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29 May 2012 @ 12:51 pm
For the second week already Moscow markets are full of strawberries. These are the first summer strawberries from Krasnodar region. Farmers are saying that this year they had record +35C temperatures in May and the strawberries came very early. They smell of summer and of my childhood. I just finished making the first portion (around 4 kg) of jam (varenie) and it feels like it is just the beginning.
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Welcome to episode 17 of The Glory, The Glory with Aidan Morgan and Adam P. Knave, the podcast that Tim Callahan says is “good and smart about dumb stuff.” This week: Dawson’s Creek, movie scripts, comics, Girls, and music!
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28 May 2012 @ 07:58 pm
Today I decided to use some of our local veggies and wanted to make soup and bread. So I decided on chicken barley soup because that's simple enough and I can just put whatever I want in it. And I wanted fresh bread, so I used a simple french bread bread machine recipe and made the dough in the bread machine, then did the last rise and the baking in the oven. I used my new pizza stone for the bread and it worked fabulously. I just sprinkled a little corn meal on the stone right after I heated up the stone in the oven, then put the dough on it and it worked perfectly. I'm going to do all of my baking on that stone - bread, cookies, pizza, etc. Here's the bread:
And for the soup I made it without a recipe - I poached the chicken to cook it, then put it aside. I used our own homemade vegetable stock (we freeze all of our vegetable clippings and when the bag is full we make broth), with boneless skinless chicken breasts. I sauteed the onions, carrots, celery and garlic until soft (I added a little dried basil and thyme into the veggies, along with salt and some of Trader Joe's Everyday Seasoning), then added the stock (about 8 cups). Brought to a boil, added 1/2 cup pearl barley and simmered for 20 minutes, then added the diced cooked chicken and cabbage (sliced into strips) cooked for 5 minutes, added the fresh peas, and cooked the whole thing for 15 minutes. The carrots, cabbage and English peas were all grown at a local farm.
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It was all delicious. The bread took time, but was extremely simple. The soup was very hearty and low fat. The only fat was a little oil to sautee the veggies at the beginning. This would be really good as a vegan recipe if you use cubes of extra firm tofu instead of chicken - it would be delicious.
And for the soup I made it without a recipe - I poached the chicken to cook it, then put it aside. I used our own homemade vegetable stock (we freeze all of our vegetable clippings and when the bag is full we make broth), with boneless skinless chicken breasts. I sauteed the onions, carrots, celery and garlic until soft (I added a little dried basil and thyme into the veggies, along with salt and some of Trader Joe's Everyday Seasoning), then added the stock (about 8 cups). Brought to a boil, added 1/2 cup pearl barley and simmered for 20 minutes, then added the diced cooked chicken and cabbage (sliced into strips) cooked for 5 minutes, added the fresh peas, and cooked the whole thing for 15 minutes. The carrots, cabbage and English peas were all grown at a local farm.
( click for the soup! )
It was all delicious. The bread took time, but was extremely simple. The soup was very hearty and low fat. The only fat was a little oil to sautee the veggies at the beginning. This would be really good as a vegan recipe if you use cubes of extra firm tofu instead of chicken - it would be delicious.
Current Music: Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
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Head Trip - Gothy T&A
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28 May 2012 @ 09:41 am
Will you share tried and true recipes that use ramekins? I got some for Christmas this past year but hadn't pulled them out until yesterday. I made Dutch Babies in them and want to make a point of using these little dishes more.
28 May 2012 @ 12:00 am
28 May 2012 @ 03:00 pm
Photograph shows a tearful veteran embracing a wounded Marine.
28 May 2012 @ 12:11 am
The International Association of Culinary Professionals' website just published an incendiary (but nothing new, actually, and nothing unexpected) opinion article by Amy Reiley that charged food bloggers with "faking it": faking the recipe development, food journalism, and cooking expertise that the culinary industry is supposedly painstakingly cultivating.
I have some strong opinions about this charge, obviously; visit WBB if you want to see my full argument and discuss. In the meantime, love one another and make some eggs.
These eggs begin with aromatic minced shallots and garlic sautéed in butter. Mayonnaise lends a slight tanginess and a gorgeous texture after cooking, and the green onions sprinkled on top round out the delicate onion flavor. You'll love these for breakfast or even as a quick, simple dinner, which is how Mike and I enjoyed them. Don't shy away if you're not a mayo lover -- the mayo adds only a subtle flavor but so much creaminess.
( recipe + photo )
To read my argument against Reiley's assertion that food bloggers are "faking it," throw your two cents in, and see more photos, please head over to Willow Bird Baking!
x-posted to food_porn, cooking, picturing_food, and cookingupastorm
I have some strong opinions about this charge, obviously; visit WBB if you want to see my full argument and discuss. In the meantime, love one another and make some eggs.
