM to 9:30PM. That is such a nice feeling. I think I will be less of a misanthropic eye-roller in class when I’m not spending the previous 12 hours in the same building. However, I will still be very annoyed when Lady Who Talks Too Damn Much (LWTTDM if you aren’t familiar with my Tuesday night tweets) gets going on God knows what.
The mad bummer right now is that our internet at home just flat-out quit working this weekend. Of course, Chris had to spend a ton of time on the phone with people in India who refused to believe that our connection just quit working and the Chris hadn’t hatched a nefarious plan to siphon their time and energy into fixing his own grievous errors. A dude came out yesterday and said it’s not the outside connection so it must be the modem. Joy. Our normal neighbors-from-whom-we-steal-internet when ours goes down apparently learned about passwords (none of them being “password”. I tried) and the faint open connection only works with Chris’s computer from one couch. This does not bode well for my productivity on various projects/posts I hoped to get off the ground ASAP.
Don’t forget to donate to DonorsChoose projects in your area. Every little bit counts! My grandma Marilyn sent me a check in the mail to donate to Donors Choose because she didn’t know how to do it online. Then she went to Branson. True story.
Also, check out The Novice Foodie later this afternoon. I’m talking about Monarch and why it’s the best place to spend your money for a fancy dinner. I was fortunate enough to dine at the Chef’s Table there on Friday, which I will be (hopefully) blogging about tomorrow or Thursday. If you live in St Louis, GO THERE. You will not regret it.
More posts to come this week which may or may not involve the following things: Hoarders, food, my anniversary, terrible movie trailers, a goodbye to my job, and a garden update. Ooh! Thrilling!