These eggs begin with aromatic minced shallots and garlic sautéed in butter. Mayonnaise lends a slight tanginess and a gorgeous texture after cooking, and the green onions sprinkled on top round out the delicate onion flavor. You'll love these for breakfast or even as a quick, simple dinner, which is how Mike and I enjoyed them. Don't shy away if you're not a mayo lover -- the mayo adds only a subtle flavor but so much creaminess.
( recipe + photo )
To read my argument against Reiley's assertion that food bloggers are "faking it," throw your two cents in, and see more photos, please head over to Willow Bird Baking!
x-posted to food_porn, cooking, picturing_food, and cookingupastorm
28 May 2012 @ 12:20 am
27 May 2012 @ 03:23 pm
For the next couple of months, I'm going to be renting a room in a house while I finish up my degree. I'll have refrigerator access, but it will be limited since four people are using only one fridge.
So I'm brainstorming foods that don't need refrigeration and would be pretty simple to prepare. Here's my tentative list so far:
- Beans (dried or canned)
- Peanut butter
- Canned fish/meat/veggies
- Pasta
- Rice
- Bread (including tortillas)
- Dried spices (garlic and onions and ginger at least)
- Ramen (breakfast of champions!)
- Breakfast cereal
- A bottle of cheap wine for cooking (and sometimes drinking)
What are some good fruits/vegetables for my list, that don't need a lot of refrigeration and are easy to keep (I will have a cooler)? What are some good ways to mask the taste/texture of canned vegetables? The new kitchen's pretty well stocked for cooking utilities, but I'll probably bring my slow cooker anyway since it's easy.do you think I can fake chicken saagwala in the slow cooker using canned spinach? This might be an experiment...
So I'm brainstorming foods that don't need refrigeration and would be pretty simple to prepare. Here's my tentative list so far:
- Beans (dried or canned)
- Peanut butter
- Canned fish/meat/veggies
- Pasta
- Rice
- Bread (including tortillas)
- Dried spices (garlic and onions and ginger at least)
- Ramen (breakfast of champions!)
- Breakfast cereal
- A bottle of cheap wine for cooking (and sometimes drinking)
What are some good fruits/vegetables for my list, that don't need a lot of refrigeration and are easy to keep (I will have a cooler)? What are some good ways to mask the taste/texture of canned vegetables? The new kitchen's pretty well stocked for cooking utilities, but I'll probably bring my slow cooker anyway since it's easy.
27 May 2012 @ 12:00 pm
Happy Memorial Day to those of us in the US!
If you're having a bbq/cookout/party of other sorts this weekend, what will you be serving? Food/drinks!
I'm making pulled pork, grilled buttermilk chicken thighs, a salad and a fruit platter; guests will be bringing other appetizers/sides. I'm also going to be making either a jug of some kind of rum punch, or watermelon sours in a watermelon keg, and beer (obviously!).
If you're having a bbq/cookout/party of other sorts this weekend, what will you be serving? Food/drinks!
I'm making pulled pork, grilled buttermilk chicken thighs, a salad and a fruit platter; guests will be bringing other appetizers/sides. I'm also going to be making either a jug of some kind of rum punch, or watermelon sours in a watermelon keg, and beer (obviously!).
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chipper27 May 2012 @ 08:50 am
I have a breast of veal currently defrosting for dinner tonight. I was going to save it for a special occasion but it's just taking up too much room in the freezer so it will be dinner for me and my fiancee (with plenty of leftovers). Question is - what do I do with it? I'm sure I can call my mom to find out how she used to prepare it though I think she just did a simple roast with it. Not something I'm opposed to but I wouldn't mind trying something different. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could prepare this? I don't have a grill or a crockpot but other than that I'm pretty well stocked on tools and I live within walking distance of two grocery stores so ingredients aren't a big deal.
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27 May 2012 @ 03:00 pm
City boy turns a neat profit by raffling off a dead donkey to country folk.
26 May 2012 @ 07:38 pm
26 May 2012 @ 04:16 pm
1. It can do a lot more than most people expect.
2. No one was expected to do any, so it's horribly documented.
3. Where it is documented, it's maddeningly inconsistent.
Any others? ;)
2. No one was expected to do any, so it's horribly documented.
3. Where it is documented, it's maddeningly inconsistent.
Any others? ;)
26 May 2012 @ 01:36 pm
So I haven't talked about it much but I think in the last few months my creativity has been holed in by 50ft brick walls. It's been so frustrating and this rut feels inescapable. Which I know isn't true, but... it sure as hell feels like that. Head Trip is about the only thing I can manage (and even then there's a reason there's only one comic a week - lack of ideas) and I feel like that's not the best I could be doing. Everything is so subpar... I've been trying to catch up on all the old commissions I have but everything looks like crap. Just not worth the money these poor people paid me. The longer the rut lasts the worse I feel and the tougher those walls get to climb over.
I've been thinking of ways I might spur the creative strengths back up inside me and something did occur to me... I grew up in a house with artists. My dad, me, my sisters... and with my sisters I'd play a game with them to get our artsier sides working. We'd all sit down and I'd put a song on repeat. We'd all separately (without being allowed to look at each others' work) draw whatever that song put in our heads and/or made us feel. Once we were all done I'd stop the song and we'd show our work. It was fascinating to see what the same song felt to other people and it'd force a lot of creativity in us.
Been considering doing that again... but it's very much a group activity. I still draw to songs if they inspire me strongly enough but the exercise (which I called "The Drawing Game" - I never claimed to be a clever child) works better with people around so you can see what else people come up with. But my sisters are down in San Antonio and we're all adults now leading our own lives and getting together is hard enough but having the time to play a silly drawing game is just about impossible.
So what to do? I considered inviting local artists around once a month or so and have a Drawing Game party or something. Wine and/or tasty cheese can be there to make it more interesting :P but mostly we'd all have our pencils and paper out, I'd put a song on that people all more or less agree doesn't suck, and we'd draw. But I'm shy about inviting people over, especially when I'm so down about my own skills right now. Plus there's that whole "scheduling" thing and artists are notoriously worse than most people about forcing into gatherings ;) Still... I dunno. It's just a thought bouncing around my head. Wouldn't even need to do the music thing, just having time around other artists and drawing together might help.
Maybe. In any case I'm looking for inspiration and creative freedom wherever I can. This adulthood stress with finances and pain and life in general really complicates the human spirit.
Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda you get the point. Okay. Yeah.
I've been thinking of ways I might spur the creative strengths back up inside me and something did occur to me... I grew up in a house with artists. My dad, me, my sisters... and with my sisters I'd play a game with them to get our artsier sides working. We'd all sit down and I'd put a song on repeat. We'd all separately (without being allowed to look at each others' work) draw whatever that song put in our heads and/or made us feel. Once we were all done I'd stop the song and we'd show our work. It was fascinating to see what the same song felt to other people and it'd force a lot of creativity in us.
Been considering doing that again... but it's very much a group activity. I still draw to songs if they inspire me strongly enough but the exercise (which I called "The Drawing Game" - I never claimed to be a clever child) works better with people around so you can see what else people come up with. But my sisters are down in San Antonio and we're all adults now leading our own lives and getting together is hard enough but having the time to play a silly drawing game is just about impossible.
So what to do? I considered inviting local artists around once a month or so and have a Drawing Game party or something. Wine and/or tasty cheese can be there to make it more interesting :P but mostly we'd all have our pencils and paper out, I'd put a song on that people all more or less agree doesn't suck, and we'd draw. But I'm shy about inviting people over, especially when I'm so down about my own skills right now. Plus there's that whole "scheduling" thing and artists are notoriously worse than most people about forcing into gatherings ;) Still... I dunno. It's just a thought bouncing around my head. Wouldn't even need to do the music thing, just having time around other artists and drawing together might help.
Maybe. In any case I'm looking for inspiration and creative freedom wherever I can. This adulthood stress with finances and pain and life in general really complicates the human spirit.
Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda you get the point. Okay. Yeah.
26 May 2012 @ 12:27 pm
http://t.co/5QlFwKds
Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LeMarche and several others voice Star Wars as characters they've voice acted before.
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26 May 2012 @ 01:19 pm
Tadaaa! Here I am! I've been reading your journals, I promise.
I'm obsessed with the Avengers. I went and saw it the weekend it came out. Then I went and saw it again, and again, and again and again. Yeah, 5 times so far. I kind of want to see it again today. if it gets as hot as it's supposed to, I may. At first I was all "zomg awesome superhero movie"! Then I was all "Aww, I really like bruce." Then I was all "Aww, I really like Loki and Bruce and Cap." Now I just love everyone and want to see all the everything they've ever been in. For serious.
I've been playing DSL more again! I like dsl. Yay for muds! I know, it's 2012 and there's games with pictures. Shut it. I like the roleplaying aspect of dsl. There's no such thing in mmorpgs or whatever.
Speaking of other games! I was playing diablo3! I probably will again after a little break, I don't like doing the same thing over and over (it's why raiding in wow bored me). I do like getting shiny new things though, so I'll probably play once through each of the other levels >.>
Not playing anything else at the moment, though my buddy Kyle sent me a free Torchlight! Which I forgot until just right this very second. I'll have to download that.
Still working a bunch, not much else to report :)
I'm obsessed with the Avengers. I went and saw it the weekend it came out. Then I went and saw it again, and again, and again and again. Yeah, 5 times so far. I kind of want to see it again today. if it gets as hot as it's supposed to, I may. At first I was all "zomg awesome superhero movie"! Then I was all "Aww, I really like bruce." Then I was all "Aww, I really like Loki and Bruce and Cap." Now I just love everyone and want to see all the everything they've ever been in. For serious.
I've been playing DSL more again! I like dsl. Yay for muds! I know, it's 2012 and there's games with pictures. Shut it. I like the roleplaying aspect of dsl. There's no such thing in mmorpgs or whatever.
Speaking of other games! I was playing diablo3! I probably will again after a little break, I don't like doing the same thing over and over (it's why raiding in wow bored me). I do like getting shiny new things though, so I'll probably play once through each of the other levels >.>
Not playing anything else at the moment, though my buddy Kyle sent me a free Torchlight! Which I forgot until just right this very second. I'll have to download that.
Still working a bunch, not much else to report :)
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happyCurrent Music: Metallica - Battery
26 May 2012 @ 12:00 pm
26 May 2012 @ 09:07 am
I'm copying this in via the message source; some of the addresses will be blanked out. Some.
( Details herein )
Now who else sees the old Nigerian prince scam in this?
Let me make a few things clear:
-> I didn't do any sort of forms in relation to the given company name.
-> I am certainly NOT looking for jobs in Russia (for a vast number of reasons)
-> This message arrived in my junk-box
-> I checked the message source to ensure that it really was junk and not something I needed to keep.
-> The message is [will have been] deleted now that I've got the copied text here.
Feel free to share this with others.
( Details herein )
Now who else sees the old Nigerian prince scam in this?
Let me make a few things clear:
-> I didn't do any sort of forms in relation to the given company name.
-> I am certainly NOT looking for jobs in Russia (for a vast number of reasons)
-> This message arrived in my junk-box
-> I checked the message source to ensure that it really was junk and not something I needed to keep.
-> The message is [will have been] deleted now that I've got the copied text here.
Feel free to share this with others.
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blank26 May 2012 @ 12:03 pm
I've been having some trouble with bread lately, and finally decided that I needed quit to wishy-washying and just convert from volume to weight measurements already.
The problem I'm having now is finding enough sources that agree with each other so that I know what I'm doing. One says a cup of flour is 4.4 oz, another says it's only 4, another says no, it's 5 oz. And yet another source says it depends completely on what kind of flour you're weighing, which makes sense to me, but they didn't include *what* the different flours should weigh.
So my question is, what should a cup of plain white AP flour weigh? Is there a difference in the weights of different types of flour, enough to make a difference when I'm converting recipes? Is there a 'definitive' guide to converting volume to weight out there somewhere? (I've found several, but none agree with any of the others.)
The problem I'm having now is finding enough sources that agree with each other so that I know what I'm doing. One says a cup of flour is 4.4 oz, another says it's only 4, another says no, it's 5 oz. And yet another source says it depends completely on what kind of flour you're weighing, which makes sense to me, but they didn't include *what* the different flours should weigh.
So my question is, what should a cup of plain white AP flour weigh? Is there a difference in the weights of different types of flour, enough to make a difference when I'm converting recipes? Is there a 'definitive' guide to converting volume to weight out there somewhere? (I've found several, but none agree with any of the others.)
26 May 2012 @ 11:56 pm
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25 May 2012 @ 04:08 pm
Addison: I saw [old friend] today at 7-11. It's been years! When she spotted me she was all "Addison??" and I was like "Hey, long time! I heard you had a kid!" and she was like "Oh yeah, she's three now." And I felt bad not knowing that, I mean wow.
Me: ... You know she gave that kid up for adoption, right?
Addison: *pause* Now I feel even worse.
lolol yay social awkwardness
Me: ... You know she gave that kid up for adoption, right?
Addison: *pause* Now I feel even worse.
lolol yay social awkwardness
25 May 2012 @ 01:06 pm
25 May 2012 @ 12:00 pm
- Thu, 19:12: And that sensation in my knee is telling me that I just finished a 2.75 hour drive
25 May 2012 @ 10:57 am
This is pretty much where I reside these days. If you have a tumblr, you should follow me. :P
25 May 2012 @ 11:28 am
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24 May 2012 @ 02:52 pm
http://www.johnnywander.com/blog/2012/05/2
This was a really weird conversation I overheard on the way home. I've got no idea what social rule was broken, but it was pretty serious guys! Those guys were pretty serious.
Have you been checking out the Exquisite Beast lately? They're up to beast 37, and the progress is pretty neat. It takes a long, windy path to get to where it currently is!
That's all for us! It's been a fairly busy week for us, and there's still one day to go ... let's do this! See you next week!
24 May 2012 @ 02:50 pm
25 May 2012 @ 03:00 pm
Did actress Audrey Hepburn author a pithy list of beauty tips?
24 May 2012 @ 10:06 pm
24 May 2012 @ 06:49 pm
http://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/37
http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=3794
The tenth annual World Quizzing Championships will be held June 2, 2012–a week from Saturday!
Game Show Congress founder Paul Bailey helps run the event in the U.S., and he sent me over some sample questions to peruse. The material in the WQC ranges widely from no-sweat to makes-Jeopardy!-look-like-“Jaywalking”-difficult, mostly because of the international nature of the event: the questions will be translated into a dozen or so languages and administered to quizzers worldwide. So there’s a global angle to the material that you probably won’t find at your local bar. Here’s the map showing who will be playing:
Man oh man do they love trivia night in the Baltic.
How would you do in the eight official WQC categories?
Culture
It is considered an unlucky number in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures because, in their languages, it is nearly homophonous to (i.e. sounds like) the word for “death”. This is why many numbered product lines skip it. You won’t find a cell phone number series beginning with this digit and some buildings do not have a floor with this number. In Hong Kong, some high-rise residences don’t use the digit ANYWHERE within its floor numbers – as a result, a building with a 50th floor might only be 35 storeys high! What number is this?
In a rage, the Egyptian god Seth killed Osiris, his brother – quite understandable really since he had sired a son to Seth’s wife, their sister Nephthys. Especially associated with funerals, which deity was this illegitimate son of Osiris and Nephthys?
Entertainment
The score for the recent movie Tron: Legacy was written by the French electronic music duo, consisting of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, that in 2009 won Grammys for best dance album Alive 2007 and best dance recording for “Harder Better Faster Stronger”? What is the performing name of this duo?
Entitled ‘u’ and premiering in the Hague, September 2010, it was the first ever opera performed in which language?
History
In 2010, Dilma Rousseff became the first woman President of which country?
Now part of Latvia, this duchy has been a vassal state of the Polish Kingdom, a de facto independent state, and a part of the Russian empire. It was also the smallest European power to attempt a colony in the New World, thanks to an outpost in Tobago. What is the name of this former Duchy?
Lifestyle
The eponymous cheese is made from raw cow’s milk. The leftover whey feeds the pigs used for the eponymous ham. What Italian city are we in?
Among the less well known attractions in what tourist destination are Tim Arnold’s Pinball Hall of Fame and Museum, indoor skydiving (formerly known as Flyaway), a replica of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, and what is billed as the world’s largest gift shop?
Media
What name is given to a poem of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables each that has been extremely popular in Japan since the 17th century?
Most installments of what horror movie series begin by explaining why Jason isn’t really dead, and ends with him dying, like, totally for real this time?
Science
What measure was originally derived from the distance “Earth’s equator to the Pole divided by 10 million”?
In 2009 Professor Elinor Ostrom, from Indiana University, became the first female winner of what Nobel prize category, jointly with another American, Professor Oliver Williamson?
Sport
In area, what is the smallest country to have ever won an ice hockey Olympic gold medal (1998, Nagano)?
He is the only player to have scored 400 runs in an innings of test match cricket (versus England in 2004). Nicknamed ‘the prince of Trinidad’ and widely recognized as one of the best batsmen of all time, what is the name of this former West Indies cricket player?
World
Camels are often seen eating snow to rehydrate in which desert – the 5th largest of the world – where it is the only readily available form of water?
What name is given to the spherical region surrounding and extending up to 3 light years from our solar system that is thought to be the source of most long period comets?
If this sounds like a good way to spend a couple hours on a Saturday, there may be an event site near you! Here’s the current map of North American venues, and Paul says he’s still trying to secure sites in Atlanta and Kansas City as well. Click on the little “IQ” markers for more information.
24 May 2012 @ 06:12 pm
24 May 2012 @ 09:57 am
Thanks to everyone who helped with the names for the bakery! But we are back to the drawing board with names. My husband wants something simple and around family :-)
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artistic24 May 2012 @ 03:00 pm
Did an 1875 report by the Horseless Carriage Committee warn about the dangers of gasoline-fueled vehicles?
